Browsing 2015 MU theses - Freely available online by Thesis Department "Electrical and computer engineering (MU)"
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Classification of mixed data points for coupled circles estimation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)Concentric circles fitting is a challenge task since the nonlinear fitting problem needs to find out the implicit relationship between the noisy measurement data points and the unknown parameters, circles center and radii, ... -
Compiler-assisted workload consolidation to efficiently exploit dynamic parallelism for recursive applications
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)GPUs have been widely used to parallelize and accelerate applications for its high throughput. Traditionally, a GPU function can only be launched from the CPU side. This results in the fact that GPUs are preferable for ... -
Computational modeling of neutron production by a Siemens Oncor Linac and benchmarked by experimental data
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)Modeling neutron production by an electron driven linear accelerator using Monte Carlo N-Particle (MCNP) transport code can show the potential for this accelerator to be used as a neutron generator to produce short-lived ... -
The detection of potentially harmful hand postures in pianists using Kinect depth images
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)Pianists who practice hours per day may have a risk for developing playing-related musculoskeletal injuries if they do not play with proper hand alignment. In order to detect the harmful, misaligned hand postures (such as ... -
An efficient and computationally attractive localization algorithm under large equal radius scenario
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)A wide variety of applications have been developed based on source localization in areas like sonar, radar, global positioning system (GPS), wireless sensor networks, emergency response and human-computer interactions. ... -
Electrochemical imaging of quantal exocytosis in single cells
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)Microelectrodes are widely used in detection of exocytosis events. In order to detect both the time and release location of quantal exocytosis from a single cell, four square microelectrodes located in a 20 um square ... -
Fuel handling accident analysis for the university of Missouri research reactors high enriched uranium to low enriched uranium fuel conversion initiative
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)Engineers from Argonne National Lab's Global Threat Reduction Initiative program and engineers from the MU Research Reactor are working together to covert the MU Research Reactor from using high-enriched uranium fuel to ... -
A hierarchical framework for pattern recognition using source signal separation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)In this research, a hierarchical framework that exploits the use of a novel source signal separation technique is posed and explored. This framework takes advantage of the Guided Under-determined Source Signal Separation ... -
Lossless data compression of monitored power signals using the PLHaar Transform
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)The quality of AC power is often affected by unpredictable situations like lightning storms and short circuits. Not only does this reduce the efficiency of devices drawing upon mal-formed power signals, but in the highpowered ... -
Recognition of sleep stages from sensor data
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)Sleep is an essential activity for humans. It affects our physical and mental health. So monitoring sleep continuously can help detect any changes in sleep patterns that may be caused by sleep disorders or other diseases. ... -
Reducing chip count with a programmable system on chip in personnel detection using signal scavenging
(University of Missouri--ColumbiaUniversity of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)Our laboratory has implemented a personnel detection system, Smart Carpet, which can detect the walking of older adults. The existing system consists of traditional individual components and chips, leading to a large system ... -
Robust classification with convolutional neural networks
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)For image classification, I achieved the current state-of-the-art performance by using methods based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). Face image analysis requires both effective feature extraction and classifier ... -
Textual summarization of data using linguistic protoform summaries
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)With the unseen quantities of data being generated in all walks of life, varying from social media to health domain, introduction of new techniques in order to better understand this information content is imperative. ...