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How are response properties in the middle temporal area related to inference on visual motion patterns?
(Elsevier, 2020-01)Neurons in the primate middle temporal area (MT) respond to moving stimuli, with strong tuning for motion speed and direction. These responses have been characterized in detail, but the functional significance of these ... -
Human Detection And Tracking For Human-Robot Interaction On The REEM-C Humanoid Robot
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-28)The interactions between humanoid robots and humans is a growing area of research, as frameworks and models are being continuously developed to improving the ways in which humanoids may integrate into society. These humanoids ... -
Human Factors in Esports: Investigating performance measures, coaching practices, and stress training in League of Legends
(University of Waterloo, 2022-10-12)This thesis examined a constant problem in Esports in which players do not perform to their expected potential when under stress (also known as choking). The Esports scene is growing exponentially, with teams valued at ... -
Human Middle Ear: Material Characterization, Analysis of Effects of Uncertainties, and Investigation of Impacts of Medical-Device Attachment
(University of Waterloo, 2022-12-19)The middle ear is a complex organ that plays a vital role in the hearing process. This thesis attempts to investigate different aspects of the biomechanics of the middle ear for diagnosis and treatment. This thesis can be ... -
A Human Motor Control Framework based on Muscle Synergies
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-23)In spite of the complexities of the human musculoskeletal system, the central nervous system has the ability to orchestrate difficult motor tasks. Many researchers have tried to understand how the human nervous system ... -
Human-Inspired Robot Task Teaching and Learning
(University of Waterloo, 2009-10-28)Current methods of robot task teaching and learning have several limitations: highly-trained personnel are usually required to teach robots specific tasks; service-robot systems are limited in learning different types of ... -
Identifying Opportunities of Tracking Major Human Factors Risks through Flight Data Monitoring
(University of Waterloo, 2014-11-27)It is widely believed that human factors risks contribute to more than half of the aviation accidents (Shappell et al., 2007). Thus, aviation safety risk identification, and in particular human factor risk identification, ... -
Identifying Potential Conflict in Land-Use Planning Using a Values-Centered E-Participation Tool: A Canadian Case Study in Aggregate Mining
(2019-01-08)An innovative e-participation tool is used to facilitate the articulation of value-laden assumptions, and to identify key points of likely conflict in an aggregate mining controversy in Ontario, Canada. The expert model ... -
Illumination and Noise-Based Scene Classification - Application to SAR Sea Ice Imagery
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-20)Spatial intensity variation introduced by illumination changes is a challenging problem for image segmentation and classification. Many techniques have been proposed which focus on removing this illumination variation by ... -
Image Area Reduction for Efficient Medical Image Retrieval
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-15)Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) has been one of the most active areas in medical image analysis in the last two decades because of the steadily increase in the number of digital images used. Efficient diagnosis and ... -
Image Models for Wavelet Domain Statistics
(University of Waterloo, 2005)Statistical models for the joint statistics of image pixels are of central importance in many image processing applications. However the high dimensionality stemming from large problem size and the long-range spatial ... -
Impact of contact lens wear on epithelial alterations in keratoconus
(Elsevier, 2021-03)Purpose The purpose of this study was to characterize the central epithelial thickness (CET) of penetrating keratoplasty corneal specimens obtained from patients with keratoconus (KC) and correlate the histological patterns ... -
The Impact of Shared and Personal Devices on Collaborative Process and Performance
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-29)On a daily basis humans interact with an increasing variety of personal electronic devices, ranging from laptops, tablets, smartphones, and e-readers to shared devices such as projected displays and interactive, digital ... -
Implementation of a Variable Duty Factor Controller on a Six-Legged Axi-Symmetric Walking Robot
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Hexplorer is a six-legged walking robot developed at the University of Waterloo. The robot is controlled by a network of seven digital signal processors, six of which control three motors each, for a total of 18 motors. ... -
Implementation of optical depth scanning and wide-field imaging in photoacoustic remote sensing (PARS) microscopy
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-15)Optical resolution photoacoustic microscopy (OR-PAM) is a hybrid biomedical imaging technique that utilizes acoustic detection and optical absorption contrast. It is based on the photoacoustic effect, where the excitation ... -
Improved image speckle noise reduction and novel dispersion cancellation in Optical Coherence Tomography
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-25)Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an innovative modern biomedical imaging technology that allows in-vivo, non-invasive imaging of biological tissues. At present, some of the major challenges in OCT include the need for ... -
Improved Multi-resolution Analysis of the Motion Patterns in Video for Human Action Classification
(University of Waterloo, 2011-10-03)The automatic recognition of human actions in video is of great interest in many applications such as automated surveillance, content-based video summarization, video search, and indexing. The problem is challenging due ... -
Improvements in Field Emission Properties of Carbon Nanotube Field Emitters
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-14)With an increasing demand for better medical diagnostic systems, improving the efficiency and effectiveness of medical diagnostics has never been more crucial. Field electron emission (FE) based X-ray source which is a ... -
Improving Data Quality in Primary Care: Modelling, Measurement, and the Design of Interventions
(University of Waterloo, 2017-04-24)In an era where governments around the world invest heavily in data collection and data management, poor-quality data is expensive and has many direct and indirect costs. While there are different types of data quality ... -
Improving Interruption Recovery in Human-Supervisory Control (HSC)
(University of Waterloo, 2009-10-30)Interruptions have negative effects on the task performance in modern work environments. These negative effects are not affordable in tasks in which decisions are time-critical and have a life-critical nature. Human-supervisory ...