Reference number : GC-2017-Q2-00110, amendment number : , agreement type : G, recipient legal name : Van der Loos, Hendrik (The University of British Columbia), recipient country : CA, recipient province : nan, recipient city : British Columbia|Colombie-Britannique, recipient postal code : nan, program name english : Engage Grants for Universities, program name french : Subventions d'engagement partenarial pour les universités, program purpose english : The overarching vision of this project is to design and build a collaborative service robot that will help people_x000D_
with developmental disabilities (DD) reach their personal goals and achieve greater independence, using_x000D_
existing and new technologies. This will allow JDQ Systems Inc. to advance the type of services provided to_x000D_
people with DD and their caregivers in a group home environment._x000D_
The aim of this project is to detect and identify peoples' faces in a group home through the visual data captured_x000D_
by the robot's camera. This requires detecting human faces from one or multiple people in various conditions,_x000D_
and from various angles and distances depending on the relative location of the robot. Identifying the face of_x000D_
each individual is a second necessity, and requires working with sample labelled data from a specific group_x000D_
home._x000D_
Delivering such a service robot will improve the scale of services provided to people with DD economically. It_x000D_
also reduces the burden of repetitive tasks on the caregivers and frees up their time to focus on other tasks that_x000D_
robots cannot do well at present. Developing such a technology for JDQ Systems Inc. paves the way to achieve_x000D_
greater goals that will result in continual improvement of support services accompanied with continual_x000D_
attention to the efficient use of limited financial resources. Achieving the goals of this project also allows to_x000D_
investigate the growing problems and opportunities in the health and elder care sectors that will manifest in_x000D_
Canadian society as our population ages., program purpose french : The overarching vision of this project is to design and build a collaborative service robot that will help people_x000D_
with developmental disabilities (DD) reach their personal goals and achieve greater independence, using_x000D_
existing and new technologies. This will allow JDQ Systems Inc. to advance the type of services provided to_x000D_
people with DD and their caregivers in a group home environment._x000D_
The aim of this project is to detect and identify peoples' faces in a group home through the visual data captured_x000D_
by the robot's camera. This requires detecting human faces from one or multiple people in various conditions,_x000D_
and from various angles and distances depending on the relative location of the robot. Identifying the face of_x000D_
each individual is a second necessity, and requires working with sample labelled data from a specific group_x000D_
home._x000D_
Delivering such a service robot will improve the scale of services provided to people with DD economically. It_x000D_
also reduces the burden of repetitive tasks on the caregivers and frees up their time to focus on other tasks that_x000D_
robots cannot do well at present. Developing such a technology for JDQ Systems Inc. paves the way to achieve_x000D_
greater goals that will result in continual improvement of support services accompanied with continual_x000D_
attention to the efficient use of limited financial resources. Achieving the goals of this project also allows to_x000D_
investigate the growing problems and opportunities in the health and elder care sectors that will manifest in_x000D_
Canadian society as our population ages., agreement title english : Face recognition in a group home environment taking care of people with developmental_x000D_
disabilities, agreement title french : Face recognition in a group home environment taking care of people with developmental_x000D_
disabilities, agreement number : EGP, agreement value : 25000.0, agreement start date : 2017-07-12, agreement end date : nan, description english : nan, description french : nan, expected results english : nan, expected results french : nan, additional information english : Grant or Award spanning more than one fiscal year (2017-2018 to 2018-2019)., additional information french : Subvention ou bourse octroyée s'appliquant à plus d'un exercice financier (2017-2018 à 2018-2019)., owner organization : nserc-crsng, owner organization title : Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada | Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada