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Robotic Perception for Precision Agriculture
(2019)To feed a growing world population with limited amount of arable land, we must develop new meth- ods of sustainable farming that maintain or increase yield while minimizing chemical inputs such as fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides. Precision agriculture techniques seek to address this chal- lenge by monitoring key indicators of crop health and targeting timely treatment only to plants or infested areas that need it. Such monitoring ...Doctoral Thesis -
In-Network Data Processing using FPGAs
(2019)In recent years, network bandwidth has increased at a rapid pace, moving from 10G, to 40G/100G, to 400G. CPU frequency on the other hand has been stagnant. As a result, more and more CPU cycles have to be allocated to network processing to keep up with the increasing network bandwidth. At the same time, we have seen exponential growth in data requiring distributed systems to process it. While these systems benefit from the increased network ...Doctoral Thesis -
Towards Accurate and Data-efficient 3D Hand Pose Estimation Algorithms
(2019)3D hand pose estimation aims at recovering 3D coordinates of joints or mesh vertices of hand from visual inputs. It has important applications in human-human or human-machine interactions and computer animation. Given the large view point change, cluttered background, finger similarity and self-occlusion, accurately estimating 3D hand pose in real time remains very challenging even after decades of research. In this thesis, we propose ...Doctoral Thesis -
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Search for Supersymmetry in opposite sign same flavor lepton final states with the CMS detector.
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Operando characterization of degradation phenomena in all-solid-state batteries with a sulfide-based solid electrolyte
(2019)The pursuit for a low carbon emission society is enabled through the widespread utilization of alternative energies such as wind and solar energy. However, most of the so-called green energy forms are characterized by their intermittent nature which places energy storage devices into the center of any green energy utilization strategies. The lithium-ion batteries (LiB) have proven themselves over the last three decades as robust, high ...Doctoral Thesis -
The bacterial pilus subunit FimA: assembly, folding and structure of a protein with alternative folding possibilities
(2019)Type 1 pili are filamentous, supramolecular protein complexes anchored to the outer membrane of enteroinvasive, Gram-negative bacteria and are responsible for bacterial attachment to target cells of the host. Type 1 pili from uropathogenic Escherichia coli strains recognise terminal mannoses on glycoprotein receptors of uroepithelial membranes via the adhesin FimH. Together with the subunits FimF and FimG, FimH forms a short, flexible tip ...Doctoral Thesis