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Powersearch: Augmenting Mobile Phone Search Through Personalization, Xiangyu Liu
Powersearch: Augmenting Mobile Phone Search Through Personalization, Xiangyu Liu
Computer Science and Computer Engineering Undergraduate Honors Theses
Cell phone has become a fundamental element of people's life. People use it to call each other, browse websites, send text messages, etc. Among all the functionalities, the most important and frequently used is the search functionality. Based on ComScore, in July 2008, Google was estimated to host 235 millions searches per day. However, unlike the search on desktop, the search on cell phone has one critical constrain: battery. Cell phone performing a normal Google search, the battery drains very fast. The reason is that when sending a query to and fetching the results from Google, cell phone keeps communicating …
Object Recognition Based On Shape And Function, Akihiro Eguchi
Object Recognition Based On Shape And Function, Akihiro Eguchi
Computer Science and Computer Engineering Undergraduate Honors Theses
This thesis explores a new approach to computational object recognition by borrowing an idea from child language acquisition studies in developmental psychology. Whereas previous image recognition research used shape to recognize and label a target object, the model proposed in this thesis also uses the function of the object resulting in a more accurate recognition. This thesis makes use of new gaming technology, Microsoft’s Kinect, in implementing the proposed new object recognition model. A demonstration of the model developed in this project properly infers different names for similarly shaped objects and the same name for differently shaped objects.
Defining, Executing And Visualizing Representative Workflows In A Retail Domain, May Zeineldin
Defining, Executing And Visualizing Representative Workflows In A Retail Domain, May Zeineldin
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Our lives are filled with routine activities that we do more or less on auto-pilot such as driving to work and cooking. This thesis explores a workflow representation as a way to represent such activities of daily living. The domain of a retail store environment is used. Workflows are initially expressed in a structured English representation, then translated into a Petri net notation and implemented in mix of Petri nets, Lua, and C so that the resulting workflows can be displayed as the actions of collections of avatarbots (avatars controlled by programs) in a 3D virtual world, Second Life. One …
Webtailor: Internet Service For Salient And Automatic User Interest Profiles, John Anderson
Webtailor: Internet Service For Salient And Automatic User Interest Profiles, John Anderson
Computer Science and Computer Engineering Undergraduate Honors Theses
Website personalization systems seek to give users unique, tailored content and experiences on the Internet. A key feature of these systems is a user profile that represents each user in a way that distinguishes them from others. In current personalization systems, the data used to create these profiles is extremely limited, which leads to a host of problems and ineffectual personalization. The main goal of this thesis is to improve these personalization systems by addressing their lack of data and its poor quality, breadth, and depth. This is accomplished by analyzing and classifying the content of each user's Internet browsing …
Making An Impact On The Obesity Epidemic By Deploying A Mobile Fitness Suite On The Android Market, Chad Richards
Making An Impact On The Obesity Epidemic By Deploying A Mobile Fitness Suite On The Android Market, Chad Richards
Computer Science and Computer Engineering Undergraduate Honors Theses
The Mobile Fitness Suite aims to make an impact on the obesity epidemic by deploying a set of mobile fitness applications on the Android Market. The thesis details the health and financial issues with the obesity epidemic, along with its causes, and how a set of fitness applications can aid with the obesity epidemic. It also explains the reasons for releasing the program on the Android Market and details each step in the process of deploying a mobile application to the Android Market. Further, it discusses the design and architecture that went into the development of the Mobile Fitness Suite …
High Performance Geospatial Analysis On Emerging Parallel Architectures, Seth Warn
High Performance Geospatial Analysis On Emerging Parallel Architectures, Seth Warn
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Geographic information systems (GIS) are performing increasingly sophisticated analyses on growing data sets. These analyses demand high performance. At the same time, modern computing platforms increasingly derive their performance from several forms of parallelism. This dissertation explores the available parallelism in several GIS-applied algorithms: viewshed calculation, image feature transform, and feature analysis. It presents implementations of these algorithms that exploit parallel processing to reduce execution time, and analyzes the effectiveness of the implementations in their use of parallel processing.
An Introductory Educational Board Game For Use In Early Computer Science Education, Tyler Moore
An Introductory Educational Board Game For Use In Early Computer Science Education, Tyler Moore
Computer Science and Computer Engineering Undergraduate Honors Theses
Early computer science education should be necessary in high school curricula, but often it becomes inextricably linked to the act of programming instead of the study of the principles of computation. In order to divest computer science from programming a new teaching medium is needed, and early research into games as teaching tools shows some positive results when used properly. In order to find a better way to teach early computer science concepts I have designed and implemented a board game which illustrates and defines a few necessary computer science terms and mechanics. I had reasonable success in the classroom, …
Portable Network Analyzer, Tyler Warren
Portable Network Analyzer, Tyler Warren
Computer Science and Computer Engineering Undergraduate Honors Theses
With networks expanding into all areas of business, both network and security engineers are finding it more difficult to attend directly to issues. In many cases, a physical presence is still necessary on site to troubleshoot and identify issues, but on site, even carrying a bulky laptop is a hindrance. With today's advances in embedded systems, the answer to this problem is presented. A device running an embedded Computer on Module was built with a portable footprint, in both size and power requirements. A device of this type running an operating system like Linux is a powerful tool. In this …
Parallelizing Scale Invariant Feature Transform On A Distributed Memory Cluster, Stanislav Bobovych
Parallelizing Scale Invariant Feature Transform On A Distributed Memory Cluster, Stanislav Bobovych
Computer Science and Computer Engineering Undergraduate Honors Theses
Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) is a computer vision algorithm that is widely-used to extract features from images. We explored accelerating an existing implementation of this algorithm with message passing in order to analyze large data sets. We successfully tested two approaches to data decomposition in order to parallelize SIFT on a distributed memory cluster.