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Resonant MEMS Deformable Mirror
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-21)The performance of optical systems is often affected by aberrations that degrade the image resolution and contrast. These aberrations may be induced from atmospheric turbulence, imperfection in the optical alignment, or ... -
RGB-D Scene Flow via Grouping Rigid Motions
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-06)Robotics and artificial intelligence have seen drastic advancements in technology and algorithms over the last decade. Computer vision algorithms play a crucial role in enabling robots and machines to understand their ... -
River Ice Segmentation under a Limited Compute and Annotation Budget
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-05)River ice segmentation, used to differentiate ice and water, can give valuable information regarding ice cover and ice distribution. These are important factors when evaluating flooding risks caused by ice jams that may ... -
Robotic Grasping using Demonstration and Deep Learning
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-11)Robotic grasping is a challenging task that has been approached in a variety of ways. Historically grasping has been approached as a control problem. If the forces between the robotic gripper and the object can be calculated ... -
Robust and Accurate Structure from Motion of Rigid and Nonrigid Objects
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-01)As a central theme in computer vision, the problem of 3D structure and motion recovery from image sequences has been widely studied during the past three decades, and considerable progress has been made in theory, as well ... -
Robust extraction of basis functions for simultaneous and proportional myoelectric control via sparse non-negative matrix factorization
(Institute of Physics, 2017-10-27)Objective. This paper proposes a novel simultaneous and proportional multiple degree of freedom (DOF) myoelectric control method for active prostheses. Approach. The approach is based on non-negative matrix factorization ... -
The Role of Dominant Cause in Variation Reduction through Robust Parameter Design
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-02)Reducing variation in key product features is a very important goal in process improvement. Finding and trying to control the cause(s) of variation is one way to reduce variability, but is not cost effective or even possible ... -
Row-Column Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers for Medical Imaging
(University of Waterloo, 2016-12-14)Ultrasound imaging plays an important role in modern medical diagnosis. Recent progress in real-time 3-D ultrasound imaging can offer critical information such as the accurate estimation of organ, cyst, or tumour volumes. ... -
Rule Derivation for Agent-Based Models of Complex Systems: Nuclear Waste Management and Road Networks Case Studies
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-18)This thesis explores the relation between equation-based models (EBMs) and agent-based models (ABMs), in particular, the derivation of agent rules from equations such that agent collective behavior produces results that ... -
Scalable image segmentation via decoupled sub-graph compression
(Elsevier, 2018-06-01)Dealing with large images is an on-going challenge in image segmentation, where many of the current methods run into computational and/or memory complexity issues. This work presents a novel decoupled sub-graph compression ... -
Sea Ice Concentration Estimation: Using Passive Microwave and SAR Data with Fully Convolutional Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-01)Sea ice concentration is of great interest to ship navigators and scientists who require regional ice cover understanding. Passive microwave data and image analysis charts are typically used to estimate ice concentration, ... -
Sea Ice SAR Imagery Classification and Regression Based On Convolutional Neural Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-01)Due to the global warming, there have been signficant reductions in the ice extent and ice thickness in the Arctic and marginal seas. Monitoring these changes in sea ice is very important for human activities including ... -
Sea ice segmentation in SAR images using Deep Learning
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-17)Sea ice covers over seven percent of the world's oceans. Due to the effect of global warming, Arctic's ice extent has decreased significantly in the past decades. This reduction in sea ice cover is opening new pathways for ... -
A Search For Principles of Basal Ganglia Function
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-13)The basal ganglia are a group of subcortical nuclei that contain about 100 million neurons in humans. Different modes of basal ganglia dysfunction lead to Parkinson's disease and Huntington's disease, which have debilitating ... -
Secure Computation and Proportionally Fair Collaboration in Federated Learning of Histopathology Images
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-24)The prediction power of deep learning models depends on the size and quality of the training data. Having access to large-scale datasets enables the model to more precisely estimate the underlying distribution of the data. ... -
Segmentation of RADARSAT-2 Dual-Polarization Sea Ice Imagery
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-24)The mapping of sea ice is an important task for understanding global climate and for safe shipping. Currently, sea ice maps are created by human analysts with the help of remote sensing imagery, including synthetic aperture ... -
Self-Powered Infrared Detection in Low-Dimensional Carbon Assemblies
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-23)Room-temperature mid-infrared photodetection meet upcoming demands including real-time health condition monitoring, low-cost industrial inspection and distributive sensing for Internet-of-Things. Photo-thermoelectric (PTE) ... -
Self-powered on-line ion concentration monitor in water transportation driven by triboelectric nanogenerator
(Elsevier, 2019-08)Ion concentration in water is a key criterion for evaluating water quality. In this work, we developed a self-powered on-line ion concentration monitor in water transportation based on impedance matching effect of triboelectric ... -
A Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning Approach for Whole Slide Image Representation in Digital Pathology
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-16)Digital pathology has recently expanded the field of medical image processing for di- agnostic reasons. Whole slide images (WSIs) of histopathology are often accompanied by information on the location and type of diseases ... -
Service Revenue Management in the Presence of Grouping Complementarities
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-19)This thesis studies a revenue management problem faced by providers of differentiated and congested services when customer preferences are subject to externalities. In particular, a customer benefits not only from receiving ...