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Image Annotation And Feature Engineering Via Structural Sparsity And Low Rank Approximation
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2014-03-12)
Nowadays, in order to sense environment and understand human behaviors, data analysis plays a more and more important role to handle heterogeneous data ranging from different domains, e.g., image categorization/annotation, ...
Sparse And Large-scale Learning Models And Algorithms For Mining Heterogeneous Big Data
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2014-03-12)
With the development of PC, internet as well as mobile devices, we are facing a data exploding era. On one hand, more and more features can be collected to describe the data, making the size of the data descriptor larger ...
Exploratory Mining Of Collaborative Social Content
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2014-03-12)
The widespread use and growing popularity of online collaborative content sites (e.g., Yelp, Amazon, IMDB) has created rich resources for consumers to consult in order to make purchasing decisions on various items such as ...
Viewpoint Invariant Gesture Recognition And 3D Hand Pose Estimation Using RGB-D
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2014-03-12)
The broad application domain of the work presented in this thesis is pattern classifi-cation with a focus on gesture recognition and 3D hand pose estimation. One of the main contributions of the proposed thesis is a novel ...
Multimodal Interaction In Ambient Intelligence Environments Using Speech, Localization And Robotics
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2014-09-17)
An Ambient Intelligence Environment is meant to sense and respond to the presence of people, using its embedded technology. In order to effectively sense the activities and intentions of its inhabitants, such an environment ...
Design And Analysis Of Location Centered Large-scale Opportunistic Networks
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2014-03-12)
With the high penetration of mobile devices and their equipments of wireless interfaces in people's lives, the development of the scenario of Opportunistic Networks(OppNets) has become available. OppNets enable transmissions ...
Online Efficient And Effective Search In Large And Noisy Sequence Databases
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2014-07-14)
This thesis investigates the problem of similarity search in large and noisy sequence databases. A key application domain of interest in this work is the very challenging Query-By-Humming (QBH) problem, according to which, ...
Dynamic Symbolic Data Structure Repair And Evaluation Of Program Analysis Tools With The RUGRAT Random Program Generator
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2014-07-14)
Generic automatic repair of complex data structures is a new and exciting area of research. Existing approaches can integrate with good software engineering practices such as program assertions. But in practice there is a ...
Improving Tor Performance By Modifying Path Selection
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2014-12)
Tor is a popular volunteer-based overlay network that provides anonymity andprivacy for Internet users. Using the Onion Proxy (OP) client, users connect to anetwork of Onion Routers (ORs) and send their traffic through an ...
Discovery Of Anomalous Patterns Within Multidimensional, Asynchronous Time-series With An Emphasis On The "internet Of Things"
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2014-12)
In this dissertation we examine ``Internet-scale'' systems that present us with multidimensional time-series data characterized by many sources sending symbols at irregular intervals over a common channel. We explore a ...