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Verification of Pipelined Ciphers
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-29)The purpose of this thesis is to explore the formal verification technique of completion functions and equivalence checking by verifying two pipelined cryptographic circuits, KASUMI and WG ciphers. Most of current methods ... -
Versatile Deep Learning Forecasting Application with Metamorphic Quality Assurance
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-23)Accurate estimates of fresh produce (FP) yields and prices are crucial for having fair bidding prices by retailers along with informed asking prices by farmers, leading to the best prices for customers. To have accurate ... -
Vertical Handoff between 802.11 and 802.16 Wireless Access Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-22)Heterogeneous wireless networks will be dominant in the next-generation wireless networks with the integration of various wireless access networks. Wireless mesh networks will become to a key technology as an economically ... -
Vertical Semiconductor Nanowires: Engineering Light at Nanoscale
(University of Waterloo, 2016-12-01)Vertical semiconductor nanowires have gained considerable attention in the last decade for their attractive optical and electronic properties. Their high surface to volume ratio and their ability to confine charge carriers ... -
Vertical Thin Film Transistors for Large Area Electronics
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-29)The prospect of producing nanometer channel-length thin film transistors (TFTs) for active matrix addressed pixelated arrays opens up new high-performance applications in which the most amenable device topology is the ... -
Video Quality Assessment: Exploring the Impact of Frame Rate
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-01)Technology advancements in the past decades has led to an immense increase in data traffic over various networks. Videos constitute a major percentage of this traffic and their share is projected to increase at an accelerating ... -
Video See-Through Augmented Reality Application on a Mobile Computing Platform Using Position Based Visual POSE Estimation
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-28)A technique for real time object tracking in a mobile computing environment and its application to video see-through Augmented Reality (AR) has been designed, verified through simulation, and implemented and validated on ... -
Video-Based Object Detection in Security Monitoring System
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-28)Object detection technology has been widely used in many real world applications. With the development of the deep learning method, the accuracy and speed of object de tection method have been improved significantly, ... -
Virtual Assistant Design for Water Systems Operation
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-23)Water management systems such as wastewater treatment plants and water distributions systems are big systems which include a multitude of variables and performance indicators that drive the decision making process for ... -
Virtual Machine-Assisted Collaborative Junk Object Detection
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-18)Memory leak is unrecoverable software bug that causes performance degradation and re- liability issues to software applications. Although memory management systems exist in modern Object Oriented Language to reclaim unused ... -
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 ... -
Visual Attention for Robotic Cognition: A Biologically Inspired Probabilistic Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2010-06-18)The human being, the most magnificent autonomous entity in the universe, frequently takes the decision of `what to look at' in their day-to-day life without even realizing the complexities of the underlying process. When ... -
Visual Attention-based Small Screen Adaptation for H.264 Videos
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-29)We develop a framework that uses visual attention analysis combined with temporal coherence to detect the attended region from a H.264 video bitstream, and display it on a small screen. A visual attention module based ... -
Visual Content Characterization Based on Encoding Rate-Distortion Analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2023-02-27)Visual content characterization is a fundamentally important but under exploited step in dataset construction, which is essential in solving many image processing and computer vision problems. In the era of machine learning, ... -
Viterbi Decoding for OFDM systems operating in narrow band interference
(University of Waterloo, 2009-10-05)Our main objective in this thesis is to study the effect of narrow band interference on OFDM systems operating in the 2.4 Ghz ISM band and identify ways to improve upon existing techniques to deal with them. We first ... -
Voice Capacity and Data Response Time in Cognitive Radio Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-22)The growing interest towards wireless communication services over the recent years has increased the demand for radio spectrum. Inefficient spectrum management together with the scarcity of the radio spectrum is a limiting ... -
Voltage Sag Ride-Through and Harmonics Mitigation for Adjustable Speed Drives using Dual-Functional Hardware
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Great portion of today's industry are <em>Adjustable Speed Drives</em> (<em>ASD's</em>) operated in order to fulfill certain processes. When these processes are critical ones or sensitive to voltage disturbances, that ... -
Voltage Stability Analysis with High Distributed Generation (DG) Penetration
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-14)Interest in Distributed Generation (DG) in power system networks has been growing rapidly. This increase can be explained by factors such as environmental concerns, the restructuring of electricity businesses, and the ... -
Voting-Based Consensus of Data Partitions
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-29)Over the past few years, there has been a renewed interest in the consensus problem for ensembles of partitions. Recent work is primarily motivated by the developments in the area of combining multiple supervised learners. ... -
vProfile: Voltage-Based Sender Identification on Controller Area Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-25)Modern vehicles are becoming more accessible targets for cyberattacks due to the proliferation of wireless communication channels. The intra-vehicle Controller Area Network (CAN) bus lacks sender authentication, exposing ...