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3D SKELETON CONSTRUCTION FROM MULTIPLE CAMERA VIEWS FOR QUANTIFYING GAIT PARAMETERS
(2020-06-05)Research has shown that human gait characteristics permit inference with respect to different personal and health characteristics and can thus be used as a diagnostic tool. To do this automatically it is important to be ... -
A COMBINATORIAL APPROACH TO FAIRNESS TESTING OF MACHINE LEARNING MODELS
(2022-05-16)Machine Learning (ML) models could exhibit biased behavior, or algorithmic discrimination, resulting in unfair or discriminatory outcomes. The bias in the ML model could emanate from various factors such as the training ... -
A DATA DRIVEN, HOSPITAL QUALITY OF CARE PORTAL FOR THE PATIENT COMMUNITY
(2016-05-10)With the recent changes in health services provision, patients are members of a consumer driven health care system. However, the health care consumers are not presented with adequate opportunities to enhance their position ... -
A DEEP LEARNING BASED PIPELINE FOR METASTATIC BREAST CANCER CLASSIFICATION FROM WHOLE SLIDE IMAGES (WSI)
Pathology is a 150-year-old medical specialty that has seen a paradigm shift over the past few years with the advent of Digital Pathology. Digital Pathology is a very promising approach to diagnostic medicine to accomplish ... -
A Dynamic Multi-Threaded Queuing Mechnism for Reducing the Inter-Process Communication Latency on Multi-Core Chips
(2019-08-12)Reducing latency in Inter-Process Communication (IPC) is one of the key challenges in multi-threaded applications in multi-core environments. High latencies can have serious impact on the performance of an application when ... -
A Game Theoretic Framework for Temporal and Agent Abstractions in Multiagent Learning
(2016-05-10)A major challenge in the area of multiagent reinforcement learning is addressing the issue of scale as systems get more and more complex. Systems with multiple agents attempting to explore and learn about the world they ... -
A NEW REAL-TIME APPROACH FOR WEBSITE PHISHING DETECTION BASED ON VISUAL SIMILARITY
(2016-05-10)Phishing attacks cause billions of dollars of loss every year worldwide. Among several solutions proposed for this type of attack, visual similarity detection methods have a good amount of accuracy. These methods exploit ... -
A NON-CONTACT BASED SYSTEM TO MEASURE SPO2 AND SYSTOLIC/DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE USING RGB-NIR CAMERA
(2022-05-18)In recent times, people have increasingly self-assessed their health using different devices on their bodies that monitor physiological attributes such as their oxygen level and blood pressure (BP) to monitor their health. ... -
A PARALLEL IMPLEMENTATION OF APRIORI ALGORITHM FOR MINING FREQUENT ITEMSETS IN HADOOP MAPREDUCE FRAMEWORK
With explosive growth of data in past few years, discovering previously unknown, frequent patterns within the huge transactional data sets has been one of the most challenging and ventured fields in data mining. Apriori ... -
A Personalized Profile Based Learning System For Power Management In Android
Mobile computing devices are becoming more ubiquitous everyday due to the phenomenal growth in technology powering them. With the amount of computing power available in these devices, users are capable of achieving a ... -
A Probabilistic Approach to Crowdsourcing Pareto-Optimal Object Finding by Pairwise Comparisons
This is an extended study on crowdsourcing Pareto-Optimal Object Finding by Pairwise Comparisons. The prior study on the same topic demonstrate the framework and algorithms used to determine all the Pareto-Optimal objects ... -
A Real-time Activity Recognition in a Congested Wireless Environment
(2022-08-16)**Please note that the full text is embargoed until 8/16/2024** ABSTRACT: This dissertation reports on how to achieve real-time activity recognition in a congested wireless environment. Recently, human activity recognition ... -
A STUDY OF USING MULTIPLE CUES TO AID PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES IN LEARNING SYSTEM-ASSIGNED PASSWORDS
(2017-06-06)Traditional user-chosen passwords often offer weak password security and are prone to password reuse and password patterns whereas system-assigned passwords are secure but fail to provide sufficient memorability. LDs are ... -
A Survey on DDoS Attacks in Edge Servers
(2020-12-09)In modern times, the need for latency sensitive applications is growing rapidly. Cloud computing infrastructure is unable to provide support to such delay sensitive applications. Therefore, a new paradigm called edge ... -
Accurate And Cost Efficient Object Localization Using Passive UHF RFID
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2011-07-14)In a smart environment, accurate locations of objects are a fundamental and critical issue. To achieve this goal, we present several methods based on passive far-field UHF RFID technologies, which can satisfy accuracy, ... -
Activity Detection and Classification on a Smart Floor
(2017-05-18)Detecting and analyzing human activities in the home has the potential to improve monitoring of the inhabitants' health especially for elderly people. There are many approaches to detect and categorize human activities ... -
ACTIVITY RECOGNITION TO MIMIC HUMAN PERCEPTION
(2020-09-03)The recognition of activities from video is a capability that is important for a wide range of applications, ranging from basic scene understanding to the successful prediction of behavior in autonomous vehicle applications. ... -
Adapting Harmonic Function Path Planning: To Reflect User Motion Preferences
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2009-09-16)Every human in the real world has a unique motion preference while moving to achieve a given task. These preferences could be expressed by moving in a straight line, following the wall along a corridor, avoiding sharp ... -
Adaptive Agent Communities For Providing Services In Dynamic Networks
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)New network applications are being created everyday to accommodate diverse user needs. Delivering services to the user in a timely manner taking into account network conditions, resources allocated and network load is a ... -
Adaptive Dialogue Systems For Assistive Living Environments
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2014-03-12)Adaptive Dialogue Systems (ADS) are intelligent systems, able to interact with users via multiple modalities, such as speech, gestures, facial expressions and others. Such systems are able to make conversation with their ...