Browsing Department of Electrical Engineering by Title
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Comparison of Measurements and Theory for Backscatter from Bare and Snow-covered Saline Ice
(IEEE, 1990-07)C-band backscatter measurements were made on artificially grown sea ice at the U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) during the winters of 1987-1988 and 1988-1989. These measurements were made ... -
Comparisons Between a Dense Medium Scattering Model and Seaice Measurements
(IEEE, 1990-05)A scattering model for a plane dense medium layerembeded with randomly located small spherical scatterers was developed. The effects of close spacing between the Scatterers were included in the developed phase matrix by ... -
Complex Directional Wavelet Transforms: Representation, Statistical Modeling And Applications
(Electrical Engineering, 2009-09-16)The thesis presents an new image decomposition for feature extraction, which is called the pyramidal dual-tree directional filter bank (PDTDFB). The image representation has an overcomplete ratio of less than 8/3 and uses ... -
The Complex Gaussian Scale Mixtures Of Complex Wavelet Coefficients And Applications
(Electrical Engineering, 2011-07-14)In this thesis, the complex Gaussian scale mixture (CGSM), which is an extension of the Gaussian scale mixture (GSM) for real-valued random variables to the complex case, is presented to model the complex wavelet coefficients. ... -
Complexity Reduction For VP6 To H.264 Transcoder Using Motion Vector Reuse
(Electrical Engineering, 2010-07-19)VP6 is a video coding standard developed by On2 Technologies, Inc. It is the preferred codec for Macromedia Flash 8 video. VP6 gained importance with Macromedia Flash emerging as a widely adopted video streaming technology ... -
Complexity Reduction In H.264 Encoder Using Open Multiprocessing
(Electrical Engineering, 2012-07-25)H.264 video standard developed by Joint Video Team has proven dramatic improvements in bit-rate efficiency, compression ratio, video quality and error resilience. But, all this is achieved at the expense of more than four ... -
Complexity Reduction In HEVC Intra Coding And Comparison With H.264/AVC
(Electrical Engineering, 2014-03-12)ITU-T (VCEG) and ISO/IEC (MPEG) collaborated and formed the joint collaborative team on video coding (JCT-VC) in April 2010 to develop the next-generation video coding (NGVC) standard.. HEVC standard doubles the coding ... -
Complexity Reduction In Inter Layer Inter Prediction In Scalable High Efficiency Video Coding
(Electrical Engineering, 2014-09-17)In scalable extension of HEVC, the base layer is coded using normal HEVC codec and the enhancement layers are coded using interlayer prediction for both intra and inter predictions. The prediction process for the enhancement ... -
Complexity Reduction Of H.264 Using Parallel Programming
(Electrical Engineering, 2013-03-20)The H.264 encoder provides for adaptive directional intra-prediction, motion-compensated inter-prediction followed by transform, quantization, deblocking filtering and either variable length encoding or arithmetic coding. ... -
Complexity Reduction Of Motion Estimation In HEVC
(Electrical Engineering, 2014-12)The High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard is the latest video coding project developed by the Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC) which involves the International Telecommunication Unit (ITU-T) Video ... -
COMPRESSION ARTIFACT REDUCTION IN HEVC USING ADAPTIVE BILATERAL FILTER
(2016-05-10)The High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) [8] is the latest video standard developed by Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC), a group of video coding experts from ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group and ISO/IEC ... -
Compressive Sensing And Wireless Network Capacity With Performance Analysis
(Electrical Engineering, 2011-10-11)This dissertation contains five reseach topics. In chapter 1, the performances of a noncoherent slow frequency-hopping system with M-ary frequency-shift-keyed modulation (NC-FH/MFSK) under various hostile jamming strategies ... -
Compressive Sensing For Wireless and Sensor Systems
(Electrical Engineering, 2013-10-22)Compressive sensing (CS) is an emerging field based on the revelation that a small collection of linear projections of a sparse signal contains enough information for stable, sub-Nyquist signal acquisition. It provides a ... -
Computer Vision Aided Bridge Monitoring System
(Electrical Engineering, 2014-12)Supervising Professor: Roger Walker With bridges representing a significant part of the road network in the United States, continual monitoring and early detection of deterioration in these structures is vital to prevent ... -
Control System For Real Time Jitter Reduction And 3D Reconstruction Of Road Profile
(Electrical Engineering, 2011-10-11)A large number of bridges, overpasses and other similar structures fail due to deterioration caused by factors such as vehicle loads, impact loads, severe weather conditions, etc. Routine monitoring of such structures ... -
Convert UHF RFID Tag From Passive To Semi-passive Tag Using External Power Sources
(Electrical Engineering, 2011-03-03)In this thesis, I present novel circuit designs that convert a passive radio frequency identification (RFID) tag into a semi-passive RFID tag. Passive RFID tags are relatively inexpensive to purchase and to integrate into ... -
Cooperative Control Of Multi-agent Systems; Stability, Optimality And Robustness
(Electrical Engineering, 2013-10-22)In this work design methods are given for distributed synchronization control of multi-agent systems on directed communication graphs. Conditions are derived based on the relation of the graph eigenvalues to a region in a ... -
COOPERATIVE CONTROL OF MULTIPLE UNTETHERED MAGNETIC MICROROBOTS FOR PRECISION MICROMANIPULATION
(2016-05-16)The field of untethered microrobotics has emerged within the last two decades for its applications potential in military surveillance, micro and nano manufacturing, as well as in health care for minimal invasive surgery ... -
Coupled Bilayer Photonic Crystal Slab Electro-Optic Spatial Light Modulators
(IEEEDepartment of Electrical Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington, March 1, 2)We demonstrate here a surface-normal ultracompact Fano resonance electro-optic spatial light modulator employing a stacked photonic crystal membrane capacitor-like structure. Vertically coupled optical resonance near 1.5 ... -
Cross-layer Design For Wireless Ad Hoc Sensor Networks
(Electrical Engineering, 2008-04-22)Cross-layer design is an efficient approach to enhance energy efficiency and Quality of Service (QoS) in wireless ad hoc sensor networks. This dissertation will focus on the cross-layer issues and approaches. It will also ...