Dissertations & Theses: Recent submissions
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Towards Nuclei Segmentation with Limited Annotations
(2023-09-01)Nuclei segmentation is a fundamental but challenging task in histopathology image analysis. For semantic segmentation of nuclei, Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), and Vision Transformer (VT) models give very promising ... -
Generative and Implicit Methods for 3D Point Cloud Processing
(2023-08-15)3D point clouds are a popular form of data representation with many applications in computer vision, computer graphics, and robotics. As the output of range sensing devices, point clouds have gained popularity with the ... -
DEEP LEARNING FOR MOLECULAR PROPERTY PREDICTION
(2023-08-14)Drug discovery has always been a crucial task for society, and molecular property prediction is one of the fundamental problem. It is responsible for identifying the target properties or severe side-effects, so that certain ... -
On-Line Environment Adaptation for User Performance Optimization
(2023-08-14)In today’s fast-paced and globally connected world, businesses are creating products with more significance to user personalization and customization. This has amplified the importance of capturing and learning user ... -
COMPACT REPRESENTATIVES OF DATABASES AND RESPONSIBLE DATA MANAGEMENT
(2023-08-08)With the advent of advanced computational models, we are being constantly judged by AI systems, complex algorithmic systems based on data that has been collected about us. These analysis are critical as they span many wide ... -
INVESTIGATING THE EFFECT OF PEEPHOLE OPTIMIZATIONS ON BINARY CODE DIFFERENCES
(2023-09-01)**Please note that the full text is embargoed until 8/1/2025** ABSTRACT: Binary diffing is a technique used to compare and identify differences or similarities in executable files without access to source code. The potential ... -
RESOURCE PROVISIONING FOR DATA-INTENSIVE USER-FACING APPLICATIONS
(2023-07-27)**Please note that the full text is embargoed until 08/01/2024** Data-intensive, User-facing Services (DUSes) such as web searching, digital marketing, online social networking, and online retailing are critical workloads ... -
Fuzz Testing of Zigbee Protocol Implementations
(2023-07-12)In recent years, we have witnessed the increasing of the Internet of Things (IoT) devices deployed by many areas, such as home automation, healthcare, manufacture, and smart vehicle. Among the numerous IoT wireless standards ... -
A PARALLEL IMPLEMENTATION OF APRIORI ALGORITHM FOR MINING FREQUENT ITEMSETS IN HADOOP MAPREDUCE FRAMEWORK
With explosive growth of data in past few years, discovering previously unknown, frequent patterns within the huge transactional data sets has been one of the most challenging and ventured fields in data mining. Apriori ... -
Video-based Face Recognition using Deep Learning for Single Sample Per Person (SSPP) Surveillance Applications
Face Recognition (FR) is the task of identifying a person based on images of the face of the identity. Systems for video-based face recognition in video surveillance seek to recognize individuals of interest in real-time ... -
A Probabilistic Approach to Crowdsourcing Pareto-Optimal Object Finding by Pairwise Comparisons
This is an extended study on crowdsourcing Pareto-Optimal Object Finding by Pairwise Comparisons. The prior study on the same topic demonstrate the framework and algorithms used to determine all the Pareto-Optimal objects ... -
Crowdsourcing for Decision Making with Analytic Hierarchy Process
Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is a Multiple-Criteria Decision-Making MCDM) technique devised by Thomas L. Saaty. In AHP, all the pairwise comparisons between criteria and alternatives in terms of each criterion are used ... -
A DEEP LEARNING BASED PIPELINE FOR METASTATIC BREAST CANCER CLASSIFICATION FROM WHOLE SLIDE IMAGES (WSI)
Pathology is a 150-year-old medical specialty that has seen a paradigm shift over the past few years with the advent of Digital Pathology. Digital Pathology is a very promising approach to diagnostic medicine to accomplish ... -
A Real-time Activity Recognition in a Congested Wireless Environment
(2022-08-16)**Please note that the full text is embargoed until 8/16/2024** ABSTRACT: This dissertation reports on how to achieve real-time activity recognition in a congested wireless environment. Recently, human activity recognition ... -
Graph Representation Learning for Heterogeneous Multimodal Biomedical Data
(2022-12-20)The emergence of high-throughput sequencing technology has generated a wealth of “multi-omics” data, capturing information about different types of biomolecules at multiple levels. Since large-scale genomics, transcriptomics, ... -
Intuitive Robot Integration via Virtual Reality Workspaces
(2022-11-30)As robots become increasingly prominent in diverse industrial settings, the desire for an accessible and reliable system has correspondingly increased. Yet, the task of meaningfully assessing the feasibility of introducing ... -
Human Behavior Modeling in Long Videos: Drowsiness Detection and Action Segmentation
(2022-05-09)"In this thesis we focus on two instances of human behavior modeling in long untrimmed videos: drowsiness detection, and action segmentation. In the first section, we focus on drowsiness detection. Specifically, we introduce ... -
LEARNING CAUSAL BOUNDS USING MARGINAL INDEPENDENCE INFORMATION WITH APPLICATIONS TO GENE EXPRESSION ANALYSIS
(2022-03-14)Discovering causal relations is a fundamental goal of science. Randomized controlled experiments were often considered to be the only reliable method for tackling this task. However, in recent years, various causal discovery ... -
REPRESENTATION AND STRATEGY LEARNING FOR VARIABLE-SIZE TREE TRANSFORMATION USING REINFORCEMENT LEARNING
(2021-08-12)Trees as acyclic graphs are ubiquitous in representing different context where they encode connectivity patterns at all scales of organization, from biological systems to social networks. Trees are powerful resources which ... -
MACHINE LEARNING WITH GRAPHS
(2021-05-09)In recent years, graph-based machine learning methods have attracted great attention because of their effectiveness and efficiency. Inspired by this trend, this thesis summarizes my research topics on machine learning ...