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