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Title: A Beginning-to-End System for Efficiently Gathering Tracking Data on Multiple Targets
Author: Rice, Lance
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Multi-object tracking in video has the potential for broad applicability, from analyzing division-of-labor within biological networks such as insects, to surveillance and traffic monitoring. Despite any potential the field of multiple object track...

Title: A SYSTEM FOR COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS AND RECONSTRUCTION OF 3D COMMINUTED BONE FRACTURES
Author: Liu, Pengcheng
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer science
Description: High energy impacts at joint locations often generate highly fragmented, or comminuted bone fractures. A leading current approach for treatment requires physicians qualitatively to classify the fracture to one of four possible fracture severity ca...

Title: A two-stage framework for designing visual analytics systems to augment organizational analytical processes
Author: Wang, Xiaoyu
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: A perennially interesting research topic in the field of visual analytics is how to effectively develop systems that support organizational knowledge worker's decision- making and reasoning processes. The primary objective of a visual analytic sys...

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: DIRECTING VIRTUAL HUMANS USING PLAY-SCRIPTS AND SPATIO-TEMPORAL REASONING
Author: Talbot, Christine
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Artificial intelligence
Description: Historically, most virtual human character research focuses on realism/emotions, interaction with humans, and discourse. The majority of the spatial positioning of characters has focused on one-on-one conversations with humans or placing virtual c...

Title: Dynamic behavior-based control and world-embedded knowledge for interactive artificial intelligence
Author: Heckel, Frederick
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Artificial intelligence
Description: Video game designers depend on artificial intelligence to drive player experience in modern games. Therefore it is critical that AI not only be fast and computationally inexpensive, but also easy to incorporate with the design process. We address ...

Title: Exploring the Visualization of Student Behavior in Interactive Learning Environments
Author: Johnson, Matthew
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: My research combines Interactive Learning Environments (ILE), Educational Data Mining (EDM) and Information Visualization (Info-Vis) to inform analysts, educators and researchers about user behavior in software, specifically in CBEs, which include...

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: From pixel to region to temporal volume: a robust motion processing framework for visually-guided navigation
Author: Liu, Jianfei
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Computer engineering, Diagnostic imaging
Description: The ability to view pre-operative CT colonoscopy images co-aligned with optical colonoscopy images from endoscopic procedures can provide useful information to the gastroenterologist and lead to improved polyp detection. Colonoscopy data presents ...

Title: Integrating Wavelet Entropy and Binarized Statistical Image Features to Improve Fingerprint Interoperability
Author: Chapman, Zachary
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Biometric systems are widely deployed in governmental, military and civilian applications. There are a multitude of sensors and matching algorithms available from different vendors. This creates a competitive market for these products, which is go...

Title: Reducing training effort in biological image classification
Author: Nguyen, Nhat Rich
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: To automatically classify biological images, machine learning techniques have been widely used to train the classifiers from labeled images. For a new category of biological object, a tedious and expensive labeling process is needed from a human e...

Title: Structural analysis of protein-DNA binding specificity and its application to protein-DNA docking assessment
Author: Corona de la Fuente, Rosario
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Bioinformatics
Description: DNA-binding proteins are involved in essential biological processes including gene expression, DNA packaging and DNA repair. They bind to DNA target sequences with different degrees of binding specificity, ranging from highly specific to non-speci...

Title: TRACING THE ORIGINS AND USAGE OF AFFORDANCES IN HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION: EPISTEMOLOGICAL ASSUMPTIONS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR DESIGN
Author: Hess, Adam
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Information technology, Design, Psychology, Experimental
Description: This thesis questions the use of the theory of affordance, a psychological theory of perception, as the basis for a symbolic design methodology in human-computer interaction. By comparing the psychological writings on affordance of James J. Gibson...

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...