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Spring 2016

Zhang, Xi

Visual tracking serves an important role in a wide variety of applications like video surveillance, robotic manipulation and augmented reality. The goal of tracking in the last two cases here is to efficiently and accurately locate the object in each frame of an image sequence/stream, with the...

Spring 2016

Neufeld, James, P

Monte Carlo methods are a simple, effective, and widely deployed way of approximating integrals that prove too challenging for deterministic approaches. This thesis presents a number of contributions to the field of adaptive Monte Carlo methods. That is, approaches that automatically adjust the...

Spring 2016

Ganev, Veselin S

In this work we address the challenges arising when developing, testing and deploying software for Wireless Sensor Networks. We investigate both pre-deployment software design, as well as efficient post-deployment updates. We present a combined pre-deployment framework that simulates the network...

Fall 2016

Ahmed, Farrukh

Most data mining and machine learning techniques rely on a single flat table and assume balanced training data. However, most real-world applications comprise databases having multiple tables and imbalanced data. It becomes further complicated in the realm of Big Data where related information is...

Spring 2016

Rafatnia, Shahrzad

The Smart-Condo™ project investigates how technology can be used to unobtrusively observe and support seniors to live independently in their homes longer. Sensors embedded in the environment react to the people’s daily-living activities and the recorded readings are analyzed to recognize these...

Spring 2016

Sepehri Rad, Hoda

This thesis describes a novel controversy model that helps the current manual process in automatically identifying controversial Wikipedia articles and warning readers about disputable information contained in these articles. The model is based on identifying collaboration patterns among editors...

Spring 2016

Wang, Andong

While the World Wide Web has always been treated as an immense source of data, most information it provides is usually deemed unstructured and sometimes ambiguous, which in turn makes it unreliable. But the web also contains a relatively large number of structured data in the form of tables,...

Spring 2016

Liu, Yang

With the rapid development in visual sensors such as monocular vision, appearance-based robot simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) has become an open research topic in robotics. In appearance SLAM, a robot uses the visual appearance of locations (i.e., the images) acquired along its route...

Fall 2016

Martin, Christopher S

In this thesis, we present approximation algorithms for various NP-hard vehicle routing problems, as well as for a related maximum group coverage problem. Our main contribution is a framework to build good constant-factor approximation algorithms for variants of the multi-depot $k$-travelling...

Spring 2016

Gad El-Rab, Wessam

Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) offer concise instruction on the optimal care for the patient based on the latest clinical findings. The main benefit of a CPG is to improve the quality of care, and the consistency of care. It is been shown that passive dissemination of CPGs, like publishing...