{"id":1002,"date":"2019-09-11T22:14:25","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T04:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/geovation\/?p=1002"},"modified":"2019-11-25T14:20:29","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T20:20:29","slug":"salar-ghaffarian-successfully-defends-msc-thesis-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/geovation\/2019\/09\/11\/salar-ghaffarian-successfully-defends-msc-thesis-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"Salar Ghaffarian successfully defends MSc Thesis Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/geovation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2019\/11\/ThermalGIS-1024x117.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"540\" data-link=\"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/geovation\/thermalgis\/\" class=\"wp-image-540 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/117;\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On Sept 11, 2019, Salar Ghaffarian successfully defended his thesis proposal. Salar&#8217;s proposal was titled <em>&#8220;Automatic Mapping of Residential Rooftops using High-Resolution Thermal Imagery&#8221;<\/em>. In order to meet the needs of our commercial partner (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.myheat.ca\">MyHEAT<\/a>) this research proposes two main goals: (1) optimize a leading-edge Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) method for automatic and accurate rooftop delineation from MyHEAT\u2019s existing H-Res TIR imagery and (2) define the optimal spatial resolution for CNN based rooftop delineation. By satisfying these goals, we expect to: (i) reduce MyHEAT\u2019s ancillary data acquisition\/processing costs as their (optimal resolution) TIR imagery will be the only required data source for HEAT loss metrics, (ii) speed up their entire analytical pipe-line, as there will be no need to acquire, correct, or negotiate for auxiliary data, (iii) be able to apply the optimized model to existing and future archives of MyHEAT TIR imagery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All committee members noted how well written the proposal was. <strong>Well done Salar.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sept 11, 2019, Salar Ghaffarian successfully defended his thesis proposal. Salar&#8217;s proposal was titled &#8220;Automatic Mapping of Residential Rooftops using High-Resolution Thermal Imagery&#8221;. In order to meet the needs of our commercial partner (MyHEAT) this research proposes two main goals: (1) optimize a leading-edge Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) method &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,51,55,34],"tags":[30,32,28,26,62],"class_list":["post-1002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-deep-learning","category-geobia","category-neural-nets","category-thermal-remote-sensing","tag-cnn","tag-neural-network","tag-rooftop-segmentation","tag-thermal","tag-thesis","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Geoffrey Hay","author_link":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/geovation\/author\/geoffrey-hay\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/geovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/geovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/geovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/geovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/geovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/geovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2185,"href":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/geovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions\/2185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/geovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/geovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/geovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}