Welcome !

This site serves to archive information related to the scientific  work of Dmitry Gorodnichy.

• For R4GC Data Science seminars led by Dmitry, go to open-canada.github.io/r4gc.

• For Web Applications (aka Independently Verified Information Machines) built by Dmitry, go to www.IVIM.ca.

• For Nouse® (Nose as Mouse)  Intelligent Vision Interface developed by Dmitry, go to www.Nouse.ca.
  
  

Key Milestones:

Since 2019 (with Chief Data Office of the Canada Border Services Agency as Senior Data Scientist):

• Tutorial  on using Microsoft PowerBI with R

• Integrative Web Applications  for efficient visualization and analysis of Open Canada  data using Shiny, Rmarkdown and R.

• Founding Leader of the R4GC Data Science Community of Practice on gccollab.ca

2008-2018 (with Science and Engineering Directorate of the Canada Border Services Agency - as Senior Research Scientist, Principle Investigator ,Acting Group Manager  (2009-2012 ))

• Evaluation of Biometric and Automated Border Control systems

• Evaluation of CCTV and Intelligent Video systems 

• Designing Biometric and Video Analytics Solutions for Secure and Efficient Borders

2000 - 2007 (with National Research Council of Canada):

• Neural-network based Face Recognition in Video - first demonstrated live recognition of faces from TV video in Canada

• Facial video dataset (Video-based face dataset) - for evaluation of face recognition in video [CRV 2005]

• Biologically-inspired recognition (Associative Recognition in Video)

• Associative Neural Network Open Source Library

1994-2001 (with Artificial lntelligence Laboratory  at the University  of Alberta ). 

• Applying Hopfield Neural Networks for Artificial Intelligence problems

  • Term project for the CS 551 (Artificial Intelligence) Graduate Course , 1995

• Reinforcement learning and Adaptive Logic Network for autonomous robot navigation, 

  • With: Dendronic Decisions & University of Alberta - PhD dissertation, 2000 

• Neural networks for facial feature detection, tracking and face recognition

  • With: Bill Armstrong and Xiaobo Li (University of Alberta), 1996

1993-1999 (with  Institute of Cybernetics in Kiev, Ukraine ). 

• Designing high-capacity neuro-computers for storing and recognizing patterns in real-time

  • With: Glushkov Center of Cybernetics of Ukrainian Ac.Sc. - PhD dissertation, 1997 

  • Neuro-connections - Pictures with some well-known Ukrainian and Russian neuroscientists at IJCNN Neuro-Opportunities Workshop (NOW), 1999

Where to go from here:

• Nouse® (Nose and Mouse) intelligent Vision Interface -

• Artificial Neural Networks  (inc. Open Source Projection Recurrent Neural Network library)

• Publications, Patents,  Lectures and presentations

• Profile, Awards, Media coverage, Chaired conferences

For Youth and Curious:

• What do video cameras on Canadarm see ?

• Neurons & synapses : From Pavlov dogs to Face Recognition

• Interesting facts about Visual Attention and how it is used in Computer Vision

• Beautiful geometry of the human face and its use in automated face recognition

• Meet "Boticelli" - a single-eye robot that could navigate himself around

• Watch how pianist use their fingers and hands