Welcome to the Pattern Analysis and Machine
Intelligence (PAMI) research group. The group was founded in 1980
as a part of the Department of
Systems Design Engineering at the University
of Waterloo. Effective May 2004, the group has transferred to the Department
of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The group works on a wide diversity
of pertinent research areas. It also consists of several professors,
researchers and graduate students, as well as adjunct members from other
departments and universities.
The latest developments concerning the PAMI research group. Notification for events, such
as seminars and conferences, is also announced here.
PAMI student wins the second place at an international competition of Retina Online Challenge for Microaneurysm Detection (posted Monday 23 Feb 2009)
Bob Zhang, a PAMI PhD student, as part of a team of researchers from University of Waterloo and Hong Kong Polytechnic University has won second place at an international competition of Retina Online Challenge for Microaneurysm Detection 2009.
The competition was held last summer and the results were recently announced at SPIE Medical Imaging Conference 2009 held in Florida from Feb. 7 till Feb. 12, 2009. Bob's team competed with teams from France (first place winner), Spain, Japan, Netherlands and USA.
Bob works on his PhD with Prof. Fakhri Karray in Medical Biometrics.
Congratulations to Bob.
PAMI Director is recognized as a fellow of IAPR (International Association of Pattern Recognition) (posted Monday 16 Jun 2008)
Professor Mohamed S. Kamel of ECE Department has been selected to be a fellow of IAPR (International Association of Pattern Recognition).
The International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) is an international association of non-profit, scientific or professional organizations (being national, multi-national, or international in scope) concerned with pattern recognition, computer vision, and image processing in a broad sense. It is the largest association in this field.
According to the Constitution and Bylaws of IAPR, the number of fellows elected every two years must not exceed 0.25% of the total IAPR membership. Both service to IAPR and scientific contributions to the field of pattern recognition are taken into account in the selection process.
The citation of Dr. Kamel's Fellow selection reads:
"For contributions to the fundamental, applied and industrial problems in Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks"
Dr. Kamel is already fellow of IEEE, fellow of CAE and fellow of EIC.
PAMI Associate Director is among the 2008’ Recipients of the University of Waterloo “Outstanding Performance Award” (posted Monday 16 Jun 2008)
Dr. Fakhri Karray, PAMI Associate Director and Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor is one of this year’s recipients of the University of Waterloo “Outstanding Performance Awards”. The award recognizes faculty members for outstanding contributions for teaching, research and scholarly activities.
UW Daily Bulletin Announcement on June 10, 2008. PAMI Director, Professor Mohamed Kamel is also a past recipient of this award.
Detailed information concerning all the cutting-edge technology researchers are
developing at the PAMI group. This section is useful for people who are interested
in pattern analysis, machine intelligence, robotics, and other artificial
intelligence topics.
Research in the PAMI group often involves working on projects that aim to achieve
technological advances in one or more of the PAMI fields. The PAMI group has both
academic and industrial partners who fund these projects and benefit from its achievements.
Focus Groups are small groups of researchers who have common research interests. Each
group exchanges ideas, resources, and often meets periodically to discuss research progress.
Papers that researchers in the PAMI group have written. Some papers may
be available for download for your own research, or if you just want to get more
indepth analysis of the type of work being done in a specific field.
A listing of all the excellent researchers that are currently working in the PAMI group,
along with information about each one.
