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Let there be light... Characterizing the Effects of Adverse Lighting on Semantic Segmentation of Wound Images and Mitigation using a Deep Retinex Model
Keyword:
Dataset
,
Deep Learning
,
Lighting
,
Retinex Theory
,
Wounds
, and
Semantic Segmentation
Creator:
Iyer, Akshay B.
Advisor:
Agu, Emmanuel O.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-05-14
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Robotics Engineering
Nursing Robot Teleoperation via Motion Mapping Interfaces
Keyword:
Nursing Robots
,
Robot Teleoperation
, and
Human Robot Interaction
Creator:
Unni Krishnan, Achyuthan
Advisor:
Li, Zhi
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-08-16
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Mechanical Engineering
Automated Fact Extraction and Verification for Detecting False Information
Keyword:
Fact verification
and
Natural Language Processing
Creator:
Subramanian, Shyam
Advisor:
Lee, Kyumin
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-08-10
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Data Science
Live Performance and Emotional Analysis of MathSpring Intelligent Tutor System Students
Keyword:
Facial Expression Predictor
,
Facial Expression
,
Emotion Analysis
,
MathSpring
, and
Live Dashboard
Creator:
Gupta, Ankit
Advisor:
Whitehill, Jacob Richard
and
Arroyo, Ivon
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-05-12
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Computer Science
The Influence of Automated Narrative Feedback on Student-Designed Gamified Research
Creator:
Mahajan, Shruti P.
Advisor:
Smith, Gillian Margaret
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-12-11
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Computer Science
Novel Bidirectional Elastic Nonlinear Element (BENE) for Robotic Antagonistic Actuation
Creator:
Florez-Castillo, Juan-Diego
Advisor:
Popovic, Marko B.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-08-13
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Robotics Engineering
Wu: A Cultural Export Game with Dynamic Difficulty
Keyword:
Unity engine
Creator:
Yang, Yunjie
Advisor:
Moriarty, Brian J.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-05-15
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Interactive Media & Game Development
Learning Through Games: How Math Games Can Enhance Education
Keyword:
math education
Creator:
Smith, Hannah
Advisor:
Ottmar, Erin R
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-05-11
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Learning Sciences & Technologies
Opto-mechanical Characterization Methods to Understand Physical and Mechanical Properties of Bioengineered Tissue
Keyword:
Noninvasive Optical Metrology
,
Characterization of Tissues
,
Big Data
,
Bioengineered Tissues
, and
Force-Displacements Measurements
Creator:
Castro Carrion, Westly
Advisor:
Furlong-Vazquez, Cosme
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-12-14
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Mechanical Engineering
Eight Trigrams: A level of 3D puzzle game for cultural transmission
Keyword:
video games
Creator:
Chen, Tianze
Advisor:
Sheldon, Charles Lee
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-05-15
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Interactive Media & Game Development
Bluetooth Packet Capture and Analysis Using Wireless Product Testbed
Creator:
Nguyen, Son
Advisor:
Wyglinski, Alexander
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-12-08
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Progress Towards a Higher Throughput Uniaxial Stretch Platform with Tunable Stiffness for Mechanobiology Experiments
Creator:
Sutter, Leo B.
Advisor:
Billiar, Kristen
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-08-10
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Biomedical Engineering
A Comparison of Automatic versus Manual World Adjustment for Network Game Latency Compensation
Keyword:
computer networks
,
world alteration
,
geometric compensation
, and
latency compensation
Creator:
Salay, Robert W.
Advisor:
Claypool, Mark L.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-08-13
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Interactive Media & Game Development
Autonomous Vision-based Control for Within-hand Manipulation using Variable Friction Fingers
Creator:
Caleb Chanthi Raj, Joshua Amrith Raj
Advisor:
Calli, Berk
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-08-14
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Robotics Engineering
p5.Polar - Programming For Geometric Patterns
Keyword:
graphics
,
games
,
online learning
,
programming
,
education
, and
creative coding
Creator:
Peng, Liz Shihching
Advisor:
Roberts, Charles Davis
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-05-18
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Interactive Media & Game Development
Monte Carlo Simulation of High Energy Neutrino Event Transport in Cerenkov Detectors
Keyword:
neutrino physics
Creator:
Jones, Mykalin Ann Docker
Advisor:
Medich, David Christopher
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-01-29
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Interdisciplinary & Global Studies
Shared Complex Event Trend Aggregation
Keyword:
multi-query optimization
,
incremental aggregation
,
event trend
, and
complex event processing
Creator:
Rozet, Allison M.
Advisor:
Rundensteiner, Elke A.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-05-07
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Data Science
Compact and Low-Cost Acoustic-Resolution Photoacoustic Microscopy Based on Delta Configuration Actuator
Keyword:
Medical Robotics
,
Medical Imaging
,
Photoacoustic Imaging
, and
Delta Actuation
Creator:
Gao, Shang
Advisor:
Zhang, Haichong
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-05-15
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Robotics Engineering
A New Class of Elliptically Contoured Random Fields and Its Stochastic Orderings
Creator:
Chen, Boming
Advisor:
Peiris, Buddika
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-12-18
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Mathematical Sciences
Patterns of Viral Signal Peptide Sequences and their Corresponding Hosts
Keyword:
Virus
,
Viral-host evolution
,
Phylogeny
, and
Signal peptides
Creator:
Le, Ann-Elizabeth V.
Advisor:
Korkin, Dmitry
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-09-20
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
Single-Use Servers: A Generalized Design for Eliminating the Confused Deputy Problem in Networked Services
Keyword:
user isolation
,
containerization
,
confused deputy
,
network security
, and
privilege escalation
Creator:
Lanson, Julian P.
Advisor:
Shue, Craig A.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-05-11
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Computer Science
Failure Mechanisms of Solid-State Li-ion Electrolytes
Creator:
Ogunfunmi, Tofunmi
Advisor:
Soboyejo, Winston
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-08-21
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Materials Science & Engineering
Robotic Construction Using Intelligent Scaffolding
Keyword:
Robot construction
,
Navigable structure
,
Collective robot construction
,
Swarm
,
Stigmergy
, and
Bio-inspired
Creator:
Enyedy, Albert J.
Advisor:
Pinciroli, Carlo
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-05-18
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Robotics Engineering
Solar Signals – Possible correlations between the 11-Year Solar Sunspot Cycle and Earthquakes on Earth using the Fourier Transform
Keyword:
solar cycle
,
solar weather
,
solar cycle slope
,
sunspots
,
earthquakes
, and
Fourier Transform
Creator:
Tyree, Elizabeth C.
Advisor:
Iannacchione, Germano S.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-08-06
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Physics
A JavaScript Library for Hybrid Physical/Digital Board Games
Keyword:
tablet games
Creator:
Tisdelle, Drew D.
Advisor:
Moriarty, Brian J.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-05-11
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Interactive Media & Game Development
Model Analysis of Cellobiose Solubility in Organic Solvents and Water
Keyword:
A-UNIFAC
,
UNIFAC
,
Linear free energy relationship
,
Hansen solubility parameters
,
cellobiose
, and
solubility
Creator:
Heng, Joseph O.
Advisor:
Timko, Michael T.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-05-18
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Chemical Engineering
Towards Automatically Generating Playable Summaries
Keyword:
mario
,
automatic summarization
,
procedural content generation
, and
summarization
Creator:
Bhat, Varun P.
Advisor:
Claypool, Mark L.
and
Smith, Gillian Margaret
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-08-14
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Interactive Media & Game Development
MCNP Study of Multi-Hole Collimation Grids for Biological Neutron Radiography
Keyword:
Biological Neutron Radiography
,
Modulation Transfer Function
,
Neutron Imaging
, and
Collimation Grids
Creator:
Waterman, Shane W.
Advisor:
Medich, David Christopher
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-10-11
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Physics
Development of an Automation Platform for Fabric Manipulation and Assembly
Creator:
Briggs, Calum R.
Advisor:
Popovic, Marko B.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-08-16
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Robotics Engineering
Analysis of the Relationship Between Co-localization of Proteins in Protein Assemblies and Protein Proximity in 3-D Space
Creator:
Xie, Longsheng
Advisor:
Korkin, Dmitry
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-05-18
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
Membraneless Water Purification via diffusiophoresis
Keyword:
Water Quality
,
CO2 Dissociation
,
Particle separation
,
COMSOL Simulation
,
UV Spectrometer
, and
Teflon AF-2400
Creator:
Lyu, Shicheng
Advisor:
Teixeira, Andrew R
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-05-16
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Chemical Engineering
A serious game: Warped Reality
Keyword:
Serious Game
,
Leap Motion Controller
, and
Virtual Reality
Creator:
Li, Yichen
Advisor:
O'Donnell, Dean Michael
and
Chery, Farley James
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-05-15
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Interactive Media & Game Development
Rapid prototyping of fiber-optic based micro-force sensors by two-photon polymerization
Keyword:
hearing mechanics
,
rapid prototyping
,
micro-sensors
,
fiber-optics
, and
two-photon polymerization
Creator:
Ruiz-Cadalso, Daniel A.
Advisor:
Furlong-Vazquez, Cosme
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-08-19
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Mechanical Engineering
Using Research Driven Design to Reimagine Systems of Gender in Final Fantasy XIV
Keyword:
Final Fantasy XIV
,
Gender
,
Game studies
,
Avatar Creation Tools
, and
Queer studies
Creator:
Bunyea, Leo Ryan
Advisor:
Smith, Gillian Margaret
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-05-18
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Interactive Media & Game Development
Anomaly Detection with Advanced Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction
Keyword:
Anomaly Detection
,
Dimensionality Reduction
,
Manifold Learning
, and
Unsupervised Learning
Creator:
Beach, David J.
Advisor:
Paffenroth, Randy Clinton
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-05-07
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Data Science
Unsupervised Semantic Segmentation through Cross-Instance Representation Similarity
Keyword:
neural networks
Creator:
Bishop, Griffin R.
Advisor:
Whitehill, Jacob Richard
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-05-13
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Computer Science
Control Barrier Functions for Safe CPS Under Sensor Faults and Attacks
Keyword:
Adversarial Attacks
,
Control Barrier Functions
,
Cyber-Physical Systems
,
FT-CBFs
, and
Security in CPS
Creator:
Zhang, Hongchao
Advisor:
Clark, Andrew
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-07-22
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Convergence of a Numerical Method for Reconstructing Faults from Boundary Measurements
Keyword:
reconstruction method
Creator:
Jiang, Yulong
Advisor:
Volkov, Darko
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-05-17
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Mathematical Sciences
Application of Function Matching Techniques to Determine Libraries in Embedded Firmware
Creator:
Perera, Heshan A.
Advisor:
DeCarli, Lorenzo
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-12-07
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Computer Science
Developing Automated Audio Assessment Tools for a Chinese Language Course
Keyword:
Audio Data
,
Natural Language Processing
,
Machine Learning
,
Automated Grading
, and
Deep Learning
Creator:
Varatharaj, Ashvini
Advisor:
Heffernan, Neil
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-08-04
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Computer Science
Improving Model Performance with Robust PCA
Keyword:
Robust PCA
,
Projectors
,
Cyber Security
,
PCA
,
Feature Engineering
, and
Machine Learning
Creator:
Bennett, Marissa A.
Advisor:
Paffenroth, Randy Clinton
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-05-15
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Computer Science
Chemical Recycling of Poly(ethylene terephthalate): Effects of Mechanical Stress and Radiation Damage on Hydrolysis
Keyword:
plastic waste
Creator:
Zhang, Tongjie
Advisor:
Timko, Michael T.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-05-10
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Chemical Engineering
Sleep Duration and Quality Assessment using Smartphones
Creator:
Peng, Yuxiao
Advisor:
Agu, Emmanuel O.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-05-18
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
Variational Open Set Recognition
Keyword:
Extreme Value Theory
,
Varriational Autoencoder
, and
Open Set Classification
Creator:
Buquicchio, Luke J.
Advisor:
Agu, Emmanuel O.
and
Rundensteiner, Elke A.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-05-08
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Data Science
Trans-Gravitational Robot (TGR) with Linear and Angular Momentum Control
Keyword:
Microgravity
,
Space Robot
,
Momentum Control
,
Quadruped Robot
,
Center of Mass Control
, and
Obstacle Avoidance
Creator:
Sanchez, Felix A.
Advisor:
Popovic, Marko B.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-08-12
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Robotics Engineering
Design, Development and Characterization of a Wrap Spring Clutch/Brake Mechanism as a Knee Joint for a Hybrid Exoskeleton
Keyword:
Trade Study Approach
,
Testing and Open Sourced
,
Biomechanics
,
Exoskeleton Knee Joint
,
Analytical Based Design
, and
Wrap Spring Clutch/Brake Mechanism
Creator:
Subra Mani, Vishnu Aishwaryan
Advisor:
Fischer, Gregory S.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-05-16
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Mechanical Engineering
A Serious Game: Warped Reality
Keyword:
Virtual Reality
,
Leap Motion Controller
, and
Serious Game
Creator:
Hao, Haichen
Advisor:
O'Donnell, Dean Michael
and
Chery, Farley James
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-06-29
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Interactive Media & Game Development
Flame Perception APP: Enabling Fire Engineers and Researchers to Understand and Analyze Flame Data
Keyword:
fiire
,
detection
, and
web application
Creator:
Wang, Meijie
Advisor:
Farahani Farmahini, Hamed
and
Harrison, Lane T.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-08-13
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Interactive Media & Game Development
Motion Segmentation for Autonomous Robots Using 3D Point Cloud Data
Keyword:
motion segmentation
,
LIDAR
,
3D reconstruction
,
autonomous vehicles
, and
3D point cloud
Creator:
Kulkarni, Amey S.
Advisor:
Huang, Xinming
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-05-13
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Robotics Engineering
Towards Automated Suturing of Soft Tissue: Automating Suturing Hand-off Task for da Vinci Research Kit Arm using Reinforcement Learning
Keyword:
Automated Suturing
,
Reinforcement Learning
,
Medical and Surgical Applications
,
Machine Learning and Adaptation
,
Cooperation and Collaboration in Human-Robot Teams
, and
da Vinci Research Kit
Creator:
Varier, Vignesh Manoj
Advisor:
Fischer, Gregory S.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-05-14
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Robotics Engineering
The effect of prompted self-revision on student performance in the context of open-ended problems using Randomized Control Trials
Keyword:
student learning
Creator:
Vinayakumar, Meghana Kasal
Advisor:
Heffernan, Neil
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-05-15
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Computer Science
Wu: A Cultural Export Game with Dynamic Difficulty
Keyword:
Wuxia
,
Dynamic difficulty
,
Game
, and
Chinese Culture
Creator:
Li, Jiayi
Advisor:
Moriarty, Brian J.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-05-15
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Interactive Media & Game Development
Development of an Open Source Quadrupedal Robot Platform for Education: SmallKat
Keyword:
Dynamics
,
Quadruped
,
Open Source
, and
Education
Creator:
Bisland, Keion
Advisor:
Zhang, Haichong
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-05-17
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Robotics Engineering
Alloy-Guided Verification of Cooperative Autonomous Driving Behavior
Keyword:
Formal verification
,
Alloy
,
Formal modeling
, and
Cooperative autonomous driving (CAD)
Creator:
VanValkenburg, MaryAnn E.
Advisor:
Dougherty, Daniel J.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-05-18
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Computer Science
SIFT: A Deep Network for Irregularly-Sampled Multivariate Time Series
Keyword:
deep learning
and
time series
Creator:
Perucic, Aleksa
Advisor:
Rundensteiner, Elke A.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-12-11
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Computer Science
Towards Better Kernel and Network Monitoring of Software Actions
Keyword:
Containerization
,
Security monitoring
, and
Software-defined networking
Creator:
Lei, Yunsen
Advisor:
Shue, Craig A.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-05-15
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Computer Science
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