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- | ====== Building an autonomous motorboat ====== | + | Currently offered Projects, Summer 2013 |
- | **Supervisor**: | + | (some projects still subject to confirmation) |
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- | **Recommended Background**: | + | ====== 3D Drawing System with Leap Motion finger tracker ====== |
- | __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. | + | |
+ | **Required Background**: | ||
+ | The Leap Motion, leapmotion.com, | ||
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- | ====== Athenians Data Project ====== | + | **Supervisor**: |
- | **Supervisor**: Nick Cercone | + | **Required Background**: 3D computer graphics, C/C++ coding |
- | **Required Background**: | + | The 3Gear system, threegear.com, |
- | **Recommended Background**: | ||
- | __Description__ | ||
- | The Athenians Project is a multi-year, ongoing project of compiling, computerizing and studying data about the persons of ancient Athens. | ||
- | Possible project ideas for this term span from simpler ones such as | ||
- | how to present data in the best possible way, add spatial characteristics to existing data, | ||
- | 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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- | **Requirements**: | + | **Required Background**: General 4080 prerequisites, |
- | __Description__ | + | Touchscreen mobile devices commonly use a built-in accelerometer to sense movement or tilting actions of the device. |
- | To provide visual surveillance over a large environment, many surveillance cameras are typically deployed at widely dispersed locations. | + | **Readings**: |
- | This problem can be addressed by automatically pre-mapping two-dimensional surveillance video data into three-dimensional coordinates. | + | ====== Attentive Sensing for Better Two-Way Communication |
- | Mapping surveillance video to three-dimensional coordinates requires construction of a virtual model of the three-dimensional scene. | + | **Supervisor**: |
- | This project will investigate a monocular method for inferring three-dimensional context for video surveillance. | + | **Required Background**: |
+ | good math skills, knowledge | ||
- | Although | + | 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 | ||
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+ | In particular, working with a senior graduate student or postdoctoral fellow, the successful applicant will: | ||
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+ | - Implement algorithms for detecting hand-raises based upon this investigation | ||
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- | The student will work closely with graduate students and postdoctoral fellows at York University, as well as researchers at other institutions involved in the project. | ||
- | For more information on the laboratory: [[http:// | + | ====== Attentive Sensing for Sport Video Recording Markets ====== |
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- | ====== Estimating Pedestrian | + | **Required Background**: |
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+ | The goal of this project is to modify York University’s patented attentive sensor technology to the sport video recording market. | ||
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+ | The general problem is to use attentive sensing technology (www.elderlab.yorku.ca) to visually detect and track multiple moving agents (e.g., skiers, riders, horses) and to select specific agents for active high-resolution smooth pursuit. | ||
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+ | The student will work with senior graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and research scientists to help modify the attentive sensing technology to operate in these domains. | ||
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- | __Description__ | + | ====== Continuation of a Path Diagram to Syntax Application ====== |
- | Facilities planning at both city (e.g., Toronto) and institutional (e.g., York University) scales requires accurate data on the flow of people and vehicles throughout the environment. | + | **Supervisor**: |
- | The density of permanent urban video surveillance camera installations has increased dramatically over the last several years. | + | **Required Background**: |
- | 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. | + | **Recommended Background**: |
- | The student will work closely with graduate students | + | Structural equation modeling (SEM) is a statistical technique that is becoming increasingly popular in the educational |
- | For more information on the laboratory: [[http:// | + | The software required is an application that allows researchers to define their hypothesized models visually and will output |
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- | ====== Tandem repeat detection using spectral methods ====== | + | 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. |
- | **Supervisor**: Suprakash Datta | + | More details {{:continuation_of_a_path_diagram_to_syntax_application.pdf|here}}. |
- | **Required Background**: | ||
- | **Recommended Background**: | ||
- | __Description__ | + | ====== Enabling SaaS access |
- | DNA sequences of organisms have many repeated substrings. These are called repeats in Biology, and include both exact as well as approximate repeats. Repeats are of two main types: interspersed repeats (which are spread across a genome) and tandem repeats, which occur next to each other. Tandem repeats play important roles in gene regulation and are also used as markers that have several important uses, including human identity testing. | + | |
- | 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**: Sotirios Liaskos |
- | The student will implement existing spectral | + | **Required Background**: |
+ | 3402 -- Functional & Logic Programming, | ||
+ | 3101 -- Design | ||
+ | 4302 -- Compilers | ||
+ | **Description**: | ||
+ | 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. | ||
+ | Learning objectives: | ||
+ | * Understand the technologies and process involved in turning native code into a web-service (" | ||
+ | * Study a state-of-the-art AI planner and understand its workings. | ||
+ | * Exercise scripting skills. | ||
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- | **Required Background**: | + | **Description**: Registration is a fundamental step in image-based surgical |
- | CSE3461 | + | navigation. Several |
- | A student wishing to do this project | + | distance errors in registration are known, but for some surgical |
+ | procedures, the angular error in registration is more important. | ||
+ | This project | ||
+ | error in registration; | ||
+ | simulated | ||
+ | ====== Calibration of a Tracked Pointer ====== | ||
- | **Recommended Background**: | + | **Supervisor**: Burton Ma |
- | Possession of an Android touch-based phone or tablet would be an asset, but is not essential. | + | |
- | __Description__ | + | **Description**: |
- | This project involves extending a touch-based text entry method to include automatic error correction. The method, as is, uses Graffiti strokes entered via a finger | + | navigation systems. A typical pointer has a tracked target |
+ | end and a sharp or ball tip on the other end. Finding the location | ||
+ | of the tip relative to the target | ||
+ | solution | ||
+ | about the tip while tracking the target; if the tip is kept | ||
+ | stationary, then the target moves on the surface | ||
+ | Fitting | ||
+ | location | ||
+ | calibrated tip position obtained | ||
+ | has high variance. This project will investigate how much variance | ||
+ | there is in the calibrated tip position, | ||
+ | the variance | ||
+ | ====== 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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