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.
Professor Karray is appointed as University Research Chair Professor (posted Tuesday 12 Jul 2011)
Professor Fakhri Karray, the inaugural co-Director of the newly established Center of Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (CPAMI) has been appointed recently by the University as a University Research Chair Professor. A statement by the University of Waterloo Provost reads: "The University Research Chair was established to recognize exceptional achievement and preminence in a particular field of knowledge. Your appointment is a clear recognition of your scholarly contributions and I wish to give my congratulations".
With this appointment, Prof. Karray becomes the second University Research Chair of the CPAMI. Dr. Mohamed Kamel, a Canada Research Chair and CPAMI inaugural Director was appointed a few years back as University Research Chair Professor.
Offical Launch of the UW Centre for Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (posted Tuesday 12 Jul 2011)
The official launch of the newly established UW Center for Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (CPAMI) is held on July 13 at 10:30 am at Davis Center in the presence of VP Research Prof. John Dixon, Dean of Engineering Prof. Adel Sedra, Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Prof. Manoj Sajdev, professors from different faculties at UW, grad students and industrial partner representatives.
UW CPAMI is a center of excellence in the field of Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. The center is of interdisciplinary nature bringing together experts from Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Cognitive Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Systems Design Engineering, Civil Engineering, Management Sciences, Chemical Engineering Mathematics and Statistic. The center will collaborate with a number of industrial partners from the area and will cooperate with other centers at UW and at other Universities worldwide.
The center is an expansion of the PAMI research group and has been approved by UW Senate, earlier this year. Inaugural director is Professor Mohamed Kamel, Inaugural co-director is Professor Fakhri Karray and ianugural associate director is Professor Otman Basir, all of whom are with the Electrical and Computer Engineering department.
Mehrdad Gangeh received the Best Session Oral Presentation Award at the Graduate Student Research Conference 2011 (posted Thursday 5 May 2011)
Mehrdad Gangeh, a PAMI Ph.D. candidate, has been awarded the "Best Session Oral Presentation Award" at the 2011 University of Waterloo Graduate Student Research Conference for his talk titled "Dictionary Learning and Sparse Representation in Texture Classification".
Congratulations to Mehrdad for this accomplishment.
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.
