School of Computer Science (SCS): Recent submissions

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    • Efficient Calculation of Frame Level Complex Predicates in Video Analytics 

      Sengupta, Aubhro (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2023-01-18)
      The field of video analytics focuses on extracting useful information from video. Lets consider a scenario in which we have a large amount of video from a traffic camera at a certain busy intersection and we are looking ...

    • Oracle Guided Image Synthesis with Relative Queries 

      Helbling, Alec Fisher (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2023-01-18)
      Isolating and controlling specific features in the outputs of generative models in a user-friendly way is a difficult and open-ended problem. We develop techniques that allow a user to generate an image they are envisioning ...

    • Intelligent Buffer Pool Prefetching 

      Suresh, Sylesh Kyle (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2023-01-18)
      Buffer pools are essential for disk-based database management system (DBMS) performance as accessing memory on disk is orders of magnitude more expensive than accessing data in-memory. As such, one of the most important ...

    • Forecasting Atlanta Gentrification with Transformers 

      Sett, Gaurav (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2023-01-18)
      Gentrification is an impactful trend in American cities, yet our ability to measure and predict this process remains weak. This thesis explores the use of machine learning to predict gentrification in Atlanta, Georgia. We ...

    • Fighting on Facebook: Political Conversations Between Strong and Weak Ties 

      Bernstein, Lily (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2023-01-18)
      Most Facebook users have observed a heated disagreement on the site, or been involved in such a disagreement themselves. Why do we get into these disagreements and who are we fighting with? Are we learning anything from ...

    • Evaluating the Predictive Performance of Genomic Data-based Machine Learning Models for 4 Different Mental Health Disorders 

      Choi, Katherine Elena (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2023-01-18)
      Clinical psychiatry can greatly benefit from using polygenic risk scores (PRS) to assess the risk of developing certain mental health disorders. While the PRS performance can be evaluated considering exclusively the disorder, ...

    • Usability Study of ImageScape Integration in the Prolonged Exposure Collective Sensing System (PECSS) 

      Zou, Chunhao (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2023-01-18)
      We studied the usability and usefulness of the Prolonged Exposure Collective Sensing System (PECSS) for clinicians conducting prolonged exposure (PE) therapy with a special focus on one functional component of PECSS called ...

    • JavaScript for the Adult Novice 

      Sawyer, Catherine (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-12)
      The paper proposes a free asynchronous course in JavaScript for adult novices looking to change careers and enter the field of computer programming or other technologic areas. The course is based on current andragogical ...

    • Multidimensional Allocation: In Apportionment and Bin Packing 

      Chiu, Alvin (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-08)
      In this thesis, we deal with two problems on multidimensional allocation, specifically in apportionment and in bin packing. The apportionment problem models the allocation of seats in a House of Representatives such that ...

    • Rhythm OLMITS 

      Kwan, Derek (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022)
      Rhythm OLMITS is a beat-centered rhythm intelligent tutoring system with an open learner model that visualizes skills at various levels of abstraction. It incorporates overall skill visualization in its interface where ...

    • Develop Financial Literacy and Metacognition via Gaming 

      Chordia, Provit (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-08-01)
      Financial literacy is very important as it has a material impact on a family’s budget. It helps in understanding the value of money and various decisions related to money. Studies have found financial literacy to be very ...

    • Bangladesh Bank Cyber Heist: Incident Analysis 

      Balu, Ramkumar (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022)
      In one of the largest cyber heists that took place in February 2016, the Central Bank of Bangladesh (Bangladesh Bank) lost $81 million from its account held in Federal Reserve Bank of New York. By applying Diamond model ...

    • Generating Knowledge Graphs using GPT-J for Automated Story Generation Purposes 

      Dani, Samihan Ashay (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-05)
      Automated story generation is a recent challenge in artificial intelligence that aims to create stories in coherent ways. While it’s made much progress, stories are still not coherent; however, a possible solution is to ...

    • Understanding Intrusive Questioning in Online Conversations 

      Das, Rohit (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-05)
      In online mental health platforms, ensuring that vulnerable users receive care without harm is of paramount importance. Our group created a representative, data-driven semantic taxonomy for harmful behaviors that occur on ...

    • Improving the Balance of a Random-access Data Structure on a Migratory Thread Platform 

      Joshipura, Muktaka B. (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-05)
      In this work, we look at a distributed random-access data structure provided with a migratory-thread platform: the Lucata Pathfinder, called a chunked array. A chunked array provides sequential locality on sections of the ...

    • Integrating Passive and Active Practice for Augmenting Piano Education 

      Teuscher, Noah (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-05)
      Passive haptic learning (PHL) is the technique of training the muscle memory of a user through repeated vibrotactile stimulation, even when the user directs their attention towards other tasks. Teaching users to play piano ...

    • A Study of Allele-Specific Methylation on the Human X Chromosome 

      Morgan, Robert A. (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-05)
      X chromosome inactivation in female mammals ensures dosage compensation between sexes. Allele-specific DNA methylation is a known epigenetic signature of X chromosome inactivation where the active and inactive X chromosomes ...

    • Attention-Enhanced Multimodal Learning with Projected Modalities 

      Chaganti, Sidhartha (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-05)
      Multimodal learning enables networks to consider mulitple perspectives or modalities of a scene when performing activity recognition. We propose networks which use attention to better focus on select portions of data along ...

    • Mimicry Attacks Against DNS Reputation Systems 

      Galloway, Tillson Thomas (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-05)
      The Domain Name System (DNS) has been an essential component of the Internet since 1985, mapping domain names that are easy to remember (e.g. google.com) to IPs that computers use to communicate (e.g. 30.3.5.2). DNS ...

    • Commonsense Reasoning in Interpersonal Conflict 

      Cao, Ziyuan (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-05)
      We propose to use the subreddit named r/AITA as the corpus for studying social commonsense reasoning. Compared to existing popular corpora, it contains social situations with more complex structures. We show that current ...