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Abstract visualization of large-scale time-varying data
Title
Abstract visualization of large-scale time-varying data
Author
Yu, Li
Date Created
2012
Subjects--Topical
Computer science, Computer engineering
Description
The explosion of large-scale time-varying datasets has created critical challenges for scientists to study and digest. One core problem for visualization is to develop effective approaches that can be used to study various data features and tempor...
An Approach to Reducing Parameter Uncertainty for Robotic Surface Assembly Tasks
Title
An Approach to Reducing Parameter Uncertainty for Robotic Surface Assembly Tasks
Author
Saric, Amar
Date Created
2014
Subjects--Topical
Computer science, Robotics
Description
In contrast to hard automation, which relies on the precise knowledge of all parameters and special-purpose machinery, the goal of flexible assembly is to overcome the inherent uncertainty in the location of the parts. The main result of this diss...
CONTINUUM ROBOT MANIPULATION
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...
Fine-grained Video Classification for Rare Events
Title
Fine-grained Video Classification for Rare Events
Author
Shan, Junjie
Date Created
2018
Subjects--Topical
Computer science, Information technology
Description
Video analysis plays an important role in the field of computer vision and finds its application in many areas. Fine-grained event classification is one of the most challenging problems in video analysis due to subtle difference between classes an...
Lower limb biomechanics after total knee arthroplasty
Title
Lower limb biomechanics after total knee arthroplasty
Author
Wang, Shangcheng
Date Created
2018
Subjects--Topical
Mechanics, Biomechanics, Kinesiology
Description
Knee osteoarthritis is a painful and disabling disease that is prevalent among elder adults. Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) can effectively alleviate knee arthritic pain and improve patient quality of life. Unfortunately, there are evidences showin...
Manipulation and Perception Synergy for Autonomous Robots in Unknown Environments
Title
Manipulation and Perception Synergy for Autonomous Robots in Unknown Environments
Author
Mao, Huitan
Date Created
2019
Subjects--Topical
Computer science, Robotics
Description
Intelligent robots have been increasingly used in unstructured and unknown environments rather than being limited in well-controlled settings. The key to successful autonomous robot operations in such environments is to combine robot manipulation ...
Structural Learning for Large Scale Image Classification
Title
Structural Learning for Large Scale Image Classification
Author
Shen, Yi
Date Created
2013
Subjects--Topical
Computer science
Description
To leverage large-scale collaboratively-tagged (loosely-tagged) images for training a large number of classifiers to support large-scale image classification, we need to develop new frameworks to deal with the following issues: (1) spam tags, i.e....
TOPIC MODELS FOR TAGGED TEXT
Title
TOPIC MODELS FOR TAGGED TEXT
Author
Ma, Zhiqiang
Date Created
2014
Subjects--Topical
Computer science
Description
Our world has been experiencing a dramatic and continually increasing growth of digital textual information. This phenomenon raises challenges in analyzing, understanding, organizing, and summarizing these large bodies of textual information. A la...
Towards large-scale and fine-grained image recognition
Title
Towards large-scale and fine-grained image recognition
Author
Zhang, Xiaofan
Date Created
2017
Subjects--Topical
Computer science
Description
In this dissertation, we aim to investigate the problem of large-scale and fine-grained image recognition, which focuses on the differentiation of subtle differences among subordinate classes and a large number of images. Particularly, we tackle t...
Using Occlusion to Track Multiple Objects with Similar Appearance
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...