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    • KERNELS AND BEYOND FOR DATA SIMILARITY LEARNING IN DATA MINING 

      Malhotra, Akshay (2019-12-04)
      This work discusses the problem of unsupervised clustering of signals/data vectors based on their information content. A correlation based perspective to the clustering problem has been considered, thus relying on the high ...
    • LABEL FREE OPTICAL DETECTION OF ELECTRICAL ACTIVITY IN MAMMALIAN NEURONS 

      Satpathy, Sarmishtha; 0000-0003-2171-2675 (2018-02-15)
      We describe an optical technique for label-free detection of the action potential in cultured mammalian neurons. Induced morphological changes due to action potential propagation in neurons are optically interrogated with ...
    • LABEL-FREE REFRACTIVE INDEX SENSING WITH FREE-SPACE COUPLED PHOTONIC CRYSTAL SLABS 

      Liu, Yonghao (2017-12-07)
      Label-free optical resonance sensors can detect small changes of refractive index (RI), which could be used for biochemical molecular detection, drug screening or gas detection. One of the most critical parameters in these ...
    • LARGE DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS AND OPTIMIZATION FOR MASSIVE MIMO WIRELESS NETWORKS 

      Wang, Longwei
      The Last decade has seen a massive growth of wireless devices. Demands for high capacity and massive connectivity always increases. To meet the these requirements, massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology ...
    • Large-area InP-based crystalline nanomembrane flexible photodetectors 

      Zhou, Weidong; Yang, Weiquan; Yang, Hongjun; Qin, Guoxuan; Ma, Zhenqiang; Berggren, Jesper; Hammar, Mattias; Soref, Richard (IEEE, 2010-03-25)
      Large-area (3x3 mm2) flexible photodetectors were realized, based on crystalline InP semiconductor nanomembranes transferred to flexible polyethylene terephthalate substrates. Very low dark current a few microamperes ...
    • Leak detector system for Positive Airway Pressure machines 

      Gopalakrishnan, Aishwarya (2016-08-16)
      The project aims to develop a system to indicate leaks occurring in a Positive Airway Pressure (PAP) machine which sends a passage of air to the patients suffering from sleep apnea, through a hose and a nose mask. The ...
    • A LiDAR-based Auto Hydro Breakline Generation Algorithm For Standing Water Bodies 

      Toscano, George John
      Airborne Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) is a sensor that can generate terrain elevation and intensity data of very large areas with high precision and dense resolution. The intensity and elevation are co-registered, ...
    • LiFePO4 BATTERIES: IMPACT OF HIGHLY PARALLEL PACKS ON LOAD DISTRIBUTION AND CYCLE LIFE 

      Westenhover, Caroline Storm; 0000-0001-8046-3109 (2018-08-01)
      The United States Navy is considering Li-ion batteries for use as a primary power source for future naval shipboard pulsed-power applications. To supply sufficient power to a load, electrochemical cells are connected in ...
    • Light Trapping And Absorption Enhancement For High Performance Solar Cells And Infrared Photodetectors 

      Chen, Li (Electrical Engineering, 2010-07-19)
      This dissertation presents the work on light trapping and absorption enhancement in solar cells and infrared photodetectors. Hemispherical microstructure based omni-directional anti reflection (Omni-AR) coating has been ...
    • A Literature Review On Neuro-cognitive Learning And Control 

      Joshi, Patanjalikumar Shashankkumar (Electrical Engineering, 2014-12)
      This thesis is an effort to provide a foundation work linking neuroscience, psychology and control theory as a part of research going on developing fast satisficing autonomous systems at the University of Texas at Arlington ...
    • Localization Algorithms For Passive Targets In Radar Networks 

      Trasi, Kartik (Electrical Engineering, 2007-08-23)
      In this study, we propose an improved, robust algorithm for passive targets in radar networks. The main objective of this work is to improve the localization accuracy of the algorithm based on signal properties in combination ...
    • Localization In Noisy Environment Using Extended Kalman Filter 

      Patkar, Aneeket Suresh (Electrical Engineering, 2008-04-22)
      Localization is an important aspect of Wireless Sensor Networks. Information regarding the position of the sensor nodes is not always known. Without the position information of the sensors, the data reported by the sensors ...
    • Localization Of Short Circuit Faults In The Power Distribution Networks 

      Limaye, Omkar Deepak (Electrical Engineering, 2012-04-11)
      This thesis summarizes the research efforts on localizing short-circuit faults in power distribution networks. Specifically, an experimental testbed is constructed to emulate realistic power distribution networks; various ...
    • Localization System For UAV/UGV In Urban Environments 

      Coelho, Vishal Savio (Electrical Engineering, 2010-03-03)
      An implementation of relative localization of wireless sensor nodes using a potential field method is presented in this work. The system is designed to assist in UAV/UGV navigation in urban environments like rooms and ...
    • LONG-DISTANCE AND BROAD-BAND AERIAL COMMUNICATION USING DIRECTIONAL ANTENNAS: THEORY, IMPLEMENTATION, AND APPLICATIONS 

      Li, Songwei (2019-08-05)
      Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) have found broad civilian applications. However, existing commercial usages are limited to single UAVs. To facilitate commercial multi-UAV applications, robust UAV-to-UAV communication with ...
    • Low Complexity AVS-M Using Machine Learning Algorithm C4.5 

      Ramolia, Pragnesh (Electrical Engineering, 2011-07-14)
      AVS China is the latest video coding standard developed by the AVS work group of China employing the latest video coding tools for achieving high compression while preserving the quality of the video [15]. AVS China video ...
    • Low Complexity H.264 Encoder Using Machine Learning For Streaming Applications 

      Vaidyanath, Suchethan Swaroop (Electrical Engineering, 2011-07-14)
      H.264, MPEG-4 part-10 or AVC, is the latest digital video codec standard which has proven to be superior than earlier standards in terms of compression ratio, quality,bit rates and error resilience [1]. Joint model (JM) ...
    • Low Complexity H.264 Encoder Using Machine Learning. 

      Purushotham, Thejaswini (Electrical Engineering, 2011-03-03)
      H.264 is currently one of the most widely accepted video coding standards in the industry. Several software and hardware solutions for the H.264 video encoder exist in the market at present. H.264 is used in such applications ...
    • Low Complexity H.264 To VC-1 Transcoder 

      Vijayakumar, Vidhya (Electrical Engineering, 2010-11-01)
      The high definition video adoption has been growing rapidly for the last five years. The H.264 and VC-1 coding standards are two of the recent and dominant coding standards. Compared to H.264, VC-1 is less complex but ...
    • Low Phase Noise Voltage-controlled Oscillator Design 

      Zhu, Zhipeng (Electrical Engineering, 2007-08-23)
      Two kinds of voltage-controlled oscillators (VCO) - active inductor based VCO and LC cross-coupled VCO - are studied in this work. Although the phase noise performance is not competitive, the proposed active inductor based ...