Physical Sciences and Mathematics Commons^™

Skill Finder: Automated Job-Resume Matching System, Thimma Reddy Kalva

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

Skill Finder is a tool which ranks the student skills from the resumes to the job requirements from Employers, Department and Faculty looking for student interns, full-time employees and also Research, Graduate and Teaching Assistants. Skill Finder hosts student resumes, Academic history and contact information. Authorized users from the Department can post jobs, view job applicants and the Skill finder automatically sorts the students resumes based on the degree of match with the job. Skill finder also sends e-mail alerts to students about the jobs posted and keeps track of employer’s history by maintaining the complete history of jobs posted …

Effective Graph-Based Content--Based Image Retrieval Systems For Large-Scale And Small-Scale Image Databases, Ran Chang

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Digital imaging was a great invention in the last century. Since digital cameras became popular in the public, a large amount of digital images emerged in the late of the twentieth century. How to manage the huge amount of images and find desired images among them became an urgent issue during the same period.

Techniques of retrieving a desired image are generally categorized into two basic classes. One relies on text-based key words to retrieve desired images in the image
database. The other one relies on image-based queries to retrieve desired images in the image database. The second technique is …

Discrete Dynamics On Noncommunative Cw Complexs, Vida Milani, Seyed M.H. Mansourbeigi

Computer Science Student Research

The concept of discrete multivalued dynamical systems for noncommutative CW complexes is developed. Stable and unstable manifolds are introduced and their role in geometric and topological configurations of noncommutative CW complexes is studied. Our technique is illustrated by an example on the noncommutative CW complex decomposition of the algebra of continuous functions on two dimensional torus.

A Medical Data Cleaner, Jahnavi Yetukuri

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

This report describes medical-data cleaning tool, called MedDataCleaner that can detect outliers in medical data and assistant Database Administrators in resolving data-related problem. Specifically, MedDataCleaner, enables the users to define cleaning rules and offers the ability to choose classification methods that help determine if the data is good or bad. MedDataClearer uses Vitruvian DB objects for object-relation mapping (ORM) support and Vitruvian alignment links for designing the GUI.

My contribution towards this work includes designing the user interfaces using Vitruvian Alignment links, design and implement mean, standard deviation and neural classification methods using Vitruvian DB objects.

Download Question And Section Results Output For Inettest System, Pradeep Jagannath Rohokale

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

iNetTest is a useful tool to help instructors deliver computer-based tests, but when an instructor gives a test, they would often like to know individual question results, e.g.

• What was the average score for a question, how many got it correct and how many missed it,
• What was the most common answer chosen (for multiple choice, T/F, etc.),
• What was the score for a section?
• What was the average score for a section?
• etc.

Whenever individuals consider such data they often prefer different or multiple ways in which to analyze the data. For that reason, it was decided not to …

Effect Of Step Rate On Foot Strike Pattern And Running Economy In Novice Runners, Janae Lynn Richardson

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

Purpose—The objective was to examine if step rates ±5% or ±10% of a novice runner's preferred step rate (SR) is sufficient enough to shift a novice runner’s foot strike pattern (FSP) (rear-foot, mid-foot, forefoot) and whether these SR changes produce changes in the rate of submaximal oxygen consumption (VO2). Methods—Foot strike angle (FSA) was recorded using sagittal plane video images and VO2 was measured for novice runners while running on a treadmill at a constant speed during increased and decreased (±5% and ±10%) SR conditions. Foot strike angle was used to predict strike index (SI) (predicted strike index = [FSA …

Digital Labeling And Narrative Mapping In Mobile Remote Audio Signage: Verbalization Of Routes And Generation Of New Verbal Route Descriptions From Existing Route Sets, Tharun Tej Tammineni

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

Independent navigation is a great challenge for people with visual impairments. In this project, we have designed and implemented an assisted navigation solution based on the ability of visually impaired travelers to interpret and contextualize verbal route descriptions. Previous studies have validated that if a route is verbally described in sufficient and appropriate manner then VI can use their orientation and mobility skills to successfully follow the route. In this project, we do not consider the issue how the VI will interpret the route descriptions, but we aim to identify and generate new verbal route descriptions from the existing route …

3-Way Test Suite Prioritization And Fault Detection: A Case Study, Arjun Roy Chaudhuri

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

GUI and web based applications are becoming universal. Functional accuracy of those applications is vital. Software defects caused by poor software testing can cost billions of dollars. Further, web application defects can be costly due to the fact that most web applications handle regular user interaction. By improving the time efficiency of software testing, many of the costs associated with defects can be saved. Web application users generate large numbers of possible test-cases and out of all those test-cases only some of them are vital for functional testing. Therefore testing correctness of these applications is expensive and time consuming and …

Skip Trie Matching For Real-Time Ocr Output Error Corrrection On Smartphones, Aditya Vanka

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

Many Visually Impaired individuals are managing their daily activities with the help of smartphones. While there are many vision-based mobile applications to identify products, there is a relative dearth of applications for extracting useful nutrition information. In this report, we study the performance of existing OCR systems available for the Android platform, and choose the best to extract the nutrition facts information from U.S grocery store packages. We then provide approaches to improve the results of text strings produced by the Tesseract OCR engine on image segments of nutrition tables automatically extracted by an Android 2.3.6 smartphone application using real-time …

Automated Check-In And Scheduling System For A Web-Based Testing Application, Ashwin V. Kumar

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

Ideally, a testing center and associated software should be an effective tool for learning assessment. It should serve as a link between faculty members who create tests and their students who are assessed by those tests. Testing centers are generally limited in the number of computer systems available as compared to the number of students taking tests. Automated testing plays an important role in such situations. Automated testing outside the classroom offers students the flexibility of choosing a preferred time for taking tests. A completely automated system also contributes in reducing a portion of the workload by automatically grading some …

The Effects Of Abstraction On Best Nblock First Search, Justin R. Redd

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Search is an important aspect of Artificial Intelligence. Efficiently searching for solutions to large problems is important. One way to scale search large in problems quickly is to divide the work between multiple processors. There are many ways to divide this work using abstractions. This thesis examines the previous way this has been done in the past and introduces other ways to more efficiently divide the work and search in parallel.

Eyes-Free Vision-Based Scanning Of Aligned Barcodes And Information Extraction From Aligned Nutrition Tables, Aliasgar Kutiyanawala

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Independent grocery shopping is one of the biggest challenges faced by visually impaired (VI) individuals. VI individuals may be able to get to a store on their own by using public transportation or by walking but are unable to shop there independently. Some of the problems that they face after getting to the store include long wait times to get an employee to assist them or getting a store employee who is not familiar with the store layout, gets irritated with long searches, or does not possess the required English skills. These problems ultimately result in VI shoppers having to …

The Chain-Link Fence Model: A Framework For Creating Security Procedures, Robert F. Houghton

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Information technology security professionals are facing an ever growing threat to the networks that they defend. The process for creating procedures to help stem this threat is very difficult for security professionals. The Chain-Link Fence Model helps security professionals by guiding them through the process of creating and implementing new security procedures.

On Mobile Detection And Localization Of Skewed Nutrition Facts Tables, Christopher Blay

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The Computer Science Assistive Technology Laboratory (CSATL) at Utah State University has a long history of research in visually impaired grocery shopping tech. CSATL’s ShopMobile II introduced nutrition facts table (NFT) analysis but only with perfectly aligned and square input images.

A new method which detects and localizes NFTs more quickly and from rotated or non-square images has been released and is slated for integration with ShopMobile II to improve this feature substantially. This is great news for the estimated 3.6 million adults in the United States having visual impairment or blindness and also opens the doors to other applications …

A Qualitative And Evaluative Study On Recruiting And Retaining Students In College Computer Science Programs, Matthew Gardner

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Computer science is a discipline that is increasing in importance and value in our society, yet we are still failing to graduate a sufficient number of students to keep up with the demand required in the United States economy. We research several ways to retain students. We also discuss ways to increase students’ interest in the major, i.e., those who normally would not know about computer science. We discuss ways to increase female participation as well as overall participation in the major.

Knowledge Extraction In Video Through The Interaction Analysis Of Activities, Omar Ulises Florez

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

A video is a growing stream of unstructured data that significantly increases the amount of information transmitted and stored on the Internet. For example, every minute YouTube users upload 72 GB of information. Some of the best applications for video analysis include the monitoring of activities in defense and security scenarios such as the autonomous planes that collect video and images at reduced risk and the surveillance cameras in public places like traffic lights, airports, and schools.

Some of the challenges in the analysis of video correspond to implement complex operations such as searching of activities, understanding of scenes, and …