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Virtual PCF: Improving VoIP over WLAN performance with legacy clients
(University of Waterloo, 2009-07-22)Abstract Voice over IP (VoIP) is one of the fastest growing applications on the Internet. Concurrently, 802.11 Wireless LANs (WLANs) have become ubiquitous in residential, enterprise, campus and public networks. Currently ... -
Virtual Reality Applications in Rehabilitation
(Springer, 2016-06-19)One of the most valuable applications of virtual reality (VR) is in the domain of rehabilitation. After brain injuries or diseases, many patients suffer from impaired physical and/or cognitive capabilities, such as ... -
The virtual squatter, homesteading in the electronic metropolis
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Virtual Staining of Photon Absorption Remote Sensing Histology Images: A Promising Approach for Label-Free Histological Imaging
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-26)Histology is a crucial diagnostic tool in medicine and biological research, providing valuable insights into tissue morphology and cellular structures. However, conventional histological staining methods are time-consuming. ... -
Virtue beyond morality, Nietzsche's ethical naturalism
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Virtue Ethics and Rational Disabilities: A Problem of Exclusion and the Need for Revised Standards
(University of Waterloo, 2011-10-05)When we develop accounts of the good life we inevitably need to work with simplified images of human beings so as to limit the ideas our account must grapple with. Yet, in the process of this simplification we often exclude ... -
Virtues of the Visible; Voluminous Vistas & Velocities
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-11)Peculiar velocities are the motions of objects in excess of that resulting from the expansion of the Universe. They arise from gravitational interactions, and as such, probe the underlying distribution of dark matter on ... -
Viscoelastic-Viscoplastic Model to Predict Creep in a Random Chopped Mat Thermoplastic Composite
(University of Waterloo, 2008-12-19)Random glass-mat thermoplastic (GMT) composites are used in automotive applications due to their mechanical properties and low processing cost. However, there is an inherent issue in that the thermoplastic matrices exhibit ... -
VisConductor: Affect-Varying Gestural Widgets for Animating Dynamic Data Visualization in Augmented Video Presentations
(University of Waterloo, 2023-12-12)To enhance presentations involving data in remote settings, we introduce VisConductor, an authoring and presentation tool that allows presenters to manipulate data visualizations overlaid on their webcam feed with hand ... -
Viscous Liquid Animation with Spatially Adaptive Grids
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-08)Viscous fluid behaviors are among the most complex yet familiar physical phenomena we encounter in everyday life. Much attention and investigation has been paid to the creation of visually realistic results, especially ... -
The Visibility Freeze-Tag Problem
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-25)In the Freeze-Tag Problem, we are given a set of robots at points inside some metric space. Initially, all the robots are frozen except one. That robot can awaken (or “unfreeze”) another robot by moving to its position, ... -
Vision Augmented State Estimation with Fault Tolerance
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-15)Obtaining accurate and reliable measurement data is really crucial for any vehicle system, especially if the system deals with maintaining safe operations of the vehicle. Conventional direct methods of obtaining such ... -
Vision-based Driver State Monitoring Using Deep Learning
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-20)Road accidents cause thousands of injuries and losses of lives every year, ranking among the top lifetime odds of death causes. More than 90% of the traffic accidents are caused by human errors [1], including sight ... -
Vision-Based Observation Models for Lower Limb 3D Tracking with a Moving Platform
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-23)Tracking and understanding human gait is an important step towards improving elderly mobility and safety. This thesis presents a vision-based tracking system that estimates the 3D pose of a wheeled walker user's lower ... -
Vision-based Self-Supervised Depth Perception and Motion Control for Mobile Robots
(University of Waterloo, 2022-07-18)The advances in robotics have enabled many different opportunities to deploy a mobile robot in various settings. However, many current mobile robots are equipped with a sensor suite with multiple types of sensors. This ... -
Vision-Inertial SLAM using Natural Features in Outdoor Environments
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is a recursive probabilistic inferencing process used for robot navigation when Global Positioning Systems (GPS) are unavailable. SLAM operates by building a map of the robot ... -
Visioning Diversity: Planning Vancouver's Multicultural Communities
(University of Waterloo, 2002)The roles and responsibilities of planners in managing culturally diverse cities are beginning to be articulated in the literature. "Visioning,"as planners have used it in recent years, has the potential to help realize ... -
Visioning in strategic planning, theory, practice and evaluation
(University of Waterloo, 1997) -
A visitor experience scale: historic sites and museums
(University of Waterloo, 2013-03-04)Since Pine and Gilmore (1999) proclaimed the arrival of the experience economy era, research on tourists’ experiences has become an area of growing interest among scholars and practitioners. Gaining knowledge of the ... -
Visitor Satisfaction at a Local Festival: An Importance-Performance Analysis of Oktoberfest
(University of Waterloo, 2014-03-31)The aim of this research was to provide a practical method for assessing visitor satisfaction at a local festival. It is crucial for festival management to monitor and evaluate visitor satisfaction in order to understand ...