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Title: 'Practice' for Enhancing the Performance of a Deep Reinforcement Learning Agent
Author: Kancharla, Venkata Sai Santosh Ravi Teja
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Artificial intelligence
Description: Deep reinforcement learning has demonstrated its capability to solve a diverse array of challenging problems, which were not able to solve previously. It has been able to achieve human-level performance in Atari 2600 games and it has shown great p...

Title: A Contactless Non-Intrusive Approach for Machine Learning-Based Personalized Thermal Comfort Prediction
Author: Ashrafi, Roshanak
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Sustainability, Building
Description: Indoor thermal environmental conditions play a significant role in protecting occupants’ well-being. In this regard, schedule-based and predefined environmental control is one of the main reasons for the current discomfort and dissatisfaction with...

Title: A LANGUAGE-BASED APPROACH FOR SECURING ACTIONSCRIPT/FLASH VULNERABILITIES
Author: Yilmaz, Fadi
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Web technologies enable web users to share files, images, audios, videos with each other worldwide. The accessibility provided by the web lures web pirates to perform unauthorized, malicious activities in victim machines remotely by exploiting des...

Title: Advances in Modern Botnet Understanding and the Accurate Enumeration of Infected Hosts
Author: Nunnery, Christopher
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Information technology, Information science
Description: Botnets remain a potent threat due to evolving modern architectures, inadequate remediation methods, and inaccurate measurement techniques. In response, this research exposes the architectures and operations of two advanced botnets, techniques to ...

Title: Anomaly Detection for Manufacturing Applications Using Convolutional Autoencoders
Author: Zouar, Nourelislam
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: ABSTRACTNOURELISLAM ZOUAR. ANOMALY DETECTION FOR MANUFACTURING APPLICATIONS USING CONVOLUTIONAL AUTOENCODERS. (Under the direction of DR. MIN SHIN) Anomaly Detection in manufacturing environments is increasingly gaining popularity among companies ...

Title: Architecture Estimation from Sparse Images using Grammatical Shape Priors for Cultural Heritage
Author: Sui, Yunfeng
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer science
Description: The estimation and reconstruction of 3D architectural structures is of great interest in computer vision, as well as cultural heritage. This dissertation proposes a novel approach to solve the difficult problem of estimating architectural structur...

Title: Art Authentication in an Untagged Art Database
Author: Dobbs, Bryan
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Art--Historiography, Mathematics
Description: The identification of the artist of a painting is also known as art authentication, and the answer to this question is manifest through art gallery exhibition and is reinforced through financial transactions. Art authentication has visual influenc...

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: CROSS-PLATFORM INDOOR NAVIGATION USING MIXED-REALITY
Author: Ayyanchira, Akshay Murari
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Indoor navigation and localization are challenging due to the limits of available devices. A number of devices, such as GPS [3], beacons [5], infrared positioning system, ultrasonic positioning system and RF positioning system [21] have been explo...

Title: Characterization of Firebrands Generated from Selected Vegetative Fuels in Wildland Fires
Author: Bahrani, Babak
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Statistics
Description: Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) and Wildland fires cause damages to infrastructure and the environment, resulting in loss of life, property, and an increasing cost of mitigation. Firebrands are known as one of the leading fire spread mechanisms in ...

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: 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...

Title: Generalized Coverage Using Multiple Robots: Theory, Algorithms, and Experiments
Author: Agarwal, Saurav
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Robotics
Description: Recent technological advances have facilitated the use of mobile robots for a wide range of coverage applications such as inspection and mapping of infrastructure, precision agriculture, and disaster management. With the proliferation of these tas...

Title: Hierarchical Learning of Discriminative Features and Classifiers for Large-scale Visual Recognition
Author: Zhou, Ning
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Enabling computers to recognize objects present in images has been a long standing but tremendously challenging problem in the field of computer vision for decades. Beyond the difficulties resulting from huge appearance variations, large-scale vis...

Title: Interactive Mining for Large-scale Neuro-Morphological Datasets
Author: Li, Zhongyu
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Neurosciences, Biomedical engineering
Description: In this dissertation, we aim to investigate advanced methods for the computational analytics of large-scale neuro-morphological datasets, which can help neuroscientists interactively explore neurons in real-time. Particularly, we tackle the neuro-...

Title: Modeling Identity-Based Conflict and Genocide - An Approach Informed by Complexity Theory and Computational Social Science
Author: von Briesen, Elizabeth
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: This research designs the Eris model, a novel, agent-based computational model that can aid researchers in answering questions regarding the explanation and prediction of identity-based conflict and genocide. At its most fundamental level, this wo...

Title: Multi-Task Generalization using Practice for Distributed Deep Reinforcement Learning
Author: Pattnaik, Upasana
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Artificial intelligence
Description: Feedback driven deep reinforcement learning methodologies are widely favoured approaches to solving artificial intelligence problems. The algorithms navigate complex decision-making tasks without manual state space engineering. Notable problems co...

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: Perceiving guaranteed collision-free robot trajectories in unknown and unpredictable environments
Author: Vatcha, Rayomand
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Robotics
Description: The dissertation introduces novel approaches for solving a fundamental problem: detecting a collision-free robot trajectory based on sensing in real-world environments that are mostly unknown and unpredictable, i.e., obstacle geometries and their ...

Title: REPLACEMENT OF HUMAN OPERATOR WITH VISION-GUIDED ROBOT FOR ELECTRONIC COMPONENT PICK-AND-PLACE WORK CELL
Author: Vutetakis, David
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Robotics
Description: Picking and placing parts is a fundamental operation involved in circuit board manufacturing and assembly plants. Pin thru-hole (PTH) components with non-standard features are incompatible with most existing high speed pick-and-place systems; this...