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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
- 83Machine Learning
- 76Reinforcement Learning
- 42Artificial Intelligence
- 37Machine learning
- 24Natural Language Processing
- 23reinforcement learning
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Fall 2014
Using motion capture data is an efficient way to generate and transmit 3D character animation. We explore the possibility of incorporating human perceptual factors in compression and synthesis of motion capture data in order to achieve a higher performance in different aspects including reducing...
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Fall 2024
Perceptual factors in vision can facilitate the development of more effective multimedia algorithms. In particular, the wide dynamic range of the human vision system is a motivation for developing image lighting enhancement algorithms. Image lighting enhancement can be achieved by capturing...
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Fall 2021
This work focuses on the virtual generation of short percussive samples which can be used by electronic music artists in their compositions. Although recent advancements in digital synthesis, heuristic search, and neural networks have been utilized for the generation of a variety of sounds, the...
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Spring 2012
Recent real-time heuristic search algorithms have demonstrated outstanding performance in video game pathfinding. However, their applications have been thus far limited to that domain. We proceed with the aim of facilitating wider applications of real-time search by fostering a greater...
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Fall 2023
In this thesis, we study the problem of performance prediction for open-domain multi-hop Question Answering (QA), where the task is to estimate the difficulty of evaluating a multi-hop question over a corpus. Despite the extensive research on predicting the performance of ad-hoc and QA retrieval...
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Fall 2014
In the face of an overwhelmingly information intensive Internet, searching has become the most important way to locate information efficiently. Current searching techniques are able to retrieve relevant data, however, personalization techniques are still needed to better identify different user...