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- | ====== Building an autonomous motorboat ====== | + | ===Dynamic Interface Detection and Control Project=== |
- | **Supervisor**: Michael Jenkin | + | **Supervisor: |
- | **Required Background**: | ||
- | **Recommended Background**: | + | Contrary to most industries, fine chemical manufacturing is dominated by batch production methods. Increasing economic, environmental and safety pressures are motivating a turn towards continuous synthesis. Rather than making products in one big flask, continuous synthesis involves performing chemical reactions by flowing reagents through a tube. Working in this way provides more control over the reaction parameters leading to increases in product quality, and process efficiency and safety. The flow chemistry industry for fine chemical production is a relatively new but burgeoning field with a projected market capacity of billions of dollars by 2018. |
- | __Description__ | + | Extraction of the reaction mixture |
- | An opportunity exists | + | |
+ | A key step in the process takes place in a clear tube that is mounted vertically. The tube contains two fluids with a boundary between them. During the process material flows into and out of the tube from the top and the bottom. Chemical reactions take place within this tube and It is essential that the position of the boundary be monitored as its position in the tube is used to control the flow of materials into the tube. | ||
+ | One way of solving this problem is to float a marker at the boundary between the two liquids and to monitor this boundary using a video camera. Although this approach solves the problem, it requires the introduction of a specific float within the tube. Can we build a system that monitors the boundary without resorting to the use of an artificial float? | ||
- | ---- | + | Specific goals of the project include: |
- | : | + | • Develop a computer vision system that can detect and monitor the interface between two miscible fluids of different density. |
- | ---- | + | * Evaluate the performance of the system over a range of different (and typical) fluids |
+ | * Explore the use of different illuminant/ | ||
- | ====== Athenians Data Project ====== | + | The successful candidate(s) will have the experience of working with a diverse group of scientists and engineers toward the design and implementation of an automated liquid extraction device with applications across many industries. Upon successful prototyping, |
- | **Supervisor**: | + | For further information please contact, |
- | **Required Background**: | + | Michael Jenkin (jenkin@cse.yorku.ca) or Michal Organ (organ@yorku.ca) |
- | **Recommended Background**: | + | \\ |
+ | ====== DDoS Attack using Google-bots ====== | ||
- | __Description__ | + | **Supervisor**: Ntalija Vlajic |
- | 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. | + | |
- | ---- | + | |
- | : | + | |
- | ---- | + | |
- | ====== Three-Dimensional Context from Linear Perspective for Video Surveillance Systems ====== | + | **Recommended Background**: |
- | **Supervisor**: James Elder | + | Not long ago, botnets - networks of compromised computers - were seen as |
+ | the most effective (if not the only) means of conducting Distributed Denial | ||
+ | of Service (DDoS) attacks. However, with the growing popularity and prevalence | ||
+ | of application-layer over other types of DDoS attacks, the DDoS execution | ||
+ | landscape is becoming increasingly more diverse. An especially interesting | ||
+ | new trend is the execution of application-layer DDoS attacks by means of | ||
+ | skillfully manipulated Web-crawlers, | ||
+ | The goal of this project is to design, implement and test a real-world | ||
+ | framework consisting of the following: a) the attacker' | ||
+ | domain specially designed to attract Google-bots and then manipulate them | ||
+ | into generating attack traffic towards the target/ | ||
+ | victim' | ||
+ | component, the project will also look into the statistical/ | ||
+ | estimation of the framework' | ||
+ | to an actual (real-world) target/ | ||
- | **Requirements**: | ||
- | __Description__ | ||
- | To provide visual surveillance over a large environment, | ||
- | 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. |
+ | |||
+ | The goal of this project | ||
+ | |||
+ | In particular, working with a senior graduate student or postdoctoral fellow, the successful applicant will: | ||
+ | |||
+ | | ||
+ | - Implement algorithms for detecting hand-raises based upon this investigation | ||
+ | | ||
- | 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 ====== |
- | ---- | + | **Supervisor**: James Elder |
- | : | + | |
- | ---- | + | |
- | ====== Estimating Pedestrian | + | **Required Background**: |
- | **Supervisor**: | + | |
+ | The goal of this project is to modify York University’s patented attentive sensor technology to the sport video recording market. | ||
+ | |||
+ | 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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- | **Requirements**: Good facility with applied mathematics | + | \\ |
+ | ====== Hunting for Bugs in Logging: applying JPF to log4j ====== | ||
- | __Description__ | + | **Supervisor: |
- | 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. | + | Description: |
+ | Java PathFinder | ||
+ | The Java library Apache log4j allows developers to control which log | ||
+ | statements are output. | ||
+ | to detect bugs in log4j by means of JPF with very limited succes. | ||
- | The density | + | Recently, in collaboration with Shafiei (NASA) we have developed |
+ | an extension | ||
+ | is to apply this extension to log4j. | ||
- | 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 | + | [1] David A. Dickey, B. Sinem Dorter, J. Michael German, Benjamin D. Madore, Mark W. Piper, Gabriel L. Zenarosa. " |
- | 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. | + | **Required Background: |
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ======Hybrid 2D/3D User Interfaces for 3D Rotation ====== | ||
- | For more information on the laboratory: [[http://www.elderlab.yorku.ca]] | + | **Supervisor:** Wolfgang Stuerzlinger |
- | + | ||
- | ---- | + | **Required Background:** General 408X prerequisites, |
- | : | + | |
- | ---- | + | This project implements and evaluates a new method for 3D Rotation where the user uses both a 2D and 3D user interface to complete the task. The fundamental idea is to use the 3D interface for large-scale manipulation, |
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ====== Immersive Virtual Reality Kitchen Planner ====== | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Supervisor:** Wolfgang Stuerzlinger | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Required Background: | ||
+ | |||
+ | This project implements a kitchen planner application for an immersive virtual reality system. The implementation will be based on Unity 4. | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ======3D Interaction in Immersive Virtual Reality====== | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Supervisor: | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Required Background: | ||
+ | |||
+ | This project implements and tests various 3D Navigation and 3D Interaction methods in an immersive virtual reality system. The target is to enable the user to roam freely in a large environment while still being able to interact with the environment. The implementation will be based on Unity 4. | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | ====== Mining Software Repositories Data====== | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Supervisor: | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Required Background: | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Short Description: | ||
+ | |||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ------------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | |||
+ | ======Reliably tracking horizontal eye movements====== | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Supervisor: | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Required Background: | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Description: | ||
- | ====== Tandem repeat detection using spectral methods ====== | + | \\ |
+ | ------------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
- | **Supervisor**: | + | ======Model-based Design and Development of Embedded Systems with Code Generation Tools====== |
- | **Required Background**: The student should have completed undergraduate courses in Algorithms and Signals and Systems. | + | **Supervisor:** Jia Xu |
- | **Recommended | + | **Required |
+ | such as Arduino. | ||
- | __Description__ | + | **Project Description:** |
- | 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 | + | Model-based design with code generation tools can be used for simulation, rapid prototyping, and hardware-in-the-loop testing |
- | The student will implement existing spectral algorithms based on Fourier Transforms and on an autoregressive model. He will then make changes suggested by the supervisor, and evaluate the effect of the modifications. Throughout the course, the student is required to maintain a course Web site to report any progress and details about the project. | + | \\ |
+ | ------------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ======C2000 Concerto Microcontrollers====== | ||
+ | **Supervisor: | ||
+ | **Required Background: | ||
+ | strong C programming skills, solid knowledge of microcontrollers | ||
- | ---- | + | **Description: |
- | : | + | two cores on a single-chip with on-chip low latency interprocessor communication between the two cores: a C28x 32-bit control core for |
- | ---- | + | real-time control with faster/more loops and small sampling window; |
+ | and an ARM 32-bit Cortex-M3 host core for communications and general purpose. The selected student will evaluate the capabilities of the | ||
+ | C2000 Concerto family of microcontrollers through testing and investigating open source software for real-time control applications | ||
+ | that runs on C2000 Concerto Microcontrollers. | ||
- | ====== Touch- and Gesture-based Text Entry With Automatic Error Correction ====== | + | \\ |
+ | ------------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
- | **Supervisor**: | + | ======Real-Time Bidding Platform====== |
- | **Required Background**: | + | **Supervisor:** Jia Xu |
- | 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. | + | |
+ | **Required Background: | ||
+ | (CSE3221), strong Ubuntu/ | ||
- | **Recommended Background**: | + | **Description: |
- | Possession | + | |
- | __Description__ | + | \\ |
- | This project involves extending a touch-based text entry method to include automatic error correction. | + | ------------------ |
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ======Circuit and Board Design for a Pulsed Ground Penetrating Radar====== | ||
+ | **Supervisor: | ||
- | ---- | + | **Description: |
- | : | + | |
- | ---- | + | |
+ | **Required Background** A background in undergraduate-level electronics is very important. | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ------------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | More project proposals may be added here in the first week of the winter term. | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ------------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | \\ |
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