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This thesis presents a method for camera localization. Given a set of reference images with known camera poses, camera localization aims to estimate the 6 DoF camera pose for an arbitrary query image…

This dissertation reports my research work on three topics in the areas of two-level factorial designs under the baseline parameterization, space-filling designs, and sub-data selection for big data…

Advancement in technology has made Virtual Reality (VR) increasingly portable, affordable and accessible to a broad audience. However, large scale VR locomotion still faces major challenges in the…

At present, the methods by which costs of flood-related damages are estimated vary significantly across Canada, resulting in widely different and often incomplete quantification of these costs. I use…

Unlike traditional graph processing applications, graph-based learning algorithms like Belief Propagation and Multimodal Learning require complex data such as feature vectors and matrices residing on…

G̱ilakas'la, Nugwa'a̱m Joanna Elizabeth Fraser. I was born in East Africa to parents of European ancestry. I have been an inhabitant of the West Coast of Canada since I was two years old.…

Educators have described their classes and institutions as "safe spaces" with increasing frequency and certainty since the 1990s. However, philosophers of education such as Eamon Callan,…

In this research, self-explanation was prompted and feedback was supplied to help learners activate prior knowledge, detect misconceptions, and replace unscientific mental models with correct…

The field of restoration ecology has historically been guided by the Western science paradigm, and often restoration activities have been conducted without consideration for local Indigenous people…

Working memory allows for coordination of complex goal-driven behavior. Decline of working memory is linked to severe cognitive disabilities and is an important feature of both severe carotid…

The Cascade Bay landslide is a large postglacial bedrock failure on the east side of Harrison Lake in southwestern British Columbia. It occurs in meta-sedimentary and meta-volcanic bedrock near the…

Stochastic thermodynamics is an emerging field of research that has received considerable attention in the past two decades. Among its most visible applications is to understand the connections…

Avalanche warning services release public avalanche bulletins to help backcountry recreationists develop risk management approaches for winter backcountry trips. To safely recreate in the backcountry…

Despite the prevalence of atrial fibrillation (AF) and the burden it places on health care systems, there remains much that is unknown regarding heritable factors influencing its development and…

Governments can implement a wide range of policies to increase the uptake of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs). For example, regions differ in their focus on demand-focused policies that encourage…

This thesis examines how recent French films (2015-2017) represent veiled female characters. The three films of this corpus (Fatima, Faucon 2015; Le Ciel Attendra, Mention-Schaar 2016; Cherchez la…

Human annotations, especially in highly technical domains, are expensive and time consuming togather, and can also be erroneous. As a result, we never have sufficiently accurate data to train…

Cell-cell signaling is a fundamental process of organisms during development, throughout their lifetime and in the course of cancer growth. In mammary tumors, tumor cells interact with macrophages…

A consequence of air becoming increasingly less dense with altitude is that the vertical displacement of air against gravity results in up and down oscillatory motion -- much like the restoring force…

Being able to track appliances energy usage without the need of sensors can help occupants reduce their energy consumption. Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) is one name for this topic. One of the…