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Stimulus Temporal Coherence Strongly Influences Rapid Plasticity in Primary Auditory Cortex under Global Attention
(2013)
Temporal coherence of stimulus features is a key property of sounds that emanate from single source. Consequently, it is important to understand how it may influence the direction and extent of the rapid plasticity postulated ...
Analysis and synthesis of collective motion: from geometry to dynamics
(2011)
The subject of this dissertation is collective motion, the coordinated motion of two or more individuals, in three-dimensional space.
Inspired by the problems of understanding collective motion in nature and designing ...
FEATURE LEARNING AND ACTIVE LEARNING FOR IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT
(2014)
With the increasing popularity of mobile imaging devices, digital images have become an important vehicle for representing and communicating information. Unfortunately, digital images may be degraded at various stages of ...
Characterization of Nonlinear Waveguides for All-Optical Signal Processing
(2014)
This dissertation documents research of the optical properties of chip-based nonlinear waveguides to assess their suitability for all-optical processing in the telecommunications spectrum. Three related topics are presented: ...
Determination of Network Connectivity: Algorithms and Applications in Organ Systems
(2011)
In this dissertation, we develop methods to determine the existence and types of connections between network nodes when the available data are only states (or signals) of such nodes.
The proposed method determines the ...
Synergistic Configurable Ring Oscillator PUF: Design, Characterization, and Implementation
(2014)
Silicon Physical Unclonable Function (PUF) is a novel hardware primitive that uses the intrinsic variation of integrated circuit manufacturing process for various security applications. Ring oscillator PUF (RO PUF) is one ...
Fundamental Limits in Multimedia Forensics and Anti-forensics
(2015)
As the use of multimedia editing tools increases, people become questioning the authenticity of multimedia content. This is specially a big concern for authorities, such as law enforcement, news reporter and government, ...
SEMICONDUCTOR AND GLASS MICRO-RESONATORS
(2015)
In this thesis we have demonstrated the cascading of two photonic AND logic gates by using two symmetric semiconductor GaAs microring resonators. In addition, we have developed a new, low-cost method for fabricating glass ...
READ-OUT CIRCUITS FOR INTEGRATED SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE SENSORS
(2015)
Readout modules for vapor and liquid phase SAW sensors fabricated on piezoelectric films are typically configured as single or dual delay line oscillator loops. Mass loading of the sorbent film realized on the SAW device ...
DISTRIBUTED ESTIMATION AND STABILITY OF EVOLUTIONARY GAME DYNAMICS WITH APPLICATIONS TO STUDY OF ANIMAL MOTION
(2015)
In this dissertation, we consider three problems: in the first we investigate distributed state estimation of linear time-invariant (LTI) plants; in the second we study optimal remote state estimation of Markov processes; ...