Browsing Theses by Subject "synthetic data"

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An Inverse Finite Element Approach for Identifying Forces in Biological Tissues

Cranston, Graham (University of Waterloo, 2009-10-01)

For centuries physicians, scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and many others have been asking: 'what are the forces that drive tissues in an embryo to their final geometric forms?' At the tissue and whole embryo level, ...
Local and Cooperative Autonomous Vehicle Perception from Synthetic Datasets

Hurl, Braden (University of Waterloo, 2019-09-23)

The purpose of this work is to increase the performance of autonomous vehicle 3D object detection using synthetic data. This work introduces the Precise Synthetic Image and LiDAR (PreSIL) dataset for autonomous vehicle ...
Venture Capital Investment under Private Information

Narayanan, Meyyappan (University of Waterloo, 2011-06-21)

Many venture capitalists (VCs) use the “VC method” of valuation where they use judgment to estimate a probability of successful exit while determining the ownership share to demand in exchange for investing in a venture. ...