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An Fpga-Based Hardware Accelerator For The Digital Image Correlation Engine, Keaten Stokke May 2020

An Fpga-Based Hardware Accelerator For The Digital Image Correlation Engine, Keaten Stokke

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The work presented in this thesis was aimed at the development of a hardware accelerator for the Digital Image Correlation engine (DICe) and compare two methods of data access, USB and Ethernet. The original DICe software package was created by Sandia National Laboratories and is written in C++. The software runs on any typical workstation PC and performs image correlation on available frame data produced by a camera. When DICe is introduced to a high volume of frames, the correlation time is on the order of days. The time to process and analyze data with DICe becomes a concern when …


Image-Driven Automated End-To-End Testing For Mobile Applications, Caleb Fritz Dec 2019

Image-Driven Automated End-To-End Testing For Mobile Applications, Caleb Fritz

Computer Science and Computer Engineering Undergraduate Honors Theses

The increasing complexity and demand of software systems and the greater availability of test automation software is quickly rendering manual end-to-end (E2E) testing techniques for mobile platforms obsolete. This research seeks to explore the potential increase in automated test efficacy and maintainability through the use of computer vision algorithms when applied with Appium, a leading cross-platform mobile test automation framework. A testing framework written in a Node.js environment was created to support the development of E2E test scripts that examine and report the functional capabilities of a mobile test app. The test framework provides a suite of functions that connect …


Different Approaches To Blurring Digital Images And Their Effect On Facial Detection, Erich-Matthew Pulfer May 2019

Different Approaches To Blurring Digital Images And Their Effect On Facial Detection, Erich-Matthew Pulfer

Computer Science and Computer Engineering Undergraduate Honors Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the usage of multiple image blurring techniques and determine their effectiveness in combatting facial detection algorithms. This type of analysis is anticipated to reveal potential flaws in the privacy expected from blurring images or, rather, portions of images. Three different blurring algorithms were designed and implemented: a box blurring method, a Gaussian blurring method, and a differential privacy-based pixilation method. Datasets of images were collected from multiple sources, including the AT&T Database of Faces. Each of these three methods were implemented via their own original method, but, because of how common they …