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Identity and Economy: Mining the Ring of Fire
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-28)When the price of oil fell in 2014, Canada’s economy suffered. Even now, two years later, companies continue to drop their prices to stay competitive, as the global supply of oil remains great without any corresponding ... -
Ideologies of Medellín's Miracle: A critique of architecture's new utopia
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-22)Once considered the most violent city in the world, the city of Medellín, Colombia has more recently received global notoriety as a model of architecture and urban planning for social development. This notoriety originates ... -
IDF Trends Study With MSC Weather Data Using Regression Analysis in Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-26)The Ministry of Transportation (MTO) uses Intensity Duration Frequency (IDF) information that was developed with Environment Canada weather information up to 1989 for various infrastructure designs. The IDF curves needed ... -
IF STONES COULD SPEAK Destruction, Preservation and Memory the case in Kosovo and Metohija
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-22)According to the International Center for Transitional Justice, 145 known churches and monasteries in the autonomous province of Kosovo and Metohija(KosMet)* were partially or completely damaged after the Kumanovo Agreement ... -
Ignition Delay of Non-Premixed Methane-Air Mixtures using Conditional Moment Closure (CMC)
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-28)Autoignition of non-premixed methane-air mixtures is investigated using first-order Conditional Moment closure (CMC). In CMC, scalar quantities are conditionally averaged with respect to a conserved scalar, usually the ... -
III-V semiconductor nanowire array avalanche photodiodes
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-03)Detecting single photons with high efficiency and timing resolution opens up new possibilities for various technologies such as light detection and ranging (LIDAR), long-distance secure communication, singlet oxygen detection ... -
Illumination and Noise-Based Scene Classification - Application to SAR Sea Ice Imagery
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-20)Spatial intensity variation introduced by illumination changes is a challenging problem for image segmentation and classification. Many techniques have been proposed which focus on removing this illumination variation by ... -
Image Analysis Applications of the Maximum Mean Discrepancy Distance Measure
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-23)The need to quantify distance between two groups of objects is prevalent throughout the signal processing world. The difference of group means computed using the Euclidean, or L2 distance, is one of the predominant distance ... -
Image and Video Coding/Transcoding: A Rate Distortion Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2008-02-05)Due to the lossy nature of image/video compression and the expensive bandwidth and computation resources in a multimedia system, one of the key design issues for image and video coding/transcoding is to optimize trade-off ... -
Image Area Reduction for Efficient Medical Image Retrieval
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-15)Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) has been one of the most active areas in medical image analysis in the last two decades because of the steadily increase in the number of digital images used. Efficient diagnosis and ... -
Image Information Distance Analysis and Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2014-04-15)Image similarity or distortion assessment is fundamental to a broad range of applications throughout the field of image processing and machine vision. These include image restoration, denoising, coding, communication, ... -
Image Models for Wavelet Domain Statistics
(University of Waterloo, 2005)Statistical models for the joint statistics of image pixels are of central importance in many image processing applications. However the high dimensionality stemming from large problem size and the long-range spatial ... -
Image Quality Assessment: Addressing the Data Shortage and Multi-Stage Distortion Challenges
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-25)Visual content constitutes the vast majority of the ever increasing global Internet traffic, thus highlighting the central role that it plays in our daily lives. The perceived quality of such content can be degraded due ... -
Image-Based Feature Tracking Algorithms for Real-Time Clad Height Detection in Laser Cladding
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-31)In laser cladding, a material, usually in the form of powder, is deposited on a substrate. Powder particles are intermingled with inert gas and fed by a powder feeder system on the substrate. Laser is employed to melt the ... -
Image-based spatio-temporal model of drug delivery in a heterogeneous vasculature of a solid tumor — Computational approach
(Elsevier, 2019-05)The solute transport distribution in a tumor is an important criterion in the evaluation of the cancer treatment efficacy. The fraction of killed cells after each treatment can quantify the therapeutic effect and plays as ... -
Image/Video Compression: Human and Computer Vision Perspectives
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-15)As we start a new decade, image and video compression should further improve to satisfy each of the human and computer visions. Human and computer visions have different perspectives on the perceived images and videos, ... -
Imaging of Thermal Propagation in Combustion of Al/CuO Core-Shell Nanothermite Film
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-22)Nanoenergetics have been a topic of great discussion over the past few decades due to their extraordinary combustive properties. In particular, heavy investment has been put into researching nanothermites due to the low ... -
Imagining Hope: Integrating Shelter and Services in Toronto’s Moss Park
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-15)The winter of 2018 was particularly harsh and its ramifications were evident in the vulnerable homeless populations around Toronto. There is a shortage of accommodations in shelters especially in freezing temperatures and ... -
Imitation Learning and Direct Perception for Autonomous Driving
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-15)This thesis presents two learning based approaches to solve the autonomous driving problem: end-to-end imitation learning and direct visual perception. Imitation learning uses expert demonstrations to build a policy that ... -
Imitation vs. Adaptation in Canadian Mosques: The Conflicts and Challenges of Purpose-Built and Repurposed Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-26)In Canada, the construction of Islamic mosques has been influenced by various cultural biases, historical interpretation, and a multitude of subtle contradictions which shape the identities of the different generations of ...