Short biography
I completed my PhD with professors Alex Wong and David Clausi. This page is no longer maintained. Please see my new website for updated activities:
Supervisors
Alexander Wong, David A. Clausi
Research interests
My research passions lie broadly in the realm of computer vision with a HCI/human factors twist. I am focusing my PhD thesis work on extracting hemodynamic information from videos. For my Master's, I designed intuitive image features to help doctors make more accurate diagnoses of melanoma. Apart from medical image processing, I have also dappled with remote sensing (hyper- & multi-spectral) and photogrammetry (3D stereo vision).
Wherever I find myself, I aim to devote my skills to create socially responsible technology to help make people's lives more meaningful.
Research topics
Image Segmentation/Classification
Research demos
Stereo Vision for Dimension Estimation
Publications
Journal articles
Amelard, R., C. Scharfenberger, F. Kazemzadeh, K. J. Pfisterer, B. S. Lin, A. Wong, and D. A. Clausi, "Non-contact transmittance photoplethysmographic imaging (PPGI) for long-distance cardiovascular monitoring", Nature Scientific Reports, vol. 6, no. 5, October, 2015. Details
Amelard, R., J. Glaister, A. Wong, and D. A. Clausi, "High-level intuitive features (HLIFs) for intuitive skin lesion description
", IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 62, issue 3, pp. 820-831, October, 2015.Details
Glaister, J., R. Amelard, A. Wong, and D. A. Clausi, "MSIM: Multi-Stage Illumination Modeling of Dermatological Photographs for Illumination-Corrected Skin Lesion Analysis", IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 60, issue 7, pp. 1873 - 1883, November, 2013. Details
Conference papers
Chung, A., X. Wang, R. Amelard, C. Scharfenberger, J. Leong, A. Wong, and D. A. Clausi, "High-resolution motion-compensated photoplethysmographic imaging for remote heart rate monitoring", SPIE Photonics West, Multimodal Biomedical Imaging X, February, 2015. Details
Amelard, R., C. Scharfenberger, A. Wong, and D. A. Clausi, "Illumination-compensated non-contact imaging photoplethysmography via dual-mode temporally-coded illumination", SPIE Photonics West, Multimodal Biomedical Imaging X, February, 2015. Details
Amelard, R., C. Scharfenberger, A. Wong, and D. A. Clausi, "Non-contact assessment of melanin distribution via multispectral temporal illumination coding", SPIE Photonics West, Multimodal Biomedical Imaging X, February, 2015. Details
Cho, D., S. Haider, R. Amelard, A. Wong, and D. A. Clausi, "Physiological Characterization of Skin Lesion using Non-linear Random Forest Regression Model", 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers Chicago, IL, USA, pp. 3349-3352, September, 2014. Details
Haider, S., D. Cho, R. Amelard, A. Wong, and D. A. Clausi, "Enhanced classification of malignant melanoma lesions via the integration of physiological features from dermatological photographs", 36th Annual International IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Conference, Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers Chicago, IL, USA, pp. 6455-6458, September, 2014. Details
Wong, A., A. K. Scott, E. Li, and R. Amelard, "Continuous sea ice thickness estimation using a joint MODIS and AMSR-E guided variational model", IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, March, 2013 Details
Amelard, R., A. Wong, and D. A. Clausi, "Unsupervised Classification Of Agricultural Land Cover Using Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar Via A Sparse Texture Dictionary Model", IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, March, 2013. Details
Amelard, R., A. Wong, D. A. Clausi, and F. Li, "Unsupervised Classification of Sea-Ice and Water Using Synthetic Aperture Radar via an Adaptive Texture Sparsifying Transform", IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, March, 2013. Details
Amelard, R., A. Wong, and D. A. Clausi, "Extracting Morphological High-Level Intuitive Features (HLIF) for Enhancing Skin Lesion Classification", 34th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, San Diego, pp. 4458 - 4461, August, 2012. Details
Amelard, R., A. Wong, and D. A. Clausi, "Extracting High-Level Intuitive Features (HLIF) For Classifying Skin Lesions Using Standard Camera Images", 9th Conference on Computer and Robot Vision, Toronto, pp. 396-403, May, 2012. Details
Book chapters
Amelard, R., J. Glaister, A. Wong, and D. A. Clausi, "Melanoma decision support using lighting-corrected intuitive feature models", Computer Vision Techniques for the Diagnosis of Skin Cancer, pp. 193 - 219, October, 2013. Details
Theses
Amelard, R., "High-Level Intuitive Features (HLIFs) for Melanoma Detection", Department of Systems Design Engineering, pp. 85, 2013. Details
