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- | **Supervisor**: | + | **Supervisor**: |
- | **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 | ||
- | __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. | ||
+ | ====== Attentive Sensing for Sport Video Recording Markets ====== | ||
+ | **Supervisor**: | ||
- | ---- | + | **Required Background**: Good programming skills; Good math skills; Knowledge of C and MATLAB programming languages |
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- | ====== Athenians Data Project ====== | + | |
+ | 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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+ | 2. | ||
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- | **Supervisor**: Nick Cercone | + | \\ |
+ | ====== Hunting for Bugs in Logging: applying JPF to log4j ====== | ||
- | **Required Background**: General CSE408x prerequisites | + | **Supervisor:** Franck van Breugel |
- | **Recommended Background**: Data Mining | + | Description: |
+ | Java PathFinder (JPF) is a tool that can detect bugs in Java code. | ||
+ | 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. | ||
- | __Description__ | + | Recently, in collaboration with Shafiei (NASA) we have developed |
- | The Athenians Project is a multi-year, ongoing project | + | an extension of JPF called jpf-nhandler. |
- | Possible | + | is to apply this extension |
- | how to present data in the best possible way, add spatial characteristics | + | |
- | 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 ====== | + | [1] David A. Dickey, B. Sinem Dorter, J. Michael German, Benjamin D. Madore, Mark W. Piper, Gabriel L. Zenarosa. " |
- | **Supervisor**: James Elder | + | **Required Background:** General CSE408x prerequisites |
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ------------ | ||
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+ | ======Hybrid 2D/3D User Interfaces for 3D Rotation ====== | ||
- | **Requirements**: | + | **Supervisor: |
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- | __Description__ | + | |
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- | To provide visual surveillance over a large environment, | + | |
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- | This problem can be addressed by automatically pre-mapping two-dimensional surveillance video data into three-dimensional coordinates. | + | |
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- | Mapping surveillance video to three-dimensional coordinates requires construction of a virtual model of the three-dimensional scene. | + | |
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- | This project will investigate a monocular method for inferring three-dimensional context for video surveillance. | + | |
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- | Although the Manhattan world assumption provides powerful constraints, | + | |
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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. | + | |
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- | For more information on the laboratory: [[http:// | + | |
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- | ====== Estimating Pedestrian and Vehicle Flows from Surveillance Video ====== | + | |
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- | **Supervisor**: James Elder | + | |
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- | **Requirements**: | + | |
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- | __Description__ | + | |
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- | 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. | + | |
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- | The density of permanent urban video surveillance camera installations has increased dramatically over the last several years. | + | |
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- | 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. | + | |
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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. | + | |
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- | For more information on the laboratory: [[http:// | + | |
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- | ====== Tandem repeat detection | + | **Required Background: |
- | **Supervisor**: | + | 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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+ | ====== Immersive Virtual Reality Kitchen Planner ====== | ||
- | **Required Background**: The student should have completed undergraduate courses in Algorithms and Signals and Systems. | + | **Supervisor:** Wolfgang Stuerzlinger |
- | **Recommended | + | **Required |
- | __Description__ | + | This project implements |
- | 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 | + | \\ |
+ | ------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ======3D Interaction in Immersive Virtual Reality====== | ||
- | 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:** Wolfgang Stuerzlinger |
- | 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. | + | **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. | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ====== Leveraging binary instrumentation to support monitoring and debugging of large scale software system in the field====== | ||
+ | **Supervisor: | ||
+ | **Required Background: | ||
+ | **Short Description: | ||
+ | | ||
+ | ------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
- | ---- | + | ====== Mining Software Repositories Data====== |
- | : | + | |
- | ---- | + | |
- | ====== Touch- and Gesture-based Text Entry With Automatic Error Correction ====== | + | **Supervisor: |
- | **Supervisor**: Scott Mackenzie | + | **Required Background:** Good programming skills in Java; Good analytical and communication skills; Knowledge in AI and statistics; Interested in large scale software analysis |
- | **Required Background**: | + | **Short Description: |
- | CSE3461 | + | |
- | A student wishing to do this project | + | |
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ------------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
- | **Recommended Background**: | + | ======Reliably tracking horizontal eye movements====== |
- | 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: | ||
+ | **Description: | ||
- | ---- | + | \\ |
- | : | + | ------------------ |
- | ---- | + | \\ |
- | ====== Early Breast Cancer Detection based on MRI’s. ====== | + | |
- | **Supervisor**: | + | ======Model-based Design and Development of Embedded Systems with Code Generation Tools====== |
- | **Required Background**: General CSE408x prerequisites | + | **Supervisor:** Jia Xu |
- | **Recommended background**: Signal processing, i.e. CSE3451 | + | **Required Background:** At least a B+ in Embedded Systems (CSE3215), MATLAB, C programming skills, solid experience in using a microcontroller |
+ | such as Arduino. | ||
- | Project Description: | + | **Project Description: |
- | 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 the | + | |
- | 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. | + | |
- | ---- | + | Model-based design with code generation tools can be used for simulation, rapid prototyping, |
- | : | + | |
- | ---- | + | |
- | ====== Developing Fast Speech Recognition Engine using GPU ====== | + | |
- | **Supervisor**: | + | \\ |
+ | ------------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
- | **Required Background**: | + | ======C2000 Concerto Microcontrollers====== |
- | 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. | + | |
+ | **Supervisor: | ||
- | **Recommended | + | **Required |
- | Possession of an Android touch-based phone or tablet would be an asset, but is not essential. | + | strong C programming skills, solid knowledge of microcontrollers |
- | __Description__ | + | **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. | ||
- | Recently, Graphics Processing Units (GPU' | + | \\ |
+ | ------------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
- | During the recent years, there is an increasing demand in the job market for programmers who can use GPU's for general purpose computing tasks. This project will serve as a perfect vehicle for you to learn such a cutting-edge programming skill. | + | ======Real-Time Bidding Platform====== |
- | References | + | **Supervisor: |
- | [1] Kisun You, Jike Chong, Youngmin Yi, Gonina, E., Hughes, C.J., Yen-Kuang Chen, Wonyong Sung, Keutzer, K., " | + | **Required Background:** At least a B+ in Operating System Fundamentals |
+ | (CSE3221), strong Ubuntu/ | ||
- | [2] Jike Chong, Ekaterina Gonina, Youngmin Yi, Kurt Keutzer, "A Fully Data Parallel WFST-based Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition on a Graphics Processing Unit," Proc. of Interspeech 2009, Brigton, UK, 2009. | + | **Description: |
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ------------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | More project proposals may be added here in the first week of fall term. | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ------------------ | ||
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