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Title
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Using Occlusion to Track Multiple Objects with Similar Appearance
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Author
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Fasciano, Thomas
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science, Visual perception
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Description
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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...
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Title
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Towards large-scale and fine-grained image recognition
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Author
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Zhang, Xiaofan
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science
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Description
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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...
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Title
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TOPIC MODELS FOR TAGGED TEXT
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Author
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Ma, Zhiqiang
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Date Created
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2014
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science
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Description
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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...
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Title
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Structural Learning for Large Scale Image Classification
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Author
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Shen, Yi
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science
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Description
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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....
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Title
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Manipulation and Perception Synergy for Autonomous Robots in Unknown Environments
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Author
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Mao, Huitan
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science, Robotics
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Description
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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 ...
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Title
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Lower limb biomechanics after total knee arthroplasty
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Author
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Wang, Shangcheng
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Mechanics, Biomechanics, Kinesiology
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Description
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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...
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Title
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Fine-grained Video Classification for Rare Events
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Author
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Shan, Junjie
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science, Information technology
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Description
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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...
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Title
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CONTINUUM ROBOT MANIPULATION
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Author
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Li, Jinglin
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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Robotics
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Description
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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...
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Title
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An Approach to Reducing Parameter Uncertainty for Robotic Surface Assembly Tasks
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Author
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Saric, Amar
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Date Created
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2014
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science, Robotics
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Description
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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...
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Title
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Abstract visualization of large-scale time-varying data
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Author
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Yu, Li
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Date Created
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2012
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science, Computer engineering
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Description
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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...
