Browsing Theses by Subject "Hidden Markov Models"
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Actuarial Inference and Applications of Hidden Markov Models
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-17)Hidden Markov models have become a popular tool for modeling long-term investment guarantees. Many different variations of hidden Markov models have been proposed over the past decades for modeling indexes such as the S&P ... -
Automatic Driver Fatigue Monitoring Using Hidden Markov Models and Bayesian Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2013-12-12)The automotive industry is growing bigger each year. The central concern for any automotive company is driver and passenger safety. Many automotive companies have developed driver assistance systems, to help the driver and ... -
A Framework for Human Motion Strategy Identification and Analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-21)The human body has many biomechanical degrees of freedom and thus multiple movement strategies can be employed to execute any given task. Automated identification and classification of these movement strategies have ... -
Improvements in the Accuracy of Pairwise Genomic Alignment
(University of Waterloo, 2010-04-16)Pairwise sequence alignment is a fundamental problem in bioinformatics with wide applicability. This thesis presents three new algorithms for this well-studied problem. First, we present a new algorithm, RDA, which aligns ...