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Fall 2011
For the last two decades “active contour” or “snake” has been effective as an interactive image segmentation tool in a wide range of applications, especially for blob-object delineation. In the interactive snake segmentation process, a user draws a rough object outline; next, a cost function is...
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Spring 2012
Today, with gaming technology advancing by leaps-and-bounds, we are witnessing the proliferation of games for entertainment and education. Users can easily record their real-world experiences, through affordable smart phones, equipped with accelerometers, GPS receivers, compasses, and cameras....
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Fall 2014
Although pens and paper are pervasive in the analog world, their digital counterparts, styli and tablets, have yet to achieve the same adoption or frequency of use. Digital styli should provide a natural, intuitive method to take notes, annotate, and sketch, but have yet to reach their full...
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Fall 2013
Hardware and software engineers are instrumental in developing energy efficient mobile systems. Unfortunately the last mile of energy efficiency comes from the choices and requirements of the end-user. Imagine an end-user who has no power-outlet access and must remain productive on her laptop...
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Fall 2020
We explore the interplay of generate-and-test and gradient-descent techniques for solving online supervised learning problems. The task in supervised learning is to learn a function using samples of inputs to output pairs. This function is called the target function. The standard way to learn...