Samir Sahli (سمير صحلي)

Ph.D. Physics, Universite Laval, Center for Optics Photonics and Lasers, COPL-Ulaval

Office: ETB/303
Email: sahlis(AT)mcmaster(DOT)ca
Lab Phone: 905-963-3777

Mailing Address
ETB 405 School of Biomedical Engineering
McMaster University
1280 Main Street West
Hamilton, ON L8S 4L7, Canada

Samir's main research interests include:

• ”Google street view” for the colon. The description of this project appeared in NATIONAL POST

• Hyperspectral image analysis of skin erythema after radiation therapy with AYIN team at the INRIA

• Automatic detection of 5-ALA and laser ablation of Barrett's esophagus

• International Scholarship of SPIE in Optics and Photonics, 2012 (SPIE website)

• International Scholarship of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2009 (JSPS/NSERC)

• Doctoral Research Scholarship (B2), Fonds Québécois Recherche Nature et Technologies, 2008-2010 (FQRNT)

• Award for student social implication, (AÉLIES), 2008

• Admission Scholarship for Ph.D program, Faculty of Graduate Studies, 2008

• Scholarship from French Minister of Research, 2004-2005

2012

• S. Sahli, D. A. Lavigne and Y. Sheng, “Saliency region detection in aerial imagery using Multiscale SLIC segmentation”, International Conference on Image Processing . IPCV’12, 647-653

• S. Sahli, D.A. Lavigne and Y. Sheng , “Salient region selection in large aerial imagery using Multiscale SLIC segmentation”, Conference Airborne Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance systems and Applications VIII, Proc. of SPIE Vol. 8360

2011

• Y. Ouyang , S. Sahli, Y. Sheng , D.A. Lavigne, “Robust component-based car detection in aerial imagery with new segmentation techniques”, Conference Airborne Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance systems and Applications VII, Proc. of SPIE Vol. 8020

• S. Sahli, Y. Ouyang , Y. Sheng , D.A. Lavigne, “Robust vehicle detection in aerial images based on salient region selection and superpixel classification”, Conference Airborne Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance systems and Applications VII, Proc. of SPIE Vol.8020

2010

• D.A. Lavigne, S. Sahli, Y. Ouyang , Y. Sheng , “Unsupervised classification and clustering of image features for vehicle detection in large scale aerial images”, International Conference on Information Fusion, Fusion2010, Scotland, UK

• S. Sahli, Y. Ouyang , Y. Sheng , D.A. Lavigne, “Robust vehicle detection in low-resolution aerial imagery”, Conference Airborne Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance systems and Applications VII, Proc. of SPIE Vol.7668

• Y. Ouyang , S. Sahli, Y. Sheng , D.A. Lavigne, “Robust component-based car detection and counting based on the mean-shift colour space clustering”, Conference Airborne Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance systems and Applications VII, Proc. of SPIE Vol.7668

2008

• S. Sahli and Yunlong Sheng, Multiscale beamlet transform application to airfield runway detection, Optical Pattern Recognition XIX, Proc. of SPIE Vol. 6977
  
  

Technical reports for Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC-Valcartier)

• S. Sahli and Y. Sheng, Spatial Relationships, Detection of cars in aerial images by combining scale invariant feature transform (SIFT) descriptor and supervised learning machine algorithm (SVM) Internal Report No. 1 Image Science Group, COPL, University Laval, (2009)

• S. Sahli and Y. Sheng, Spatial Relationships, Internal Report No. 3 Image Science Group, COPL, University Laval, (2009)

• S. Sahli and Y. Sheng, Using context to enhance detection of objects in aerial images, Internal Report No. 4 Image Science Group, COPL, University Laval, (2009)
  
  

Communications and posters

• Y. Sheng, S. Sahli, Yueh Ouyang and Daniel A. Lavigne, “Object detection: from optical correlator to intelligent recognition surveillance system”, SPIE Newsroom. (Published Online: October 21, 2013)
  

• Y. Sheng, S. Sahli, Yueh Ouyang and Daniel A. Lavigne, “Robust object detection in aerial imagery”,(invited), 11th Euro-American Workshop on Information Optics (WIO),p 4321-4324, 2013
  

• S. Sahli, S. Fissette and X. Maldague, “Infrared Image Processing for Online Quality Control in Laser Welding”, 10th Conference on Quantitative Infrared Thermography (QIRT), Quebec, Canada, (2010) [poster]
  

• S. Sahli, K. Kotani and Y. Sheng, “Physics-based models for color image processing applied to picture quality evaluation”, Shonan Village Center, Sokendai, Japan, 21 June 2009 [poster]
  

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