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- Space Eugene Lawler, 1960-1961.
- Creator
- Florida Atlantic University
- Date Issued
- 1960.
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/fhp/FA00000117.pdf
- Subject Headings
- Florida Atlantic University History, Florida Atlantic University Archives
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Space, place, and identity in Yevgeny Zamyatin's We and J.G. Ballard's The Drowned World.
- Creator
- Mandell, Megan., College for Design and Social Inquiry, School of Public Administration
- Abstract/Description
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Intimate spaces play a key role in the development of human identity, constructing identity through an internalized experience of the house itself. Building on Bachelard's theories in The Poetics of Space, I argue that characters in Yevgeny Zamyatin's We and J.G. Ballard's The Drowned World gain a new awareness of self after experiencing nature as a substitute for the house. The emergence of a new identity occurs because nature offers protection from the forces that inhibit both D-503 and...
Show moreIntimate spaces play a key role in the development of human identity, constructing identity through an internalized experience of the house itself. Building on Bachelard's theories in The Poetics of Space, I argue that characters in Yevgeny Zamyatin's We and J.G. Ballard's The Drowned World gain a new awareness of self after experiencing nature as a substitute for the house. The emergence of a new identity occurs because nature offers protection from the forces that inhibit both D-503 and Keran's individual growth ; it offers the safety of the house that neither character is allowed in a private home : D-503 because of the panoptic space of the One state and Kerans due to the nature of the changing circumstances of the environment and his own biology that force him to accept his role as a "new" human and the jungle as "home".
Show less - Date Issued
- 2013
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3362559
- Subject Headings
- Criticism and interpretation, Criticism and interpretation, Gender identity in literature, Nature in literature, Dystopias, Totalitarianism
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- SPACE-TIME GRAPH PATH PLANNING FOR UAS TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS.
- Creator
- Papa, Rafael, Cardei, Mihaela, Cardei, Ionut, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, College of Engineering and Computer Science
- Abstract/Description
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The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology has evolved considerably in recent years and the global demand for package delivery is expected to grow even more during COVID-19 and the social distance era. The low cost of acquisition, payload capacity, maneuverability, and the ability to y at low-altitude with a very low cost of operation, make UAVs a perfect fit to revolutionize the payload transportation of small items. The large-scale adoption of drone package delivery in high-density urban...
Show moreThe unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology has evolved considerably in recent years and the global demand for package delivery is expected to grow even more during COVID-19 and the social distance era. The low cost of acquisition, payload capacity, maneuverability, and the ability to y at low-altitude with a very low cost of operation, make UAVs a perfect fit to revolutionize the payload transportation of small items. The large-scale adoption of drone package delivery in high-density urban areas can be challenging and the Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) operators must ensure safety, security, efficiency and equity of the airspace system. In order to address some of these challenges, FAA and NASA have developed a new architecture that will support a set of services to enable cooperative management of low-altitude operations between UAS operators. The architecture is still in its conceptual stage and designing a mechanism that ensures the fair distribution of the available airspace to commercial applications has become increasingly important. Considering that, the path planning is one of the most important problems to be explored. The objective is not only to find an optimal and shortest path but also to provide a collision-free environment to the UAVs. Taking into consideration all these important aspects and others such as serving on-demand requests, flight duration limitation due to energy constraints, maintaining the safety distance to avoid collisions, and using warehouses as starting and ending points in parcel delivery, this dissertation proposes: (i) an energy-constrained scheduling mechanism using a multi-source A* algorithm variant, and (ii) a generalized path planning mechanism using a space-time graph with multi-source multi-destination BFS generalization to ensure pre-flight UAV collision-free trajectories. This dissertation also uses the generalized path planning mechanism to solve the energy-constrained drone delivery problem. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithms are computationally efficient and scalable with the number of requests and graph size.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2021
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013861
- Subject Headings
- Unmanned aerial vehicles, Drone aircraft, Space and time
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Spain and the People's front.
- Creator
- Dimitrov, Georgi
- Date Issued
- 1937
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/DT/242574
- Subject Headings
- Communism --Spain., Spain --History --Civil War, 1936-1939.
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Spain defends democracy.
- Creator
- Gannes, Harry
- Date Issued
- 1936
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/DT/222256
- Subject Headings
- Spain --History --Civil War,1936-1939.
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Spain's democracy talks to America.
- Creator
- Ward, Harry Frederick, MacLeod, A. A.
- Date Issued
- 1936
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3170990
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Spain's struggle against anarchism and communism.
- Creator
- Diez, Genadius
- Date Issued
- 1938
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3174917
- Subject Headings
- Anarchism and anarchists -- Spain., Communism -- Spain.
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Spain: July 19, 1936 – July 19, 1937.
- Creator
- Souchy, Agustin
- Abstract/Description
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This item is part of the Political & Rights Issues & Social Movements (PRISM) digital collection, a collaborative initiative between Florida Atlantic University and University of Central Florida in the Publication of Archival, Library & Museum Materials (PALMM).
- Date Issued
- 1930
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00002609
- Subject Headings
- Spain -- History -- Civil War
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Spanish accented English: Pronunciation accuracy and factors affecting L2 acquisition.
- Creator
- Donadio, Antonella., Florida Atlantic University, Trammell, Robert L.
- Abstract/Description
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This study examines the English pronunciation of 20 native speakers of Spanish of the Americas who have been living in the United States for a period ranging from 1 to 37 years. The 20 participants were divided into three groups according to their age of arrival and length of residence in the United States. The subjects recorded 22 sentences which contained notorious interference features such as the lax vowels /I, U, ∧, ae/, the distinctions between /c-s/, /s-z/, /theta-t/ and between /b d g...
Show moreThis study examines the English pronunciation of 20 native speakers of Spanish of the Americas who have been living in the United States for a period ranging from 1 to 37 years. The 20 participants were divided into three groups according to their age of arrival and length of residence in the United States. The subjects recorded 22 sentences which contained notorious interference features such as the lax vowels /I, U, ∧, ae/, the distinctions between /c-s/, /s-z/, /theta-t/ and between /b d g/ versus Spanish [beta th gamma]. The purpose of this study was to examine the factors of age of learning, length of residence, amount of L2 use, amount of English instruction, and gender and their significance for the pronunciation accuracy in English.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2002
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12931
- Subject Headings
- English language--Pronunciation by foreign speakers, Second language acquisition
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The Spanish crown against Pedro de Alvarado: The 1529 inquiry.
- Creator
- Palomo, Oscar Rene., Florida Atlantic University, Schwaller, John F.
- Abstract/Description
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In 1529, in the course of the trial conducted against Pedro de Alvarado by the Court of Appeals (Audiencia) of Mexico, many details of his misdeeds during the conquests of Mexico and Guatemala came to light. This thesis applies the principles of modern abnormal psychology to make a detailed examination of several of the charges brought against Alvarado, such as his unauthorized use of the habit of Santiago, his behavior during the massacre at Tlatelolco and the flight from Mexico as well as...
Show moreIn 1529, in the course of the trial conducted against Pedro de Alvarado by the Court of Appeals (Audiencia) of Mexico, many details of his misdeeds during the conquests of Mexico and Guatemala came to light. This thesis applies the principles of modern abnormal psychology to make a detailed examination of several of the charges brought against Alvarado, such as his unauthorized use of the habit of Santiago, his behavior during the massacre at Tlatelolco and the flight from Mexico as well as in the course of the conquests of Tututepec and Utatlan. The text of the 1529 Inquiry is compared with the contemporary accounts of Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Hernan Cortes, Francisco Lopez de Gomara, and Bernardino de Sahagun to arrive at a better understanding of the events under consideration.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1989
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14568
- Subject Headings
- Alvarado, Pedro de,--1485?-1541, Mexico--History--To 1810
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Spanish Fishing Village.
- Creator
- Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00011513
- Subject Headings
- Pratt, Theodore -- 1901-1969
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Spanish Language Learning as a Determinant of Knowledge of Hispanic Culture in Secondary Schools.
- Creator
- Balado, Carl R., Mealor, David J., Florida Atlantic University
- Abstract/Description
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The purpose of the study was to determine if the learning of the Spanish language is a determinant of knowledge of Hispanic culture in secondary schools. The consulted literature provided a dichotomy of opinion regarding the generally accepted statement that foreign language instruction does automatically afford students an opportunity to become aware of the cultural aspects of the targeted group in comparison to students who had never studied a foreign language. However, the literature also...
Show moreThe purpose of the study was to determine if the learning of the Spanish language is a determinant of knowledge of Hispanic culture in secondary schools. The consulted literature provided a dichotomy of opinion regarding the generally accepted statement that foreign language instruction does automatically afford students an opportunity to become aware of the cultural aspects of the targeted group in comparison to students who had never studied a foreign language. However, the literature also indicated that this assumption has not been substantiated by research. A total of 408 students (204 Spanish language students and 204 non-Spanish language students) from eight high schools in Brevard County, Florida, were selected to participate in the study. Half of these students had attended a minimum of two years and a maximum of three years of Spanish language classes. There was no attempt to control for sex, race, age, socio-economic status or measured intelligence. Since an appropriate commercial instrument to measure the intended goal was not located, the writer designed a data collection instrument. The instrument was validated by standard statistical procedure. The researcher found that no significant difference in knowledge of Hispanic culture existed between students in Spanish language classes and students in non-Spanish language classes. However, a significant difference did exist in knowledge of Hispanic culture between Spanish II and Spanish III students. Students in Spanish III language classes scored consistently higher than students in Spanish II language classes. It was also evident that when students in Spanish II were parcelled out and Spanish III students' performance on the test was compared with non-Spanish language students there was a significant difference in favor of Spanish III language students. Recommendations that a careful analysis of the Spanish language curriculum be undertaken and that there be developed and implemented cultural component objectives starting with the Spanish I course were among those growing out of the study.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1984
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000647
- Subject Headings
- Spanish language, Civilization, Hispanic--Social life and customs, Education, Secondary
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- THE SPANISH RIVER COMPLEX: ARCHAEOLOGICAL SETTLEMENT PATTERNING IN THE EASTERN OKEECHOBEE SUB-AREA, FLORIDA.
- Creator
- FUREY, JOHN F. JR., Florida Atlantic University, Ferguson, Leland G., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
- Abstract/Description
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Through controlled stratigraphic excavations, surface collections and published reports, a coastal Belle Glade settlement pattern and cultural complex is reconstructed. This site was continually occupied for a period of about 1,000 years. A population increase and an increase in socio-political complexity coincides with a change in the subsistence base at this complex during the Glades I period. This same economic change is noted in many middens along the Florida east coast and is believed to...
Show moreThrough controlled stratigraphic excavations, surface collections and published reports, a coastal Belle Glade settlement pattern and cultural complex is reconstructed. This site was continually occupied for a period of about 1,000 years. A population increase and an increase in socio-political complexity coincides with a change in the subsistence base at this complex during the Glades I period. This same economic change is noted in many middens along the Florida east coast and is believed to have been caused by the introduction of agriculture. This was accompanied by a religious movement in which mound construction and burial within these mounds were practiced. The diffusion of this economic-ceremonial complex was from the Lake Okeechobee area where it developed during the Hopewell period.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1972
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13500
- Subject Headings
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Florida--Lake Okeechobee Region, Florida--Antiquities
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Spanish River Papers.
- Creator
- Boca Raton Historical Society
- Abstract/Description
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The Spanish River Papers is a scholarly publication of the Boca Raton Historical Society, first issued in 1973. The Papers contain essays and reprints of historic documents relevant to the history of Boca Raton and its surrounding communities.
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADTspanish
- Subject Headings
- Boca Raton (Fla.) -- History
- Format
- Serial
- Title
- SPANISH SOCIALISM AND AGRARIAN REFORM IN THE SECOND REPUBLIC 1931-1933.
- Creator
- MATIZ, LUIS FERNANDO., Florida Atlantic University, Derfler, Leslie
- Abstract/Description
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The Spanish Socialist Party must bear primary responsibility for the failure of the second Republic's agrarian program. The need of Spanish Socialism to achieve acceptance as a legally constituted political movement conflicted with its need to maintain ideological purity. This contradiction was manifested in the agrarian reform legislation. Socialist leaders, caught between these two needs, were unable to provide viable solutions to Spain's agrarian problems. Their inability to perceive Spain...
Show moreThe Spanish Socialist Party must bear primary responsibility for the failure of the second Republic's agrarian program. The need of Spanish Socialism to achieve acceptance as a legally constituted political movement conflicted with its need to maintain ideological purity. This contradiction was manifested in the agrarian reform legislation. Socialist leaders, caught between these two needs, were unable to provide viable solutions to Spain's agrarian problems. Their inability to perceive Spain's real agrarian needs resulted from the party's gyrations on agrarian reform and from internal, ideological conflict. By the end of 1933, this conflict divided Spanish Socialism into two camps: moderate and revolutionary. Therefore, the Socialists' agrarian reform program, which in 1931 was committed to changing the land tenure system within a democratic, rational, economic framework had to be discarded in favor of agrarian revolution.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1976
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13809
- Subject Headings
- Land reform--Spain--History, Spain--Politics and government--1931-1939
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Spanish St. Augustine: An examination of the impact to a Spanish periphery colony by the British core from, 1702--1763.
- Creator
- Hughes, Daniel Bryant., Florida Atlantic University, Kennedy, William J.
- Abstract/Description
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This thesis seeks to test the applicability of small-scale archaeological analysis to demonstrating changes in a single entity that moves from a bilateral trade system to a multilateral system within a wider world system, and what if any societal implications this would have. The thesis applies Immanuel Wallerstein's model of colonial exploitation whereby colonies can be subjected to exploitation from any core power. The thesis is divided into two parts. Part I provides the historical...
Show moreThis thesis seeks to test the applicability of small-scale archaeological analysis to demonstrating changes in a single entity that moves from a bilateral trade system to a multilateral system within a wider world system, and what if any societal implications this would have. The thesis applies Immanuel Wallerstein's model of colonial exploitation whereby colonies can be subjected to exploitation from any core power. The thesis is divided into two parts. Part I provides the historical background and context for the second part of the thesis. Part II examines the types of ceramics found in three households in historic St. Augustine, and their points of manufacture. The ceramics under investigation were manufactured between 1600--1763, albeit the main period of focus is 1702--1763. The results of this study demonstrate the utility of using small-scale analysis on archaeological data to gain a better understanding of the complex interplay between historic St. Augustine and England.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2002
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12924
- Subject Headings
- Saint Augustine (Fla)--History--18th century, Excavations (Archaeology)--Florida--Saint Augustine, Pottery--Florida--History--18th century, Archaeology and history--Florida
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Sparse and low rank constraints on optical flow and trajectories.
- Creator
- Gibson, Joel, Marques, Oge, Florida Atlantic University, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Abstract/Description
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In this dissertation we apply sparse constraints to improve optical flow and trajectories. We apply sparsity in two ways. First, with 2-frame optical flow, we enforce a sparse representation of flow patches using a learned overcomplete dictionary. Second, we apply a low rank constraint to trajectories via robust coupling. We begin with a review of optical flow fundamentals. We discuss the commonly used flow estimation strategies and the advantages and shortcomings of each. We introduce the...
Show moreIn this dissertation we apply sparse constraints to improve optical flow and trajectories. We apply sparsity in two ways. First, with 2-frame optical flow, we enforce a sparse representation of flow patches using a learned overcomplete dictionary. Second, we apply a low rank constraint to trajectories via robust coupling. We begin with a review of optical flow fundamentals. We discuss the commonly used flow estimation strategies and the advantages and shortcomings of each. We introduce the concepts associated with sparsity including dictionaries and low rank matrices.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2014
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004286, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004286
- Subject Headings
- Approximation theory -- Mathematical models, Computer vision, Image processing -- Digital techniques, Information visualization
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Sparse Coding and Compressed Sensing: Locally Competitive Algorithms and Random Projections.
- Creator
- Hahn, William E., Barenholtz, Elan, Florida Atlantic University, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences
- Abstract/Description
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For an 8-bit grayscale image patch of size n x n, the number of distinguishable signals is 256(n2). Natural images (e.g.,photographs of a natural scene) comprise a very small subset of these possible signals. Traditional image and video processing relies on band-limited or low-pass signal models. In contrast, we will explore the observation that most signals of interest are sparse, i.e. in a particular basis most of the expansion coefficients will be zero. Recent developments in sparse...
Show moreFor an 8-bit grayscale image patch of size n x n, the number of distinguishable signals is 256(n2). Natural images (e.g.,photographs of a natural scene) comprise a very small subset of these possible signals. Traditional image and video processing relies on band-limited or low-pass signal models. In contrast, we will explore the observation that most signals of interest are sparse, i.e. in a particular basis most of the expansion coefficients will be zero. Recent developments in sparse modeling and L1 optimization have allowed for extraordinary applications such as the single pixel camera, as well as computer vision systems that can exceed human performance. Here we present a novel neural network architecture combining a sparse filter model and locally competitive algorithms (LCAs), and demonstrate the networks ability to classify human actions from video. Sparse filtering is an unsupervised feature learning algorithm designed to optimize the sparsity of the feature distribution directly without having the need to model the data distribution. LCAs are defined by a system of di↵erential equations where the initial conditions define an optimization problem and the dynamics converge to a sparse decomposition of the input vector. We applied this architecture to train a classifier on categories of motion in human action videos. Inputs to the network were small 3D patches taken from frame di↵erences in the videos. Dictionaries were derived for each action class and then activation levels for each dictionary were assessed during reconstruction of a novel test patch. We discuss how this sparse modeling approach provides a natural framework for multi-sensory and multimodal data processing including RGB video, RGBD video, hyper-spectral video, and stereo audio/video streams.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2016
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004713, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004713
- Subject Headings
- Artificial intelligence, Expert systems (Computer science), Image processing -- Digital techniques -- Mathematics, Sparse matrices
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Sparse Modeling Applied to Patient Identification for Safety in Medical Physics Applications.
- Creator
- Lewkowitz, Stephanie, Kalantzis, Georgios, Florida Atlantic University, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Physics
- Abstract/Description
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Every scheduled treatment at a radiation therapy clinic involves a series of safety protocol to ensure the utmost patient care. Despite safety protocol, on a rare occasion an entirely preventable medical event, an accident, may occur. Delivering a treatment plan to the wrong patient is preventable, yet still is a clinically documented error. This research describes a computational method to identify patients with a novel machine learning technique to combat misadministration.The patient...
Show moreEvery scheduled treatment at a radiation therapy clinic involves a series of safety protocol to ensure the utmost patient care. Despite safety protocol, on a rare occasion an entirely preventable medical event, an accident, may occur. Delivering a treatment plan to the wrong patient is preventable, yet still is a clinically documented error. This research describes a computational method to identify patients with a novel machine learning technique to combat misadministration.The patient identification program stores face and fingerprint data for each patient. New, unlabeled data from those patients are categorized according to the library. The categorization of data by this face-fingerprint detector is accomplished with new machine learning algorithms based on Sparse Modeling that have already begun transforming the foundation of Computer Vision. Previous patient recognition software required special subroutines for faces and di↵erent tailored subroutines for fingerprints. In this research, the same exact model is used for both fingerprints and faces, without any additional subroutines and even without adjusting the two hyperparameters. Sparse modeling is a powerful tool, already shown utility in the areas of super-resolution, denoising, inpainting, demosaicing, and sub-nyquist sampling, i.e. compressed sensing. Sparse Modeling is possible because natural images are inherrently sparse in some bases, due to their inherrant structure. This research chooses datasets of face and fingerprint images to test the patient identification model. The model stores the images of each dataset as a basis (library). One image at a time is removed from the library, and is classified by a sparse code in terms of the remaining library. The Locally Competetive Algorithm, a truly neural inspired Artificial Neural Network, solves the computationally difficult task of finding the sparse code for the test image. The components of the sparse representation vector are summed by `1 pooling, and correct patient identification is consistently achieved 100% over 1000 trials, when either the face data or fingerprint data are implemented as a classification basis. The algorithm gets 100% classification when faces and fingerprints are concatenated into multimodal datasets. This suggests that 100% patient identification will be achievable in the clinal setting.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2016
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004721, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004721
- Subject Headings
- Computer vision in medicine, Diagnostic imaging -- Data processing, Mathematical models, Medical errors -- Prevention, Medical physics, Sampling (Statistics)
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Sparse Representation Classification of Dolphin Whistles Using Gabor Wavelets.
- Creator
- Esfahanian, Mahdi, Zhuang, Hanqi, Graduate College, Erdol, Nurgun
- Abstract/Description
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This research presents a novel approach to categorize dolphin whistles into various types. Most accurate methods to identify dolphin whistles are tedious and not robust, especially in the presence of ocean noise. One of the biggest challenges of dolphin whistle extraction is the coexistence of short-time duration wide-band echo clicks with the whistles. In this research, a subspace of select orientation parameters of the 2D Gabor wavelet frames is utilized to enhance or suppress signals by...
Show moreThis research presents a novel approach to categorize dolphin whistles into various types. Most accurate methods to identify dolphin whistles are tedious and not robust, especially in the presence of ocean noise. One of the biggest challenges of dolphin whistle extraction is the coexistence of short-time duration wide-band echo clicks with the whistles. In this research, a subspace of select orientation parameters of the 2D Gabor wavelet frames is utilized to enhance or suppress signals by their orientation. The result is a Gabor image that contains a noise free grayscale representation of the fundamental dolphin whistle which is resampled and fed into the Sparse Representation Classifier. The classifier uses the l1 norm to select a match. Experimental studies conducted demonstrate: a a robust technique based on the Gabor wavelet filters in extracting reliable call patterns, and b the superior performance of Sparse Representation Classifier for identifying dolphin whistles by their call type.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2014
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005146
- Format
- Document (PDF)