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In the 21st century, online shopping continues to expand, and many consumers rely on reviews when making purchasing decisions. However, the increasing number of reviews can overwhelm consume…
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Currently in the United States, there is a growing homeless population. In many cases these homeless / displaced individuals don’t have any identifying cards that can provide quick to find i…
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As cyber threats like malware and ransomware evolve, traditional antivirus solutions struggle to keep pace. Inspired by bacteriophages, viruses that selectively target bacteria, this project…
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Standardized testing is a critical tool in evaluating the academic ability of over 40 million U.S. students. Assessments are a pillar of the education system, influencing policy, and nationa…
Technology Enhances the Arts
Artworks are one of the most important parts of cultural heritage. Unfortunately, they are often exposed to a lot of damage and are altered by threats like fire, water, fading, tearing, and…
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In the recent decade, autonomous systems like self-driving cars, drones, and robots have become widely used. They rely heavily on 3D perception of the surrounding environment and mapping tec…
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As cyber-attacks become increasingly common (72% increase from 2021), and as losses from cybercrime grow each year ($10.5 trillion by 2025), it is more important than ever for organizations…
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This research investigates, from a mathematical and computational perspective, the process of image formation and reconstruction through Computed Tomography (CT), using algorithms implemente…
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The increasing demand for energy and the environmental impact of fossil fuels have driven the need for renewable energy sources. This investigation was conducted on wind energy, incorporatin…
Technology Enhances the Arts
This project aims to improve the lives of over 300 million colorblind individuals and 2.2 billion people with visual impairments worldwide. Vision loss often leads to social and psychologica…
Technology Enhances the Arts
Playing the violin improves cognitive function, creativity, and brain development. However, access to private lessons is limited by high cost and availability, especially in underserved area…
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Driving is a task that is heavily reliant on auditory signals for communication and crash avoidance. Around 430 million people around the world suffer from disabling hearing loss, preventing…
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Increased reliance of societal operations on artificial intelligence (AI) image recognition models renders them vulnerable to security risks from adversarial attacks. These attacks manipulat…
Technology Enhances the Arts
Haptic feedback technology offers innovative ways for visually impaired individuals to interact with their surroundings. Current solutions, however, are often prohibitively expensive and lac…
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Computers are everywhere today, and digital traces often remain that can help reconstruct past events. When available, computer forensic artifacts can be crucial in establishing guilt or inn…
Technology Enhances the Arts
Globally, an estimated 40-45 million people are blind, and an estimated 160 million are affected by deafness and blindness. Those who can hear can rely on speech to learn and communicate, wh…
Technology Enhances the Arts
Sign language serves as the main means of communication for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing community, yet barriers persist for non-signers who either lack the practical exposure to master it o…
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Cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks are one of the most common web vulnerabilities but are difficult to track and prevent. Websites have a very large XSS attack surface area, with every user…
Technology Enhances the Arts
OpenAI's ChatGPT has blurred the line between human and AI-written text, challenging academia's ability to verify authorship. Existing AI detection systems fail with paraphrased content or m…
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In recent years, advancement in artificial intelligence and speech synthesis technologies, have made it possible to clone human voices with remarkable accuracy. While this opens many benefic…
Technology Enhances the Arts
Communication between the hearing impaired and the general people has long been an unresolved issue. Although sign language can solve this problem to some extent, sign language becomes ineff…
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Artificial intelligence has developed quickly and improved daily life for the majority of individuals, yet accessibility challenges persist for the visually impaired. Existing assistive tech…
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Language workbenches and product lines allow users to customize programming languages by providing a framework for the creation of Domain Specific Languages (DSLs). They allow for quicker la…
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In the realm of machine learning, biased models stemming from inadequate representation in training datasets pose a significant challenge to real life applications of these models. Despite a…
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In this paper, we present several key contributions to the field of climate science and machine learning, with a specific focus on the prediction of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) p…
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The most popular Graph Neural Networks rely on the message-passing paradigm, where the idea is to iteratively propagate the representation information of every node to its direct neighborhoo…
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Monochromacy and Achromatopsia are color deficiencies in which people cannot see specific or no color at all. Color deficiency can either be inherited through genes or acquired. This project…
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The cost of computing resources to train the Large Language Model (LLM) is very high. In addition, LLMs cannot meet the requirements under medical Q&A scenario, which is requested to provide…
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the susceptibility of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm to quantum computing-based attacks. Quantum computers possess the potential…
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The rapid emergence of generative AI, particularly large-language-model-based conversational chatbots like ChatGPT, has spurred significant advancements. However, this progress has brought p…