Lu, Yao MSc Candidate Department of Geography & Environmental Management Phone: (519)888-4567, ext. 33551 E-mail: y25lu@uwaterloo.ca

  Research Interests
   • Object-oriented urban change detection
   • High resolution satellite image processing
   • Image handling and computer vision

  Thesis Research
          This thesis will present a novel road-extraction method focusing on a road network in an urban area from high resolution satellite
     imagery. The method introduces the information of road features into the extraction process and makes full use of spectral,
     geometric, texture, spatial context relationships and shape information, thus successfully discriminates roads and spectrally similar
     buildings and solves the problem of urban roads inconsistent morphology in the imagery.

  Education
   • 2007 - present, M.Sc. candidate, geomatics, Department of Geography, University of Waterloo
   • 2001 - 2005, B.Sc., computer science, Shandong University, Jinan, China

  Work Experience
   • 2007 - 2008, Research Assistantship, University of Waterloo, Canada
   • 2007 - present, Research Assistant, RSGTech Lab, Department of Geography, University of Waterloo
   • 2006 - 2007, Sessional Lecturer, computer science, Shandong Yingcai Vocational Technology College, Jinan, China
   • 2005 - 2006, Network Administrator, Medige Medical&Healthcare Products(Jinan) Co.,Ltd, Jinan,China

   Publications
   • Lu, Y.(2005). Design and Demonstration of Sorting Algorithms, BSc Thesis, Shandong University,China
   • Li Y, Li J, Lu Y, (2008). A fuzzy logic segmentation algorithm for automated extraction of coastlines from pansharpened IKONOS
     colour imagery, submitted to Geomatica.