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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Title: IMPROVING UNDERWATER RECOGNITION THROUGH DOMAIN TRANSFER<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Abstract: Unmanned underwater vehicles could potentially provide huge utility to both recreational and navy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">divers, provided they can accurately recognize their environments and inter-op with both their task<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">and user. The difficulty of collecting underwater data presents complications in creating robust<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">and generalizable underwater recognition models for these use cases. Domain transfer can be used<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">to take advantage of the plethora and ease of above water datasets by transferring them to look<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">as though they were taken underwater. This project uses the latest domain transfer architectures<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">to create underwater-like datasets. Such datasets are used for the evaluation of the accuracy and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">usefulness of the domain transfer process.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Defense date: November 19<sup>th</sup> @ 3:30-5:30 pm CST<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Location: NRC 1003 as well as online.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Online link:
<a href="https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/ap/t-59584e83/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fteams.microsoft.com%2Fl%2Fmeetup-join%2F19%253ameeting_YzljOTM1ZWEtN2QyYy00NTA4LWI5MTktNTQ0YzMyOWIzMzM1%2540thread.v2%2F0%3Fcontext%3D%257b%2522Tid%2522%253a%252234cbfaf1-67a6-4781-a9ca-514eb2550b66%2522%252c%2522Oid%2522%253a%252202849a68-04af-4a4c-879d-77803cc88a51%2522%257d&data=05%7C02%7Ccosc-grad-students-list%40listserv.tamucc.edu%7C2908d2357e5144be3d5f08de22f472e8%7C34cbfaf167a64781a9ca514eb2550b66%7C0%7C0%7C638986630468289445%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=SjJCzR7PR7otE%2B3rXntCCDNxcvC%2F5B%2F6KPWDCFdrwGc%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_YzljOTM1ZWEtN2QyYy00NTA4LWI5MTktNTQ0YzMyOWIzMzM1%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2234cbfaf1-67a6-4781-a9ca-514eb2550b66%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%2202849a68-04af-4a4c-879d-77803cc88a51%22%7d" target="_blank">
Matthew Kastl Thesis Defense | Meeting-Join | Microsoft Teams</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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