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Performance Evaluation Of Vision-Based Navigation And Landing On A Rotorcraft Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, David Hubbard, Timothy W. Mclain, Bryan S. Morse, Colin Theodore, Mark Tischler Feb 2007

Performance Evaluation Of Vision-Based Navigation And Landing On A Rotorcraft Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, David Hubbard, Timothy W. Mclain, Bryan S. Morse, Colin Theodore, Mark Tischler

Faculty Publications

A Rotorcraft UAV provides an ideal experimental platform for vision-based navigation. This paper describes the flight tests of the US Army PALACE project, which implements Moravec’s pseudo-normalized correlation tracking algorithm. The tracker uses the movement of the landing site in the camera, a laser range, and the aircraft attitude from an IMU to estimate the relative motion of the UAV. The position estimate functions as a GPS equivalent to enable the rotorcraft to maneuver without the aid of GPS. With GPS data as a baseline, tests were performed in simulation and in flight that measure the accuracy of the position …


Mining Generalized Associations Of Semantic Relations From Textual Web Content, Tao Jiang, Ah-Hwee Tan, We Wang Feb 2007

Mining Generalized Associations Of Semantic Relations From Textual Web Content, Tao Jiang, Ah-Hwee Tan, We Wang

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Traditional text mining techniques transform free text into flat bags of words representation, which does not preserve sufficient semantics for the purpose of knowledge discovery. In this paper, we present a two-step procedure to mine generalized associations of semantic relations conveyed by the textual content of Web documents. First, RDF (resource description framework) metadata representing semantic relations are extracted from raw text using a myriad of natural language processing techniques. The relation extraction process also creates a term taxonomy in the form of a sense hierarchy inferred from WordNet. Then, a novel generalized association pattern mining algorithm (GP-Close) is applied …


Logistics Network Design With Supplier Consolidation Hubs And Multiple Shipment Options, Michelle L. F. Cheong, Rohit Bhatnagar, Stephen C. Graves Feb 2007

Logistics Network Design With Supplier Consolidation Hubs And Multiple Shipment Options, Michelle L. F. Cheong, Rohit Bhatnagar, Stephen C. Graves

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

An important service provided by third-party logistics (3PL) firms is to manage the inbound logistics of raw materials and components from multiple suppliers to several manufacturing plants. A key challenge for these 3PL firms is to determine how to coordinate and consolidate the transportation flow, so as to get the best overall logistics performance. One tactic is to establish consolidation hubs that collect shipments from several suppliers, consolidate these shipments, and direct the consolidated shipments to the appropriate manufacturing plant. We consider the network design problem to implement this tactic, namely deciding the number, location and operation of consolidation hubs …


Clustering And Combinatorial Optimization In Recursive Supervised Learning, Kiruthika Ramanathan, Sheng Uei Guan Feb 2007

Clustering And Combinatorial Optimization In Recursive Supervised Learning, Kiruthika Ramanathan, Sheng Uei Guan

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

The use of combinations of weak learners to learn a dataset has been shown to be better than the use of a single strong learner. In fact, the idea is so successful that boosting, an algorithm combining several weak learners for supervised learning, has been considered to be the best off the shelf classifier. However, some problems still exist, including determining the optimal number of weak learners and the over fitting of data. In an earlier work, we developed the RPHP algorithm which solves both these problems by using a combination of global search, weak learning and pattern distribution. In …


Quality Of Service Routing Strategy Using Supervised Genetic Algorithm, Zhaoxia Wang, Yugeng Sun, Zhiyong Wang, Huayu Shen Feb 2007

Quality Of Service Routing Strategy Using Supervised Genetic Algorithm, Zhaoxia Wang, Yugeng Sun, Zhiyong Wang, Huayu Shen

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

A supervised genetic algorithm (SGA) is proposed to solve the quality of service (QoS) routing problems in computer networks. The supervised rules of intelligent concept are introduced into genetic algorithms (GAs) to solve the constraint optimization problem. One of the main characteristics of SGA is its searching space can be limited in feasible regions rather than infeasible regions. The superiority of SGA to other GAs lies in that some supervised search rules in which the information comes from the problems are incorporated into SGA. The simulation results show that SGA improves the ability of searching an optimum solution and accelerates …


Lecture Video Enhancement And Editing By Integrating Posture, Gesture, And Text, Feng Wang, Chong-Wah Ngo, Ting-Chuen Pong Feb 2007

Lecture Video Enhancement And Editing By Integrating Posture, Gesture, And Text, Feng Wang, Chong-Wah Ngo, Ting-Chuen Pong

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

This paper describes a novel framework for automatic lecture video editing by gesture, posture, and video text recognition. In content analysis, the trajectory of hand movement is tracked and the intentional gestures are automatically extracted for recognition. In addition, head pose is estimated through overcoming the difficulties due to the complex lighting conditions in classrooms. The aim of recognition is to characterize the flow of lecturing with a series of regional focuses depicted by human postures and gestures. The regions of interest (ROIs) in videos are semantically structured with text recognition and the aid of external documents. By tracing the …


Moving-Object Detection, Association, And Selection In Home Videos, Zailiang Pan, Chong-Wah Ngo Feb 2007

Moving-Object Detection, Association, And Selection In Home Videos, Zailiang Pan, Chong-Wah Ngo

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Due to the prevalence of digital video camcorders, home videos have become an important part of life-logs of personal experiences. To enable efficient video parsing, a critical step is to automatically extract objects, events and scene characteristics present in videos. This paper addresses the problem of extracting objects from home videos. Automatic detection of objects is a classical yet difficult vision problem, particularly for videos with complex scenes and unrestricted domains. Compared with edited and surveillant videos, home videos captured in uncontrolled environment are usually coupled with several notable features such as shaking artifacts, irregular motions, and arbitrary settings. These …


Towards Efficient Planning For Real World Partially Observable Domains, Pradeep R. Varakantham Feb 2007

Towards Efficient Planning For Real World Partially Observable Domains, Pradeep R. Varakantham

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

My research goal is to build large-scale intelligent systems (both single- and multi-agent) that reason with uncertainty in complex, real-world environments. I foresee an integration of such systems in many critical facets of human life ranging from intelligent assistants in hospitals to offices, from rescue agents in large scale disaster response to sensor agents tracking weather phenomena in earth observing sensor webs, and others. In my thesis, I have taken steps towards achieving this goal in the context of systems that operate in partially observable domains that also have transitional (non-deterministic outcomes to actions) uncertainty. Given this uncertainty, Partially Observable …


System For Collision Detection Between Deformable Models Built On Axis Aligned Bounding Boxes And Gpu Based Culling, David Owen Tuft Jan 2007

System For Collision Detection Between Deformable Models Built On Axis Aligned Bounding Boxes And Gpu Based Culling, David Owen Tuft

Theses and Dissertations

Collision detection between deforming models is a difficult problem for collision detection systems to handle. This problem is even more difficult when deformations are unconstrained, objects are in close proximity to one another, and when the entity count is high. We propose a method to perform collision detection between multiple deforming objects with unconstrained deformations that will give good results in close proximities. Currently no systems exist that achieve good performance on both unconstrained triangle level deformations and deformations that preserve edge connectivity. We propose a new system built as a combination of Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) based culling and …


Eliminating Redundant And Less-Informative Rss News Articles Based On Word Similarity And A Fuzzy Equivalence Relation, Ian Garcia Jan 2007

Eliminating Redundant And Less-Informative Rss News Articles Based On Word Similarity And A Fuzzy Equivalence Relation, Ian Garcia

Theses and Dissertations

The Internet has marked this era as the information age. There is no precedent in the amazing amount of information, especially network news, that can be accessed by Internet users these days. As a result, the problem of seeking information in online news articles is not the lack of them but being overwhelmed by them. This brings huge challenges regarding processing of online news feeds, i.e., how to determine which news article is important, how to determine the quality of each news article, and how to filter irrelevant and redundant information. In this thesis, we propose a method for filtering …


Implicit Affinity Networks, Matthew Scott Smith Jan 2007

Implicit Affinity Networks, Matthew Scott Smith

Theses and Dissertations

Although they clearly exist, affinities among individuals are not all easily identified. Yet, they offer unique opportunities to discover new social networks, strengthen ties among individuals, and provide recommendations. We propose the idea of Implicit Affinity Networks (IANs) to build, visualize, and track affinities among groups of individuals. IANs are simple, interactive graphical representations that users may navigate to uncover interesting patterns. This thesis describes a system supporting the construction of IANs and evaluates it in the context of family history and online communities.


Skuery: Manipulation Of S-Expressions Using Xquery Techniques, Kevin Burke Tew Jan 2007

Skuery: Manipulation Of S-Expressions Using Xquery Techniques, Kevin Burke Tew

Theses and Dissertations

Data query operations inside programming languages presently perform their functions through the use of domain-specific, declarative expressions and by way of course-grain, API library calls. These methods of operation are practiced by relational databases as well as semistructured XML data stores. Layers of translation, which are necessary to transform data and instructions from the domain of programming languages to data query systems, negtatively effect the performance of data query operations. Skuery resolves this impedance by adopting XML as a native data type with a native representation (SXML). Likewise, query operations are defined in a general purpose programming language (Scheme in …


Tr-2007011: Numerical Computation Of Determinants With Additive Preconditioning, V. Y. Pan, B. Murphy, G. Qian, R. E. Rosholt, I. Taj-Eddin Jan 2007

Tr-2007011: Numerical Computation Of Determinants With Additive Preconditioning, V. Y. Pan, B. Murphy, G. Qian, R. E. Rosholt, I. Taj-Eddin

Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Fusion For Component Based Face Recognition, Yanjun Yan, Lisa Ann Osadciw Jan 2007

Fusion For Component Based Face Recognition, Yanjun Yan, Lisa Ann Osadciw

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - All Scholarship

This paper proposes a practical way to realize the diversity in face recognition system for performance improvement by fusing the classification results from the components (characteristic regions such as eyes, nose and mouth) and from the whole face image, instead of concatenating the face feature and the modular features for a single classifier. The extracted sub-images are not totally independent from the face image, but the experiments show that the fused result is improved from the recognition result based on the face or components alone. The fusion is implemented and compared at both score level and decision level. Communication resources …


Impact Of Computers On Cultures In Third World Countries: A Case Of Computers In Education, James R. Ochwa-Echel Jan 2007

Impact Of Computers On Cultures In Third World Countries: A Case Of Computers In Education, James R. Ochwa-Echel

Faculty Research and Creative Activity

No abstract provided.


Eliciting Software Requirements For Elementary Keyboarding Instruction, Mark A. Eirich Jan 2007

Eliciting Software Requirements For Elementary Keyboarding Instruction, Mark A. Eirich

Capstone Research Projects

This Southern Scholars research project developed requirements for keyboarding instruction software to be used in the elementary classroom. The project was undertaken on the premise that the teachers in the Georgia-Cumberland Conference1 are not satisfied with any currently existing keyboarding instruction software, and that software better suited to the classroom could be designed. Methods used to gather data included: a literature review on keyboarding instruction methods, a summary review of existing keyboarding software interviews with teachers and school staff, and a survey of elementary teachers to evaluate their current situation and identify the software features they consider most important. These …


Revealing The Antecedents And Benefits Of Kms Use: An Exploratory Study In A Petroleum Company In Oman, Kamla Al-Busaidi '05, Lorne Olfman, Terry Ryan, Gondy Leroy Jan 2007

Revealing The Antecedents And Benefits Of Kms Use: An Exploratory Study In A Petroleum Company In Oman, Kamla Al-Busaidi '05, Lorne Olfman, Terry Ryan, Gondy Leroy

CGU Faculty Publications and Research

This pilot study aimed to explore technical and social antecedents and benefits of KMS use in a petroleum company in Oman. Data was collected through questionnaire given to KMS users. From the technical perspective, results uncovered that both knowledge utilizers and contributors were concerned about the system ease of use, speed and integration. Knowledge utilizers also valued knowledge richness in terms of relevancy and timeliness. From the social perspective, both knowledge utilizers and contributors considered time/availability as the major determinant of their behaviors. The results also suggested that knowledge utillizers valued the technical factors more than the social factors, whereas, …


Filling The Ontology Space For Coalition Battle Management Language, Charles Turnitsa, Curtis Blais, Andreas Tolk Jan 2007

Filling The Ontology Space For Coalition Battle Management Language, Charles Turnitsa, Curtis Blais, Andreas Tolk

Computational Modeling & Simulation Engineering Faculty Publications

The Coalition Battle Management Language is a language for representing and exchanging plans, orders, and reports across live, constructive and robotic forces in multi-service, multi-national and multi-organizational operations. Standardization efforts in the Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization seek to define this language through three parallel activities: (1) specify a sufficient data model to unambiguously define a set of orders using the Joint Command, Control, and Consultation Information Exchange Data Model (JC3IEDM) as a starting point; (2) develop a formal grammar (lexicon and production rules) to formalize the definition of orders, requests, and reports; (3) develop a formal battle management ontology to …


Tr-2007010: Error-Free Computations Via Floating-Point Operations, V. Y. Pan, B. Murphy, G. Qian, R. E. Rosholt Jan 2007

Tr-2007010: Error-Free Computations Via Floating-Point Operations, V. Y. Pan, B. Murphy, G. Qian, R. E. Rosholt

Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Tr-2007007: Independent Component Analysis: An Introduction, Rave Harpaz Jan 2007

Tr-2007007: Independent Component Analysis: An Introduction, Rave Harpaz

Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Tr-2007009: Computations In The Null Spaces With Additive Preprocessing, Victor Y. Pan Jan 2007

Tr-2007009: Computations In The Null Spaces With Additive Preprocessing, Victor Y. Pan

Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Tr-2007014: The Schur Aggregation And Extended Iterative Refinement, V. Y. Pan, B. Murphy, R. E. Rosholt Jan 2007

Tr-2007014: The Schur Aggregation And Extended Iterative Refinement, V. Y. Pan, B. Murphy, R. E. Rosholt

Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Tr-2007001: On Developing User Interfaces For Children In Educational Virtual Reality Environments, Lori Scarlatos, Rebecca Friedman Jan 2007

Tr-2007001: On Developing User Interfaces For Children In Educational Virtual Reality Environments, Lori Scarlatos, Rebecca Friedman

Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Tr-2007020: S4lp And Local Realizability, Melvin Fitting Jan 2007

Tr-2007020: S4lp And Local Realizability, Melvin Fitting

Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Containing Denial-Of-Service Attacks In Broadcast Authentication In Sensor Networks, Ronghua Wang, Wenliang Du, Peng Ning Jan 2007

Containing Denial-Of-Service Attacks In Broadcast Authentication In Sensor Networks, Ronghua Wang, Wenliang Du, Peng Ning

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - All Scholarship

Broadcast authentication is an important application in sensor networks. Public Key Cryptography (PKC) is desirable for this application, but due to the resource constraints on sensor nodes, these operations are expensive, which means sensor networks using PKC are susceptible to Denial of Service (DoS) attacks: attackers keep broadcasting bogus messages, which will incur extra costs, thus exhaust the energy of the honest nodes. In addition, the long time to verify each message using PKC increases the response time of the nodes; it is impractical for the nodes to validate each incoming message before forwarding it. In this paper we discuss …


Sequence Similarity Search Portal, Arokiya Louis Monica Joseph Jan 2007

Sequence Similarity Search Portal, Arokiya Louis Monica Joseph

Theses Digitization Project

This project brings the bioinformatics community a new development concept in which users can access all data and applications hosted in the main research centers as if they were installed on their local machines, providing seamless integration between disparate services. The project moves to integrate the sequence similarity searching at EBI and NCBI by using web services. It also intends to allow molecular biologists to save their searches and act as a log book for their sequence similarity searches. The project will also allow the biologists to share their sequences and results with others.


An Algorithm For Two-Dimensional Density Reconstruction In Proton Computed Tomography (Pct), Jihad Tafas Jan 2007

An Algorithm For Two-Dimensional Density Reconstruction In Proton Computed Tomography (Pct), Jihad Tafas

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this thesis is to develop an optimized and effective iterative reconstruction algorithm and hardware acceleration methods that work synonymously together through reconstruction in proton computed tomography, which accurately maps the electron density.


Semantically Annotating A Web Service, Kunal Verma, Amit P. Sheth Jan 2007

Semantically Annotating A Web Service, Kunal Verma, Amit P. Sheth

Kno.e.sis Publications

In the past few years, service-oriented architecture (SOA) has transitioned from a partially formed vision into a widely implemented paradigm, with Web services (WS) being the forerunners to implementing SOA-based solutions. But even though the current trend is to use Web services' standards-based nature to establish static connections between various components, businesses are starting to explore dynamic value-added propositions, such as reuse, interoperability, and agility.


Web-Based Geographic Information System For The Archives Of The Water Resources Institute, Wei Shi Jan 2007

Web-Based Geographic Information System For The Archives Of The Water Resources Institute, Wei Shi

Theses Digitization Project

This project is focused on the goal of improving access to the Water Resources Institute (WRI) archives using a web-based GIS architecture. This project uses the newest version of ArcGIS Server as a method to support an internet-based map search environment, improved information management and data sharing.


Web Based Entry Level Mathematics Test, Okbun Baek Jan 2007

Web Based Entry Level Mathematics Test, Okbun Baek

Theses Digitization Project

The primary purpose of the project is to develop a web site where students can practice entry level mathematics questions.