by Brandon Haworth | Apr 7, 2022 | Awards, Lab Member News
Undergraduate student Liam Shatzel was awarded the Valerie Kuehne Undergraduate Research Award (VKURA) for summer 2022 to work on complex agent representations in crowd simulation in the GAIDG Lab. The VKURA provides exceptional first or second-year undergraduate...
by Brandon Haworth | Mar 27, 2022 | Publications
Our short paper published at Motion, Interaction and Games 2021 was selected for extension in the Computers & Graphics journal. In collaboration with GAIDG Lab external collaborators, York University PI Petros Faloutsos, PhD Student Melissa Kremer, and Master’s...
by Brandon Haworth | Dec 22, 2021 | Publications
In collaboration with GAIDG Lab external collaborators, York University’s Prof. Petros Faloutsos, Université de Montréal and Mila member Prof. Glen Berseth, and Rutgers University’s Prof. Mubbasir Kapadia, Prof. Vladimir Pavlovic, and Ph.D. Candidate Hu...
by Brandon Haworth | Sep 7, 2021 | Publications
In collaboration with GAIDG Lab external collaborators, York University PI Petros Faloutsos, PhD Student Melissa Kremer, and Master’s student Peter Caruana, and Rutgers University PI Mubbasir Kapadia, we develop a parametric pseudo-saliency map approach for speeding...
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...
