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Title: CONTINUUM ROBOT MANIPULATION
Author: Li, Jinglin
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Robotics
Description: Unlike conventional robotic manipulators, continuum manipulators are inspired by invertebrate structures found in nature, such as octopus arms and elephant trunks. The shape of a continuum manipulator can continuously deform via changing the contr...

Title: Creating Automated Virtual Humans
Author: Sakpal, Raghavi
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Artificial intelligence
Description: Virtual Humans (VHs) are highly efficient and effective task oriented tools for various social and collaborative environments. VHs have the ability to replicate human like verbal (speech) and non-verbal (gestures, facial expressions) interactive b...

Title: Dynamic View Selection for Human Motion Analysis in Camera Networks
Author: Spurlock, Scott
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Automated human activity analysis for multi-camera networks requires algorithms that are both accurate and efficient for practical, real-time use. Current approaches face a trade-off between accuracy and speed, with the most accurate methods havin...

Title: EXPLORABILITY, SATISFICING, AND SATISFACTION IN PARAMETER SPACES
Author: Gonzalez, Alberto
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Many modern software applications have a fairly large set of variables that allow for the dynamic change of content. While a large parameter space provides users with fine-grained control over the content they are creating, even the best designed ...

Title: Empirical Methods in an Open Domain Question Answering System
Author: Gallagher, Sean
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Answering questions effectively involves a complex interconnected set of linguistic and statistical analysis tools, which can be difficult to investigate and evaluate on their own. To evaluate any one of them, I developed two composable, recursive...

Title: Group modeling, recommendation and evaluation in collaborative filtering group-based recommender systems
Author: Najjar, Nadia
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Artificial intelligence
Description: As the field of recommender systems has grown, more and more attention has been focused on the need forsystems that provide and tailor recommendations to groups of users, as opposed to individuals. We have identified open issues in group-based rec...

Title: Interactive Static Analysis for Application Security
Author: Zhu, Jun
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Software vulnerabilities have become increasingly pervasive and result in severe data and financial loss to organizations and individuals. One leading source of software vulnerabilities is the insecure code written by developers. Although vulnerab...

Title: OBJECT MANIPULATION TECHNIQUE DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION IN DESKTOP VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT
Author: Feng, Jinbo
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Object manipulation is one of the major operations in 3D graphical interaction. For existing high degree-of-freedom (DOF) manipulation techniques, most of them have shown to be more efficient or intuitive in their specific experiments. However, th...

Title: Using Occlusion to Track Multiple Objects with Similar Appearance
Author: Fasciano, Thomas
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Visual perception
Description: Multiple object tracking is a fundamental problem within computer vision and has a wide range of applications. Although well studied, it remains a difficult task especially in scenarios which contain many occluding and highly similar appearing obj...

Title: Weakly Supervised Learning on Image Manifolds
Author: Wu, Hui
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Recent work in image manifold learning has shown the prevalence of unsupervised methods that provide compact representation and perceptually meaningful organization of images in certain types of natural image sets. However, in situations where a d...