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Feature Based Object Tracking: A Probabilistic Approach
(2016-12)Video analysis is a rich research topic, due to the wide spectrum of applications such as surveillance, activity recognition, security, and event detection. One of the important challenges in video analysis is object ... -
Female Saudi Arabian Students’ Attitudes, Willingness and Preferences of Communication in Online Educational Settings
(2017-05)This study investigated the impact of age, location, and marital status on the attitudes of Saudi female students’ toward online education. A total number of 135 females participated in the survey. Findings revealed that ... -
First Hop Redundancy Protocols (FHRP)
(2019-05)When a network is designed, the most important thing that is always kept in mind is the factor of availability. However, a lot of researchers are still working on managing and implementing more dependable networks are ... -
First Steps in Retrofitting a Versatile Software Testing Infrastructure to Android
(2018-12)Are existing software testing technologies satisfying the needs of mobile software testing practitioners? This dissertation provides evidence that the existing technologies fall short of practitioner’s actual needs and ... -
Flexible slosh diaphragm modeling and simulation in propellant tanks
(2014-05)Liquid sloshing and propellant distribution is an important field of research for aerospace applications such as launch vehicles and spacecraft. The propellant mass behavior can greatly influence vehicle dynamics, altering ... -
Flight Test Evaluation and Analysis of the WingBug: A Miniature Air Data Computer and Inertial Measurement Unit
(2016-12)The prototype WingBug was an innovative concept by Straight & Level Technologies to measure airspeed, altitude, temperature, Euler angles, angular rates, and acceleration information. The unit was portable, self-powered, ... -
FLIGHT TEST INVESTIGATION ON THE EFFECTS OF AIRCRAFT FLAP CONFIGURATION CHANGE ON LONGITUDINAL TRIM
(2016-05)Loss of Control (LOC) in general aviation has been a topic of extensive study and analysis in the United States and the European Union due to a long series of aircraft accidents in the past decades. The National ... -
Flight Testing Angle-of-Attack Warning Combinations on Part 23 Aircraft
(2017-12)The high number of accidents involving General Aviation (GA) aircraft leads to a need for improved methods to warn pilots of high angles of attack (AOA) and impending stall. Such methods must be certified by the Federal ... -
Fluctuation Analysis in Stochastic System with Parallel Queues
(2018-07)In this dissertation, We analyze a complex queueing system with a single server operating in three different modes and, dependent on circumstances, servicing two different queues simultaneously. There are different switching ... -
Formal Trust Architecture For Assuring Trusted Interactions In the Internet of Things
(2019-05)The Internet of Things (IoT) has provided a flexible platform for a large number of heterogeneous devices to dynamically join and leave the network. This enhances the availability of a diverse range of services provided ... -
A Foundation for Cyber Experimentation
(2015-05)Despite the variety of environments and tools available to computer scientists performing cyber experimentation, the community lacks a single cohesive platform that is capable of unifying these tools across environments ... -
A Framework for Characterizing the Security Posture of Cyber Systems
(2018-12)Modern day applications can be spread across multiple virtual or physical systems, and be accessed or attacked by pretty much any one any where. Cybersecurity is used to mitigate these cyber threats but there are limited ... -
Framework for Open-Source Software Update Mechanism: Resistance to Stacking the Deck Attack
(2015-05)Currently many users trust open-source binaries downloaded from repositories such as sourceforge.net,github.com, and gitorious.org. As with any system connected to the Internet, such repositories can be subject to attacks ... -
Free Response and Trim Force Requirements for Aircraft Configuration Changes
(2018-12)As an FAA Commercial Pilot and Flight Instructor, one comes in contact with many different types of experiences and abnormal situations. A widely known cause of fatal accidents in the general aviation industry, and also ... -
GAMMATONE AND MFCC FEATURES IN SPEAKER RECOGNITION
(2014-11)The feature analysis component of an Automated Speaker Recognition (ASR) system plays a crucial role in the overall performance of the system. There are many feature extraction techniques available, but ultimately we ... -
GBANN-V: Genetically Based Artificial Neural Network With Validation for Optimal Feature Selection and Data Mining
(2016-12)In data mining and machine learning systems, highly predictive feature attributes help researchers and data analysts classify the problem space in the most optimal way. In this thesis paper, a feature subset selection ... -
Generalized Random Measures on Topological Spaces
(2019-05)Our work deals with classes of random measures on σ-compact Hausdorff spaces perturbed by stochastic processes. We render a rigorous construction of the stochastic integral of functions of two variables and show that ... -
Geological Conditions Required for the Fluvial Erosion of Titan’s Impact Craters
(2016-05)In comparison to other icy satellites, Titan has a small number of impact craters on its surface. Its dense atmosphere screens smaller impactors from the surface, but this alone does not account for the lack of impact ... -
GEOMETRY DRIVEN PROBABILISTIC MODELS FOR SHAPE MATCHING, CLASSIFICATION AND RETRIEVAL
(2017-07)Emulating human vision in a computational framework—known as computer vision—is one of the next major research areas being pursued; this emulation of vision can be viewed from a Systems Engineering perspective. The goal ... -
Google Speech Recognition using Embedded System
(2016-04)This thesis will describe the theoretical background and implementation details of Google Speech Recognition using embedded system. AM37x Evaluation Board developed by Texas Instrument is used as a test bed. All major ...