Theses and Dissertations
This collection contains theses and dissertations of graduate students of the University of Alberta. The collection contains a very large number of theses electronically available that were granted from 1947 to 2009, 90% of theses granted from 2009-2014, and 100% of theses granted from April 2014 to the present (as long as the theses are not under temporary embargo by agreement with the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies). IMPORTANT NOTE: To conduct a comprehensive search of all UofA theses granted and in University of Alberta Libraries collections, search the library catalogue at www.library.ualberta.ca - you may search by Author, Title, Keyword, or search by Department.
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Items in this Collection
- 2Abdi Oskouie, Mina
- 2Birkbeck, Neil Aylon Charles
- 2Cai, Zhipeng
- 2Chen, Jiyang
- 2Chowdhury, Md Solimul
- 2Chubak, Pirooz
- 74Machine Learning
- 70Reinforcement Learning
- 41Artificial Intelligence
- 36Machine learning
- 22Natural Language Processing
- 22Reinforcement learning
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Spring 2023
With machine learning models becoming more complicated and more widely applied to solve real-world challenges, there comes the need to explain their reasoning. In parallel with the advancements of deep learning methods, Explainable AI (XAI) algorithms have been proposed to address the issue of...
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Low-rank and Sparse based Representation Methods with the Application of Moving Object Detection
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In this thesis, we study the problem of detecting moving objects from an image sequence using low-rank and sparse representation concepts. The identification of changing or moving areas in the field of view of a camera is a fundamental step in visual surveillance, smart environments, and video...
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Machine learning classification of plant genotypes grown under different light conditions through the integration of multi-scale time-series data
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In order to mitigate the effects of a changing climate, agriculture requires more effective evaluation, selection, and production of crop cultivars in order to accelerate genotype-to-phenotype connections and the selection of beneficial traits. Critically, plant growth and development are highly...
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Machine learning for medical applications with limited data: Incorporating domain expertise and addressing domain-shift
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Machine learning has the potential to help medical experts to deliver better healthcare. There are, however, important technical challenges that need to be solved before we can develop reliable models for clinical practice, including: (1) Limited number of labeled instances, (2) Uncertainty of...
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Fall 2009
One important goal in microarray data analysis is to learn a predictor using a patient’s microarray data to predict some important characteristics of that patient. The high dimensionality of data makes learning such classifiers very challenging. We tried to use prior biological knowledge to...