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- | **Required Background**: | + | **Required Background**: |
- | **Recommended Background**: | + | The Leap Motion, leapmotion.com, |
- | __Description__ | + | ====== 3D Drawing System |
- | 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 | + | |
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- | **Recommended Background**: | + | This project compares the Leap Motion and the 3Gear System against each other in a comparative Fitts' law study |
- | __Description__ | + | ====== Tilt Target Selection |
- | 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 ====== | + | **Supervisor**: |
- | **Supervisor**: | + | **Required Background**: General 4080 prerequisites, |
- | **Requirements**: | + | Touchscreen mobile devices commonly use a built-in accelerometer to sense movement or tilting actions of the device. |
- | __Description__ | + | **Readings**: |
- | To provide visual surveillance over a large environment, | + | ====== Attentive Sensing for Better Two-Way Communication in Remote Learning Environments ====== |
- | This problem can be addressed by automatically pre-mapping two-dimensional surveillance video data into three-dimensional coordinates. | + | **Supervisor**: |
- | Mapping surveillance video to three-dimensional coordinates requires construction of a virtual model of the three-dimensional scene. | + | **Required Background**: |
+ | good math skills, knowledge of C and MATLAB programming languages | ||
- | This project will investigate a monocular method for inferring three-dimensional context for video surveillance. | + | One of the challenges in remote learning is to allow students to communicate effectively with the lecturer. For example, when a student asks a question, communication will be more effective if the instructor has a zoomed view of the student’s face, so that s/he can interpret expressions etc. |
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- | Although the Manhattan world assumption provides powerful constraints, there are many technical challenges | + | The goal of this project is to apply attentive sensing technology (www.elderlab.yorku.ca) to this problem. |
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- | The student will work closely | + | In particular, working |
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- | ====== Estimating Pedestrian and Vehicle Flows from Surveillance Video ====== | + | |
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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 | + | |
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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 | + | |
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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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- | **Required Background**: | + | **Required Background**: |
- | **Recommended Background**: | + | **Recommended Background**: |
- | __Description__ | + | Structural equation modeling (SEM) is a statistical technique that is becoming increasingly popular |
- | DNA sequences of organisms have many repeated substrings. These are called repeats | + | |
- | Finding tandem repeats | + | The software required |
- | The student | + | To date a promising functional application has been developed in JAVA by a Computer Science |
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- | ====== Touch- and Gesture-based Text Entry With Automatic Error Correction ====== | + | **Supervisor**: |
- | **Supervisor**: Scott Mackenzie | + | **Required Background**: Good grade in a Numerical Methods course and good knowledge |
+ | of Fortran, C or similar language. | ||
- | **Required Background**: | + | **Description**: Write, debug and run several Fortran programs related to solving |
- | CSE3461 (or equivalent), CSE3311 (or equivalent), | + | polynomial equations, with a view to comparing different known methods. |
- | A student wishing | + | |
+ | ====== Enabling SaaS access to an experimental AI planner ====== | ||
- | **Recommended Background**: | + | **Supervisor**: Sotirios Liaskos (liaskos at yorku dot ca) |
- | Possession of an Android touch-based phone or tablet would be an asset, but is not essential. | + | |
- | __Description__ | + | **Required Background**: |
- | This project involves extending a touch-based text entry method to include automatic error correction. | + | 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. | ||
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- | : | + | * Understand the technologies and process involved in turning native code into a web-service (" |
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- | ====== Early Breast Cancer Detection based on MRI’s. ====== | + | * Exercise scripting skills. |
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- | **Required Background**: | + | ====== Predicting Angular Error in Rigid Registration ====== |
- | **Recommended background**: Signal processing, i.e. CSE3451 | + | **Supervisor**: Burton Ma |
- | Project | + | **Description**: Registration is a fundamental step in image-based surgical |
- | processing techniques | + | navigation. Several (seemingly) different approaches |
- | modalities. In particular, we propose to develop time reversal beamforming imager, | + | distance errors |
- | based on our earlier work in time reversal signal processing, for detecting early stage | + | procedures, the angular error in registration |
- | breast cancer tumours from MRI data. | + | This project will validate an approach for predicting angular |
- | Our preliminary work has illustrated the type of | + | error in registration; |
- | results that are possible for breast cancer detection by applying time reversal signal | + | simulated and actual registration data for testing purposes. |
- | 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 | + | |
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- | 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. | + | |
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- | **Required Background**: | + | **Description**: Tracked pointers are the most common tools used in surgical |
- | General prerequisites | + | 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. | ||
- | __Description__ | + | ====== A privacy safeguard framework for sharing photos on Facebook ====== |
- | Recently, Graphics Processing Units (GPU' | + | **Supervisor**: |
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- | 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. | + | |
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- | [1] Kisun You, Jike Chong, Youngmin Yi, Gonina, E., Hughes, C.J., Yen-Kuang Chen, Wonyong Sung, Keutzer, K., " | + | |
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- | [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. | + | |
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- | ====== Solving Polynomials ====== | + | |
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- | **Supervisor**: | + | |
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- | **Required Background**: | + | |
- | General prerequisites plus course in Numerical Methods, and knowledge of programming, | + | |
+ | **Description**: | ||
+ | One of the major privacy concerns in Online Social Networks is photo sharing. | ||
- | __Description__ | + | **Required prerequisite background**: |
- | In this project you will compare several efficient methods for solving polynomials. Pre-req: course in Numerical methods and some knowledge | + | **Desired prerequisite**: Knowledge |
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