Friday, May 23, 2014
Parthipan Siva, a Waterloo systems design engineering alumnus, and Alexander Wong, Canada Research Chair in Medical Imaging Systems and co-Director of the Vision and Image Processing Research Group in the systems design engineering department, were honoured with the Best Vision Paper Award at the 11th Conference on Computer and Robot Vision held May 7-9 in Montreal. The award was presented to Siva and Wong for their paper entitled "Grid Seams: A fast superpixel algorithm for real-time applications".