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  • Kalman Filter Tracking for an FSO Communication System based on Dynamic Beam Steering and Shaping

    Creator:
    Bouchard, Luc F.
    Abstract:
    We present a theoretical free-space optical (FSO) transmitter that utilizes a dynamically steered and shaped laser beam to communicate with a randomly moving receiver adorned with a retroreflector. The transmitter tracks the receiver's position by repeatedly scanning the field of view (FOV), measuring reflections from the retroreflector, and estimating the...
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    Masters Thesis
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Luc Bouchard for the degree of

  • A fast division algorithm

    Creator:
    Dum, Stephen Anthony
    Abstract:
    A radix 2n non-restoring division algorithm is described. The algorithm is designed to be compatible with hardware multiprecision multiplication methods currectly used in high speed digital computers. This enables the use of the same hardware, with only changes in control logic, to be used to implement both multiplication and division....
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    Dissertation
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    A fast division algorithm STEPHEN ANTHONY DUM (Name

  • Exploration of regression models for cancer noncoding mutation recurrence

    Creator:
    Xu, Tanjin
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    An important impact of the genome technology revolution will be the elucidation of mechanisms of cancer pathogenesis, leading to improvements in the diagnosis of cancer and the selection of cancer treatment. Integrated with current well-studied massive knowledge and findings about the role of protein-coding mutations in cancer, demystifying the functional...
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    Masters Thesis
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    parameters and it usually has the form as: y = f(X,β) + �, (2.3) where X is a vector of p predictors, β is

  • Investigating the Effect of Using Mobile Touchscreen Device on Children's Tactile Skills

    Creator:
    Almurshed, Rana
    Abstract:
    To users, mobile touchscreen devices have appealing characteristics; among these characteristics is intuitiveness, which leads to mobile devices being used almost everywhere by almost everyone to accomplish almost anything. This statement, to some degree, holds for children too. Despite touchscreen devices’ intuitiveness and popularity, we don’t know much about how...
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    Dissertation
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    ...................................................................................................................................... 57 APPENDIX F: STUDY 2 GAMES MANUAL

  • Image feature detection and matching for biological object recognition

    Creator:
    Deng, Hongli
    Abstract:
    Image feature detection and matching are two critical processes for many computer vision tasks. Currently, intensity-based local interest region detectors and local feature-based matching methods are used widely in computer vision applications. But in some applications, such as biological object recognition tasks, within-class changes in pose, lighting, color, and texture...
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    Dissertation
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    for SISF Region extraction. (Image courtesy F. Jurie and C. Schmid

  • On Avoiding Power-Seeking by Artificial Intelligence

    Creator:
    Turner, Alexander M.
    Abstract:
    We do not know how to align a very intelligent AI agent's behavior with human interests. I investigate whether—absent a full solution to this AI alignment problem—we can build smart {\ai} agents which have limited impact on the world, and which do not autonomously seek power. In this thesis, I...
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    Dissertation
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    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 E.4 Lower bounds on mdp power-seeking incentives for optimal policies . . . . . 221 F Additional

  • Knowledge Base Completion Leveraging Natural Language Data

    Creator:
    Shahbazi, Hamed
    Abstract:
    Information about named entities (real-world objects) is usually harvested from different sources and organized as a multiple relational directed graph in Knowledge Bases (KBs). KBs play essential roles in many NLP modules including question answering, fact-checking, search engines, etc. KBs are big but still incomplete: relational information among entities is...
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    Dissertation
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    for candidate yij as f (c) ij = [y T ijBci; y T ijB; ci], where B is a learned Rd ×Rd matrix. Note

  • Supporting end-user debugging

    Creator:
    Kissinger, Cory
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    Although researchers have begun to explicitly support end-user programmers’ debugging by providing information to help them find bugs, there is little research addressing the right content to communicate to these users. The specific semantic content of these debugging communications matters because, if the users are not actually seeking the information...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    Appendix F: Storyboards

  • Structured learning with latent variables : theory and algorithms

    Creator:
    Zhao, Kai
    Abstract:
    Most tasks in natural language processing (NLP) try to map structured input (e.g., sentence or word sequence) to some form of structured output (tag sequence, parse tree, semantic graph, translated/paraphrased/compressed sentence), a problem known as “structured prediction”. While various learning algorithms such as the perceptron, maximum entropy, and expectation-maximization have...
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    Dissertation
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    function F : X × Y → R: y∗ = argmax y∈Y(x) F (x, y). (2.1) Usually the scoring function F (·, ·) is

  • Graph Imitation Learning for Optimal Joint Beamforming and Antenna Selection

    Creator:
    Shrestha, Sagar
    Abstract:
    Transmit beamforming is an important technique employed to improve efficiency and signal quality in wireless communication systems by steering signals towards their in- tended users. It often arises jointly with the antenna selection problem due to various reasons, such as limited number of radio frequency (RF) chains and energy/resource effi-...
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    Masters Thesis
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    }. ∥x∥2, ∥x∥∞, ∥X∥2, ∥X∥F , ∥X∥row−0 denote the vector ℓ2 norm, vector ℓ∞ norm, matrix spectral norm