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
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Fall 2014
The recovery of 3D information from 2D images is a well-studied problem in computer vision, with many competing methods that can achieve highly accurate results. However, relatively little attention has been paid to the problem of 3D reconstruction in underwater environments. When cameras are...
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Spring 2016
For years, panoramic image stitching has been an interesting problem for re- searchers. Several advances have been made in stitching images that are ac- quired outside of water, but the problem has been poorly explored for under- water images. Image stitching for underwater images can be used in...
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Fall 2011
A fundamental component of stereo vision is that of epipolar geometry. It shows that the corresponding point of a pixel in one image is restricted to a line in another image. When a refractive surface is introduced, such as in underwater imaging, this constraint no longer holds. Instead, the...