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Automated Compilation Framework for Scratchpad-based Real-Time Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2019-07-31)ScratchPad Memory (SPM) is highly adopted in real-time systems as it exhibits a predictable behaviour. SPM is software-managed by explicitly inserting instructions to move code and data transfers between the SPM and the ... -
Automated Design Space Exploration and Datapath Synthesis for Finite Field Arithmetic with Applications to Lightweight Cryptography
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-27)Today, emerging technologies are reaching astronomical proportions. For example, the Internet of Things has numerous applications and consists of countless different devices using different technologies with different ... -
Automated Extraction of Behaviour Model of Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-09)Highly replicated cloud applications are deployed only when they are deemed to be func- tional. That is, they generally perform their task and their failure rate is relatively low. However, even though failure is rare, ... -
An Automated Malignant Tumour Localization Algorithm for Prostate Cancer Detection in Trans-rectal Ultrasound Images
(University of Waterloo, 2004)The goal of this thesis is to design, implement and evaluate an automated algorithm to detect cancerous tissues and segment the malignant tumour in ultrasound images of the prostate. To accomplish this goal, first, the ... -
An Automated Modified Region Growing Technique for Prostate Segmentation in Trans-Rectal Ultrasound Images
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-20)Medical imaging plays a vital role in the medical field because it is widely used in diseases diagnosis and treatment of patients. There are different modalities of medical imaging such as ultrasounds, x-rays, Computed ... -
Automated Pose Estimation for the Assessment of Dynamic Knee Valgus and Risk of Knee Injury during the Single Leg Squat
(University of Waterloo, 2017-04-28)Many clinical assessment protocols rely on the evaluation of functional movement tests such as the Single Leg Squat (SLS), which are often assessed visually. Visual assessment is subjective and depends on the experience ... -
Automated Rehabilitation Exercise Motion Tracking
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-10)Current physiotherapy practice relies on visual observation of the patient for diagnosis and assessment. The assessment process can potentially be automated to improve accuracy and reliability. This thesis proposes a method ... -
Automated Safety Analysis of Administrative Temporal Role-Based Access Control (ATRBAC) Policies using Mohawk+T
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-17)Safety analysis is recognized as a fundamental problem in access control. It has been studied for various access control schemes in the literature. Recent work has proposed an administrative model for Temporal Role-Based ... -
Automated Test Framework For The Wireless Protocol Stack Development
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-25)Testing plays an important role in the wireless protocol stack development. In order to free the testers out of the shielded chamber, allow both the developers and the testers to use the test systems remotely and maximize ... -
Automatic Document Topic Identification Using Hierarchical Ontology Extracted from Human Background Knowledge
(University of Waterloo, 2013-02-22)The rapid growth in the number of documents available to various end users from around the world has led to a greatly increased need for machine understanding of their topics, as well as for automatic grouping of related ... -
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 ... -
Automatic Loop Nest Parallelization for the Predictable Execution Model
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-27)Currently, embedded real-time systems still widely use single-core processors. A major challenge in the adoption of multicore processors is the presence of shared hardware resources such as main memory. Contention between ... -
Automatic Recognition and Generation of Affective Movements
(University of Waterloo, 2014-12-17)Body movements are an important non-verbal communication medium through which affective states of the demonstrator can be discerned. For machines, the capability to recognize affective expressions of their users and generate ... -
Automatic Refactoring for Renamed Clones in Test Code
(University of Waterloo, 2018-11-21)Unit testing plays an essential role in software development and maintenance, especially in Test-Driven Development. Conventional unit tests, which have no input parameters, often exercise similar scenarios with small ... -
Automating Radiotherapy: Parameterizations of Sensor Time Delay Compensators and the Separation Principle
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Motivated by recent research to automate radiotherapy, this thesis looks into feedback control problems where the feedback sensor imposes considerable time delay. The use of an asymptotic estimator is considered as a ... -
Automation of Sleep Staging
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-21)This thesis primarily covers the automation problem for sleep versus awake detection, which is sometimes accomplished by differentiating the various sleep stages prior to clustering. This thesis documents various experimentation ... -
Autonomous Driving: A Multi-Objective Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-23)Autonomous driving is a challenging domain that entails multiple aspects: a vehicle should be able to drive to its destination as fast as possible while avoiding collision, obeying traffic rules and ensuring the comfort ... -
Autonomous Driving: Mapping and Behavior Planning for Crosswalks
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-23)As autonomous driving integrates with every day traffic, early adopters are initially skeptical and designers are overly cautious. With safety as the top priority, current systems are sometimes too slow at executing maneuvers. ... -
Autonomous Vertical Recovery of Fixed Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
(University of Waterloo, 2013-04-25)As unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) prevail in commercial and first responder applications, the need for safer and more consistent recovery methods is growing. Standard aircraft landing manoeuvres are only possible with a ... -
Autoregressive models for text independent speaker identification in noisy environments
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-25)The closed-set speaker identification problem is defined as the search within a set of persons for the speaker of a certain utterance. It is reported that the Gaussian mixture model (GMM) classifier achieves very high ...