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Education:
M.Sc. Computer Science (Computer Graphics), 2013, University of Toronto.
B.Math. Honours, Computer Mathematics Information Technology (Minor in
Economics), 2010, Carleton
University.
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Master's Research:
I worked under the supervision of Aaron Hertzmann
and Pierre Bénard.
My research in non-photorealistic rendering (NPR) centered on style
transfer in line drawings. The theory is that style should be separable
from its underlying base path. Once the style is
decoupled, it should be possible to have it reapplied to another
underlying base bath. The motivation for this work comes from line
drawings where different artists draw the same characters
with different styles. On the left hand side is an example of a line
drawing of a bear that is drawn in two different styles. By decoupling
the style, an artist's style can be captured and
applied to the lines drawn by a novice user, as an example. The
approach taken in this work is to use curvature as the main feature of
style.
Technical report
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Course Projects:
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Introduction to Machine Learning (CSC2515):
For the final project, I was motivated to find a way to learn something
interesting about styles of strokes.
Since I did not have easily available data for line drawing strokes, I
reverted to using characters, with the style being their font.
The characters in each font were converted to an image large enough to
capture enough detail of the style.
I chose a set of fonts that had a very stylistic design and trained
three neural network architectures to learn a mapping from the original
image space of the character to a new "font" space.
The idea in mind was to see if the characters of the same font would
cluster in this new space, with a very small amount of data (62
characters per font).
Surprisingly, when visualized in two dimensions, even the simplest
architecture showed obvious signs of clustering.
Another motivation for the project was to try to find similar fonts.
That is, if a network was given a font it had never seen then it would
try to classify it as the "closest" available font.
Final report
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Computer Graphics (CSC418/2504):
As part of a team of two, created an interactive world. This project
was free-form and consisted of a large textured ground along with
various obstacles placed on it.
On the ground, several jointed, moving targets were placed with
bullseye images. The world was wrapped around with a skybox.
The user could navigate through this world via mouse and keyboard input
and shoot the targets. Crosshairs were placed in the middle of the
screen aiding in the aiming of the arrow.
By clicking and holding, the cross hair would decrease in size and the
initial speed of the arrow would increase. Among the winners of the
Wooden Monkey Prize!
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The Business of Software (CSC454/2527):
In a group of five graduate students over the course of a semester,
worked together to form the completion of a full business plan for a
software startup.
The motivation behind the company was to provide better healthcare for
patients by providing doctors and nurses access to a web-based tablet
application to
aid them in the decision-making process. Everything from product
description, marketing, competition research, professional interviews
to a financial model
was worked on for the final document. My personal contributions were in
the financial model, financial roadmap along with the final business
model 'canvas'.
Final document
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Honours Project, Carleton University School
of Mathematics and Statistics:
Supervisor: Dr. Brian Mortimer
For my honours project I chose to focus on the topic of geometry,
particularly on ellipses.
I studied some of their reflective properties and was especially
interested in determining whether an observation that I had made was in
fact true.
Namely, that multiple reflections through the foci of an ellipse
eventually converge to a a path along the major axis.
Through lots of reading on the area of Mathematical Billiards, I found
some applicable works which allowed me to prove the conjecture.
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Real-time 3D Game Engines (COMP 4002):
The project for this course consisted of implementing various parts of
a game engine written fully in C++ with OpenGL.
Firstly, we had to design a world for a level in a game in a map
creation program.
Rotator and translator objects were implemented along with caustics for
a pool, sprites and a skybox.
In the last part of the project, a terrain with a height map was
implemented. Some user controls were as well added such as a help menu.
This project gave me experience with programming in the large and
reading and understanding the workings of code begun by another
developer.
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Some
more information about me:
- I am multilingual. I speak fluent English, Spanish and
advanced French.
- I do improv regularly. It's a great way to keep me fresh.
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