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ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The purpose of my research was to build an accurate solo musical instrument classifier that assigns a probability distribution of instrument class labels to a given audio signal. Last year,…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Autonomous vehicle systems have hit public roads, but they remain way to expensive for common consumers. This project aimed to find alternative ways to make autonomous vehicle systems more c…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Machine learning (ML) is a branch of artificial intelligence (AI) where systems learn from data, identify patterns, and make decisions with minimal human intervention. Classification algorit…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Second Award
Small scale farms are responsible for producing 70% of food worldwide. Of this food produced a large amount is stored in structures called silos. Silos are agricultural containment vessels o…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Military and rescue teams work in dangerous environments during disasters. My goal is to develop an intelligent search and rescue system based on multi-spectral sensing to operate in dangero…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Convolutional neural networks (ConvNets) are currently the state-of-the-art model for image classification; however, training them is computationally expensive. In addition, there are no gen…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Second Award
Over the last years VoIP is constantly outperforming traditional mobile networks with more than one billion users in 2017. However, the voice quality is often affected by issues like noise,…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Second Award
People with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have difficulty in recognizing and in comprehending emotions from other's facial expressions. This impacts their development of empathy and affects…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Creating a powerful quad-copter that has a powerful computer on-board beside the main flight controller that has a complex software so the drone can learn from the incoming data using the so…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines First Award
Heart disease and respiratory problems are the leading causes of death for the 40 million people aged 65 or older in the United States. Yet 36% of elderly patients report transportation diff…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Autonomous indoor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) navigation requires mapping techniques to build an accurate space estimation for flying. This work proposes a system to map an indoor environ…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines First Award
Cleaning external windows on commercial high-rise buildings is expensive and potentially very dangerous as it is traditionally labour intensive. There is an increasing awareness of the comme…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The human knees are the largest and the most complex joints in the human body. However due to its actives and the way it is formed, it is also the most injured joint with over 6 million pati…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Our research problem is creating a fully automated hand. This research applies to surgical robotics and the advancement of surgical techniques, but it also has applications in industrial pro…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
In 2017, Silver et al. designed a reinforcement learning algorithm that learned tabula rasa without any human-generated data. They applied this algorithm to the games of Go, Chess, and Shogi…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Autonomous vehicles have the potential to vastly increase road safety and reduce the environmental impact of personal vehicles. While this technology is still in development, rapid progress…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Objective: To meet the need for changing the ratios of pictures in different situations, this paper presents an image processing tool which can intelligently resize the pictures according to…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The American people and worldwide citizens face the daily consistent threat of those with concealed weapons. Each day, human lives are lost due to concealed weapons. Recent and memorable exa…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
In recent years, the classical computer vision problem of super-resolution has been approached with deep learning technologies, e.g., convolutional neural networks (CNNs). These new techniqu…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The purpose of this project was to create a computer simulation of an intersection with no traffic controls (stop signs or traffic lights), and develop artificial intelligence capable of mak…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
Society is used to consume technology and isn’t interested in creating it, little kids don’t receive enough stimulation for developing logic and creativity skills. Consequently, the interest…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Breast cancer is currently the second leading cause of death among American women even though breast cancer mortality rates have decreased by 36% since 1989-2012. This decline has often been…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Estimating the future course of cancer is invaluable to physicians; however, current clinical methods fail to effectively use the vast amount of multimodal data available. To tackle this pro…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
Convolutional neural networks (CNN) are traditionally used in computer vision, but have recently gained traction as sequential models. In this paper two improvements to temporal convolutiona…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Purpose: Diabetic retinopathy, an eye disease that damages the light-sensitive retina, affects an estimated total of 93 million people globally. As one of the leading causes of blindness, it…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
The primary objective of this project is to develop autonomous Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) to generate semi-dense point clouds of the interior of buildings. These point clouds can be used…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Second Award
Polygenic developmental diseases affecting humans like autism spectrum disorder often have unknown causes and are difficult to cure. Gene expression and regulation is among the most importan…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States. Despite its significance, there is currently no cure for the disease. The early diagnosis of AD is essentia…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Situations of low visibility make it difficult to carry out tasks safely or efficiently when it involves observing the surrounding environment. To help make said tasks easier, visual aids th…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Emotion recognition from human voice by machine is a challenging task, but it has great potential to make empathic human-machine communications possible. In conventional approaches, extensiv…