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Quantifying the Frequency and Orientation of Mitoses in Embryonic Epithelia
(University of Waterloo, 2007-12-18)The miraculous birth of a new life starts by the formation of an embryo. The process by which an embryo is formed, embryogenesis, has been studied and shown to consist of three types of processes: mitosis, cell differentiation ... -
Quantifying the Performance of Explainability Algorithms
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-26)Given the complexity of the deep neural network (DNN), DNN has long been criticized for its lack of interpretability in its decision-making process. This 'black box' nature has been preventing the adaption of DNN in ... -
Radon Projections as Image Descriptors for Content-Based Retrieval of Medical Images
(University of Waterloo, 2018-04-23)Clinical analysis and medical diagnosis of diverse diseases adopt medical imaging techniques to empower specialists to perform their tasks by visualizing internal body organs and tissues for classifying and treating diseases ... -
Randomly-connected Non-Local Conditional Random Fields
(University of Waterloo, 2017-02-21)Structural data modeling is an important field of research. Structural data are the combination of latent variables being related to each other. The incorporation of these relations in modeling and taking advantage of those ... -
Real-time 3D surface-shape measurement using fringe projection and system-geometry constraints
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-11)Optical three-dimensional (3D) surface-shape measurement has diverse applications in engineering, computer vision and medical science. Fringe projection profilometry (FPP), uses a camera-projector system to permit high-accuracy ... -
Real-time Autonomous Cruise Control of Connected Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles Under Uncertainty
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-25)Advances in embedded digital computing and communication networks have enabled the development of automated driving systems. Autonomous cruise control (ACC) and cooperative ACC (CACC) systems are two popular types of these ... -
Real-time Dynamic Simulation of Constrained Multibody Systems using Symbolic Computation
(University of Waterloo, 2011-04-19)The main objective of this research is the development of a framework for the automatic generation of systems of kinematic and dynamic equations that are suitable for real-time applications. In particular, the efficient ... -
Real-time Energy Management of a Battery Electric Vehicle Hybridized with Supercapacitor
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-25)The increased interest in electric vehicles (EVs) in the recent years has intrigued numerous research, on improving efficiency and reducing ownership costs of these vehicles. As the battery in EVs is the sole energy provider, ... -
Real-time Energy Management of PHEVs with Supercapacitor Using Nonlinear Model Predictive Control
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-25)The earth is facing the global warming phenomenon these days, and one of its main contributors is greenhouse gas emission. As transportation produces an enormous portion of greenhouse gasses and also due to the increasing ... -
Real-time Optimal Battery Thermal Management System Controller for Electric and Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-24)The objective of this thesis is to propose a real-time model predictive control (MPC) scheme for the battery thermal management system (BTMS) of given plug-in hybrid electric and electric vehicles (PHEV/EVs). Although ... -
Real-Time Optimal Control of a Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle Using Trip Information
(University of Waterloo, 2016-02-04)The plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) is a promising option for future sustainable transportation. It offers better fuel economy and lower emissions than conventional vehicles. This thesis has developed a novel ... -
Real-time Optimal Energy Management System for Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-24)Air pollution and rising fuel costs are becoming increasingly important concerns for the transportation industry. Hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) are seen as a solution to these problems as they off er lower emissions and ... -
Real-time predictive control strategy for a plug-in hybrid electric powertrain
(Elsevier, 2015-08-01)Model predictive control is a promising approach to exploit the potentials of modern concepts and to fulfill the automotive requirements. Since, it is able to handle constrained multi-input multi-output optimal control ... -
Recognizing Magnification Levels in Microscopic Snapshots using Machine Learning
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-25)State-of-of-the-art computer vision research has facilitated technology evolution in the field of medical imaging. The primary achievement of the imaging algorithms developed is the extraction of expressive features from ... -
Reconstruction of 3D Points From Uncalibrated Underwater Video
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-02)This thesis presents a 3D reconstruction software pipeline that is capable of generating point cloud data from uncalibrated underwater video. This research project was undertaken as a partnership with 2G Robotics, and ... -
Recursive Estimation of Structure and Motion from Monocular Images
(University of Waterloo, 2010-10-22)The determination of the 3D motion of a camera and the 3D structure of the scene in which the camera is moving, known as the Structure from Motion (SFM) problem, is a central problem in computer vision. Specifically, the ... -
Reduction of a Vehicle Multibody Dynamic Model Using Homotopy Optimization
(De Gruyter, 2013-03-27)Despite the ever-increasing computational power of modern processors, the reduction of complex multibody dynamic models remains an important topic of investigation, particularly for design optimization, sensitivity analysis, ... -
Regularizing Deep Models for Visual Recognition
(University of Waterloo, 2016-10-26)Image understanding is a shared goal in all computer vision problems. This objective includes decomposing the image into a set of primitive components through which one can perform region segmentation, region labeling, ... -
Reinforced Segmentation of Images Containing One Object of Interest
(University of Waterloo, 2007-11-09)In many image-processing applications, one object of interest must be segmented. The techniques used for segmentation vary depending on the particular situation and the specifications of the problem at hand. In methods ... -
Reinforcement Learning for Parameter Control of Image-Based Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2004)The significant amount of data contained in digital images present barriers to methods of learning from the information they hold. Noise and the subjectivity of image evaluation further complicate such automated processes. ...