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Community Design and Development by Necessity
The project will entail a planned community for the poor
citizens who live in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. The
development will include developing and sustaining a
community through housing, public services, and connecting
citizens. The thesis will examine the small colonias of south
Texas to determine a new way of delivering the necessities
of life, fresh air, sunlight, clean water, food, shelter, and how
they are, or are not met.
The thesis is called Community Design and Development
by Necessity. A community center called Casa de Amistad
and a development plan will be designed for the colonia of
Laureles, Texas
Component Evolution Analysis in Descriptor Graphs for Descriptor Ranking
This paper presents a method based on graph behaviour analysis for the evaluation
of descriptor graphs (applied to image/video datasets) for descriptor performance
analysis and ranking. Starting from the Erd˝os-R´enyi model on uniform random
graphs, the paper presents results of investigating random geometric graph behaviour
in relation with the appearance of the giant component as a basis for
ranking descriptors based on their clustering properties. We analyse the phase
transition and the evolution of components in such graphs, and based on their
behaviour, the corresponding descriptors are compared, ranked, and validated in
retrieval tests. The goal is to build an evaluation framework where descriptors can
be analysed for automatic feature selection
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