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Long-Term Human Video Activity Quantification In Collaborative Learning Environments, Venkatesh Jatla
Long-Term Human Video Activity Quantification In Collaborative Learning Environments, Venkatesh Jatla
Electrical and Computer Engineering ETDs
Research on video activity detection has mainly focused on identifying well-defined human activities in short video segments, often requiring large-parameter systems and extensive training datasets. This dissertation introduces a low-parameter, modular system with rapid inference capabilities, capable of being trained on limited datasets without transfer learning from large-parameter systems. The system accurately detects specific activities and associates them with students in real-life classroom videos. Additionally, an interactive web-based application is developed to visualize human activity maps over long classroom videos.
Long-term video activity detection in classrooms presents challenges, such as multiple simultaneous activities, rapid transitions, long-term occlusions, duration exceeding 15 …
Intra-Hour Solar Forecasting Using Cloud Dynamics Features Extracted From Ground-Based Infrared Sky Images, Guillermo Terrén-Serrano
Intra-Hour Solar Forecasting Using Cloud Dynamics Features Extracted From Ground-Based Infrared Sky Images, Guillermo Terrén-Serrano
Electrical and Computer Engineering ETDs
Due to the increasing use of photovoltaic systems, power grids are vulnerable to the projection of shadows from moving clouds. An intra-hour solar forecast provides power grids with the capability of automatically controlling the dispatch of energy, reducing the additional cost for a guaranteed, reliable supply of energy (i.e., energy storage). This dissertation introduces a novel sky imager consisting of a long-wave radiometric infrared camera and a visible light camera with a fisheye lens. The imager is mounted on a solar tracker to maintain the Sun in the center of the images throughout the day, reducing the scattering effect produced …