by Brandon Haworth | Sep 6, 2021 | Publications
GAIDG Lab member, recent graduate, and incoming Masters student (January 2021) has work accepted as a full conference paper on using Convolutional Neural Networks to identify Solfege hand signs in real-time directly from pixels on consumer-level webcams. The work will...
by Brandon Haworth | Aug 26, 2021 | Lab Member News
Undergraduate student Colin Johnson was awarded the Jamie Cassels Undergraduate Research Award (JCURA) 2021-2022 to work on vision and decision-making in navigation and signage accessibility with the GAIDG Lab.
by Brandon Haworth | Aug 16, 2021 | Awards, Lab Member News
Recent alumnus, Yiping Wang, has been selected for the W.E. Cowie Innovation award for work on Unsupervised Environment Design to facilitate efficient and scalable Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning by making summative assessments in a unique Teacher-Student paradigm....
by Brandon Haworth | Jul 5, 2021 | Publications
MASAI: Multi-agent Summative Assessment Improvement for Unsupervised Environment Design Reinforcement Learning agents require a distribution of environments for their policy to be trained on. The method or process of defining these environments directly impacts...
by Brandon Haworth | Jun 17, 2021 | Funding
The NSERC Discovery Grant has been awarded to the GAIDG Lab for the Diverse Synthetic Crowds in Media, Design, and Analysis research program. The goal of the proposed research is to radically transform the models, toolsets, and practices in synthetic crowd research...
by Brandon Haworth | May 21, 2021 | Lab Member News
Recently graduated UVic student and GAIDG Lab member Yiping Wang has been selected as a Vector Scholarship in Artificial Intelligence Recipient 2021-22. Yiping has worked on transfer learning in cancer classification at UBC and generative adversarial networks...
by Brandon Haworth | Mar 3, 2021 | Funding, Lab Member News
Undergraduate student Jonas Buro was awarded the NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA) to work on Deep Reinforcement Learning in Abstract Strategy Games with the GAIDG Lab. Recent progress in reinforcement learning and blended approaches to game playing...
by Brandon Haworth | Jan 11, 2021 | Lab Member News
Seven undergraduates have joined the GAIDG Lab for their capstone projects including Interdisciplinary and Honours students. Four computer science students will be working on their CSC 499 Honours Seminar and Project capstone course. Three combined program students...
by Brandon Haworth | Oct 16, 2020 | Publications
Two papers accepted at MIG2020: Haworth B, Berseth G, Moon S, Faloutsos P, Kapadia M. Deep Integration of Physical Humanoid Control and Crowd Navigation. Kremer M, Haworth B, Kapadia M, Faloutsos P. Watch Out! Modelling Pedestrians with Egocentric Distractions. Deep...
by Brandon Haworth | Aug 26, 2020 | Lab Member News
Undergraduate student Yiping Wang was awarded the Jamie Cassels Undergraduate Research Award (JCURA) to work on Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning & Generalization in Agent-based Navigation Learning with the GAIDG Lab.
