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Title: A SCALABLE LSTM BASED APPROACH FOR MULTI-PEDESTRIAN TRACKING IN SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS
Author: Kulkarni, Pratik
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Computer engineering
Description: There has been an ever growing interest in leveraging state of the art deep learning techniques for tracking objects in video frames. Such works primarily focus on using appearance based models which prove not to be effective in modelling the beha...

Title: A SELECTIVE SENSOR FRAMEWORK USING SENSOR FUSION AND SENSOR MAPS TO ACHIEVE COMPLETE COVERAGE PLANNING OF A SEMI-AUTONOMOUS ROBOTIC VEHICLE
Author: CHANDRASEKARAN, BALASUBRAMANIYAN
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering, Robotics
Description: Autonomous vehicles are increasingly used in many applications, such as elderly care, medical care, military, schools, and space exploration. In this research, we introduce the use of a framework for achieving the autonomy in a vehicle and describ...

Title: A navigation system for low-cost autonomous all-terrain-vehicles
Author: Mhapankar, Shantanu
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Automobiles--Design and construction, Computer engineering
Description: In the last decade, there has been significant research work in the field of autonomous on-road vehicle, but, research in automating off-road vehicles has been largely untouched. The main aim of this thesis was to propose a robust framework for an...

Title: AN EFFICIENT DESIGN SPACE EXPLORATION FRAMEWORK TO OPTIMIZE POWER-EFFICIENT HETEROGENEOUS MANY-CORE MULTI-THREADING EMBEDDED PROCESSOR ARCHITECTURES
Author: Datta, Kushal
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering
Description: By the middle of this decade, uniprocessor architecture performance had hit a roadblock due to a combination of factors, such as excessive power dissipation due to high operating frequencies, growing memory access latencies, diminishing returns on...

Title: Advancing Highway Safety: Embedded-Edge AI for Real-Time Applications
Author: Katariya, Vinit Amrutlal
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering, Transportation
Description: This dissertation presents the systematic design and development of datasets, algorithms, and an AI pipeline specifically curated for real-time trajectory prediction and anomaly detection in highway environments. These innovations are meticulously...

Title: Algorithmic Optimization of First Convolution Layer in CNNs for Hardware Accelerator Design
Author: Chamarthi, Ramachandra Vikas
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering
Description: This thesis proposes "1D Convolution replacement layer ", a novel optimization for first convolution layer in CNN. This optimization enables edge friendly streaming accelerator design with a minimum drop in accuracy. This optimization reduces the ...

Title: Analysis and Enhancement of Resource-hungry Applications
Author: HUANG, SIQI
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Computer engineering, Electrical engineering
Description: Resource-hungry applications play a very important role in people's daily lives, such as real-time video streaming applications and mobile augmented reality applications. However, there are several challenges to satisfy the user Quality-of-Experie...

Title: Autonomous Control of an All-terrain Vehicle using Embedded Systems and Artificial Intelligence Techniques
Author: Erian, Karim
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Computer engineering, Artificial intelligence, Automobiles--Design and construction
Description: The need for autonomous vehicles that do not operate on highways and can move off-road is increasing. While there have been significant advancements in autonomous passenger vehicles in the last couple of years, autonomous off-road vehicles have no...

Title: Best Practices for Building Hardware Designs for Living Computational Science Applications
Author: Pottathuparambil, Robin
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering
Description: Scientific computing or Computational science, is a field of study where engineers and scientists use computer simulations to solve equations that model the physical world. In some cases, these equations come from the first principles of physics. ...

Title: Bridging the gap between heterogeneous computing and next generation memory architecture using high level synthesis
Author: Rajagopala, Abhilash
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering
Description: The impact of transistor scaling on FPGAs is changing the role of FPGA from accelerators to a major role as processors. With this rapid development and the ability to implement complex systems on FPGAs, the conventional hardware language design fl...

Title: COMPUTATIONAL INVERSE MECHANICS OF A HIGHLY COMMINUTED TIBIA FRACTURE
Author: Shadid, Waseem
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering, Biomedical engineering
Description: This dissertation presents a new computational system that seeks to estimate the inverse mechanics of a bone fracture from 3D CT images. One image provides a model of an unbroken bone and a second records a fractured example of the same bone after...

Title: Cache-Aware Implementation of Compressed Sensing Reconstruction using Walsh-Hadamard Transform on a Multicore Architecture
Author: Ramgopal, Aneesh
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering
Description: The recent development of the compressed sensing (CS) theory has given rise to several algorithms being proposed for signal acquisition and reconstruction. Implementing these algorithms are computationally demanding and pose several challenges for...

Title: Characterizing Latencies of Edge Video Streaming
Author: Balhaj, Mohamed
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Computer engineering
Description: The use of video streaming has been growing rapidly in the recent years and has beenutilized in various applications. Many of these applications are latency sensitive, butthe latency requirements varies largely from one application to another. The...

Title: Cognitive Spectrum Access for D2D Communications in Emerging Networks
Author: Liu, Xingya
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Computer engineering
Description: Device to device (D2D) Communication is essential in emerging networks, such as Internet of things (IoT). Cognitive radio (CR)-enabled device is a promising technology to address D2D Communications. However, existing work on CR networks suffers fr...

Title: DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF RSSI-BASED LOCALIZATION SCHEMES FOR WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS TO MITIGATE SHADOWING EFFECTS
Author: CHUKU, NDUBUEZE
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Engineering, Computer engineering
Description: Received radio frequency (RF) signal strength provides a cost-effective mechanism for distance estimation that is popularly used for range-based localization in wireless sensor networks (WSN). The typical method of determining sensor location usin...

Title: DYNAMIC ROUTING WITH CROSS-LAYER ADAPTATIONS FOR MULTI-HOP WIRELESS NETWORKS
Author: PAL, AMITANGSHU
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Computer engineering
Description: In recent years there has been a proliferation of research on a number of wirelessmulti-hop networks that include mobile ad-hoc networks, wireless mesh networks,and wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Routing protocols in such networks are oftenrequi...

Title: Design and validation of a scalable digital wireless channel emulator using an FPGA computing cluster
Author: Buscemi, Anthony
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering
Description: A Digital Wireless Channel Emulator (DWCE) is a system that is capable of emulating the RF environment for a group of wireless devices. The use of digital wireless channel emulators with networking radios is hampered by the inability to efficientl...

Title: Design of Secure Boot Process for Reconfigurable Architectures
Author: Siddiqui, Ali Shuja
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Computer engineering
Description: VLSI advancements have enabled proliferation in the Internet of Things(IoT) domain where small scale System-on-a-Chip (SoC) are employed as sensors or actuators. IoT devices are connected with other IoTs and with backend facilities. In today's wor...

Title: Development NURO-RAM: Memory management architecture for streaming CNN accelerators on edge
Author: SAWANT, ADARSH
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Computer engineering
Description: Development of accelerators for deep learning accelerators have been gaining a lot of popularity due to sheer amount computation performed by deep learning algorithms. From the onset of Moore's law failure it has become difficult to improve the pe...

Title: Distributed Messaging System for the IoT Edge
Author: George, Anjus
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer science, Computer engineering
Description: Recent advances in Deep Learning have made possible distributed multi-camera IoT vision analytics targeted at a variety of surveillance applications involving automated real-time analysis of events from multiple video perspectives. However, the la...