PhD student, prof honoured for computer vision paper

Friday, June 3, 2022

A doctoral candidate and a professor at Waterloo Engineering teamed up this week to take a best paper award at the Conference on Robots and Vision 2022 in Toronto.

Professor John Zelek and PhD student Zobeir Raisi won the honour for best computer vision paper with a submission called Occluded Text Detection and Recognition in the Wild.

Zelek is a professor of systems design engineering and co-director of the Vision and Image Processing (VIP) Lab, where Raisi is working on his doctorate.