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A model-based, generative and stochastic method for human motion capture using hierarchical particle filters
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Searching in probability spaces can prove to be an impractical task due to the high- dimensionality of the state vector. In the context of tracking human pose through image...
Experimental evaluation of characteristic temperature with varying duty cycles in 2μm vertical cavity surface emitting lasers due to external optical pumping
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs) are of interest due to their small size, low cost, tunability, and excellent beam quality. Moreover, the near infrared is one...
The detection of potentially harmful hand postures in pianists using Kinect depth images
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
, University of Missouri. Hands were segmented out from the raw depth images and landmarks were then detected. Features were then extracted from the 3D point clouds reconstructed from the Kinect depth information and used for hand posture evaluation...
Significance-linked connected component analysis+ for wavelet image coding
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The Significance-Linked Connected Component Analysis+ (SLCCA+) is a efficient wavelet image coding algorithm that extends SLCCA by using new data organization and representation...
Textual summarization of data using linguistic protoform summaries
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
is then illustrated with a novel application in the healthcare domain where the textual summaries are tailored to a clinical population. This is followed by an extensive study on the use of LPS as features in order to process data. There, we present our thoughts...
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)
locations as a special case. Moreover, scenario (iv) can be viewed as the extension of scenario (iii) in the sense that the unknown source positions are now generated by a moving source. For each localization scenario, we investigate the amount...
Automated video processing and scene understanding for intelligent video surveillance
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
and perspective changes. Collaborative video compression for UAV surveillance network. Based on distributed video coding, we develop a collaborative video compression scheme for a UAV surveillance network. Our extensive experimental results demonstrate...
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, we have extensively...
Characterizing carrier transport in silicon thin film metal semiconductor metal structures
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Due to its operational simplicity and ease of fabrication, metal semiconductor metal thin film structures have been the focus of attention for many researchers, specifically...
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 within a few hundred...
Ensemble video object cut in highly dynamic scenes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] We consider video object cut as an ensemble of framelevel background-foreground object classifiers which fuses information across frames and refine their segmentation results...
Distributed resource allocation and performance optimization for video communication over mesh networks based on swarm intelligence
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
PSO, distributed and asynchronous PSO, and energy efficient DAPSO. Our extensive experimental results in distributed resource allocation and performance optimization demonstrate that the proposed schemes work efficiently and robustly. Compared...
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 demonstrated through experiment...
Floor sensor development using signal scavenging for personnel detection system
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
of the sensor system were avoided with careful manufacturing of carpet and earthing. With the development of the full floor, we have created a prototype which has high reliability and accuracy to detect motion and can be extensively used for further research....
Facilitating emerging applications on many-core processors
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
. Due to their massive computational powers, many-core processors have been successfully used to parallelize a wide variety of dense matrices and vectors based applications. These extensively investigated problems are mainly from linear algebra, stencil...
The ferroelectric plasma thruster
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Micropropulsion is an enabling technology for microspacecraft. As requirements for microspacecraft missions become more demanding, so do the requirements for micropropulsion. Therefore, existing technologies require ...
Frame interpolation in H.264
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] In video transmission over low-bandwidth networks, videos are often encoded at low frame rates. At the decoder side, frame interpolation is often performed to reconstruct...
Object detection for big dataObject detection for big data
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
We have observed significant advances in object detection over the past few decades and gladly seen the related research has began to contribute to the world: Vehicles could automatically stop before hitting any pedestrian; ...
Charge collection mechanisms in a sub-micron grated MSM photodector: field analysis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
Enhanced charge collection mechanisms due to sub-micron wall-like silicon structures on the active surface of a metal-semiconductor-metal (MSM) photodetector were studied through the analysis of transmitted electromagnetic ...
Transmission distortion modeling for wireless video communication
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] A major challenge in video wireless communication is that the channel is time-varying and error-prone. The lost video packet and the packet received with errors, due to the error...