This calendar lists graduate thesis and dissertation events. Send all notices to the College of Graduate Studies at editor@ucf.edu

Thursday, November 02, 2023

  • Dissertation Defense: Towards a Robust and Efficient Deep Neural Network for the LiDAR Point Cloud Perception

    Virtual

    Announcing the Final Examination of Zixiang Zhou for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy In recent years, LiDAR has emerged as a crucial perception tool for robotics and autonomous vehicles. However, most LiDAR perception methods are adapted from 2D image-based deep learning methods, which are not well-suited to the unique geometric structure of LiDAR point cloud data. This domain gap …

    Graduate Thesis and Dissertation
  • Dissertation Defense: Towards a Robust and Efficient Deep Neural Network for the LiDAR Point Cloud Perception

    Virtual

    Announcing the Final Examination of Zixiang Zhou for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy In recent years, LiDAR has emerged as a crucial perception tool for robotics and autonomous vehicles. However, most LiDAR perception methods are adapted from 2D image-based deep learning methods, which are not well-suited to the unique geometric structure of LiDAR point cloud data. This domain gap …

    Graduate Thesis and Dissertation
  • Thesis Defense: THE STENCH OF MIASMA AND THE FRAGRANCE OF DAFFODILS: RECONSTRUCTING HISTORICAL SCENTSCAPES IN MESOPOTAMIA

    Virtual

    Announcing the Final Examination of Ms. Samantha Levy for the degree of Master of Arts in History This thesis interrogates the role that the sense of smell plays in the experience of place, arguing that scent has been virtually ignored in public history contexts. The thesis will review the foundational scholarship on the “history of the senses,” and relate the …

    Graduate Thesis and Dissertation