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An optics study of mammal skin and its transmission properties
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
A detailed study is performed to understand infrared photonic transmission through skin and the factors that influences transmission at room temperature. Pigskin is the test vehicle of this study since its structure most ...
Nanogap embedded silver gratings for surface plasmon enhanced fluorescence
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
Plasmonic nanostructures have been extensively used in the past few decades for applications in sub-wavelength optics, data storage, optoelectronic circuits, microscopy and bio-photonics. The enhanced electric field produced ...
Design and application of conformal patch antenna for near-field imaging and object detection
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Compact and low cost planar and conformal patch antennas were designed, fabricated and analyzed for ultra-wideband characteristics. It was also ...
Face verification using high dimensional feature
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
Hyperspectral unmixing and band weighting for multiple endmember sets
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Imaging spectrometers measure the response from materials across the electromagnetic spectrum. Often, in remote sensing applications, the imaging ...
Deep packet inspection on large datasets : algorithmic and parallelization techniques for accelerating regular expression matching on many-core processors
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
Regular expression matching is a central task in several networking (and search) applications and has been accelerated on a variety of parallel architectures, including general purpose multi-core processors, network ...
On the use of multiple emitters to improve the TDOA source localization accuracy in the presence of random sensor position errors
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
It is known that random sensor position errors can significantly degrade the TDOA source localization accuracy. In this thesis, we conduct a systematic study on using the calibration emitters to mitigate the effect of ...
Design and analysis of miniaturized implantable and wearable microstrip antennas
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] There is an increasing effort by hospitals, doctors and healthcare service providers to cut down the ever increasing cost of health care. One area of ...
Landmine classification using possibilistic K-nearest neighbors with wideband electromagnetic induction data
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] In this thesis, a possibilistic K-nearest neighbor classifier is presented to distinguish between and classify mine and non-mine targets on data ...
Simultaneous electrophoretic deposition of copper oxide/aluminum nanothermite films
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This research details simultaneous electrophoretic deposition (EPD) of copper-oxide/aluminum nanothermite films. Deposition parameters such as precursor ...
Nanocomposites : characterization and applications towards electrical energy storage devices
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
The growing need for energy to be stored in decreasing volumes has resulted in extensive amounts of research into materials chemistry, new fabrication techniques, and the utilization of nano-materials. In this investigation, ...
How zenith angle of cross product affects NVP feature
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Recent dramatic advance in visual recognition hardware has made some promising progress. For instance, the impact of the recent emerging low-cost depth ...
Local learning algorithms with application to action recognition and video analysis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Activity analysis has been an active research area in recent years, due to its difficulties lying in the feature descriptor, video representation and ...
Automatic explosive hazard detection in FL-LWIR and FL-GPR data
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Detection of land mines and other buried explosive hazards, has been, and continues to be, a serious issue for military and civilian organizations. A ...
Surface micromachined MEMS variable capacitor with two-cavity for energy harvesting
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
In this research, a novel MEMS variable capacitor with two capacitive cavities for energy harvesting was developed that use the wasted energy associated with undesirable mechanical vibrations to power microelectronic sensors ...
High accuracy in 3D reconstruction by fusion of IMU and imaging data: application in health medicine
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
Parametric investigation on thrust development of a piezoelectric transformer plasma propulsion system
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
The PTPS-MT consists of a RF driven lithium niobate piezoelectric disc operating as a high voltage step-up transformer to ionize and accelerate plasma in a single self-contained package. Operation of the PTPS-MT is done ...
Photoconductive switching using wideband semiconductor materials
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] A solid state switch concept based on the photoconductive properties of the aluminum gallium nitride (AlGaN) and gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductors ...
Unstructured road detection in color imagery for the purpose of the automatic detection of explosive devices
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
This thesis proposes a method for segmenting an unstructured dirt road in color space images using color and texture analysis. A support vector machine (SVM), or a Random Forest classifier is trained on samples of on and ...
Depth sensor based object detection using surface curvature
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
An object detection system finds objects from an image or video sequence of the real world. The good performance of object detection has been largely driven by the development of well-established robust feature sets. By ...