Browsing Electrical Engineering and Computer Science electronic theses and dissertations (MU) by Thesis Semester "2012 Fall"
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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 ... -
Comparative study of ballistic transport in Si and GaAs using non equilibrium Green's function formalism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The simulation study presented in this research has two basic objectives. The first objective is to establish a consistency in the results for quantum ... -
Design and analysis of a metamaterial with high refractive index at dual band frequencies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)The concept of a single frequency band, single high-refractive-index metamaterial has been extended and applied in the design of dual frequency band, dual high-refractive-index metamaterials in the THz regime. The structure ... -
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 ... -
Design and experimental study of a dual vircator microwave source
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)The research described in this thesis details the design, construction, and experimental results in developing a virtual cathode oscillator (vircator) high power microwave (HPM) source. The HPM source utilizes two independent ... -
Experimental and simulation analysis of the jitter response of a single-shot oil switch with a high-K particle suspension
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)This dissertation investigates an oil switching system to address and reduce the jitter observed in the breakdown electric field strength of a pressurized, oil dielectric. The experimental work is conducted in two phases, ... -
Experimental and simulation analysis of the jitter response of a single-shot oil switch with a high-K particle suspension
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)This dissertation investigates oil switching systems to address and reduce the jitter observed in the breakdown electric field strength of a pressurized, oil dielectric. The experimental work is conducted in two phases, ... -
Geometric image segmentation via transform invariant rank cuts
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)This research propose a novel image segmentation algorithm, named as Transform Invariant Rank Cuts (TIRC). Based on salient 3D geometric information of natural scenes. The segmentation algorithm unities an emerging robust ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
People re-identification in a camera network
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)In this research, we present an appearance based method for people re-identification. It consists in the extraction of two types of features related to human appearance, color histograms and SIFT features. Images are ... -
PIN photodiode controlled class E microwave power amplifier
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This project is to design, build and test a switched-mode class E amplifier operating at 1GHz, using a PIN photodiode as switch. In order to explore ... -
Signal generation for ultra-wideband short-range radar system
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] In this thesis work, an ultra-wideband signal generator circuitry is presented for the Ultra-wideband Short-range Radar Human ID System. Investigation ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Walk detection using pulse-Doppler radar
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)Seniors increasingly live more independent lifestyles. This can come with certain safety hazards including deteriorating health, and major injuries from falling. A factor that has been researched and observed to have a ...