Acknowledgements I'd like to acknowledge the support of the many people that have helped me throughout my career at Roosevelt University. In particular, this thesis could not be completed without the support of the following people:-Dr. Eric Berkowitz, for listening to all of my crazy ideas and helping me develop a few of the decent ones. Your continual habit of reducing problems to their philo...

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Acknowledgements I would like to thank some people who were involved in the creation of this thesis: • Berry Schoenmakers of TU Eindhoven for introducing me to the topic of cryptographic voting protocols. • Evangelos Karatsiolis for his work in guiding me through the process of writing this thesis and his constant motivation. • Roberto Samarone Araujo for hours of discussing various protocols w...

To my parents, for their endless support iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my advisor, Prof. Ye (Geoffrey) Li. During my Ph.D. study, he has always been motivating, guiding, and encouraging me to be more fruitful in my research. This thesis has significantly benefited from his guidance and encouragement. I can never thank him enough for his time and efforts de...

This thesis work is mainly motivated to solve the stereo correspondence problem. As solving the correspondence problem could result a precise disparity map allowing the interpolation of intermediate views in 3DTV, the disparity map estimation receives nowadays constant research interests by lots researchers worldwide. According to the state-of-art, the colour segmentation-based stereo matching ...

ii For Matt, who said I could do whatever I wanted, and probably thought I would choose differently. Things have a way of coming full circle. Thank you. iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS It is with great appreciation that I thank both my mentor Dr. Jackie Bickenbach, and our collaborator, Dr. Nukhet Aykin-Burns, without whom my project would not have been possible. I would also like to recognize both Dr. Mi...

iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I w ould rst like to thank my advisor, Professor Wen-mei Hwu, for his guidance and support. I have learned a lot from him and I greatly enjoyed taking his classes during my undergraduate and graduate school days. I also like to thank Scott Mahlke who helped me whenever I had a question or problem. Without his help this thesis would never have been nished. Lastly, I like to ...

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Acknowledgements I would like to acknowledge and thank my thesis supervisor, Dr. Claude Messier, for his support, guidance, encouragement and training that allowed me to develop my research skills. I am also like to thank my family for their continued support during my years in Ottawa. Finally, I would like to thank my friends and fellow graduate students who, in a variety of ways, have support...