Microphone arrays have been used in environments that require remote speech acquisition - cars, desk recording systems, teleconferencing and judicial proceedings to name a few. …
This thesis is dedicated to exploring compression methods for large dynamic scenes. The first part presents a case study of compressing aerial video using background …
Computer vision applications have gained significant popularity in their use for mobile, battery powered devices. These devices range from every-day smart-phones to autonomously navigating unmanned …
This thesis develops novel algorithms to automate video analysis for fixed monocular surveillance cameras. Specifically, change detection algorithms are proposed to identify spatio-temporal locations in …
Embedded systems are becoming ubiquitous and like their general-purpose counterparts they have embraced the multicore design paradigm. However, embedded systems need to satisfy specific requirements …
Many applications in Computer Vision and Machine Learning entail learning from partially annotated data. A popular family of models that can capture unobserved variables in …
Optical-frequency magnetic dipole (MD) transitions have garnered interest recently as a way for naturally occurring emitters to interact with the magnetic component of light. By …
Hardware accelerators and custom computing platforms are being widely used in high-throughput computation domains. With the wide usage, there is also an increasing need to …
Power is one of the key challenges for improving the performance of modern CPU-GPU processors. Research efforts are needed at both design-time and run-time of …
Sub-threshold logic involves operating circuits with voltages below the transistors’ threshold voltage, Vth, resulting in a substantial reduction of power consumption compared to traditional super-threshold …
Plasmonics, a sub-field of nanophotonics, is a rich and growing field that studies the interaction between light and electron plasmas. One of the most important …
Surface plasmon polaritons are hybrid electron-photon modes confined at a metal/dielectric interface. The combination of highly localized electronic waves and propagating optical waves gives the …
Power consumption limits the maximum achievable performance of modern processors. Accurate power modeling is an essential step in both mobile and high-end processors. Large-scale transistor-level …
This thesis is concerned with estimating the time-varying 3-d surface geometry and surface appearance of dynamic scenes from images. An accurate reconstruction of a 4-d …
The elaboration of the myelin sheath around neuronal axons is a cornerstone of human brain development. This process helps establish the rapid and efficient communication …
This thesis addresses the problem of separating a known number (more than one) of simultaneous speakers (talkers) in real time under a noisy and reverberant …
Normalized cross-correlation (NCC) is a powerful matching tool used for finding corresponding features between two signals. In computer vision applications, NCC can be used to …
Thanks to the recent advances in computer science and engineering, computational algorithms to solve digitized jigsaw puzzles have been developed to assist people in assembling …
This study chronicles the development of an Embedded System for Prosthetic Application (ESPA), used to collect, process, and decode neural and other bioinfromatic data at …
