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Musical Query-By-Content Using Self-Organizing Maps, Kyle B. Dickerson
Musical Query-By-Content Using Self-Organizing Maps, Kyle B. Dickerson
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The ever-increasing density of computer storage devices has allowed the average user to store enormous quantities of multimedia content, and a large amount of this content is usually music. Current search techniques for musical content rely on meta-data tags which describe artist, album, year, genre, etc. Query-by-content systems, however, allow users to search based upon the actual acoustical content of the songs. Recent systems have mainly depended upon textual representations of the queries and targets in order to apply common string-matching algorithms and are often confined to a single query style (e.g., humming). These methods also lose much of the …
Combined Visible And Infrared Video For Use In Wilderness Search And Rescue, Nathan D. Rasmussen
Combined Visible And Infrared Video For Use In Wilderness Search And Rescue, Nathan D. Rasmussen
Theses and Dissertations
Mini Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (mUAVs) have the potential to be a great asset to Wilderness Search and Rescue groups by providing a bird's eye view of the search area. These vehicles can carry a variety of sensors to better understand the world below. This paper proposes using both Infrared (IR) and Visible Spectrum cameras on a mUAV for Wilderness Search and Rescue. It details a method for combining the color and heat information from these two cameras into a single fused display to reduce needed screen space for remote field use. To align the video frames for fusion, a method …