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Network coding has been successfully employed to increase throughput for data transfers. However, coding inherently introduces packet inter-dependencies and adds decoding delays which increase latency. This makes it difficult ...

Environmental awareness is an important prerequisite for autonomous behavior in vehicles. Without it, robots are unable to react to unknown surroundings and require extensive human input for tasks such as target identification ...

In this thesis, I investigate one approach - stimulated emission depletion - to surmounting the diffraction limitation of optical lithography. This approach uses farfield optical nodes to orchestrate reversible, saturable ...

This thesis extends the Statistical Saliency Model to include motion as a feature, enabling it to compute the saliency of video sequences more effectively. The motion feature is represented as optical flow and incorporated ...

End-to-end verifiable voting systems allow voters to verify that their votes are cast as intended, collected as cast, and counted as collected. Essentially, end-to-end voting systems provide voters assurance that each step ...

Discriminative training for acoustic models has been widely studied to improve the performance of automatic speech recognition systems. To enhance the generalization ability of discriminatively trained models, a large-margin ...

Many data-driven animation techniques are capable of producing high quality motions of human characters. Few techniques, however, are capable of generating motions that are consistent with physically simulated environments. ...

Humans are sensitive to situational and semantic context when applying labels to colors. This is especially challenging for algorithms which attempt to replicate human categorization for communicative tasks. Additionally, ...

Much attention has recently been focused on graphene as an alternative semiconductor to silicon. Transistors with graphene conduction channels have only recently been fabricated and their performance remains to be optimized. ...

Design of modern mixed signal integrated circuits is becoming increasingly difficult. Continued MOSFET scaling is approaching the global power dissipation limits while increasing transistor variability, thus requiring ...