Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Pedestrian and vehicle trespassing is a significant problem in the railroad industry. According to the Federal Railroad Administration, 94% of rail-related deaths occur at railway crossings…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
In Vietnam, landslides occur frequently and cause great damage to traffic infrastructures and human lives. Follow-up search and rescue campaigns risk the lives of rescue personnel and civili…
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Second Award
Heart disease is the #1 global killer. Left ventricular ejection fraction (EF) analysis via echocardiography is crucial for heart failure detection. However, traditional EF calculation is a…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Since 2001, actor-critic algorithms have combined “the strong points of actor-only and critic- only methods” (Konda & Tsitsiklis, 1999) to reduce the time needed to train a reinforcement lea…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Conversational agents are increasingly used in a wide range of fields, from entertainment or manufacturing to finance or healthcare, since they facilitate human-machine interactions and can…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
In the new normal, teleconferencing has become increasingly adopted. However, people adopting sign language depend on interpreters in live online interactions, compromising their independenc…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The sign language interpreter with built in translator is a communication device that aims at improving communication between deaf and able hearing communities. The research was conducted wi…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Long-term medication management for chronic diseases like diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease requires medication adherence. However, research shows that only 50% of patients with chro…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Today, many countries are experiencing fires, environmental and natural disasters. As a result, firefighters and rescuers are used. But often they themselves become victims of such natural p…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Fourth Award
Modern Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are potent catalysts for scientific-industrial impact. To maximize performance and hypothesis space, however, DNNs involve excessive parameters – impeding…
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Third Award
Disabled people experience difficulties in many areas of daily life. The main reason for these difficulties is the great gap in the research about the solutions to the daily life problems of…
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Fourth Award
Rubbings are important world cultural heritages. It provides crucial roles in humanity like arts, history, and politics. However, due to the poor portion and weathering process, most rubbing…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
This study applies natural language processing to fake news comment sections as a novel framework for efficient, real-time detection. Online social networks are essential tools to communicat…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
First Award
Working on high voltage power lines is a hazardous task, and the risks associated with this type of work are numerous and significant, proven by the electrical industry’s high mortality rate…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The past three years have seen SARS-CoV-2 wreak havoc on society with limited effective treatments available due to the amount of trial and error involved. However, with recent advancements…
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Second Award
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder primarily prominent in individuals 65 years and older (the elderly population). Despite advances in the medical field, the diagnosis…
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VisiAide uses a novel context-based machine learning approach to use mobile devices to guide the visually impaired by detecting obstacles along their path, identifying objects, and detecting…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Across the United States, 34 million people suffer from food insecurity. Many of those in need do not qualify for federal nutrition aid programs, and as such must rely on their local food ba…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Text to image generation, that is about understanding the text descriptions and generating images from them, has been one of the most important machine learning research fields due to its hi…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
This project presents a novel adaptive learning approach that not only enables a system to learn and evolve on its own but also explains its predictions, even for expansive problem domains t…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The presence of metastatic tissue in lymph nodes is critical for oncologists and cancer treatment, as it is a central part of the TNM cancer staging process and other cancer-related diagnost…
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Fourth Award
Histologic analyses of glomeruli in renal tissues yield a substantial amount of information about overall kidney health or diseases stemming from glomerular structural damage. Current medica…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
We've developed a robot that has the potential to have a surgical impact on society. Robotic surgical technology enables surgeons to see more clearly, move more precisely, and pinpoint the a…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The purpose of this project is to create a robot that is capable of aiding teachers in their daily tasks. Many teachers have tasks that require them to deliver papers, books, and/or other su…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Due to the devastating effects that brain tumors have on the body, early classification is crucial in reducing cancer mortality, improving quality of life, and developing a treatment plan. A…
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Fourth Award
Asian citrus psyllid (ACP) is an insect vector of Huanglongbing (HLB), an incurable citrus disease with devastating economic and production impacts worldwide. Since the first detection of HL…
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The last 40 years have seen monumental advances in the understanding of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). ALS is a neurodegenerative illness that affects upper and lower motor neurons. Th…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The American Cancer Society estimates that 23,660 Americans will die of leukemia in 2022. It is the eighth-most lethal form of cancer and the second among children. Accurate and early diagno…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Because we have used fossil fuels as our primary fuel source, CO2 levels in the atmosphere are rising and pose serious environmental challenges. Helium-3 may serve as a clean energy resource…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
More infectious variants of viruses can arise from rapid mutations in their protein sequences, creating new infection waves. These variants can evade one’s immune system and even infect vacc…