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Audio processing on constrained devices
(University of Waterloo, 2009-10-29)This thesis discusses the future of smart business applications on mobile phones and the integration of voice interface across several business applications. It proposes a framework that provides speech processing support ... -
Auditory target identification in a visual search task
(University of Waterloo, 2005)Previous research has shown that simultaneous auditory identification of the target in a visual search task can lead to more efficient (i. e. ?flatter?) search functions (Spivey et al. , 2001). Experiment 1 replicates ... -
Augmentation of Visual Odometry using Radar
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-25)As UAVs become viable for more applications, pose estimation continues to be critical. All UAVs need to know where they are at all times, in order to avoid disaster. However, in the event that UAVs are deployed in an area ... -
Augmented composite likelihood for copula modeling in family studies under biased sampling
(Oxford University Press, 2016-01-27)The heritability of chronic diseases can be effectively studied by examining the nature and extent of within-family associations in disease onset times. Families are typically accrued through a biased sampling scheme in ... -
Augmented Reality for Indoor Navigation and Task Guidance
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-09)Modern augmented reality systems are becoming increasingly popular in different industrial sectors as augmented reality based applications can improve performance and reduce workload during operations. The efficacy of such ... -
Augmented Reality-Based Indoor Navigation Using Google Glass as a Wearable Head-Mounted Display
(IEEE, 2015-10)This research comprehensively illustrates the design, implementation and evaluation of a novel marker less environment tracking technology for an augmented reality based indoor navigation application, adapted to efficiently ... -
Augmented Reality-based Indoor Navigation: A Comparative Analysis of Handheld Devices vs. Google Glass
(IEEE, 2017-02)Navigation systems have been widely used in outdoor environments, but indoor navigation systems are still in early development stages. In this paper, we introduced an augmented-reality-based indoor navigation application ... -
Augmenting Basin-Hopping With Techniques From Unsupervised Machine Learning: Applications in Spectroscopy and Ion Mobility
(Frontiers, 2019-08-07)Evolutionary algorithms such as the basin-hopping (BH) algorithm have proven to be useful for difficult non-linear optimization problems with multiple modalities and variables. Applications of these algorithms range from ... -
Augmenting Local Search for Satisfiability
(University of Waterloo, 2004)This dissertation explores approaches to the satisfiability problem, focusing on local search methods. The research endeavours to better understand how and why some local search methods are effective. At the root of ... -
Augmenting Quantum Mechanics with Artificial Intelligence
(University of Waterloo, 2018-12-04)The simulation of quantum matter with classical hardware plays a central role in the discovery and development of quantum many-body systems, with far-reaching implications in condensed matter physics and quantum technologies. ... -
Augmenting the Author: Exploring the Potential of AI Collaboration in Academic Writing
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2024-03-13)This workshop paper presents a critical examination of the integration of Generative AI (Gen AI) into the academic writing process, focusing on the use of AI as a collaborative tool. It contrasts the performance and ... -
Augmenting Trees to Achieve 2-Node-Connectivity
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-02)This thesis focuses on the Node-Connectivity Tree Augmentation Problem (NC-TAP), formally defined as follows. The first input of the problem is a graph G which has vertex set V and edge set E. We require |V| >= 3 to avoid ... -
Augmenting Vehicle Localization with Visual Context
(University of Waterloo, 2009-04-30)Vehicle self-localization, the ability of a vehicle to determine its own location, is vital for many aspects of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) and telematics where it is often a building block in a more complex ... -
Augmenting Visual Feedback Using Sensory Substitution
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-29)Direct interaction in virtual environments can be realized using relatively simple hardware, such as standard webcams and monitors. The result is a large gap between the stimuli existing in real-world interactions and those ... -
Augustus, Egypt, and Propaganda
(University of Waterloo, 2012-05-24)Augustus was a master of propaganda who employed Ancient and Hellenized Egypt as a means to legitimize his newly acquired power in Rome after the Battle of Actium. This thesis examines the ways in which Augustus moulded ... -
Aural Landscape Composing an Urban Park
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-15)As a culture, the Western World has placed a negative stigma on noise, which has lead to the disregard of the urban soundscape. Researchers have been studying and theorizing ways of understanding the urban sound environment ... -
Aural, Ocular, and Sequential Rhetoric in Two Contemporary American Stories, in Prose and Film: Patterns of Anxiety in Fight Club and The Road
(University of Waterloo, 2017-02-21)The dissertation rhetorically examines anxiety and fear in Fight Club and The Road, in their both cinematic and prose versions, texts that reflect a mood of contemporary American society that has been characterized by ... -
Austenitization of Ultra High Strength Steel by Direct Contact Heating for Hot Forming Die Quenching
(University of Waterloo, 2017-04-25)Hot forming die quenching (HFDQ) is a heat treatment process used in automotive manufacturing to produce ultra-high strength steels. It involves heating steel sheets to a temperature above 1153 K and holding them for a ... -
Authenticating Cultural Tourism: Folk Villages in Hainan, China
(University of Waterloo, 2001)Cultural tourism provides opportunities for ethnic minorities to showcase their cultures, customs and heritage. At the same time, it causes a series of tensions and issues of authenticity and commodification have been ... -
Authentication and Key Exchange in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-12)Over the past decade or so, there has been rapid growth in wireless and mobile applications technologies. More recently, an increasing emphasis has been on the potential of infrastructureless wireless mobile networks that ...