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Automated Epileptic Seizure Onset Detection
(University of Waterloo, 2009-04-27)Epilepsy is a serious neurological disorder characterized by recurrent unprovoked seizures due to abnormal or excessive neuronal activity in the brain. An estimated 50 million people around the world suffer from this ... -
Perception of Compliance in Laparoscopic Surgery
(University of Waterloo, 2009-05-21)Laparoscopic surgery provides major benefits to patients in terms of decreased pain and post-operative hospital stays, but also increases their risks of intra-operative injuries because of the reduction in feedback in the ... -
VEmap: A Visualization Tool for Evaluating Emotional Responses in Virtual Environments
(University of Waterloo, 2009-06-19)VEMap (virtual emotion map) can be seen as an advanced application of virtual environment (VE) technology to aid with design activities in architecture and urban planning, which can assist designers to understand users’ ... -
Matrix Representations and Extension of the Graph Model for Conflict Resolution
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-07)The graph model for conflict resolution (GMCR) provides a convenient and effective means to model and analyze a strategic conflict. Standard practice is to carry out a stability analysis of a graph model, and then to ... -
Statistical Fusion of Scientific Images
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-24)A practical and important class of scientific images are the 2D/3D images obtained from porous materials such as concretes, bone, active carbon, and glass. These materials constitute an important class of heterogeneous ... -
Attitude-Based Strategic and Tactical Negotiations for Conflict Resolution in Construction
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-01)An innovative negotiation framework for resolving complex construction conflicts and disputes has been developed in this research. The unique feature of the proposed negotiation framework is that it takes into account the ... -
Transient Dynamics of Continuous Systems with Impact and Friction, with Applications to Musical Instruments
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-24)The objective of this work is to develop mathematical simulation models for predicting the transient behaviour of strings and beams subjected to impacts. The developed models are applied to study the dynamics of the ... -
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 ... -
Symbolic Modelling and Simulation of Wheeled Vehicle Systems on Three-Dimensional Roads
(University of Waterloo, 2009-10-26)In recent years, there has been a push by automotive manufacturers to improve the efficiency of the vehicle development process. This can be accomplished by creating a computationally efficient vehicle model that has the ... -
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 ... -
Design of Collaborative Systems for Modern Cockpits
(University of Waterloo, 2009-10-28)One of the most significant developments in cockpit technology over the past several years is the emergence of a new cockpit architecture that uses cursor control devices and keyboards for interaction with individual and ... -
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 ... -
Symmetry Induction in Computational Intelligence
(University of Waterloo, 2009-11-06)Symmetry has been a very useful tool to researchers in various scientific fields. At its most basic, symmetry refers to the invariance of an object to some transformation, or set of transformations. Usually one searches ... -
The Design and Validation of Virtual Trailblazing and Guidance Interfaces for the VTrail System
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-05)Wayfinding is a complex skill and the lack of tools supporting the specific sub-types of navigation hinders performance in large-scale virtual environments and consequently can slow the adoption of virtual technology for ... -
Fault Detection and Identification in Computer Networks: A soft Computing Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-07)Governmental and private institutions rely heavily on reliable computer networks for their everyday business transactions. The downtime of their infrastructure networks may result in millions of dollars in cost. Fault ... -
INFORMATION THEORETIC CRITERIA FOR IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT BASED ON NATURAL SCENE STATISTICS
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-12)Measurement of visual quality is crucial for various image and video processing applications. It is widely applied in image acquisition, media transmission, video compression, image/video restoration, etc. The goal ... -
General Adaptive Monte Carlo Bayesian Image Denoising
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-13)Image noise reduction, or denoising, is an active area of research, although many of the techniques cited in the literature mainly target additive white noise. With an emphasis on signal-dependent noise, this thesis presents ... -
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 ... -
Design and Implementation of Calculated Readout by Spectral Parallelism (CRISP) in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-20)CRISP is a data acquisition and image reconstruction technique that offers theoretical increases in signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and dynamic range over traditional methods in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The incoming ... -
The Application of FROID in MR Image Reconstruction
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-21)In magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), sampling methods that lead to incomplete data coverage of k-space are used to accelerate imaging and reduce overall scan time. Non-Cartesian sampling trajectories such as radial, spiral, ...