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A Real-time Embedded FPGA Interface For An Ethernet Based Line Laser
(Electrical Engineering, 2013-03-20)Profile measurement systems developed at the Transportation Instrumentation and Embedded systems Lab (TIL) at the University of Texas at Arlington are used by Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) to compute the profile ... -
Real-Time Multi-Pulse Rectifier Models for Power Hardware-In-The-Loop Implementation in Medium Voltage DC Microgrid Applications
(2019-05-06)Microgrids have proliferated the landscape of the world’s power systems as distributed energy generation, energy storage, and evolving electrical loads become more abundant. Microgrids offer many advantages to the end user ... -
Realistic Interaction With Social Robots Via Facial Expressions And Neck-eye Coordination
In this thesis, we report on research work concerning various aspects of interaction between an android head and its environment. The research aims at building a reusable framework of interaction through facial expressions ... -
REALIZATION OF COMPACT ELECTROCHEMICAL SENSING SYSTEMS ON A BOARD AND A CHIP FOR A HIGH-DENSITY SENSOR ARRAY
(2021-05-09)The sensitive and cost-effective electrochemical sensors based on various classes of nanocomposites fabricated by different methods for the detection of target chemicals. Its application is boundless from reactive monitoring ... -
Recirculating Loop Testbed For All Optical 2R Regeneration
(Electrical Engineering, 2007-08-23)This Master's thesis deals with building a recirculating loop testbed intended for proof-of-principle demonstration of multichannel all-optical 2R regenerator proposed in [1]. The proposed multichannel 2R regeneration ... -
Reconfigurable All-Optical De-multiplexing via Spatial-Selective Frequency-Up-Conversion in Kai(2) Multimode Waveguide
We investigate spatial-mode-selective frequency up-converters in (2) multimode waveguides for classical and quantum communication. For the classical application, our method works as spatial-mode de-multiplexer for ... -
Reducing Encoder Complexity of Intra-mode Decision using CU Early Termination Algorithm
(2015-12-07)In this thesis an intra prediction algorithm is proposed that terminates complete full search prediction for the CU and is replaced by CU early termination algorithm which determines the complexity of the CU block and then ... -
Reducing The Complexity Of Inter-prediction Mode Decision For High Efficiency Video Codec
(Electrical Engineering, 2014-07-14)High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard is the latest joint video project of the ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG) and the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) standardization organizations, working ... -
Reducing The Encoding Time For H.264 Baseline Profile Using Parallel Programming Techniques.
(Electrical Engineering, 2013-03-20)This thesis is aimed at reducing the encoding time for a group of pictures (GOP) for h.264 baseline profile on a general purpose CPU. This thesis also aims at drawing a comparison between task based parallelism and data ... -
REDUCING THE ENCODING TIME OF MOTION ESTIMATION IN HEVC USING PARALLEL PROGRAMMING
(2015-12-02)High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) is the current state-of-art video codec which is widely being adopted by lot of users. It has close to 50% reduction in encoding time compared to its predecessor, H.264 or AVC (Advanced ... -
Region Of Interest (ROI) Based Rate Control For H.263 Compatible Video Conferecing
(Electrical Engineering, 2007-08-23)This dissertation presents a region of interest (ROI) based H.263 [10] [13] compatible video codec, which integrates the idea of object-based coding from MPEG-4 Visual [9] [15] into the traditional block-based H.263 codec. ... -
Regularized Canonical Correlations in Clustering Sensor Data
(2016-05-10)In many data acquisition applications such as in sensor networks, the acquired sensor measurements contain information about multiple sources placed at different spatial locations. Such sources could correspond to different ... -
Reliability Of Advanced Dielectrics In Gate Oxide And Device Level Packaging In MEMS
(Electrical Engineering, 2010-03-03)The focus of this work is to study the feasibility, reliability and applicability of advanced dielectrics in both Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor (MOSFET) gate oxide and device level packaging for ... -
Reliability Unit Commitment In ERCOT Nodal Market
(Electrical Engineering, 2013-07-22)The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) is the independent system operator (ISO) that ensures a reliable electric grid and efficient electricity markets in the ERCOT region. ERCOT has successfully transited from ... -
RESOURCE ALLOCATION AND CAPACITY IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKS
(2021-04-29)How to allocate resources in the era of Big Data in telecommunications becomes a new issue. Smartphone data could be a function of personality, as the smartphone supports interpersonal interaction, and the data collected ... -
Reversible Data Hiding using Histogram Shifting
(2016-05-10)With the current state-of-the-art technology, intruders can easily gain access to sensitive information. To avoid this, different methods with improved security to hide information have been developed like, covert channels, ... -
Revisiting Control Establishments For Emerging Energy Hubs
Emerging small-scale energy systems, i.e., microgrids and smartgrids, rely on centralized controllers for voltage regulation, load sharing, and economic dispatch. However, the central controller is a single-point-of-failure ... -
RF MEMS And Integrated Manufacturing For Miniaturized Millimeter-wave Systems
(Electrical Engineering, 2007-08-23)Recently millimeter-wave systems have attracted more attentions in applications owing to their short wavelengths, high resolutions, broad bandwidths and high environmental tolerance. However, the great challenges of high ... -
RF Sputtered SixGe1-x and SixGe1-xOy Thin Films For Uncooled Infrared Detectors
(Electrical Engineering, 2007-08-23)The objective of this work is to find a suitable combination of radio frequency (RF) sputtered SixGe1-x and SixGe1-xOy thin films for uncooled infrared detection. Thus, fabricating and characterizing microbolometers with ... -
ROBUST TRAINING METHODS FOR DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS WITH A VARIETY OF LABEL NOISE
(2021-05-07)Requirement of significant amount of labeled training data is a major drawback in training deep neural networks (DNNs), due to the presence of mislabeled examples in these datasets. This label noise is shown to have an ...