Alumni

A University of Waterloo research team, led by Prof. John Mcphee of Systems Design Engineering (SYDE), is proposing to replace the time-consuming process of annotating x-rays by hand with artificial intelligence (AI).

For most of us, social interactions are taxing, tedious or time well spent. For the 1.5% of Canadian children and youth who have been diagnosed with autism, they can be inscrutable. With the rise of new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), however, facial expression classification (FEC) systems could help autistic and neurotypical people engage better.