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  • Human Performance with Multiple UAV Systems: Use Cases and Modeling

    Creator:
    Uriarte, Patrick A.
    Abstract:
    Commercial and public safety usage of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in the National Airspace is currently restricted by federal regulation. The Federal Aeronautics Association is interested in modifying the restrictions; however, research is needed to study the human factor and required aptitude for a single human operating multiple UAVs. This Master’s...
    Resource Type:
    Capstone Project

  • A Structured Approach for In-Hand Manipulation

    Creator:
    Asar, Anjali Harish
    Abstract:
    In-hand manipulations consist of dexterous motions that come easy to humans but still pose a challenge to robotic systems. It is difficult to control finger motions in long complicated sequences due to high DOFs and intricate contact interactions. For such complex motions, in-hand manipulations have generally been broken into a...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    , Anjali Asar, Cindy Grimm, Xiaoli Fern, and Ravi Balasubramanian. Improving grasp classification through

  • Data Classification and Extraction of Weather Reports

    Creator:
    Qin, Rui
    Abstract:
    Severe weather in the United States causes huge insured losses to crop and property frequently.It creates major impact and elicit diverse response in the weather insurance industry. Events like hail, storm, hurricane etc. are more likely to cause catastrophe losses. So it becomes crucial to collect and analyze these extreme...
    Resource Type:
    Capstone Project
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    , motivation, enthusiasm, and immense knowledge. Secondly, I would like to thank my committee: Prof. Xiaoli

  • A statistical inference framework for finding recurring patterns in large data with applications to energy management

    Creator:
    You, Zeyu
    Abstract:
    We consider the problem of finding unknown patterns that are recurring across multiple sets. For example, finding multiple objects that are present in multiple images or a short DNA code that is repeated across multiple DNA sequences. We first consider a simple problem of finding a single unknown pattern in...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    Nguyen, Prof. Xiaoli Fern and Prof. for their support and advice. I would also like to thank our group

  • Novelty Detection Under the Multi-Instance Multi-Label Framework

    Creator:
    Lou, Qi
    Abstract:
    Novelty detection plays an important role in machine learning and signal processing. This project studies novelty detection in a new setting where the data object is represented as a bag of instances and associated with multiple class labels, referred to as multi-instance multi-label (MIML) learning. Contrary to the common assumption...
    Resource Type:
    Capstone Project
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    to me so that I can study here for two years, Prof. Xiaoli Fern who taught me a lot and gave me much

  • Fine-grained detection and localization of objects in images

    Creator:
    Feng, Yaofei
    Abstract:
    Object recognition is a fundamental problem in computer vision. Recognition is required by many applications. This thesis presents a distance based approach to recognize objects. We are interested in objects that belong to very similar classes, where each class has large variations. This problem is called fine-grained object recognition. Given...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    . Fern for giving me precious guidance in machine learning research area. Last, thanks to my parents and

  • Ensemble Monte-Carlo planning : an empirical study

    Creator:
    Lewis, Paul
    Abstract:
    Monte-Carlo planning algorithms such as UCT make decisions at each step by intelligently expanding a single search tree given the available time and then selecting the best root action. Recent work has provided evidence that it can be advantageous to instead construct an ensemble of search trees and make a...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    Planning: An Empirical Study Abstract approved: Alan Fern Monte-Carlo planning algorithms such as UCT

  • Computer vision for geometrical analysis of bridge gusset plates

    Creator:
    Varakantham, Shravya
    Abstract:
    Gusset plates are an important component of bridges. They are thick sheets of steel that join steel members together using fasteners and also strengthen their joint. Transportation agencies regularly evaluate and rate their inventories of gusset plate connections using visual inspection, which is very costly. To address this issue, we...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis

  • Rare category detection using hierarchical mean shift

    Creator:
    Vatturi, Pavan Kumar
    Abstract:
    Many applications in surveillance, monitoring, scientific discovery, and data cleaning require the identification of anomalies. Although many methods have been developed to identify statistically significant anomalies, a more difficult task is to identify anomalies that are both interesting and statistically significant. Category detection is an emerging area of machine learning...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis

  • Dimensionality Reduction Techniques for Compositional Data : An Empirical Study

    Creator:
    George, Rogen
    Abstract:
    Compositional data is a type of data where the features are non-negative and always sum to a constant. This type of data is frequently encountered in many fields such as microbiology, geology, economics and natural language processing. Compositional data has unique statistical properties that makes it difficult to apply standard...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    . Xiaoli Fern who is a part of my committee. I thank Doug Robinson, Tyler Hallman and Jenna Curtis for the