• Imperceptible Structured Light Projection Mapping for Augmented Reality 

  Cole, Avery

  A novel method is proposed to imperceptibly embed structured light patterns in projected content and decode them to extract a real time range image stream suitable for dynamic projection mapping applications. A commercially ...

• Optimal payoff to ensure opacity in Discrete-Event Systems 

  Abedi Khouzani, Zahra

  Opacity is a property of systems which guarantees that an outside observer cannot distinguish some behaviour of the system (secrets) from other behaviours (non-secrets). Many companies and government agencies like to make ...

• Efficient Structured Light Pattern Using Inverse Rectification 

  Qiu, Yubo

  This thesis presents inverse rectification, a novel method for establishing correspondence in depth estimation. The rectifying homography of the projector-camera pair is used to warp a pattern of vertical dash features. ...

• Procedures to Analyze and Design Decentralized, Distributed Sensor Networks for Change Detection 

  Quarisa, Matthew

  The emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) has reinvigorated interest into the distributed quickest change detection problem within wireless sensor networks. Although a number of system designs addressing this problem ...

• Narrowband jamming mitigation in vector-based GPS software defined receiver 

  ElGhamrawy, Haidy

  The last decade has witnessed a growing demand for reliable, continuous and accurate positioning and navigation with the growth of a wide range of new applications that rely predominately on Global Navigation Satellite ...

• High-Throughput Dense Wireless Networks in Unlicensed Spectrum 

  Oni, Phillip

  Dense deployment of wireless local area networks (WLANs) will support the prolific data traffic in future wireless networks beyond fifth generation (B5G), either as small cells for cellular data offloading or last-miles ...

• BitDrones: Design of a Tangible Drone Swarm as a Programmable Matter Interface 

  Rubens, Calvin

  This thesis details the design and functionality of BitDrones, a programmable matter interface (PMI) composed of micro cuboid drones. Each self-levitating BitDrone represented a tangible voxel and possessed four degrees ...

• Analysis, Design & Control of Low-Q LLC DC-DC Resonant Converter for Wide Input Voltage and Load Range Applications 

  Awasthi, Abhishek

  Constant frequency LLC converters reported in literature guarantees optimal efficiency only at nominal operating conditions and lose zero voltage switching (ZVS) at reduced load and high-end of the input voltage range. ...

• Fabrication and Optimization of Organic FET and Organic Electrolyte Gated FET Devices for Applications as Label-free Biosensors 

  Massey, Roslyn

  Organic Thin-Film Transistors are carbon-based semiconductor devices. Their simple fabrication makes them an ideal candidate for disposable, wearable technologies; an implementation being aptamer-based biosensors. This ...

• Analysis of Relaxed User Orthogonality for Wireless Multi-user MIMO Downlink Transmission 

  Clarke, Jordan

  Efficient resource allocation at the physical layer of wireless communication systems is closely linked to performance. Time and space are examples of such resources. In a densely-deployed multi-antenna, multi-user wireless ...

• A Smart Agent Framework for Personalized Service Composition 

  Zhao, Yu

  End-users face a massive amount of services when selecting and composing the desired services to meet their personal preferences. For example, people frequently use the Internet to perform on-line activities (e.g., on-line ...

• Application-specific parsing of text-based network protocols 

  Salloum, Mohammad

  Application-specific parsing can be used to extract application data presented in a format that is customized to a particular application. Effective parsing of application data found in network traffic sets a solid ground ...

• Optimization of a Generated Intrusion Detection System 

  Lavorato, Kyle

  As technology continues to evolve at a rapid pace, the opportunities for malicious attacks and vulnerabilities grows equally. Constant monitoring of networks is required to prevent attacks, even in networks without any ...

• Performance analysis of attack-resistant trust computation schemes in multi-hop vehicular ad-hoc networks 

  Deng, Fuyang

  With the development of the autopilot technology, the autonomous vehicles mainly rely on the in-car cameras to monitor the surrounding environments. A wider view will make the autonomous vehicles safer while driving. In ...

• Dielectric Resonator Antenna on Printed Circuit Board 

  Lan, Ruilin

  With the increased demand for high efficiency wireless communication systems, there is a requirement to develop the antenna systems that are effective and dependable. Instead of a traditional metallic antenna, a dielectric ...

• Microwave Overlay Capacitor Fabrication on Printed Circuit Boards 

  Liu, Bicheng

  A technique for making varactors in the form of parallel plate overlay capacitors, using barium strontium titanate (BST): a ferroelectric, polymer composite thick film, has been developed in this work. BST was selected due ...

• Implications of Fiber Nonlinearities on Coherent Optical Fiber Communications 

  Kashi, Aazar

  A primary objective of optical system design is to satisfy the ever-increasing capacity demand for communication services. Fulfilling this target by increasing the cardinality of modulation formats is at the expense of a ...

• Integration of GNSS Precise Point Positioning and Inertial Technologies for Land Vehicle Navigation 

  ElSheikh, Mohamed

  The last decade has witnessed a growing demand for precise positioning in many applications such as autonomous car navigation and precision agriculture. Precise positioning can be obtained from the global navigation satellite ...

• Advanced digital modulation formats for optical coherent transmission systems 

  Ahmed, Ahmed

  Field modulation with coherent detection leverages the use of optical channel bandwidth and allows mitigating transmission impairments by exploiting the two quadrature components of the optical carrier and providing a ...

• Imperceptible Pattern Embedding: Structured Light Steganography For Augmented Reality Applications 

  Maquignaz, Ian

  In this work, we describe a novel PROCAM sensor which uses steganographic techniques to embed imperceptible patterns in structured light, allowing a projector to function both as a versatile display device and a sensor for ...

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