Hypergeometric series are powerful mathematical tools with many usages. Many mathematical functions, such as trigonometric functions, can be partly or entirely expressed in terms of them. In most cases this allows efficient ...

This thesis proposes a robust method of creating a 3D digital model of an object through stereoscopic reconstruction. There are existing methods and tools for achieving this, but they tend to only perform well under favorable ...

*This dissertation is a compound document (contains both a paper copy and a CD as part of the dissertation). The CD requires the following system requirements: Windows MediaPlayer or RealPlayer.

In this paper, we first characterize the fine-grained encounter pattern among mobile users found in a large-scale Bluetooth trace collected by 123 participants at the University of Illinois campus from March to August 2010. ...

3D Tele-immersive systems create real-time multi-stream and multi-view 3D collaborative contents from multiple sites to allow interactive shared activities in virtual environments. Applications of 3DTI include online sports, ...

The past decades have seen dramatic increase in the amount of information available to us, and the research area of information retrieval has served to help us access the tiny subset of information relevant to each of us ...

In recent times, the use of Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for tasks which involve high endurance or perilous environments, has become increasingly vital. A typical problem is that of information collection, in particular ...

Multicore processors have been increasing in development by the industry to meet the ever-growing processing requirements of various applications because these processors offer benefits such as reduced power consumption, ...

Information networks with multi-typed nodes and edges with different semantics are called heterogenous information networks. Since heterogeneous information networks embed more complex information than homogeneous information ...

As general purpose robots begin to find their way into the household and workplace, there will be a demand for software to run on these robots. My research group forsees the proliferation of robot apps that use a common ...