In this thesis, a new approach to monitoring live auction frauds is proposed. Monitor- ing progressing auctions for fraudulent bidding activities is becoming crucial in order to detect and stop fraud on time, so fraudsters ...

An isomorphic keyboard layout is an arrangement of notes of a scale such that any musical construct has the same shape regardless of the root note. The mathematics of some speci c isomorphisms have been explored since ...

Image quality assessment is a very challenging problem in image processing. Most image quality metrics are currently based on super cial variations in pixel values, perceptual models and structural changes. As well, most ...

The Fourier transform is a century-old mathematical theory. Among many of its applications, it has been the foundation of signal processing since the middle of 20th century. Specifically, it has been hugely successful to ...

In the Canadian oil and gas industry, heavy oil and unconventional reservoirs play a vital role in sustaining the production of crude oil and face tremendous technical challenges of enhancing recovery while reducing ...

A trend in machine learning has emphasized the use of features which are learned algorithmically, in contrast to the hand-engineered features traditionally used in classification tasks. Classical sparse coding is a robust ...