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RITE Technical Reports: Summer 2005

This is a database of the final technical report for RITE completed during the summer 2005 MERIT program.

  1. Altitude Control of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Using a Binaural Bat Echolocation System
    MERIT Students: Thomas Mwakibinga and Jeffrey Lee
    Faculty Advisor: Prof. T. Horiuchi

  2. Analog_Control with Surface Electromyography
    MERIT Students: William Eisenhower and Scott McMichael
    Faculty Advisors: Prof. P. Abshire and Prof. T. Horiuchi

  3. Articulatory Sysnthesis of Sustained Speech
    MERIT Student: Avinash Yentrapati
    Faculty Advisor: Prof. C. Espy-Wilson
  4. Acquisition of Voxel Data for Human Body Models
    MERIT Student: Peroutka
    Faculty Advisor: Prof. R. Chellappa
    Graduate Assistant: Avarind Sundaresan

  5. Capacity Scaling Laws in Ad-Hoc Wireless Networks
    MERIT Student: Mikahail Lisovich
    Faculty Advisor: Prof. S. Ulukus
    Graduate Assistant: Nan Liu

  6. Cell Clinics: Characterization and In Vitro Testing of the Bio Amplifier
    MERIT Student: Victor Jeng
    Faculty Advisor: Prof. P. Abshire
    Graduate Assitants: Nicole Nelson and Somashekar Prakash
  7. Cricket as a Positioning System for Control
    MERIT Students: Aleksandr Kushleyev and Travis Young
    Faculty Advisor: Prof. P. S. Krishnaprasad
    Graduate Assitants: Sandy Klem and Zachary Kulis
  8. Design of Wireless Ultra-Wideband Communicationn Systems
    MERIT Students: Domenic Forte and Julia Tu
    Faculty Advisor: Prof. R. Liu
    Graduate Assitants: Hung-Quoc Lai and Wipawee Siriwongpairat
  9. Image Based Visual Hull
    MERIT Student: Mohammad Alhamarneh
    Faculty Advisor: Prof. R. Chellappa
    Graduate Assitant: Zhanfeng Yue

  10. How Much Stress are Presidents Under?
    MERIT Student: Rachel Cindric
    Faculty Advisor: Prof. R. Chellappa
    Graduate Assitant: Narayanan Ramanathan

  11. MRI-based 3D Finite Element Analysis and Acoustic Tube Modeling of Vocal Tract for /r/ Phoneme
    MERIT Student: Sai Hei Yeung
    Faculty Advisor: Prof. C. Espy-Wilson
  12. Recognition from 3D Face Models
    MERIT Student: Amon Ducao
    Faculty Advisor: Prof. R. Chellappa
    Graduate Assitant: Gaurav Aggarwal

  13. A Report on Unsupervised Speaker Segmentation of a Two-Speaker Conversation
    MERIT Student: Mohammad Alhamarneh
    Faculty Advisor: Prof. C. Espy-Wilson
  14. Searching on Encrypted Data
    MERIT Student: Mehmet Ucal
    Faculty Advisor: Prof. M. Wu
    Graduate Assitants: Ashwin Swaminathan and Yinian Mao
  15. Using Spectral Subtraction to Enhance Speech and Increase Performance in Automatic Speech Recognition
    MERIT Student: Ayanah S. George
    Faculty Advisors: Prof. C. Espy-Wilson & Om Deshmukh