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  • Learning MDP action models via discrete mixture trees

    Creator:
    Wynkoop, Michael S.
    Abstract:
    This thesis addresses the problem of learning dynamic Bayesian network (DBN) models to support reinforcement learning. It focuses on learning regression tree models of the conditional probability distributions of the DBNs. Existing algorithms presume that the stochasticity in the domain can be modeled as a deterministic function with additive noise....
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    OF Michael S. Wynkoop for the degree of Masters of Science in Computer Science presented on June 9

  • Demosaicking of color images by means of conditional random fields

    Creator:
    Kelm, Bernd Michael
    Abstract:
    Modern digital still cameras are equipped with just a single CCD for color image acquisition. Since only one spectral band can be recorded in each pixel, a mosaic of red, green and blue color filters is placed in front of the chip. The process of subsequently calculating a full color...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis

  • The Ownership Monad

    Creator:
    McGirr, Michael G.
    Abstract:
    The Rust programming language is a systems programming language with a strong static type system. A central feature of Rust’s type system is its unique concept of “ownership”, which enables Rust to give a user safe, low-level control over resources without the overhead of garbage collection. In Haskell, most data...
    Resource Type:
    Capstone Project
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE PROJECT OF Michael McGirr for the

  • Characterizing Server Compromise: Resilience Models, Instantiations, and Impossibilities

    Creator:
    McQuoid, Ian M.
    Abstract:
    One of the pervasive problems arising in our modern, digital world surrounds data breaches where an adversary, through zero-day exploitations, phishing, or old-fashioned social engineering attacks, gains access to a service’s data stores. Our society increasingly relies on these cloud-based services for everything from our taxes to personal communication. As...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
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    - Resilient Storage- Secure PKI-Free Symmetric Supports Typos CHAP # # # # Password-over-TLS G

  • New Approaches to Depth-Based Render Techniques Using Pixel Synchronization

    Creator:
    Pawlowski, Bryan
    Abstract:
    As the nonstop advancement of graphics hardware continues, new features are being added to the graphics pipeline on a regular basis. One of these advancements is called Pixel Synchronization, which allows a graphics programmer more power with certain types of data structures that may be accessed by multiple shader units...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    Depth-Based Render Techniques Using Pixel Synchronization Abstract approved: Michael Bailey As the

  • New constructions and applications for homomorphic secret sharing and function secret sharing

    Creator:
    Singh, Jaspal
    Abstract:
    A secret sharing scheme allows a dealer to distribute a secret with a set of parties, such that only a certain subset of parties can collaborate and learn the shared secret. Traditional secret sharing schemes have been used as building blocks in various subdomains of cryptography. Recently, two new extensions...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
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    ciphertext [[z]] = (A,B) is ϕ−1(A−kB), where ϕ(z) = gz for a public generator g. Again, ϕ is a homomorphism

  • Model-based approximation methods for reinforcement learning

    Creator:
    Wang, Xin
    Abstract:
    The thesis focuses on model-based approximation methods for reinforcement learning with large scale applications such as combinatorial optimization problems. First, the thesis proposes two new model-based methods to stablize the value–function approximation for reinforcement learning. The first one is the BFBP algorithm, a batch-like reinforcement learning process which iterates between...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
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    Methods for Reinforcement Learning. Abstract approved: Thomas G Dietterich The thesis focuses on model

  • Computational methods for protein-protein interface prediction

    Creator:
    Tribelhorn, Benjamin
    Abstract:
    Protein-protein interactions underlie all biological processes and are a field of study that has wide implications throughout many other fields including medicine, genetics, biology, and ecology. Proteins are the building blocks and primary actors of life. They work together to accomplish virtually every task within a cell, including, metabolism, signal...
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    Dissertation
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    Methods for Protein-Protein Interface Prediction Abstract approved: Michael J. Bailey Protein-protein

  • Layered rendering model for human teeth

    Creator:
    Shetty, Sudarshanram
    Abstract:
    This study introduces a layered model for rendering human teeth. Human teeth exhibit complex light interaction due to their layered structure. While the lighting responses of teeth have been studied in the dental industry for the production of realistic looking dentures, to our knowledge this is the first study of...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    Model for Human Teeth Abstract approved: Michael J. Bailey This study introduces a layered model for

  • Voxel based indirect illumination using spherical harmonics

    Creator:
    Rauwendaal, Randall
    Abstract:
    Realistic (ideally photorealistic) real-time rendering has remained an elusive goal in computer graphics. While photorealistic rendering has certainly been achieved at the expense of tremendous computational resources and corresponding rendering times; real-time rendering typically must accept a great number of compromises to achieve adequate performance, such as aliasing artifacts, the...
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    Dissertation
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    Harmonics Abstract approved: Michael J. Bailey Realistic (ideally photorealistic) real-time rendering