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- | ====== Building an autonomous motorboat ====== | + | ===Data visualization in Skydive=== |
- | **Supervisor**: Michael Jenkin | + | **Supervisor: Jarek Gryz** |
- | **Required Background**: General CSE408x prerequisites | + | Skydive is a prototype system designed for database visualization using a concept of the socalled |
+ | data pyramid. The system is composed of three modules (DB - Database Module, D2I - | ||
+ | Data-to-Image module, and VC - Visualizaton Client). Each is designed to use a different type | ||
+ | of computer memory. The DB module uses disk to store and manage the raw data, and materialized | ||
+ | data pyramids. The D2I module works with a small subset of the aggregated dataset, | ||
+ | and stores data in main memory (RAM). The VC module uses the graphic card’s capabilities to | ||
+ | perform more advanced operations – such as zooming, scaling, panning, and rotation – over the | ||
+ | graphical representation of the data. | ||
+ | Currently the system support three presentation models implemented within the Visualization | ||
+ | Component, namely: | ||
+ | • a 2D heat-map; | ||
+ | • a 2.5 D heat-map by 3D barchart; and | ||
+ | • a 2.5 D terrain (by mesh and UV-mapping). | ||
- | **Recommended Background**: Robotics | + | The goal of the project is to implement two additional ways of data visualization as well as |
+ | extend some of existing ones, that is: | ||
- | __Description__ | + | 1. Implement |
- | 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 | + | |
+ | 2. Implement functions for visualization based on cross-product of data pyramids. | ||
+ | 3. Add support for specular and normal maps for 2.5 D terrain presentation model. | ||
- | ---- | + | Background Requirements |
- | : | + | • Java programming course |
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- | ====== Athenians Data Project ====== | + | \\ |
+ | ===Genome-wide identification of plant micro RNAs=== | ||
- | **Supervisor**: | ||
- | **Required Background**: General CSE408x prerequisites | + | **Supervisor: Katalin Hudak** |
- | **Recommended Background**: | ||
- | __Description__ | + | The Hudak Lab in the Biology Department has an opening for a fourth-year Honours student to assist with a bioinformatics |
- | The Athenians Project is a multi-year, ongoing | + | |
- | 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 | + | |
- | 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 ====== | + | Working with the support of a PhD student, your project will involve: |
- | **Supervisor**: | + | 1) Prediction of micro RNA (miRNA) targets on the basis of complementary sequence matches |
- | **Requirements**: | + | 2) Correlation of miRNA and mRNA expression changes to identify genes that are regulated by miRNAs |
- | __Description__ | + | 3) Conducting pathway analysis to determine which biological processes are controlled by miRNAs |
- | To provide visual surveillance over a large environment, | + | 4) Construction of a miRNA/ |
+ | This work will contribute to a scientific manuscript | ||
- | This problem can be addressed by automatically pre-mapping two-dimensional surveillance video data into three-dimensional coordinates. | + | Requirements: |
- | Mapping surveillance video to three-dimensional coordinates requires construction of a virtual model of the three-dimensional scene. | + | 1) Pre-requisites as per EECS Calendar |
- | This project will investigate a monocular method for inferring three-dimensional context for video surveillance. | + | 2) Facility |
- | Although the Manhattan world assumption provides powerful constraints, | + | 3) Preference for students with knowledge |
- | The student will work closely with graduate students and postdoctoral fellows at York University, as well as researchers at other institutions involved | + | 4) Able to begin in September 2015 |
- | For more information on the laboratory: [[http:// | + | Learning outcomes: |
- | ---- | + | 1) Manipulate and analyze quantitative biological data |
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- | ====== Estimating Pedestrian | + | 2) Develop |
- | **Supervisor**: | + | 3) Manage a CentOS computer server to store and facilitate ongoing research |
- | **Requirements**: | + | No knowledge of biology is required. |
- | __Description__ | + | For more information, |
+ | Hudak Lab website- http:// | ||
- | 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. | + | RNA sequencing- http://www.illumina.com/ |
- | The density of permanent urban video surveillance camera installations has increased dramatically over the last several years. | + | miRNAs- http:// |
- | 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. | + | \\ |
- | 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:// | + | ===Dynamic Interface Detection and Control Project=== |
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- | ====== Tandem repeat detection using spectral methods ====== | + | **Supervisor: |
- | **Supervisor**: | ||
- | **Required 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 |
- | **Recommended Background**: | + | Extraction of the reaction mixture for purification and/or further processing is an important step in chemical manufacturing. This is a relatively straightforward operation in batch production, |
- | __Description__ | + | A key step in the process takes place in a clear tube that is mounted vertically. The tube contains |
- | DNA sequences of organisms have many repeated substrings. These are called repeats | + | |
- | Finding tandem repeats | + | One way of solving this problem |
- | 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 | + | Specific goals of the project |
+ | - 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/ | ||
- | ---- | + | 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, |
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- | ====== Touch- and Gesture-based Text Entry With Automatic Error Correction ====== | + | For further information please contact, |
- | **Supervisor**: | + | Michael Jenkin (jenkin@cse.yorku.ca) or Michal Organ (organ@yorku.ca) |
- | **Required | + | \\ |
- | CSE3461 | + | ====== DDoS Attack using Google-bots ====== |
- | A student wishing | + | |
+ | **Supervisor**: | ||
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+ | **Recommended | ||
+ | |||
+ | Not long ago, botnets - networks of compromised computers - were seen as | ||
+ | the most effective | ||
+ | of Service | ||
+ | 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 | ||
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+ | ====== Attentive Sensing for Better Two-Way Communication in Remote Learning Environments ====== | ||
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+ | **Supervisor**: | ||
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+ | **Required Background**: | ||
+ | good math skills, knowledge of C and MATLAB programming languages | ||
+ | |||
+ | 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: | ||
+ | |||
+ | - Study the problem of detecting hand-raises | ||
+ | - Implement algorithms for detecting hand-raises based upon this investigation | ||
+ | - Evaluate these algorithms in a real-classroom setting, using proprietary attentive sensing technology | ||
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+ | ====== Attentive Sensing for Sport Video Recording Markets ====== | ||
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+ | **Supervisor**: | ||
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+ | **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. | ||
+ | |||
+ | 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 | ||
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+ | The student will work with senior graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and research scientists to help modify | ||
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+ | ====== Hunting for Bugs in Logging: applying JPF to log4j ====== | ||
- | **Recommended Background**: | + | **Supervisor:** Franck van Breugel |
- | 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. | + | 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. | ||
+ | Recently, in collaboration with Shafiei (NASA) we have developed | ||
+ | an extension of JPF called jpf-nhandler. | ||
+ | is to apply this extension to log4j. | ||
+ | [1] David A. Dickey, B. Sinem Dorter, J. Michael German, Benjamin D. Madore, Mark W. Piper, Gabriel L. Zenarosa. " | ||
- | ---- | + | **Required Background: |
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- | ====== Early Breast Cancer Detection based on MRI’s. ====== | + | \\ |
- | **Supervisor**: | ||
- | **Required Background**: | ||
- | **Recommended background**: | ||
- | 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. | ||
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- | ====== Developing Fast Speech Recognition Engine using GPU ====== | ||
- | **Supervisor**: | + | ====== Mining Software Repositories Data====== |
- | **Required Background**: | + | **Supervisor:** Zhen Ming (Jack) Jiang (zmjiang at cse dot yorku dot ca) |
- | General prerequisites | + | |
+ | **Required Background: | ||
- | __Description__ | + | **Short Description: |
- | 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. | ||
- | References | ||
- | [1] Kisun You, Jike Chong, Youngmin Yi, Gonina, E., Hughes, C.J., Yen-Kuang Chen, Wonyong Sung, Keutzer, K., " | + | ======Model-based Design and Development of Embedded Systems with Code Generation Tools====== |
- | [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. | + | **Supervisor:** Jia Xu |
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- | ====== Solving Polynomials ====== | + | |
- | **Supervisor**: Mike McNamee | + | **Required Background:** At least a B+ in Embedded Systems (CSE3215), MATLAB, C programming skills, solid experience in using a microcontroller |
+ | such as Arduino. | ||
- | **Required Background**: | + | **Project Description: |
- | General prerequisites plus course in Numerical Methods, and knowledge of programming, | + | |
+ | Model-based design with code generation tools can be used for simulation, rapid prototyping, | ||
- | __Description__ | + | \\ |
+ | ------------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
- | In this project you will compare several efficient methods for solving polynomials. | + | ======C2000 Concerto Microcontrollers====== |
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- | **Supervisor**: Zbigniew Stachniak | + | **Supervisor:** Jia Xu |
- | **Required Background**: | + | **Required Background:** At least a B+ in Embedded Systems (CSE3215), |
- | Some knowledge of microprocessor architecture and assembly programming | + | 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. | ||
- | Every microprocessor is supported by a variety of software tools, such as assemblers, disassemblers, | + | \\ |
+ | ------------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
- | Background Information: | + | ======Real-Time Bidding Platform====== |
- | manufactured in Canada (by Microsystems International Ltd, or MIL) and one of the earliest microprocessors ever produced. The microprocessor was used, among other applications as the CPU of the CPS-1 microcomputer. Although none of the CPS/1 computers (nor MF7114 software) have survived, technical information about the microprocessor and the CPS-1 has been preserved. This makes the design and | + | |
- | implementation of an assembler possible. More information on | + | |
- | http:// | + | **Supervisor:** Jia Xu |
- | ---- | + | **Required Background:** At least a B+ in Operating System Fundamentals |
- | : | + | (CSE3221), strong Ubuntu/ |
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- | ====== MF7114 Debugger ====== | + | |
- | **Supervisor**: Zbigniew Stachniak | + | **Description: |
- | **Required Background**: | + | \\ |
- | Some knowledge of microprocessor architecture and assembly programming | + | ------------------ |
+ | \\ | ||
- | __Description__ | + | ======Circuit and Board Design for a Pulsed Ground Penetrating Radar====== |
- | Every microprocessor is supported by a variety of software tools, such as assemblers, | + | **Supervisor: |
- | Background Information: The MF7114 CPU was the first microprocessor designed and | + | **Description:** The project requires |
- | manufactured in Canada (by Microsystems International Ltd, or MIL) and one of the earliest microprocessors ever produced. The microprocessor was used, among other applications as the CPU of the CPS-1 microcomputer. Although none of the CPS/1 computers (nor MF7114 software) have survived, technical information about the microprocessor | + | |
- | implementation of a debugger possible. More information | + | |
- | http://www.cse.yorku.ca/ | + | **Required Background** A background in undergraduate-level electronics is very important. |
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+ | More project proposals may be added here in the first week of the winter term. | ||
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