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Deep Learning Tools for Yield and Price Forecasting Using Satellite Images
(University of Waterloo, 2021-07-26)The ability to forecast crop yields and prices is vital to secure global food availability and provide farmers, retailers, and consumers with valuable information to maximize effectiveness. Conventional approaches used to ... -
Deep Learning-based Driver Behavior Modeling and Analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2019-12-17)Driving safety continues receiving widespread attention from car designers, safety regulators, and automotive research community as driving accidents due to driver distraction or fatigue have increased drastically over the ... -
Deep Multi Agent Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Driving
(University of Waterloo, 2020-04-29)Deep Learning and back-propagation have been successfully used to perform centralized training with communication protocols among multiple agents in a cooperative Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning (MARL) environment. In ... -
Deep Reinforcement Learning Based Approach for Multi-Agent Control of Residential Electric Water Heaters for Distribution Load Management
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-01)The push towards decarbonization and electrification of the society is leading to increased electricity demand. Many countries, including Canada, are utilizing non-greenhouse gas (GHG) emitting sources and renewable energy ... -
Deep Representation Learning and Prediction for Forest Wildfires
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-17)An average of 8000 forest wildfires occurs each year in Canada burning an average of 2.5M ha/year as reported by the Government of Canada. Given the current rate of climate change, this number is expected to increase each ... -
Deep SELECTOR-JPEG: ADAPTIVE JPEG IMAGE COMPRESSION FOR COMPUTER VISION IN IMAGE CLASSIFICATION AND HUMAN VISION
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-18)Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) demonstrate excellent performance in many Computer Vision (CV) applications such as image classification. To meet storage/bandwidth requirements, the input images to these CV applications are ... -
Deep-Learning Framework for Estimating Behind the Meter Solar Generation and Electric Vehicle Penetration Level and Time-of-Use
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-20)The continual increase in the adoption of rooftop solar/photovoltaic (PV) generation and electric vehicles (EVs) presents challenges, as well as opportunities, in distribution power systems. Without monitoring or control, ... -
Degraded Reference Image Quality Assessment
(University of Waterloo, 2021-12-23)Images/videos are playing a more and more important role in the 21st century. The perceived quality of visual content often degrades during the process of acquisition, storage, transmission, display and rendering. Since ... -
Delay-Throughput Analysis in Distributed Wireless Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2009-04-17)A primary challenge in wireless networks is to use available resources efficiently so that the Quality of Service (QoS) is satisfied while maximizing the throughput of the network. Among different resource allocation ... -
Demand Response and Battery Energy Storage Systems in Electricity Markets: Frameworks & Models
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-09)Ensuring a balance between the generation and demand is one of the most challenging tasks in power systems because of contingencies, sudden load changes, forecasting errors and other disturbances, occurring from time to ... -
Denoising Autoencoder for Multi-level Random Telegraph Signal Analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-21)Random Telegraph Signals (RTSs) are discrete random fluctuations between different current levels that usually appear in short-channel Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field Effect Transistors (MOSFETs). The statistical analysis ... -
Dependence of dark spot growth on cathode/organic interfacial adhesion in Organic Light Emitting Devices
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-30)Organic Light Emitting Devices(OLEDs) have several advantages over traditional semiconductor devices such as the possibility of being printable, the potential for low cost fabrication, and the potential ease of integration ... -
Deployment and Debugging of Real-Time Applications on Multicore Architectures
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-29)It is essential to enable information extraction from software. Program tracing techniques are an example of information extraction. Program tracing extracts information from the program during execution. Tracing helps ... -
DER Utilization for Voltage-Sag Mitigation by Applying Different Network Partitioning Techniques
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-18)Power quality (PQ) has been gaining increased attention in relation to Active Distribution Systems (ADSs), especially with regard to voltage-related PQ problems (i.e., voltage variation events). Voltage variation events, ... -
Derivative Compressive Sampling with Application to Inverse Problems and Imaging
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-30)In many practical problems in applied sciences, the features of most interest cannot be observed directly, but have to be inferred from other, observable quantities. In particular, many important data acquisition devices ... -
Design and Analysis of a Novel Split and Aggregated Transmission Control Protocol for Smart Metering Infrastructure
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-23)Utility companies (electricity, gas, and water suppliers), governments, and researchers recognize an urgent need to deploy communication-based systems to automate data collection from smart meters and sensors, known as ... -
Design and Analysis of an Adjacent Multi-bit Error Correcting Code for Nanoscale SRAMs
(University of Waterloo, 2014-12-02)Increasing static random access memory (SRAM) bitcell density is a major driving force for semiconductor technology scaling. The industry standard 2x reduction in SRAM bitcell area per technology node has lead to a ... -
Design and Analysis of Beamforming in mmWave Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-09)To support increasing data-intensive wireless applications, millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication emerges as the most promising wireless technology that offers high data rate connections by exploiting a large swath of ... -
Design and Analysis of Cryptographic Pseudorandom Number/Sequence Generators with Applications in RFID
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-22)This thesis is concerned with the design and analysis of strong de Bruijn sequences and span n sequences, and nonlinear feedback shift register (NLFSR) based pseudorandom number generators for radio frequency identification ... -
Design and Analysis of Green Mission-Critical Fiber-Wireless Broadband Access Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-19)In recent years, the ever-increasing environmental friendliness concern has made energy efficiency in telecom networks as an important theme in their operations. Meanwhile, mission-critical (MC) services and systems (such ...