Dr. Shi Yin
A Research Associate at ETC-Lab (Ergonomics in Teleoperation and Control) in the University of Toronto.
I got my Dr.ing (Ph.D) from Norweigian University of Science and Technology in 1993. During 1995, I worked in The Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. I joined ETC-Lab in Dec. 1995. My B.Sc and M.Sc were obtained in Shanghai, China (1982 and 1985 respectively).
I love to play volleyball, basketball, badminton, tabletennis, socker, swim, Go, and bridge. I hope I can play ice hockey in near furture.
To reach me, send E-mail to yin@argos.rose.utoronto.ca
My field is Computer vision and Image processing, specialised
with applications in underwater telerobotics. My Ph.D. thesis is
in this field, which actually contains two theoritical parts,
corner detection and image data compression, and two practical
parts, system development and computer graphics programming.
Computer vision (CV) and Image processing (IP) are two separated
fields. Some CV people think IP is only a step in a CV
processing. While some IP people think CV is only an application
of IP. These opinions are both correct and wrong. There are
topics overlapping in CV and IP, such as image restoration, edge
detection. However there are topics which only appear in one
field, such as image data compression in IP and camera
calibration in CV.
I am a pratical person and like to get problems solved.
Currently, I am working to develop a system for Argumented Reality,
which is to integrate a new concept to industrial systems. It is
very interesting.
When I was an undergraduate student, my subject was Industrial
Automation in Electrical Engineering. Therefore, I'd like to deal
with system stability and performance analysis whenever it is
possible, as well as hardware chips. The most interesting theory
to me is Linear Space and Stochastic System. The most challenging
practical work is the overall design of a sophistecated system
and its implementation.
As an engineer, I like to do implementation work, programming in
C/C++, X/Motif in Unix. Khoros,
and Matlab are always handy tools for me to test a new ideal. I
love SGI machines. I hate to combine C++ with Motif, because
Motif wedget is implemented by C. It is more comfortable to call
a C routine from C than from C++ or call a C++ routine from C.
Unfortunately, this is what we can get nowadays. Someday, someone
has to do something about it !!