Cviss Lab

One of our lab members, Zaid Abbas Al-Sabbag, recently bagged the first position in the prestigious Waterloo.AI GRADflix Competition where each student has 1 minute to display the goals and outcomes of their graduate research work. Congratulations Zaid!

Here's the video which brought the accolade to Zaid and our lab: https://youtu.be/vOv0GKCy_r0

Interactive Defect Segmentation Using XR (1st Place Winner at 2021 Waterloo.AI GRADflix) UPDATE: This video won 1st place in the 2021 Waterloo.AI GRADflix competition!Perform structural inspections in real-time using AI-assisted interactive segme...

Our (now complete) lab. Juan Park, our lab's first alumni, paid us a visit at Waterloo. Thanks for the dinner Juan!
(L-R: Dr Chul Min Yeum, Max, JuAn, Zaid, Rishabh)

Here's our progress video on using Microsoft's HoloLens 2 AR glasses to visualize point clouds for civil inspection.

https://youtu.be/IEjMhaYtuk8

HoloLens 2 ROS PointCloud2 viewer We use Microsoft's HoloLens 2 to visualize ROS PointCloud2 messages in real-time that were generated by a gazebo simulation. We use Unity-Robotics-Hub to cre...

April 1, 2021: One of our team members, Zaid Abbas Al-Sabbag has been awarded the prestigious Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship for his Master's studies from NSERC. Congratulations Zaid!

March 21, 2021: One of our team members, Rishabh Bajaj formally graduated from his former institute, the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela as the top undergraduate student across all programs. He was awarded the gold medal by the Hon'ble President of India, Ram Nath Kovind. Rishabh was also named the top civil engineering graduate and won two endowment awards.

https://uwaterloo.ca/engineering/news/phd-student-wins-top-undergraduate-award-india

February 22, 2021: Ju An presented his research on Learning- Based Image Scale Estimation as his MASc Defense Thesis. Congratulations Ju An! Wishing him all the best with all his future projects.

February 18, 2021: Rishabh successfully secured the Don Grierson Memorial Award. The spirit of the award is to reward a PhD student "whose research in structural engineering aims to advance analytical and/or numerical technologies has the greatest potential for impact either at social or theoretical level". Congratulations Rishabh!

Rogers's research partnership grant (Sep 1, 2020)

Drs. Narasimhan, Wang, and Yeum recently secured a research partnership grant with Rogers, titled “5G-enabled smart city infrastructure monitoring system”,

https://uwaterloo.ca/stories/waterloo-becomes-one-canadas-first-5g-smart-campuses

Waterloo becomes one of Canada’s first 5G smart campuses | Waterloo Stories The University of Waterloo has become one of the first 5G smart campuses in Canada as part of a partnership with Rogers Communications that leverages the University’s global leadership in computing, engineering and co-operative education. The smart campus is part of a plan by Rogers to advance 5G ...

Our work is mentioned at ASCE's NEWs Hub:
https://source.asce.org/ai-makes-quick-work-of-earthquake-damage-assessment/?fbclid=IwAR3EOiTz-ALqlIcpTfwY9ABXtuiBSOIruztA7d8-XPdAgeThymNa3JvII5c

AI makes quick work of earthquake damage assessment | Civil Engineering Source Using aerial images from disaster scenes, a new Japanese artificial intelligence model is able to quickly evaluate building damage.

Oral presentation at CVIS 2020 (Nov 27, 2020)

Ju An and Zaid presented their research works in the 6th Annual Conference on Vision and Intelligent Systems (CVIS 2020).

https://cvis2016.weebly.com/?fbclid=IwAR3prBK6CpcVDpccoHCWtvCp9bkx7Bht9nrGY22KY0pomK_FKW7T3lj8ewA

CVIS 2020 6th Annual Conference on Vision and Intelligent Systems, Virtual, November 25-27, 2020

Dr.Yeum speaking about 5G (Sep 23, 2020)

The University of Waterloo – Rogers 5G collaboration series continues with Assistant Professor and Artificial Intelligence Researcher, Dr. Yeum on how 5G can be integrated into Canada’s construction industry.

https://rogerstv.com/media?lid=237&rid=8&gid=590070&jwsource=cl&fbclid=IwAR3MHwS0jFVl_KxvqNQHNf1C1i26KrKl6pdxS2qIRhXmuVNiZJbSnoFRqpE

University of Waterloo and Rogers 5G Collaboration - Segment 2 - Chul Min Yeum - YRTW The University of Waterloo – Rogers 5G collaboration series continues with Assistant Professor and Artificial Intelligence Researcher, Chul Min Yeum on how 5G can be integrated into Canada’s construction industry.

New students! (Sep 01, 2020)

Rishab Bajaj joined our group as a PhD student in 2020 Fall.
Zaid Al-Sabbag joined our group as a MASc student in 2020 Fall.
Both students are co-supervised by Dr. Sriram Narasimhan

Journal paper publication (Aug 19, 2020)

Juan's paper entitled "Learning‐based image scale estimation using surface textures for quantitative visual inspection of regions‐of‐interest" is published online:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/mice.12613?fbclid=IwAR30GYqF_rd3LwJECfUArHqxdecpvmOi9qL6QB0VHrFUXl28zwb-NJK5r4E

Learning‐based image scale estimation using surface textures for quantitative visual inspection of regions‐of‐interest A major shortfall of vision‐based inspection solutions is the lack of scale information, required to resolve inspection regions to a physical scale. To address this challenge, a learning‐based scale ...

New student! (May 1, 2020)

Max Midwinter joined our group as a MASc student in 2020 Spring. He is co-supervised by Dr. Kunho Kim.

Automatic Reconnaissance Image Organizer (ARIO) Released (Nov 13, 2019)

The ARIO dashboard enables engineers to rapidly organize big image data into coherent categories and generate reports to understand and communicate disaster consequences faster. ARIO utilizes pre-trained CNN classifiers to automatically organize thousands of reconnaissance images into specific building details (e.g. building components, damage level, or building overviews), and general metadata (e.g. GPS, watches, drawings, or manual measurements).

ARIO for Disaster Image Organization Search This video demonstrates the updated capabilities of the Automated Reconnaissance Image Organizer tool (ARIO) that has been developed by a team including Purd...

Gathering for the end of the Spring semester! (Aug 2, 2019)

Experiment at a Conestoga bridge (July 25, 2019)

New student! (May 1, 2019)

Ju An Park joined our group as a MASc student in 2019 Spring. He is the first student in Cviss Lab

Paper selected as ASCE Editor's Choice (Feb 09, 2019)

The paper, “Post-Event Reconnaissance Image Documentation using Automated Classification” is selected by ASCE as the Editor's Choice. The paper is available for free during the next two months.
Read the paper: https://ascelibrary.org/.../%28ASCE%29CF.1943-5509.0001253

New course: Smart Structure Technology (Jan 08, 2019)

Dr. Yeum offers a new elective course of smart structure technology. This course offers an introduction to the emerging smart structure technologies in civil engineering. Among several topics in smart structure, this course focuses on structural assessment using optical sensor data by implementing state-of-art image processing and computer vision techniques.
Visit a course website: https://github.com/chulminy/CIVE497-CIVE700

Secure the NVIDIA GPU Grant (Dec 19, 2018)

This program seeds a gift of one GPU intended to enable researchers to get started using GPUs. A Titan V GPU is received for developing our post-disaster image analysis research.

Research collaboration with Aerialtronics (Dec 3, 2018)

We create the data-sharing agreement with Aerialtronics regarding the development of vision-based visual inspection using an autonomous drone equipped with a new dual spectrum sensor, PENSAR.