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Wireless Power Transmission Based On Retro-reflective Antenna Array
(Electrical Engineering, 2014-03-12)
In recent years, there is a lot of research on wireless power transmission (WPT) for various applications, such as mobile devices, electric vehicles, implanted medical devices, sensors, RFID, etc. Compared to wired power ...
Sparsity Enhanced Reconstruction Algorithms For Diffuse Optical Tomography
(Electrical Engineering, 2014-03-12)
Conventional reconstruction algorithms for diffuse optical tomography (DOT) is based on Tikhonov regularization method and the simple white Gaussian noise (WGN) assumption. These approaches usually lead to the following ...
Nanostructured Surfaces Using Thermal Nanoimprint Lithography: Applications In Thin Membrane Technology, Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting And Tactile Pressure Sensing
(Electrical Engineering, 2014-03-12)
Nanoimprint lighography (NIL) is emerging as a viable contender for fabrication of large-scale arrays of 5-500 nm features. The work presented in this dissertation aims to leverage the advantages of NIL for realization of ...
Elevated Recharge Of Electrochemical Cells
(Electrical Engineering, 2014-03-12)
Electrochemical cells are energy dense storage devices used to power everything from small portable electronics such as cell phones, to larger systems including electric and hybrid-electric vehicles or even electric utility ...
Implementation Of Fast Residual Quadtree Coding And Fast Intra Prediction In High Efficiency Video Coding
(Electrical Engineering, 2014-03-12)
High Efficiency Video Coding, one of the latest video compression schemes proposed by Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC) which is a partnership between International Telecommunication Union Video Coding ...
Intra Frame Luma Mode Prediction Using Neural Networks In HEVC
(Electrical Engineering, 2013-07-22)
High Efficiency Video Coding, the latest video coding standard proposed by the JVT-VC and three profiles- HEVC main, main 10 and main intraframe were adopted in January 2013, provides significant amount of compression ...
Transfer-printed Photonic Crystal Nanomembrane Fano Resonance Filters And Modulators
(Electrical Engineering, 2014-03-12)
This dissertation presents the research work on photonic crystal nanomembrane Fano resonance devices based on transfer printing techniques. Ultra-compact high quality (Q) factor optical filters have been design, fabricated, ...
Theory and applications of absorbing guided-mode resonant devices in sensing, communications, and display
(2017-08-08)
Guided-mode resonant (GMR) technology is incorporated into lossy dielectric materials to assist in the absorption of incident light for various applications. Varying topologies and methodologies are explored. A series of ...
Virtual Surveyor based Object Extraction from Airborne LiDAR data
(2017-08-11)
Topographic feature detection of land cover from LiDAR data is important in various fields - city planning, disaster response and prevention, soil conservation, infrastructure or forestry. In recent years, feature ...
A supervised approach for training Gaussian Mixture Model classifiers
(2017-08-22)
A new method for training Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) classifiers is presented. First, an objective function is defined in terms of the number of clusters, K, per class, the mean vectors, the inverse covariance matrices ...