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- | ====== Currently offered Projects, Fall 2011 (updated September | + | ====== Currently offered Projects, Fall 2012 (updated September |
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- | **Required Background**: | + | **Required Background**: |
+ | good math skills, knowledge of C and MATLAB programming languages | ||
- | **Recommended Background**: Robotics | + | One of the challenges in remote learning is to allow students to communicate effectively with the lecturer. |
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+ | The goal of this project is to apply attentive sensing technology (www.elderlab.yorku.ca) to this problem. | ||
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+ | In particular, working with a senior graduate student or postdoctoral fellow, the successful applicant will: | ||
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+ | - Study the problem of detecting hand-raises in the preattentive sensor stream | ||
+ | - Implement algorithms for detecting hand-raises based upon this investigation | ||
+ | - Evaluate these algorithms in a real-classroom setting, using proprietary attentive sensing technology | ||
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+ | ====== Continuation of a Path Diagram to Syntax Application ====== | ||
- | __Description__ | + | **Supervisor**: |
- | An opportunity exists for a small number of students to build an autonomous motorboat using a RC motorboat as a base and integrating computation and control in the form of a Beagleboard. Students will participate in lectures and labs associated with CSE6324 (Part I). Interested students should attend the first lecture of CSE6324. See the departmental schedule for time and place. | + | |
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- | ====== Athenians Data Project ====== | + | |
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- | **Recommended Background**: | + | **Recommended Background**: |
- | __Description__ | + | Structural equation modeling (SEM) is a statistical technique that is becoming increasingly popular in the educational |
- | The Athenians Project | + | |
- | Possible project ideas for this term span from simpler ones such as | + | |
- | how to present | + | |
- | add multimedia data, improve text searching, etc. to more complex ideas such as filling | + | |
- | missing parts for the " | + | |
- | words has been done in the past using expert knowledge. Those experts have establish | + | |
- | certain rules/ | + | |
- | when talking in IT terminology. Furthermore, | + | |
- | the database with some likelihood. Associating probabilities with hypotheses introduces | + | |
- | another opportunity for research projects. | + | |
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- | ====== Three-Dimensional Context from Linear Perspective | + | The software required is an application that allows researchers to define their hypothesized models visually and will output the correct syntax |
- | **Supervisor**: | + | To date a promising functional application has been developed in JAVA by a Computer Science student as a 4080 project. The existing software allows the user to draw a path diagram and outputs code for the R package sem. There are a number of improvements to be made (refinements and additions to graphical user interface) and then the application needs to be extended to output syntax appropriate for additional software applications (openMX, MPlus and EQS). Though this project may not begin at “the first stages” of the software lifecycle, this scenario is likely common in the software development market. In addition, the student will be working with a primary “client” who is far less technically advanced, which is also reflective of real-world situations. |
- | **Requirements**: Good facility with applied mathematics | + | More details {{:continuation_of_a_path_diagram_to_syntax_application.pdf|here}}. |
- | __Description__ | + | ====== YUsend Thermal Vacuum (TVAC) Test Manager ====== |
- | To provide visual surveillance over a large environment, | + | **Supervisor**: |
- | This problem can be addressed by automatically pre-mapping two-dimensional surveillance video data into three-dimensional coordinates. | + | **Required Background**: |
- | Mapping surveillance video to three-dimensional coordinates requires construction of a virtual model of the three-dimensional scene. | + | **Description** The YUsend (York University Space Engineering Nanosatellite Demonstration) Lab has procured |
- | This project will investigate a monocular method for inferring three-dimensional context | + | Specific tasks include: 1. Writing temperature acquisition card (OMEGA Engineering CIO-DAS-Temp) drivers |
- | Although the Manhattan world assumption provides powerful constraints, | ||
- | The student will work closely with graduate students and postdoctoral fellows at York University, as well as researchers at other institutions involved | + | ====== Game Playing Framework |
- | For more information on the laboratory: [[http:// | + | NO LONGER AVAILABLE |
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- | ====== Estimating Pedestrian and Vehicle Flows from Surveillance Video ====== | + | **Required Background**: |
- | **Supervisor**: James Elder | + | **Description** Game playing frameworks in Eiffel such as Eiffelmedia usually wrap C frameworks in Eiffel. The goal of this project is to develop (initially, a simple) framework using pure Eiffel/ |
- | **Requirements**: | + | ====== Numerical Methods ====== |
- | __Description__ | + | **Supervisor**: |
- | Facilities planning at both city (e.g., Toronto) | + | **Required Background**: |
+ | of Fortran, C or similar language. | ||
- | The density of permanent urban video surveillance camera installations has increased dramatically over the last several | + | **Description**: |
+ | polynomial equations, with a view to comparing different known methods. | ||
- | This project will explore the use of computer vision algorithms for the automatic estimation of pedestrian and vehicle flows from video surveillance data. The ultimate goal is to provide planners with accurate, continuous, up-to-date information on facility usage to help guide planning. | + | ====== Enabling SaaS access |
- | The student will work closely with graduate students and postdoctoral fellows | + | **Supervisor**: |
- | For more information on the laboratory: [[http://www.elderlab.yorku.ca]] | + | **Required Background**: Good knowledge of Unix tools / Python, Perl or Awk. Comfort with algorithms and programming. Essential: 2031 -- Software Tools. Desired: |
- | + | 3402 -- Functional & Logic Programming, | |
- | ---- | + | 3101 -- Design and Analysis of Algorithms, |
- | : | + | 4302 -- Compilers and Interpreters. |
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- | ====== Tandem repeat detection using spectral methods ====== | + | **Description**: |
- | **Supervisor**: Suprakash Datta | + | The components are various Unix executables and LISP programs that need to interact in complex ways. The components may be residing in different servers in different universities. Currently integration is performed manually, at the expense of usability. Thus, we aim at constructing a module that: (a) integrates involved components to deliver output in one call, (b) exports a unique web interface (preferably following WSDL/SOAP) to be easily accessed by custom front-end tools by anyone, anywhere, (c ) offers a simple front-end for human users. |
- | **Required Background**: The student should have completed undergraduate courses in Algorithms and Signals and Systems. | + | Learning objectives: |
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- | __Description__ | + | ====== Predicting Angular Error in Rigid Registration ====== |
- | DNA sequences of organisms have many repeated substrings. These are called repeats | + | |
- | Finding tandem repeats is an important problem in Computational Biology. The techniques that have been proposed for it fall into two classes: string matching algorithms and signal processing techniques. In this project, we will explore fast, accurate algorithms for detecting tandem repeats and evaluate the outputs of the algorithms studied by comparing their outputs with those of available packages, including mreps (http:// | + | **Supervisor**: Burton Ma |
- | The student will implement existing spectral algorithms | + | **Description**: |
+ | navigation. Several (seemingly) different approaches for predicting | ||
+ | distance errors in registration are known, but for some surgical | ||
+ | procedures, the angular error in registration is more important. | ||
+ | This project will validate an approach for predicting angular | ||
+ | error in registration; | ||
+ | simulated | ||
+ | ====== Calibration of a Tracked Pointer ====== | ||
+ | **Supervisor**: | ||
+ | **Description**: | ||
+ | navigation systems. A typical pointer has a tracked target on one | ||
+ | end and a sharp or ball tip on the other end. Finding the location | ||
+ | of the tip relative to the target is a calibration problem. One | ||
+ | solution to the calibration problem involves pivoting the pointer | ||
+ | about the tip while tracking the target; if the tip is kept | ||
+ | stationary, then the target moves on the surface of a sphere. | ||
+ | Fitting the tracking data to the surface of a sphere yields the | ||
+ | location of the tip as the sphere center. Unfortunately, | ||
+ | calibrated tip position obtained using such a spherical calibration | ||
+ | has high variance. This project will investigate how much variance | ||
+ | there is in the calibrated tip position, and methods for reducing | ||
+ | the variance of the calibrated tip position. | ||
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- | ====== Touch- and Gesture-based Text Entry With Automatic Error Correction ====== | ||
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- | **Required Background**: | ||
- | CSE3461 (or equivalent), | ||
- | A student wishing to do this project must be well versed in Java, Eclipse, and developing java code for the Android operating system. | ||
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- | **Recommended Background**: | ||
- | Possession of an Android touch-based phone or tablet would be an asset, but is not essential. | ||
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- | __Description__ | ||
- | This project involves extending a touch-based text entry method to include automatic error correction. | ||
+ | ====== A privacy safeguard framework for sharing photos on Facebook ====== | ||
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- | : | + | One of the major privacy concerns in Online Social Networks is photo sharing. |
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+ | **Required prerequisite background**: | ||
+ | **Desired prerequisite**: |
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