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Development And Feasibility Studies Of Ai-Powered Socially Assistive Robotics To Promote Wellbeing Of Persons With Alzheimer’S Disease And Related Dementias, Fengpei Yuan May 2024

Development And Feasibility Studies Of Ai-Powered Socially Assistive Robotics To Promote Wellbeing Of Persons With Alzheimer’S Disease And Related Dementias, Fengpei Yuan

Doctoral Dissertations

The number of persons living with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias (PLWDs) has been keeping growing. In 2024, it is estimated that there will be approximately 6.7 million individuals living with Alzheimer's Dementia. This number will increase to about 14 million in 2060. Due to the damage in neurons, the capabilities of memory, thinking, and language will decline as the disease progress. As a result, persons with dementia will gradually withdraw from their social activities and become more dependent on others during their activities of daily living. Making it worse, our society is not ready for the increasing requirements of …


Cmos-Memristive Neuromorphic Architecture For Nonlinear Signal Processing, Manu Rathore May 2024

Cmos-Memristive Neuromorphic Architecture For Nonlinear Signal Processing, Manu Rathore

Doctoral Dissertations

Neuromorphic computing mimics the functional components and structure of the human brain to achieve highly efficient computing with minimal resources and power consumption. Creating neuromorphic systems in Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (CMOS) technology offers an alternative computing paradigm to Von neumann computing. However, implementing these systems on an CMOS Integrated Circuit (IC) poses major challenges. These challenges include implementing synaptic weight multiplication and weight tuning operation that conserves energy and occupies minimal area. Additionally, designing a network-on-chip architecture that is reconfigurable and offers a full-connectivity design space is crucial. Furthermore, implementing a complete architecture for nonlinear data processing and, specifically, online learning …


Exploration Of Event-Based Camera Data With Spiking Neural Networks, Charles Peter Rizzo May 2024

Exploration Of Event-Based Camera Data With Spiking Neural Networks, Charles Peter Rizzo

Doctoral Dissertations

Neuromorphic computing is a novel, non-von Neumann computing architecture that employs power efficient spiking neural networks on specialized hardware. Taking inspiration from the human brain, spiking neural networks are temporal computation units that propagate information throughout the network via binary spikes. Compared to conventional artificial neural networks, these networks can be more sparse, smaller in size, and more efficient power-wise when realized on neuromorphic hardware. Event-based cameras are novel vision sensors that capture visual information through a temporal stream of events instead of as a conventional RGB frame. These cameras are low-power collections of pixels that asynchronously emit events over …


An Efficient Privacy-Preserving Framework For Video Analytics, Tian Zhou Mar 2024

An Efficient Privacy-Preserving Framework For Video Analytics, Tian Zhou

Doctoral Dissertations

With the proliferation of video content from surveillance cameras, social media, and live streaming services, the need for efficient video analytics has grown immensely. In recent years, machine learning based computer vision algorithms have shown great success in various video analytic tasks. Specifically, neural network models have dominated in visual tasks such as image and video classification, object recognition, object detection, and object tracking. However, compared with classic computer vision algorithms, machine learning based methods are usually much more compute-intensive. Powerful servers are required by many state-of-the-art machine learning models. With the development of cloud computing infrastructures, people are able …