Estimating and analysis of deformation, either rigid or non-rigid, is an active area of research in various medical imaging and computer vision applications. Its importance stems from the inherent inter- and intra-variability in biological and...
Image processing; Computer vision; Pattern recognition systems
Image segmentation is one of the most important problems in image processing, object recognition, computer vision, medical imaging, etc. In general, the objective of the segmentation is to partition the image into the meaningful areas using the...
Computer vision; Pattern recognition systems; Human face recognition (Computer science)
Humans have the uncanny ability to perceive the world in three dimensions (3D), otherwise known as depth perception. The amazing thing about this ability to determine distances is that it depends only on a simple two-dimensional (2D) image in the...
This dissertation demonstrates an elegant method, known as 'micro-origami' or strain architecture to design and fabricate three-dimensional MEMS structures which are assembled using actuation of a metal-oxide bilayer with conventional planar...
The aim of the research is to determine if cone beam computerized tomography reconstructed panoramic radiography viewed in two different focal trough shapes, and three different focal trough widths changes the ability to identify high risk...
Prints--Kentucky--Louisville--Exhibitions; Painting--Kentucky--Louisville--Exhibitions; Art quilts; Block designs; Screen process printing; Feminism and art
This thesis explores pattern juxtaposition using traditional American quilt block designs as the compositional basis for nine works pieced from screen printed paper. In the 1970s, the quilt was celebrated for its apparent connection to Modernist...
Edgard Varese began composing "Deserts" in 1949 and completed it late in 1954. Scored for fifteen instruments, five percussionists and two tapes of organized sounds, "Deserts" comprises acoustic instrumental music and sections...
Protective coatings; Microelectromechanical systems
PARYLENE (poly-para-xylylene) is mostly used as a conformal protective polymer pin-hole free coating material to uniformly protect any component configuration on diverse substrates. This thesis describes in detail how the unique properties of...
Paintings; Oil paintings; Abstract paintings; Abstract works; Collages; Colors; Men; Musicians; Entertainers; Monks; People associated with religion; People associated with entertainment & sports; Music ensembles; Performances; Music; Guitars;...
"Synthetic Cubism marked a return to bright color. Whereas Analytic Cubism fragmented objects into abstract geometric forms, Synthetic Cubism arranged flat shapes of color to form objects. Picasso's Three Musicians - a clarinetist on the left,...
In this dissertation, standardized methods for measuring electron emission (EE) from nanostructured materials are established. Design of an emitter array platform, synthesis and nanomanipulation of different types of are successfully conducted....
Current wind power technology is not economically feasible throughout most of the United States due to low average wind speeds. A design for a small-scale wind concentrator device suitable for use in areas of low wind velocity was tested using...
Medical policy--Kentucky--Louisville; Political planning--Kentucky--Louisville; Cities and towns--Growth--Kentucky--Louisville
A disciplined-configurative case study design was carried out to explore whether a growth machine exists and shapes local healthcare policy in Louisville. A historical analysis first explored whether a growth machine existed in Louisville in the...
"[…] it should be noted that the vases found at Sesklo and Dimini are characterized by an astonishing variety of shapes, which means that they served a large number of uses. For the purposes of study, all these shapes have their own names,...
Attorney Jouett Ross Todd with wife Dorothea Onativia Todd of Louisville, Kentucky. The photographs have been cut to irregular shapes then attached together, both photos discolored with age. Stamped on back of image: May 7, 1935.
Buildings; J.B. Speed Hall (Louisville, Ky.); Educational facilities; Universities & colleges; University of Louisville--Buildings; University of Louisville. Speed Scientific School
Architect's rendering of Speed Scientific School, named J. B. Speed Hall, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, 1936. Wide, three story brick building with projecting center pillars and portico (labeled "1936") and a domed tower...
Stairway to mezzanine at Loews Theater on Fourth Street between Broadway and Chestnut, Louisville, Kentucky. Two coterminous flights of filigree-railed stairs (broken only by a small landing half the way up, over which pillars support a small roof)...
Baby riding a fish framed by ornamental decorative elements including stars and other shapes. Below the baby and fish are the name "Ainslie Hewett" and the phrase "His Book." This bookplate was designed for the artist's first...
Three-quarter length portrait of an unidentified woman in a velvet overcoat, with one hand in a muff. She also wears an interesting hat with pointed shapes. Title supplied by cataloger.
Close-up portrait of crying clown, possibly an actor in the role of Harlequin. He wears a foolscap, whiteface makeup with an exaggerated mouth and diamond shapes painted over his eyes, and a high ruffled collar. Title supplied by cataloger.
