• Adding intelligence to a floor based array personnel detector 

    Muheidat, Fadi (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
    According to the World Health Organization-WHO, a fall is defined, as "inadvertently coming to rest on the ground, floor or other lower level, excluding intentional change in position to rest in furniture, wall or other ...
  • Critical study of parallel programming frameworks for distributed applications 

    Gu, Ruidong (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
    Parallel programming frameworks such as the Message Passing Interface (MPI), Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS) languages, Charm++, Legion and High Performance Parallel X (HPX) have been used in several scientific ...
  • Development and validation of an interactive remote physical therapy system 

    Mishra, Anup Kumar (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
    We present an Interactive Physical Therapy System (IPTS) for remote quantitative assessment of clients in the home. The system consists of two different interactive interfaces connected through a network, for a real-time ...
  • Experimental study of random projections below the JL limit 

    Ye, Xiuyi (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
    Random projection is a method used to reduce dimensionality of desired objects with pair-wise distances preserved at a relatively high probability. The mathematical theory behind this is called the Johnson-Lindenstrauss ...
  • Task driven extended functions of multiple instances (TD-eFUMI) 

    Cook, Matthew (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
    Dictionary learning techniques have proven to be a powerful method in the pattern recognition literature. Recently supervised dictionary learning has been used to achieve very good results on a number of different data ...