Ph.D. Students Tao Xu, University of Guelph, Computer Science (Ph.D.), Status: Completed, Dissertation Title: Multiple Instance Learning with Applications to Concept Learning, Classification and Structural Pattern Recognition, 2012-2017 (co-supervised)  M.Sc. Students Deepesh Ramegowda, St. Francis Xavier University, Computer Science (MSc), Status: Completed, Thesis Title: Wasserstein-Based Feature Map Knowledge Transfer to Improve the Performance of Small Deep Neural Networks, 2019-2022   Sai Ram Kaleru, St. Francis Xavier University, Computer Science (MSc), 2019-2021   Yunfeng Shangguan, St. Francis Xavier University, Computer Science (MSc), Status: In Progress, 2018-present (co-supervised)   Yousef Abu Baker, St. Francis Xavier University, Computer Science (MSc), Status: Completed, Thesis Title: CANNY-SLIC to Compute Content-Sensitive Superpixels, 2015-2018   Arefeh Amini, St. Francis Xavier University, Computer Science (MSc), 2015-2016   Nasreen Akter, St. Francis Xavier University, Computer Science (MSc), Status: Completed, Thesis Title: Attributed Relational Graph-based Learning of Object Models for Object Segmentation, 2012-2015   Fahim Irfan Alam, St. Francis Xavier University, Computer Science (MSc), Status: Completed, Thesis Title: Learning Spatial Relations for Object-Specific Segmentation Using Bayesian Network Model, 2009-2011   Tao Xu, St. Francis Xavier University, Computer Science (MSc), Status: Completed, Thesis Title: Adaptive Mean Shift-Based Image Segmentation Using Multiple Instance Learning, 2006-2009  B.Sc. (Thesis-based) Students Jingyuan Wang, St. Francis Xavier University, Computer Science (B.Sc.), Status: Completed, Thesis Title: Improving the Accuracy of Deep Convolution Networks in Identifying Breast DCE-MIR Images, 2018-2020 (co-supervised)   Noah Ritcey, St. Francis Xavier University, Computer Science (B.Sc.), Status: Completed, Thesis Title: Segmentation of Uveal Melanoma in Magnetic Resonance Images Using Superpixels, 2016-2017   Aaron Massicotte, St. Francis Xavier University, Computer Science (B.Sc.), Status: Completed, Thesis Title: An Ensemble of Classifiers with Various Combiners for Text Emotion Analysis, 2016-2017   Michael Cormier, St. Francis Xavier University, Computer Science (B.Sc.), Status: Completed, Thesis Title: Supervised Object Segmentation Using Visual and Spatial Features, 2009-2011   Maxwell Graham, St. Francis Xavier University, Computer Science (B.Sc.), Status: Completed, Thesis Title: A Genetic Algorithm to Evolve the Structure of an Artificial Neural Network, 2010   Eli Bunbury Blanchette, St. Francis Xavier University, Computer Science (B.Sc.), Status: Completed, Thesis Title: An Image-Based CAPTCHA that Exploits the Difficulties in Computer Vision, 2010   Jason Gratto, St. Francis Xavier University, Computer Science (B.Sc.), Status: Completed, Thesis Title: An Analysis of the Exploration-Exploitation Tradeoff in Reinforcement Learning Applied to Othello, 2008   Xiaodan Fang, St. Francis Xavier University, Computer Science (B.Sc.), Status: Completed, Thesis Title: Analyzing the Relative Importance of House Price Determinants in Antigonish County: A Neural Network Approach, 2007  Summer Research Students Ethan Rouse, St. Francis Xavier University, Summer Research Title: Machine Learning Applied to Medical Diagnostics Based on Volumetric Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 2018 (co-supervised)   Ethan Rouse, St. Francis Xavier University, Summer Research Title: Computer Vision and Deep Learning, 2017   Aoife Puskas, St. Francis Xavier University, Summer Research Title: Cognitive Computer Vision, 2017   Noah Ritcey, St. Francis Xavier University, Summer Research Title: Superpixel Segmentation Algorithms, 2016   Aaron Massicotte, St. Francis Xavier University, Summer Research Title: Ensemble Methods for Emotion Recognition, 2016   Steven Clapham, St. Francis Xavier University, Summer Research Title: Machine Learning Techniques for Low Power and Load Balanced Multicore Scheduling, 2014 (co-supervised)   Michael Cormier, St. Francis Xavier University, Summer Research Title: Machine Learning-Based Algorithms for Semantic Image Segmentation, 2009, 2010, 2011   Qian Li Ma, St. Francis Xavier University, Summer Research Title: Machine Learning-Based Algorithms for Semantic Image Segmentation, 2009   Michel Gallant, St. Francis Xavier University, Summer Research Title: Content-Based Image Retrieval with the Normalized Information Distance, 2005  Post Doctoral Fellows Chenghua Li, St. Francis Xavier University, 2009-2010 (co-supervised)