Josh Li

I'm a 3rd year computer science undergraduate at the University of Waterloo, broadly interesed in computer vision.

Currently, I work as a research assistant under Prof. Yuhao Chen at UWaterloo's VIP lab. Previously, I was fortunate enough to work with Prof. Gregory Schwartz at UHN.

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Peggy's Cove, NS

Research

SAMJAM: Zero-Shot Video Scene Graph Generation for Egocentric Kitchen Videos
Joshua Li, Fernando Jose Pena Cantu, Emily Yu, Alexander Wong, Yuchen Cui, Yuhao Chen
arXiv, 2025 (accepted to CVPR MetaFood Workshop)
code / arXiv

Video scene graph generation in dynamic kitchen scenes using Gemini and SAM2.

CellNEST reveals cell-cell relay networks using attention mechanisms on spatial transcriptomics
Fatema Tuz Zohora*, Deisha Paliwal*, Eugenia Flores-Figueroa, Joshua Li, Tingxiao Gao, Faiyaz Notta, Gregory W. Schwartz
bioRxiv, 2024 (accepted to Nature Methods)
vis code / bioRxiv

Graph attention network with contrastive learning to detect cell-cell communication. I wrote code to visualize results.

Projects

TwoWheels
code / demo

Cyclist and pedestrian detection using Faster R-CNN, SSD and YOLO.

GeoGuessrCV
code

Google Street View image classification using HOG+SVM, CNN and ResNet.

Work

National Research Council Canada
Research Assistant
May - Aug. 2025
RBC Royal Bank
Developer
Sep. - Dec. 2024

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