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Fall 2014
Here, we use the premise of an actual image-retrieval application to examine how various approaches and techniques in computer vision help to bridge the much talked about semantic gap. A lot of cross-fertilization of ideas from the world of text processing has found its way into image processing...
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Visual processing of Vietnamese compound words: A multivariate analysis using corpus linguistic and psycholinguistic paradigms
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This dissertation investigates disyllabic compound words in Vietnamese, an isolating tone language, using corpus linguistics and psycholinguistic experimental paradigms. Chapter 2 reports the construction of two corpora and a database of wide range of lexical variables. Chapter 3 discusses a...
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Spring 2020
The human vision system has an effective mechanism for retrieving and localizing the most important information from visual scenes. In computer vision,Salient Object Detection (SOD) algorithms aim at modeling this mechanism by extracting or segmenting these salient targets from given images or...
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Fall 2017
With the rapid development of internet technology, web page has evolved from a traditional rich-text information source to a multi-functional tool, which can serve images, audios and videos, act as the GUI (Graphical User Interface) components of distributed applications, and so on. Similarity...
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Fall 2023
This thesis aims at improving robot perception for autonomous navigation in highly dynamic environments. In the first part of this research, a fixed frame visual localization method utilizing a fisheye monocular camera is proposed to enhance the navigation accuracy for autonomous mobile robots in...
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Fall 2015
In today's world robots work well in structured environments, where they complete tasks autonomously and accurately. This is evident from industrial robotics. However, in unstructured and dynamic environments such as for instance homes, hospitals or areas affected by disasters, robots are still...