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A mechanistic model of motion processing in the early visual system
(University of Waterloo, 2012-12-05)A prerequisite for the perception of motion in primates is the transformation of varying intensities of light on the retina into an estimation of position, direction and speed of coherent objects. The neuro-computational ... -
Meetings in the Metaverse: Exploring Online Meeting Spaces through Meaningful Interactions in Gather.Town
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-26)Online meetings and communication spaces have become a part of many people's work during the global COVID-19 pandemic. While we rely on computer-mediated communication (CMC) daily, we need to be engaged to be productive ... -
MEMS Demodulator Based on Electrostatic Actuator
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-25)This thesis provides analysis and modeling for one of the Micro-Eletro-Mechanical System (MEMS) electrostatic actuator that consists of a micro-plate at the end of a cantilever beam, and introduces different type of MEMS ... -
Metaheuristic Optimization Techniques for Articulated Human Tracking
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-16)Four adaptive metaheuristic optimization algorithms are proposed and demonstrated: Adaptive Parameter Particle Swarm Optimization (AP-PSO), Modified Artificial Bat (MAB), Differential Mutated Artificial Immune System ... -
Metamodel-Based Probabilistic Design for Dynamic Systems with Degrading Components
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-24)The probabilistic design of dynamic systems with degrading components is difficult. Design of dynamic systems typically involves the optimization of a time-invariant performance measure, such as Energy, that is estimated ... -
Micro-electro-thermo-magnetic Actuators for MEMS Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2008-04-08)This research focuses on developing new techniques and designs for highly con- trollable microactuating systems with large force-stroke outputs. A fixed-fixed mi- crobeam is the actuating element in the introduced ... -
Micromechanics of Fiber Networks Including Nonlinear Hysteresis and its Application to Multibody Dynamic Modeling of Piano Mechanisms
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-11)Many engineering applications make use of fiber assemblies under compression. Unfortunately, this compression behavior is difficult to predict, due to nonlinear compliance, hysteresis, and anelasticity. The main objective ... -
Mixture Regression for Sea Ice Segmentation
(University of Waterloo, 2022-12-23)The classification of sea ice in SAR imagery is complicated by statistical nonstationarity. Incidence angle effects, heterogeneous ice conditions and other confounding variables contribute to spatial and temporal variability ... -
Model Compression via Generalized Kronecker Product Decomposition
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-26)Modern convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures, despite their superiority in solving various problems, are generally too large to be deployed on resource constrained edge devices. In practice, this limits many ... -
Model Development for Corneal Inflammation and Biocompatibility
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-25)The ocular surface presents a complex environment where the corneal epithelium has to interact with the tear film, the blink, and the many proteins, lipids, and signaling molecules that exist. As a contact lens is placed ... -
A model-based approach to predict muscle synergies using optimization: application to feedback control
(Frontiers Media, 2015-10-06)This paper presents a new model-based method to define muscle synergies. Unlike the conventional factorization approach, which extracts synergies from electromyographic data, the proposed method employs a biomechanical ... -
Model-based Control of Upper Extremity Human-Robot Rehabilitation Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2017-12-14)Stroke rehabilitation technologies have focused on reducing treatment cost while improving effectiveness. Rehabilitation robots are generally developed for home and clinical usage to: 1) deliver repetitive and stimulating ... -
Modeling and Analysis of Location Service Management in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2010-03-11)Recent technological advances in wireless communication and the pervasiveness of various wireless communication devices have offered novel and promising solutions to enable vehicles to communicate with each other, establishing ... -
Modeling and Analysis of Multilateral Negotiations
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-19)Abstract The modeling and analysis of multilateral negotiations are studied under the assumption that reaching an agreement is the main objective of the negotiators. A new methodology and associated definitions are ... -
Modeling and Design Optimization of Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle Powertrains
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-26)Hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) were introduced in response to rising environmental challenges facing the automotive sector. HEVs combine the benefits of electric vehicles and conventional internal combustion engine vehicles, ... -
Modeling and predicting mobile phone touchscreen transcription typing using an integrated cognitive architecture
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-09-07)Modeling typing performance has values in both the theory and design practice of human-computer interaction. Previous models have simulated desktop keyboard transcription typing performance; however, as the increasing ... -
Modeling Continuous Emotional Appraisals of Music Using System Identification
(University of Waterloo, 2004)The goal of this project is to apply system identification techniques to model people's perception of emotion in music as a function of time. Emotional appraisals of six selections of classical music are measured from ... -
Modeling Driver Take-Over Reaction Time and Emergency Response Time using an Integrated Cognitive Architecture
(SAGE, 2019-12-01)Drivers’ take-over reaction time in partially automated vehicles is a fundamental component of automated vehicle design requirements, and take-over reaction time is affected by many factors such as distraction and drivers’ ... -
Modeling Patient Treatment With Medical Records: An Abstraction Hierarchy to Understand User Competencies and Needs
(JMIR, 2017-07-28)Background: Health care is a complex sociotechnical system. Patient treatment is evolving and needs to incorporate the use of technology and new patient-centered treatment paradigms. Cognitive work analysis (CWA) is an ... -
Modeling Pilot Flight Performance on Pre-flight and Take-off Tasks with A Cognitive Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2022-04-26)Models of cognitive architecture can be used to simulate and forecast human performance in complicated human-machine systems. The current work demonstrates a pilot model capable of performing and simulating pre-flight ...