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Description:: Visual localization is a critical capability for autonomous systems, enabling them to accuratelyestimate their position and orientation within an environment using visual data. This thesis focuses on achieving a robust and reliable visual localization on both local and global level to enhance localization performance in a wide range of environments....
Keyword:: Visual Odometry, Visual Localization, Visual Place Recognition, and Cross-View Geo-Localization
Subject:: Electrical engineering
Creator:: Zhao, Pengbo
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 05/31/2023
Date Created:: 2023-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16532 and etdadmin_upload_984400

Description:: While the entire silicon industry has been blooming under Moore’s Law for decades, conventional digital implementation is approaching the “stall” of Moore’s Law due to many physical design limitations. Technology innovation now is going to take a different direction. Given the increasing demand for emerging applications' computational capacity, it is...
Keyword:: computer architecture, mixed-signal time-domain computing, analog computing, machine learning , compute in memory (CIM), and image processing
Subject:: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering, and Engineering
Creator:: Chen, Zhengyu
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15414 and etdadmin_upload_780953

Description:: The study and design of machines that are able to analyze the auditory scene and organize sound into parts that are perceptually meaningful to humans is referred to as machine hearing. Such machines are expected to distinguish between different sound categories (e.g., speech, music, background noise), focus on a sound...
Keyword:: Audio Source Separation, Common Fate, Machine Hearing, Audio Signal Processing, Audio Classification, and Audio Representation
Subject:: Electrical engineering and Computer science
Creator:: Pishdadian, Fatemeh
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_780859 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15404

Description:: Convolutional neural networks have become a staple in computer vision and image processing tasks. The capacity for these networks to perform visual pattern recognition in a data-driven fashion has prompted explosive growth in a myriad of applications. That said, despite their popularity, there are still facets of these networks that...
Subject:: Electrical engineering
Creator:: Punjabi, Arjun Naresh
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 01/21/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_739005 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15062

Description:: Low-dimensional materials have emerged as a promising platform for ultrathin electronic and optoelectronic devices. The span of electronic properties covers the spectrum from metallic through small and medium bandgap semiconductors to large bandgap insulators, providing all the necessary components to fabricate a variety of devices. Compared to bulk-semiconductor based devices,...
Keyword:: Gaussian, self-aligned, spiking neuron, antiambipolar, low-dimensional materials, and van der Waals heterojunction
Subject:: Applied physics, Electrical engineering, and Materials Science
Creator:: Beck, Megan
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 04/29/2020
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14986 and etdadmin_upload_717678

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