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Fall 2015
A large volume of literature exists on fault detection and isolation for industrial processes. In a general view, these various methods may be divided into process model based and process history based fault diagnosis. In both classes, there has been a recent focus on extracting the temporal...
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Gesture Recognition using Hidden Markov Models, Dynamic Time Warping, and Geometric Template Matching
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Gesture recognition is useful in many applications, including human-computer interaction, automated sign language recognition, medical applications, and many more. The main focus of this thesis is to improve the isolated gesture recognition accuracy of Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) and to provide a...
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Tiered Behaviour Architecture for Virtual Characters using Cyclic Scheduling and Behaviour Capture
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A story-based video game contains many characters. A few are controlled by the player and the majority are virtual characters, controlled by artificial intelligence. In recent years, video game artificial intelligence has developed slower than other aspects of video games, such as graphics,...
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Understanding donor response to donation appeals: the role of deservingness in the dictator game and optimum donation promises in charity auctions
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Marketing research has attempted to shed light on donor responses to a variety of donation appeals and strategies. More recently, research has examined the effect of changing the content of an appeal in both a donation solicitation and a cause-related marketing context. Some charities are...