Corey Manders Resume Online

Corey MANDERS, B.F.A., B.Sc., M.A.Sc., Ph.D.

A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research
21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace
Singapore 119613
Email: manders@ieee.org
Office: +65 6874-8533
Handphone: +65 9015-2215

FORMAL EDUCATION

2003 - November 2006	Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Toronto ) Toronto, Ontario
2001 - 2002	Master of Applied Science, Computer Engineering University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario
1998 - 2001	Bachelor of Science, Computer Science University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario
1987 - 1991	Bachelor of Fine Arts, Music York University Toronto, Ontario

WORK EXPERIENCE

March 2006 - Present	Senior Research Fellow A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research Singapore Research in Image Processing, Virual Reality, Augmented Reality, Computer Vision, and Computational Cameras.
January 2006 - May 2006	Lecturer/Course Director Department of Computer Science University of Toronto Conducted lectures, constructed student labs, set course exams, and managed teaching assistants for CSC258: Computer Organization, a second-year computer science course.
July 2005 and April-June 2006	Course Instructor da Vinci Engineering Enrichment Program University of Toronto Created and taught a university course for gifted high-school students. Presented lectures and oversaw course activities. The course was based on creating embedded systems using an AVR microcontroller.
September - December 2004	Teaching Assistant Department of Mathematics University of Toronto Gave one hour lectures on linear algebra, as well as providing interactive question and answer sessions to students in the Engineering Science program.
September 1999 - August 2006	Teaching Assistant Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Toronto Provided support for professors teaching a variety of courses such as Signal Processing, Intelligent Image Processing and Operating Systems. In the case of one course entitled Microprocessor Systems, this included setting and correcting the final exam, developing the majority of the labs, and overseeing the labs, and the other teaching assistants.
September 1999 - September 2006	Research Assistant Eyetap Personal Imaging Lab University of Toronto Conducted research in the Eyetap Personal Imaging Lab centered on lightspace image processing. Much of the research also dealt with the construction of embedded systems for a variety of uses (for example, camera controllers). Work from this lab has been widely published. Articles in which major contributions were made by this author are listed in the publications section.
September 1992 - April 1998	Freelance musician, music teacher and composer Toured worldwide with several musical projects. Taught extensively to students in a wide variety of age groups. Involved with much studio work.

SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS

Sept. 2006	ACM Multimedia travel award
2005 - 2006	Ontario Graduate Scholarship
2004 - 2005	Ontario Graduate Scholarship Science and Technology Award
2003 - 2004	Inaugural Edward Rogers Sr. Technological Engineering Fellowship

PUBLICATIONS

Corey Manders and Farzam Farbiz, "Robust Hand Tracking using a Skin Tone and Depth Joint Probability Model", IS&T/SPIE Visual Communications and Image Processing 2008, January 27-31, 2008, San Jose, California, U.S.A.
Farzam Farbiz, Ka Yin Tang, Keijan Wang, Waqas Ahmad, Corey Manders, Chong Jhy Herng, Yeow Kee Tan, "A Multimodal Augmented Reality DJ Music System", Proceedingds of the Sixth International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing (ICICS 2007), December 10-13, 2007, Singapore
Corey Manders, Farzam Farbiz, and Chong Jhy Herng, "The Effect of Linearization of Range in Skin Detection", Proceedingds of the Sixth International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing (ICICS 2007), December 10-13, 2007, Singapore
Corey Manders, Farzam Farbiz, Chong Jyh Herng, Tang Ka Ya, "A 3D Interactive Kiosk System", Proceedings of Afrigraph 2007, October 29-31, Grahamstown, South Africa.
Corey Manders, Steve Mann, and Farzam Farbiz, "A Compression Method for Arbitrary Precision Floating-Point Images", Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Image Processing, September 16-19, San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A.
Farzam Farbiz, Zhou Haoyu, Corey Manders, Waqas Ahmed, "An Electrical Muscle Stimulation Haptic Feedback for Mixed-Reality", Proceedings of the 37th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH) August 5-7 2007, San Diego, California, U.S.A.
Corey Manders and Steve Mann, "Digital Camera Resolution: An Improved Heisenberg-Gabor Testing Method", Proceedings of the 2006 International Symposium on Multimedia, December 11-13, San Diego, U.S.A.
Corey Manders and Steve Mann, "True images: a calibration technique to reproduce images as recorded", Proceedings of the 2006 International Symposium on Multimedia, December 11-13, San Diego, U.S.A.
Corey Manders and Steve Mann, "A Handheld Electronic Camera Flash Lamp as a Tangible User Interface for Creating Expressive Visual Art Works", Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), October 23-27, Santa Barbara, USA.
Corey Manders and Steve Mann, "A Single Heisenberg-Gabor Based Figure-of-merit Based on the Modulation Transfer Function of Digital Imaging Systems", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Exposition, July 9 - 12, Toronto, Canada.
Corey Manders and Steve Mann, "Digital Camera Noise Sensor Estimation from Different Illuminations of Identical Subject Matter", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Information, Communication, and Signal Processing, Dec. 6-9, Bangkok, Thailand.
Corey Manders and Steve Mann, "Determining Camera Response Functions from Comparagrams of Images with Their Raw Datafile Counterparts", Proceedings of the IEEE first International Symposium on Intelligent Multimedia, pages 418 to 421, Oct. 20-22 2004, Hong Kong.
Steve Mann, Corey Manders, Billal Belmellat, Mohit Kansal and Daniel Chen, "Steps towards 'undigital' intelligent image processing: Real-valued image coding of photoquantimetric pictures into the JLM file format for the compression of Portable Lightspace Maps." In the Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communications Systems (ISPACS 2004), Seoul, Korea, Nov. 18 - 19, 2004.
Corey Manders, Chris Aimone, and Steve Mann. "Camera Response Function Recovery from Different Illuminations of Identical Subject Matter", IEEE International Conference on Image Processing 2004, Singapore, Oct. 24-27, 2004.
Steve Mann, Corey Manders, and James Fung, "The Lightspace Change Constraint Equation (LCCE) with practical application to estimation of the projectivity + gain transformation between multiple pictures of the same subject matter", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing 2003, Hong Kong, April 6-10, 2003.
Steve Mann, Corey Manders, and James Fung, "Painting with Looks: Photographic images from video using quantimetric processing", ACM multimedia 2002 conference proceedings, Juan-les-pins, France, Dec. 1-6, 2002.
Steve Mann, Corey Manders et al. "Living as Cyborgs: Trapped in a subjugatory Computer-Mediated Reality that extends to all hours of our day-to-day lives", Conference on artistic, cultural and scientific aspects of experimental media spaces (CAST) 2001, Bonn, German, 2001.
Corey Manders and Steve Mann, "Programming for Eyetap Systems", Embedded Linux Journal, November/December 2001.

PRESENTATIONS AND SPECIAL LECTURES

Guest lectures in ECE385 Microprocessor System and ECE516 Intelligent Image Processing.
Presentations of research papers at various conferences

IEEE International Conference on Image Processing
IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Exposition
ACM Multimedia Conference
IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Multimedia, Video, and Speech Processing
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
IEEE International Conference on Information, Communication, and Signal Processing

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES
Member in good standing IEEE Registration #41631580
NOTABLE ALGORITHMIC PROGRAMS AND KNOWLEDGE

Image Processing Embedded Systems programming

Extended dynamic range file formats (JLM, ZLM, etc.)
Low dynamic range file formats (JPG, PNG, BMP, etc.)
Lightspace transformations
Object recognition, edge detection, etc.
Perspective Projections
K-L and DCT transforms
FFT and Haar transforms
Walsh/Hadamard transforms
Wavelet/Chirplet transforms

AVR architecture
PIC architecture
8051 architecture
Embedded control systems
Embedded radio systems
Teaching embedded systems
Developed teaching labs

Core development in a variety of projects

libjlm
libptp2
comparametric.sourceforge.net

Multiple programming and scripting languages

C/C++, objective C
Java
Assembly (various architectures)
Perl, C shell, Bash shell
Python
Matlab

General Programming

CVS/RCS
Linux/Unix administration

References available on request