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Quadratic Neural Network Architecture As Evaluated Relative To Conventional Neural Network Architecture, Reid Taylor Apr 2022

Quadratic Neural Network Architecture As Evaluated Relative To Conventional Neural Network Architecture, Reid Taylor

Senior Theses

Current work in the field of deep learning and neural networks revolves around several variations of the same mathematical model for associative learning. These variations, while significant and exceptionally applicable in the real world, fail to push the limits of modern computational prowess. This research does just that: by leveraging high order tensors in place of 2nd order tensors, quadratic neural networks can be developed and can allow for substantially more complex machine learning models which allow for self-interactions of collected and analyzed data. This research shows the theorization and development of mathematical model necessary for such an idea to …


An Overview Of The Potential For Blockchain Technology To Improve Cybersecurity, Stanley Mierzwa Apr 2022

An Overview Of The Potential For Blockchain Technology To Improve Cybersecurity, Stanley Mierzwa

Center for Cybersecurity

The purpose of this short research commentary is to provide a focused, semi-deep dive into the effort the industry places on cybersecurity defense and operations and the potential to integrate blockchain technology. As cybersecurity threats and incidents continue to rise, better procedures and strategies to protect our organizations’ data and systems are crucial to sustaining viable operations. Given that blockchain technology can potentially disrupt other industries (Moore, 2020), it is imperative to examine how it may improve our cybersecurity.


Cybersecurity Best Practices For The Manufacturing Industry, David Ortiz, Stanley Mierzwa Apr 2022

Cybersecurity Best Practices For The Manufacturing Industry, David Ortiz, Stanley Mierzwa

Center for Cybersecurity

The manufacturing and industrial sectors have evolved with the introduction of technologies over the past many decades. Progress in improving processes, techniques, output, quality, and efficiencies have been gained with new emerging technologies, resulting in positive and fortuitous changes for organizations. With the rapid movement towards a modern-day manufacturing environment, new and connected technologies that employ greater cyber-connectedness continue to grow, but at the same time, introduce cybersecurity risks.


Learning Domain Invariant Information To Enhance Presentation Attack Detection In Visible Face Recognition Systems, Jennifer Hamblin Apr 2022

Learning Domain Invariant Information To Enhance Presentation Attack Detection In Visible Face Recognition Systems, Jennifer Hamblin

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Face signatures, including size, shape, texture, skin tone, eye color, appearance, and scars/marks, are widely used as discriminative, biometric information for access control. Despite recent advancements in facial recognition systems, presentation attacks on facial recognition systems have become increasingly sophisticated. The ability to detect presentation attacks or spoofing attempts is a pressing concern for the integrity, security, and trust of facial recognition systems. Multi-spectral imaging has been previously introduced as a way to improve presentation attack detection by utilizing sensors that are sensitive to different regions of the electromagnetic spectrum (e.g., visible, near infrared, long-wave infrared). Although multi-spectral presentation attack …


Assessing Security Risks With The Internet Of Things, Faith Mosemann Apr 2022

Assessing Security Risks With The Internet Of Things, Faith Mosemann

Senior Honors Theses

For my honors thesis I have decided to study the security risks associated with the Internet of Things (IoT) and possible ways to secure them. I will focus on how corporate, and individuals use IoT devices and the security risks that come with their implementation. In my research, I found out that IoT gadgets tend to go unnoticed as a checkpoint for vulnerability. For example, often personal IoT devices tend to have the default username and password issued from the factory that a hacker could easily find through Google. IoT devices need security just as much as computers or servers …


Discovering Ways To Increase Inclusivity For Dyslexic Students In Computing Education, Felicia Hellems, Sajal Bhatia Apr 2022

Discovering Ways To Increase Inclusivity For Dyslexic Students In Computing Education, Felicia Hellems, Sajal Bhatia

School of Computer Science & Engineering Faculty Publications

The years accompanying entrance into the university system are often characterized by a period of great transformation. These years can also be wrought with difficulties for many students, difficulties which are often compounded in students with disabilities (SWD). Reports from the U.S. Department of Education show that as recently as 2015--16, 19% of undergraduate students experienced some form of disability1. Additionally, statistics show that SWD tend to have lower post secondary completion rates than their counterparts [3]. A review of pertinent literature has shown that there still exist gaps within the field of computing education (CE) for teaching cybersecurity concepts …


Verifiable Searchable Encryption Framework Against Insider Keyword-Guessing Attack In Cloud Storage, Yinbin Miao, Robert H. Deng, Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, Ximeng Liu, Hongwei Li Apr 2022

Verifiable Searchable Encryption Framework Against Insider Keyword-Guessing Attack In Cloud Storage, Yinbin Miao, Robert H. Deng, Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, Ximeng Liu, Hongwei Li

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Searchable encryption (SE) allows cloud tenants to retrieve encrypted data while preserving data confidentiality securely. Many SE solutions have been designed to improve efficiency and security, but most of them are still susceptible to insider Keyword-Guessing Attacks (KGA), which implies that the internal attackers can guess the candidate keywords successfully in an off-line manner. Also in existing SE solutions, a semi-honest-but-curious cloud server may deliver incorrect search results by performing only a fraction of retrieval operations honestly (e.g., to save storage space). To address these two challenging issues, we first construct the basic Verifiable SE Framework (VSEF), which can withstand …


Improving Feature Generalizability With Multitask Learning In Class Incremental Learning, Dong Ma, Chi Ian Tang, Cecilia Mascolo Apr 2022

Improving Feature Generalizability With Multitask Learning In Class Incremental Learning, Dong Ma, Chi Ian Tang, Cecilia Mascolo

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Many deep learning applications, like keyword spotting [1], [2], require the incorporation of new concepts (classes) over time, referred to as Class Incremental Learning (CIL). The major challenge in CIL is catastrophic forgetting, i.e., preserving as much of the old knowledge as possible while learning new tasks. Various techniques, such as regularization, knowledge distillation, and the use of exemplars, have been proposed to resolve this issue. However, prior works primarily focus on the incremental learning step, while ignoring the optimization during the base model training. We hypothesise that a more transferable and generalizable feature representation from the base model would …


The Music Bluetooth Controller: An Intersection Between Technology And Music, Lydia Wu Apr 2022

The Music Bluetooth Controller: An Intersection Between Technology And Music, Lydia Wu

Senior Honors Theses

The modern musician faces a new challenge: how can technology be used to enhance a performance? This thesis documents the development of a Bluetooth remote controller that will aid today’s performing musicians by interacting with a digital display (e.g., an iPad) to flip musical score pages remotely. At its core, while mimicking a Bluetooth pedal (the current industry standard), this device attaches to the musician’s hand. In its pilot stages, the device has been referred to “MBC” (Music Bluetooth Controller).


Generative Adversarial Networks Take On Hand Drawn Sketches: An Application To Louisiana Culture And Mardi Gras Fashion, Stephanie Hines Apr 2022

Generative Adversarial Networks Take On Hand Drawn Sketches: An Application To Louisiana Culture And Mardi Gras Fashion, Stephanie Hines

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.


Ux/U-Eye: Designing Graphical User Interfaces For Exclusive Eye Gaze Control, Timothy Curol Apr 2022

Ux/U-Eye: Designing Graphical User Interfaces For Exclusive Eye Gaze Control, Timothy Curol

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.


Privacy-Preserving Information Security For The Energy Grid Of Things, Mohammed Alsaid, Nirupama Bulusu, Abdullah Barghouti, N. Sonali Fernando, John M. Acken, Tylor E. Slay, Robert B. Bass Apr 2022

Privacy-Preserving Information Security For The Energy Grid Of Things, Mohammed Alsaid, Nirupama Bulusu, Abdullah Barghouti, N. Sonali Fernando, John M. Acken, Tylor E. Slay, Robert B. Bass

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

Smart grid infrastructure relies on information exchange between multiple actors in order to ensure system reliability. These actors include but are not limited to smart loads, grid control, and energy management technologies. As information exchange between these actors is susceptible to cyber-attacks, security and privacy issues are indispensable to ensure a reliable and stable grid. This position paper proposes a privacy-preserving, trust-augmented secure scheme for a smart grid implementation.


Conditional Variational Autoencoder (Cvae) For The Augmentation Of Ecl Biosensor Data, Matthew Dulcich Apr 2022

Conditional Variational Autoencoder (Cvae) For The Augmentation Of Ecl Biosensor Data, Matthew Dulcich

Honors Theses

Machine Learning (ML) is vastly improving the world, from computer vision to fully self-driving cars, we are now able accomplish objectives that were thought to only be dreams. In order to train ML models accurately, they require mountains of information to work with, but sometimes it becomes impossible to collect the data needed, so we turn to data augmentation. In this project we use a conditional variational auto encoder to supplement the original video electrochemiluminescence biosensor dataset, in order to increase the accuracy of a future classification model. In other words, using a cVAE we will create unique realistic videos …


Exploring The Efficiency Of Neural Architecture Search (Nas) Modules, Joshua Dulcich Apr 2022

Exploring The Efficiency Of Neural Architecture Search (Nas) Modules, Joshua Dulcich

Honors Theses

Machine learning is obscure and expensive to develop. Neural architecture search (NAS) algorithms automate this process by learning to create premier ML networks, minimizing the bias and necessity of human experts. From this recently emerging field, most research has focused on optimizing a promisingly unique combination of NAS’s three segments. Despite regularly acquiring state of the art results, this practice sacrifices computing time and resources for slight increases in accuracy; this also obstructs performance comparison across papers. To resolve this issue, we use NASLib’s modular library to test the efficiency per module in a unique subset of combinations. Each NAS …


Pre-Training Graph Neural Networks For Link Prediction In Biomedical Networks, Yahui Long, Min Wu, Yong Liu, Yuan Fang, Chee Kong Kwoh, Jiawei Luo, Xiaoli Li Apr 2022

Pre-Training Graph Neural Networks For Link Prediction In Biomedical Networks, Yahui Long, Min Wu, Yong Liu, Yuan Fang, Chee Kong Kwoh, Jiawei Luo, Xiaoli Li

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Motivation: Graphs or networks are widely utilized to model the interactions between different entities (e.g., proteins, drugs, etc) for biomedical applications. Predicting potential links in biomedical networks is important for understanding the pathological mechanisms of various complex human diseases, as well as screening compound targets for drug discovery. Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been designed for link prediction in various biomedical networks, which rely on the node features extracted from different data sources, e.g., sequence, structure and network data. However, it is challenging to effectively integrate these data sources and automatically extract features for different link prediction tasks. Results: In …


On The Reliability Of Wearable Sensors For Assessing Movement Disorder-Related Gait Quality And Imbalance: A Case Study Of Multiple Sclerosis, Steven Díaz Hernández Mar 2022

On The Reliability Of Wearable Sensors For Assessing Movement Disorder-Related Gait Quality And Imbalance: A Case Study Of Multiple Sclerosis, Steven Díaz Hernández

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Approximately 33 million American adults had a movement disorder associated with medication use, ear infections, injury, or neurological disorders in 2008, with over 18 million people affected by neurological disorders worldwide. Physical therapists assist people with movement disorders by providing interventions to reduce pain, improve mobility, avoid surgeries, and prevent falls and secondary complications of neurodegenerative disorders. Current gait assessments used by physical therapists, such as the Multiple Sclerosis Walking Scale, provide only semi-quantitative data, and cannot assess walking quality in detail or describe how one’s walking quality changes over time. As a result, quantitative systems have grownas useful tools …


Seabem: An Artificial Intelligence Powered Web Application To Predict Cover Crop Biomass, Aime Christian Tuyishime, Andrea Basche Mar 2022

Seabem: An Artificial Intelligence Powered Web Application To Predict Cover Crop Biomass, Aime Christian Tuyishime, Andrea Basche

Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)

SEABEM, the Stacked Ensemble Algorithms Biomass Estimator Model, is a web application with a stacked ensemble of Machine Learning (ML) algorithms running on the backend to predict cover crop biomass for locations in Sub-Saharan. The SEABEM model was developed using a previously developed database of crop growth and yield that included site characteristics such as latitude, longitude, soil texture (sand, silt, and clay percentages), temperature, and precipitation. The goal of SEABEM is to provide global farmers, mainly small-scale African farmers, the knowledge they need before practicing and benefiting from cover crops while avoiding the expensive and time-consuming operations that come …


Mix Method Approach Of Measuring Vr As A Pedagogical Tool To Enhance Experimental Learning: Motivation From Literature Survey Of Previous Study, Muhammad Mujtaba Asad, Aisha Naz Ansari, Prathamesh Churi, Antonio José Moreno Guerrero, Anas A. Salameh Mar 2022

Mix Method Approach Of Measuring Vr As A Pedagogical Tool To Enhance Experimental Learning: Motivation From Literature Survey Of Previous Study, Muhammad Mujtaba Asad, Aisha Naz Ansari, Prathamesh Churi, Antonio José Moreno Guerrero, Anas A. Salameh

Institute for Educational Development, Karachi

This research has been experimented on our previous literature review. Technological advancement has prevailed in the modern era from the 20th century. Artificial intelligence and virtual worlds have been created for rapid technological development. This paper is aimed at exploring the effect of virtual reality as a pedagogical tool for enhancing experiential learning among undergraduate students. Considering this, it was a mixed-methods study following the design of sequential exploratory–which includes qualitative followed by quantitative part. The targeted population was undergraduate students taking education programs from Public Sector Universities of Sindh. For the qualitative part, the sample of eight undergraduate students …


Barriers And Enablers For Older Adults Participating In A Home-Based Pragmatic Exercise Program Delivered And Monitored By Amazon Alexa: A Qualitative Study, Paul Jansons, Jackson Fyfe, Jack Dalla Via, Robin M. Daly, Eugene Gvozdenko, David Scott Mar 2022

Barriers And Enablers For Older Adults Participating In A Home-Based Pragmatic Exercise Program Delivered And Monitored By Amazon Alexa: A Qualitative Study, Paul Jansons, Jackson Fyfe, Jack Dalla Via, Robin M. Daly, Eugene Gvozdenko, David Scott

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Background: The remote delivery and monitoring of individually-tailored exercise programs using voice-controlled intelligent personal assistants (VIPAs) that support conversation-based interactions may be an acceptable alternative model of digital health delivery for older adults. The aim of this study was to evaluate the enablers and barriers for older adults participating in a home-based exercise program delivered and monitored by VIPAs. Method: This qualitative study used videoconferencing to conduct semi-structured interviews following a 12-week, prospective single-arm pilot study in 15 adults aged 60 to 89 years living alone in the community. All participants were prescribed an individualized, brief (10 min, 2–4 times …


A Combined Approach For Private Indexing Mechanism, Pranita Maruti Desai Ms., Vijay Maruti Shelake Mr. Mar 2022

A Combined Approach For Private Indexing Mechanism, Pranita Maruti Desai Ms., Vijay Maruti Shelake Mr.

Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law

Private indexing is a set of approaches for analyzing research data that are similar or resemble similar ones. This is used in the database to keep track of the keys and their values. The main subject of this research is private indexing in record linkage to secure the data. Because unique personal identification numbers or social security numbers are not accessible in most countries or databases, data linkage is limited to attributes such as date of birth and names to distinguish between the number of records and the real-life entities they represent. For security reasons, the encryption of these identifiers …


Research On 3d Path Planning Algorithm Based On Fast Rrt Algorithm, Zhaoqiang Li, Shiyu Zhang Mar 2022

Research On 3d Path Planning Algorithm Based On Fast Rrt Algorithm, Zhaoqiang Li, Shiyu Zhang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: RRT (rapidly exploring random tree) algorithm is a sampling-based path planning algorithm, which can search a path in high-dimensional environment. The traditional RRT algorithm has the problems of low node utilization and large amount of calculation. To solve these problems, the fast RRT* (Quick RRT*) algorithm is improved by optimizing the strategy of reselection of parent node and pruning range, improving the sampling method and introducing adaptive step size, which makes the algorithm time-consuming and path length shorter. At the same time, the node connection screening strategy is added to eliminate the excessive turning angle in the path. …


Research On Real-Time Motion Matching Of Shadow Play Based On Kinect, Chuanqian Tang, Zhiqiang Liu, Yijun Su, Xiaojing Liu Mar 2022

Research On Real-Time Motion Matching Of Shadow Play Based On Kinect, Chuanqian Tang, Zhiqiang Liu, Yijun Su, Xiaojing Liu

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: In the inheritance of shadow play culture, due to the aging of the audience and the discontinuity of inheritance, the shadow play culture is gradually facing decline. Real-time matching of shadow play movements based on Kinect can inject new vitality into traditional shadow play culture. According to the characteristics of shadow play, a joint point shadow play model is constructed, and the static digitization of shadow play is realized. The human body depth image is obtained based on Kinect, and the human skeleton point coordinates are obtained through segmentation mask and machine learning to generate the human skeleton.Bone …


Effectiveness Evaluation Of Surface Ship Air Defense And Antimissile Combat In Complex Electromagnetic Environment, Gaofeng Zhang, Liang Wu Mar 2022

Effectiveness Evaluation Of Surface Ship Air Defense And Antimissile Combat In Complex Electromagnetic Environment, Gaofeng Zhang, Liang Wu

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: In order to effectively evaluate the effectiveness of surface ship air defense and antimissile combat in complex electromagnetic environment, a surface ship air defense and antimissile combat effectiveness index system is established considering the influence of equipment, environment and human behavior, the evaluation process of surface ship air defense and antimissile combat effectiveness based on analytic hierarchy process(AHP) is proposed, and a hierarchical structure model of effectiveness evaluation is constructed including five levels of target layer, sub-efficiency layer, capability layer, constraint layer and plan layer. The application shows that the evaluation process and structure model can fully reflect the …


New Embedded Simulation Technology For Smart Internet Of Things, Bohu Li, Xudong Chai, Lin Zhang, Duzheng Qing, Guoqiang Shi, Tingyu Lin, Liqin Guo, Chen Yang, Mu Gu, Zhengxuan Jia, Hui Gong, Zhen Tang Mar 2022

New Embedded Simulation Technology For Smart Internet Of Things, Bohu Li, Xudong Chai, Lin Zhang, Duzheng Qing, Guoqiang Shi, Tingyu Lin, Liqin Guo, Chen Yang, Mu Gu, Zhengxuan Jia, Hui Gong, Zhen Tang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Human society in the new development era and journey is facing the new situation. The operation paradigm, technology and ecosystem of industries related to the national economy and people's livelihood、national security are changing significantly towards the digital, networked, cloud-based and intelligent "Smart Internet of Things". The new embedded simulation technology, with the capabilities of online and continuous analysis, cognition, learning, decision-making, operation and optimization,is urgently needed for the development of "Smart Internet of Things". "Smart Internet of Things" is briefly introduced and the connotation, characteristics and application mode of the new embedded simulation technology are proposed and its architecture, …


Open Cloud Architecture Design For Complex Product Modeling And Simulation System, Guoqiang Shi, Zewei Liu, Tingyu Lin, Zhao Xu, Xingyi Yang, Liqin Guo, Zhengxuan Jia Mar 2022

Open Cloud Architecture Design For Complex Product Modeling And Simulation System, Guoqiang Shi, Zewei Liu, Tingyu Lin, Zhao Xu, Xingyi Yang, Liqin Guo, Zhengxuan Jia

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Aiming at the problem that the complex product modeling and simulation system focuses on co-simulation of heterogeneous models and cannot realize the on-demand sharing and collaboration of simulation resources, this paper proposes an open cloud architecture for complex product modeling and simulation systems, realized on-demand sharing and collaboration of cross-organizational simulation software and hardware resources, thereby supporting complex product system-wide, full-lifecycle, anytime, anywhere, real-time, coherent, and transparently requesting accessing and obtaining simulation services. The object-process methodology (OPM) is used to model and deduce the simulation interoperability of the system and the on-demand sharing and collaborative process of simulation resources. …


Research On Integrated Scheduling Of Agv And Machine In Flexible Job Shop, Kui Chen, Li Bi, Wenya Wang Mar 2022

Research On Integrated Scheduling Of Agv And Machine In Flexible Job Shop, Kui Chen, Li Bi, Wenya Wang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Aiming at the flexible job shop scheduling problem with AGV (automated guided vehicle), a dual resource integrated scheduling optimization model with the objective of minimizing makespan is established. In the process of population initialization, a heuristic initialization method is proposed to improve the quality of population initial solution and accelerate the convergence speed of the algorithm. A hybrid discrete particle swarm optimization algorithm that can effectively avoid premature maturation is proposed by combining the competitive learning mechanism and the random restart mechanism to address the disadvantages of discrete particle swarm algorithms that are prone to premature maturation. Simulation experiments …


Cause Analysis Of Vocs Hazards In Related Areas Based On Object Function Petri Net, Guangqiu Huang, Tiantian Wu Mar 2022

Cause Analysis Of Vocs Hazards In Related Areas Based On Object Function Petri Net, Guangqiu Huang, Tiantian Wu

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: The multi-resolution formal description based on discrete event system specification (DEVS) has the ability of hierarchical and structured description, but the description of the intelligent behavior inside the module is relatively lacking, while Agent-based modeling can describe the characteristics of individual perception, behavior, communication, cooperation, learning and evolution. Under the framework of multi-resolution modeling, DEVS and Agent model descriptions are combined to provide the description capabilities for events, behaviors, mechanisms, etc. Based on the description of multi-resolution DEVS models, a formal model description method with coupling closure is proposed, which includes the description of the multi-resolution entity-level atomic model …


Electronic Solid Waste Prediction Based On Intelligent Optimization Grey Model, Xiaoan Sun, Xiaoli Luan, Fei Liu Mar 2022

Electronic Solid Waste Prediction Based On Intelligent Optimization Grey Model, Xiaoan Sun, Xiaoli Luan, Fei Liu

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Aiming at the problems of complex modeling mechanism and low modeling accuracy in the prediction of electronic solid waste production, an intelligent modeling method combining fractional order multiple gray model and neural network compensation model is proposed. Particle swarm optimization is used to optimize the accumulative order and background parameters of the gray model to maximize the performance of the gray model. BP neural network is used to compensate the error of gray modeling and improve the prediction accuracy of solid waste production. The effectiveness of the proposed method is verified by Washington state electronic solid waste data. The …


Job Shop Rescheduling Under Recessive Disturbance Based On Digital Twin, Dinghui Wu, Tongrui Zhang, Xiuli Zhang Mar 2022

Job Shop Rescheduling Under Recessive Disturbance Based On Digital Twin, Dinghui Wu, Tongrui Zhang, Xiuli Zhang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: A new shop rescheduling model driven by digital twin is proposed to solve the problems of disturbance cumulative rescheduling. A scheduling parameter updating method is proposed and a random probability distribution is used to describe the distribution of scheduling parameters to improve the accuracy of scheduling parameters. An implicit disturbance detection model is built based on Siamese Network using real-time data as input to realize the start time of rescheduling. The sample data for scheduling knowledge mining are extracted from the historical scheduling scenarios. Through the Pseudo-Siamese CNN, the mapping relationship between the Process state and machine state is …


Research On Binocular Ranging System Based On Image Features, Jinghui Yang, Dekang Liu, Wanhe Du, Lining Xing Mar 2022

Research On Binocular Ranging System Based On Image Features, Jinghui Yang, Dekang Liu, Wanhe Du, Lining Xing

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Aiming at the problems of large measurement error, single image information, and poor real-time performance in binocular vision ranging, a binocular ranging method based on ORB (oriented fast and rotated brief) features is proposed. Median filtering is performed on the video frame, the ORB feature of the image is extracted, and the Hamming distance with the best matching effect is selected through experiments. The RANSAC (random sample consensus) model estimation is performed on the selected matching points, the mismatches are removed, the model relationship between parallax and true distance is analyzed, the optimal ranging model is constructed and verified …