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+ | ====== DDoS Attack using Google-bots ====== | ||
- | ====== Building an autonomous motorboat ====== | + | **Supervisor**: |
- | **Supervisor**: Michael Jenkin | + | **Recommended Background**: CSE 3213 or CSE 3214, CSE 3482 |
- | **Required Background**: General CSE408x prerequisites | + | 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/ | ||
- | **Recommended Background**: | ||
- | __Description__ | ||
- | 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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+ | ====== Attentive Sensing for Better Two-Way Communication in Remote Learning Environments ====== | ||
- | ---- | + | **Supervisor**: James Elder |
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- | ====== Athenians Data Project ====== | + | **Required Background**: |
+ | good math skills, knowledge of C and MATLAB programming languages | ||
- | **Supervisor**: Nick Cercone | + | 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: | ||
+ | |||
+ | - 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 | ||
- | **Required Background**: | ||
- | **Recommended Background**: | + | ====== Attentive Sensing for Sport Video Recording Markets ====== |
- | __Description__ | + | **Supervisor**: James Elder |
- | 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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- | ====== Three-Dimensional Context from Linear Perspective for Video Surveillance Systems ====== | + | **Required Background**: |
- | **Supervisor**: | + | |
+ | 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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- | **Requirements**: Good facility with applied mathematics | + | \\ |
+ | ====== Hunting for Bugs in Logging: applying JPF to log4j ====== | ||
- | __Description__ | + | **Supervisor: |
- | To provide visual surveillance over a large environment, | + | Description: |
+ | Java PathFinder (JPF) is a tool that can detect bugs in Java code. | ||
+ | The Java library Apache log4j allows developers | ||
+ | statements are output. | ||
+ | to detect bugs in log4j by means of JPF with very limited succes. | ||
- | This problem can be addressed by automatically pre-mapping two-dimensional surveillance video data into three-dimensional coordinates. | + | Recently, in collaboration with Shafiei (NASA) we have developed |
+ | an extension of JPF called jpf-nhandler. | ||
+ | is to apply this extension to log4j. | ||
- | Mapping surveillance video to three-dimensional coordinates requires construction of a virtual model of the three-dimensional scene. Such a model could be obtained by survey (e.g., using LIDAR), but the cost and time required for each site would severely limit deployment. | + | [1] David A. Dickey, B. Sinem Dorter, J. Michael German, Benjamin D. Madore, Mark W. Piper, Gabriel L. Zenarosa. " |
- | This project will investigate a monocular method for inferring three-dimensional context for video surveillance. | + | **Required Background: |
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+ | ------------ | ||
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+ | ======Hybrid 2D/3D User Interfaces for 3D Rotation ====== | ||
- | Although the Manhattan world assumption provides powerful constraints, | + | **Supervisor:** Wolfgang Stuerzlinger |
- | 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: |
- | For more information on the laboratory: [[http:// | + | 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, |
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+ | ------------ | ||
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+ | ====== Immersive Virtual Reality Kitchen Planner ====== | ||
- | ---- | + | **Supervisor:** Wolfgang Stuerzlinger |
- | : | + | |
- | ---- | + | |
- | ====== Estimating Pedestrian and Vehicle Flows from Surveillance Video ====== | + | **Required Background: |
- | **Supervisor**: | + | 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====== | ||
- | **Requirements**: Good facility with applied mathematics | + | **Supervisor:** Wolfgang Stuerzlinger |
- | __Description__ | + | **Required Background: |
- | Facilities planning at both city (e.g., Toronto) | + | This project implements and tests various 3D Navigation |
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ------------ | ||
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- | The density of permanent urban video surveillance camera installations has increased dramatically over the last several years. | ||
- | 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. | + | ====== Mining Software Repositories Data====== |
- | The student will work closely with graduate students and postdoctoral fellows | + | **Supervisor: |
- | For more information on the laboratory: [[http:// | + | **Required Background: |
- | + | ||
- | ---- | + | **Short Description: |
- | : | + | |
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+ | ------------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | |||
+ | ======Reliably tracking horizontal eye movements====== | ||
- | ====== Tandem repeat detection using spectral methods ====== | + | **Supervisor: |
- | **Supervisor**: Suprakash Datta | + | **Required Background:** General 408X prerequisites, |
- | **Required Background**: The student should have completed undergraduate courses in Algorithms | + | **Description: |
- | **Recommended Background**: | + | \\ |
+ | ------------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
- | __Description__ | + | ======Model-based Design |
- | DNA sequences of organisms have many repeated substrings. These are called repeats in Biology, | + | |
- | 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:** Jia Xu |
- | 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 | + | **Required Background: |
+ | such as Arduino. | ||
+ | **Project Description: | ||
+ | Model-based design with code generation tools can be used for simulation, rapid prototyping, | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ------------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
- | ---- | + | ======C2000 Concerto Microcontrollers====== |
- | : | + | |
- | ---- | + | |
- | ====== Touch- and Gesture-based Text Entry With Automatic Error Correction ====== | + | **Supervisor: |
- | **Supervisor**: Scott Mackenzie | + | **Required Background:** At least a B+ in Embedded Systems (CSE3215), |
+ | strong C programming skills, solid knowledge of microcontrollers | ||
- | **Required Background**: | + | **Description: |
- | CSE3461 (or equivalent), | + | two cores on a single-chip with on-chip low latency interprocessor communication between the two cores: a C28x 32-bit control core for |
- | A student wishing to do this project must be well versed in Java, Eclipse, | + | 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 | ||
+ | C2000 Concerto family of microcontrollers through testing and investigating open source software for real-time control applications | ||
+ | that runs on C2000 Concerto Microcontrollers. | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ------------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
- | **Recommended Background**: | + | ======Real-Time Bidding Platform====== |
- | Possession of an Android touch-based phone or tablet would be an asset, but is not essential. | + | |
- | __Description__ | + | **Supervisor: |
- | This project involves extending a touch-based text entry method to include automatic error correction. | + | |
+ | **Required Background: | ||
+ | (CSE3221), strong Ubuntu/ | ||
+ | **Description: | ||
- | ---- | + | \\ |
- | : | + | ------------------ |
- | ---- | + | \\ |
- | ====== Early Breast Cancer Detection based on MRI’s. ====== | + | |
- | **Supervisor**: | + | ======Circuit and Board Design for a Pulsed Ground Penetrating Radar====== |
- | **Required Background**: General CSE408x prerequisites | + | **Supervisor:**Sebastian Magierowski |
- | **Recommended background**: Signal processing | + | **Description: |
- | Project Description: | + | **Required Background** A background in undergraduate-level electronics is very important. |
- | processing techniques for early detection of breast cancer using the available | + | |
- | modalities. In particular, we propose to develop time reversal beamforming imager, | + | |
- | based on our earlier work in time reversal signal processing, for detecting early stage | + | |
- | breast cancer tumours from MRI data. | + | |
- | Our preliminary work has illustrated the type of | + | |
- | results that are possible for breast cancer detection by applying time reversal signal | + | |
- | processing on MRI breast data. In this research, we propose to extend these results to | + | |
- | provide a quantitative understanding of the practical gains provided by time reversal | + | |
- | in MRI based breast cancer detection and its limitations. This will be accomplished | + | |
- | a local hospital, and running our algorithms on these datasets. The first step is | + | |
- | important to check the validity of our algorithms. The next step is to compare | + | |
- | estimated locations of the tumours (as derived with our algorithms) to their precise | + | |
- | locations as identified by the pathologists. The second step will quantify the accuracy | + | |
- | of our estimation algorithms. | + | |
- | ---- | + | \\ |
- | : | + | ------------------ |
- | ---- | + | \\ |
+ | More project proposals may be added here in the first week of the winter term. | ||
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+ | ------------------ | ||
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