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Now imagine that same tool helping scientists to understand human movement more fully 카지노 게임 컬렉션 or create a memorable animated figure in a blockbuster film that precisely mimics the motion. That카지노 게임 컬렉션s the tantalizing goal behind CEO Scott Selbie카지노 게임 컬렉션s company, . A goal that Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s Partnerships and Innovation (QPI) is helping him to realize.
A former scientist with the United States National Institute of Health (NIH), Selbie has connections to Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s stretching back to his days as a postdoctoral fellow there in 1990. Eighteen years ago he moved back to Kingston to run a company that he had spun off from his work at NIH, creating software that has medical applications in assessing movement disorders and evaluating performance in sports.
An adjunct professor of engineering at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s, through his long-time collaboration with the Dean of Engineering, he had connected with and hired Marcus Brown, an engineering graduate student. Marcus subsequently expressed interest in using artificial intelligence and computer vision to study human movement. While the applications for studying human movement were similar to what Selbie himself had developed, what Marcus Brown and later Chris Saliba (another Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s engineering graduate student) were creating was quite innovative. Current systems for this sort of analysis, the type Selbie has used throughout his career, have one major drawback, as he points out: 카지노 게임 컬렉션You have to put something on someone, markers or sensors,카지노 게임 컬렉션 to gather your data. Covering a person in such sensors is time consuming, error prone, and hinders their freedom of movement, which in turn reduces the system카지노 게임 컬렉션s ability to analyze 카지노 게임 컬렉션natural카지노 게임 컬렉션 movement reliably. Marcus and Chris were working on a system where the subject카지노 게임 컬렉션s movements are recorded with an array of video cameras and then this video data is processed using a combination of artificial intelligence, machine vision, and biomechanical analyses. Selbie was impressed. 카지노 게임 컬렉션I was willing to convince my company to back this in its baby steps,카지노 게임 컬렉션 Named for the Titan goddess of light, Theia Markerless was born.
While Selbie카지노 게임 컬렉션s own company had enjoyed modest success over the years, he realized that he was facing something different with Theia Markerless 카지노 게임 컬렉션 the possibility of very rapid growth. 카지노 게임 컬렉션That was an entirely new experience for me.카지노 게임 컬렉션
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카지노 게임 컬렉션It was important to speak to someone who wasn카지노 게임 컬렉션t in the midst of it all,카지노 게임 컬렉션 says Selbie, someone with whom, he could talk about 카지노 게임 컬렉션what we were trying to do as a company.카지노 게임 컬렉션 The two continue to speak weekly and have since been joined, as the company has expanded, by Marcus Brown (now Theia Markerless카지노 게임 컬렉션s president) and Scott Runte (CEO for LaunchLab and now Theia Markerless카지노 게임 컬렉션s 카지노 게임 컬렉션virtual CFO카지노 게임 컬렉션). From those early sessions their discussions have evolved from the bare bones of running a company 카지노 게임 컬렉션to defining a corporate strategy that reflects the exciting opportunities created by our product and the scope of our ambitions.카지노 게임 컬렉션
Selbie understood that Theia Markerless faced one particular daunting challenge. People had promised markerless systems before like theirs but not delivered. 카지노 게임 컬렉션We couldn카지노 게임 컬렉션t assume that delivering a technically sound and innovative product to a market that had been burned would organically lead to success.카지노 게임 컬렉션 Their product would not sell itself. Two lucky breaks, thanks to QPI, were access to a program titled 카지노 게임 컬렉션Go To Market Masterclass카지노 게임 컬렉션 run by Isabelle Perreault, followed up with another marketing course titled 카지노 게임 컬렉션Wings 2.0.카지노 게임 컬렉션 It was just, he says, 카지노 게임 컬렉션so timely.카지노 게임 컬렉션 The Wings program was a mix of seminars and one-on-one counselling, delivered virtually thanks to COVID, by Elza Seregelyi and Andrew Jackson.
카지노 게임 컬렉션The one-on-one consulting was fantastic카지노 게임 컬렉션 says Selbie. He worked largely with program co-director Andrew Jackson, who, he says 카지노 게임 컬렉션had experience that was close enough to what we are trying to do that he was a tremendous help in formulating our ideas.카지노 게임 컬렉션
카지노 게임 컬렉션The intensity of the program was almost overwhelming,카지노 게임 컬렉션 says Selbie. 카지노 게임 컬렉션But the timing couldn카지노 게임 컬렉션t have been better. The culmination of Wings is presenting a business pitch to imaginary investors. This process painfully revealed how far we needed to go, but the encouragement and advice we received gave us the impetus to begin the restructuring of our corporate strategy.카지노 게임 컬렉션
Now a little more than a year and a half old, Theia Markerless has 20 employees on the payroll and plans to double their revenues again year after year.
Looking forward, Selbie understands that their current market concentration on customers in the life sciences, who are deeply involved in the study of human movement, will evolve to increasingly include customers in sports performance, and even computer games. Whatever the future brings, the connection with the life sciences has benefits beyond the financial 카지노 게임 컬렉션 universities are a great source for creative visual data featuring a broad spectrum of human movements, providing a fantastic set of tests that can be used to develop the Theia Markerless algorithms further.
QPI is helping them prepare for the future stages of their development. Working on medical applications of their software in the United States requires receiving FDA approval. QPI was previously able to help Theia Markerless on IP questions, now their recently hired regulatory expert is helping the company navigate through what Selbie terms 카지노 게임 컬렉션pages and pages카지노 게임 컬렉션 of material to be digested and filled out before the FDA can grant its approval.
카지노 게임 컬렉션What카지노 게임 컬렉션s going on in Kingston and at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s astounds me,카지노 게임 컬렉션 he says. 카지노 게임 컬렉션I never saw anything like this 18 years ago when I moved back. What QPI has created is absolutely amazing for a company like us.카지노 게임 컬렉션
QPI offers the Wings program as part of the Scale-Up Platform Project, the High-impact Mentorship program under the and the , and regulatory advisory services as part of its Growth Catalyst program under the HI YGK Project. The Scale-Up Platform Project is led by Invest Ottawa in Eastern Ontario and includes Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s as a regional partner; the HI YGK Project is led by the City of Kingston and includes Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s as a local partner. Both Projects are supported with funding from the .