Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), possessing the capacity to comprehend, learn, and
execute tasks with human cognitive abilities, engenders significant anticipation and intrigue …

Many occupational environments require labor intensive activities, which could result in
fatigue and injuries and cause decreased work performance. Recently, the breakthroughs of …

In the context of online privacy, many methods propose complex security preserving
measures to protect sensitive data. In this paper we note that: not storing any sensitive data …

Human activity recognition has been extensively used for the classification of occupational
tasks. Existing activity recognition approaches perform well when training and testing data …

A cast/brace is a tight garment that restricts the movement and provides support to an injured
zone. Traditional casts/braces suffer from material wastage, discomfort, patient …

Existing unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) studies focus on transferring knowledge in
an offline manner. However, many tasks involve online requirements, especially in real-time …

Abstract Development of sensing and imaging technologies have provided industries with
novel measuring systems. Two of the most noteworthy areas where measuring systems and …

With the constantly upgraded devices, the data we capture is shifting with time. Despite the
domain shifts among the images, we as humans can put aside the difference and still …

This dissertation studies the problem of rail renewal and maintenance planning to provide
the railroad agencies with optimized maintenance and renewal policies. To begin this study …

Manufacturing is an important sector to global competitiveness since it impacts economy,
national security, energy consumption, environmental sustainability, and societal prosperity …