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+ | ======Clustering High-Dimensional Data Sets====== | ||
- | ====== Building an autonomous motorboat ====== | + | **Supervisor: |
- | **Supervisor**: | + | Clustering is a basic technique for analyzing data sets. Clustering is the process of grouping data points in a way that points within a group are |
+ | more similar to each other than points in other clusters. Many clustering algorithms have been developed over the years. However no single algorithm works well for all data sets. Further, most clustering algorithms have running times of the order of n^2 or n^3, so that they are not feasible for data sets with hundreds of thousands of points. In this project we will design good clustering algorithms for large real data sets. In particular we are interested in | ||
+ | Biological data sets. | ||
- | **Required Background**: General CSE408x prerequisites | + | Our data sets will include those obtained from Flow Cytometry data. Flow Cytometry is a common technique in many areas of Biology, particularly Immunology. Typical usage involves testing a blood sample for 25 attributes on a per-cell basis, and thus typical data sets are arrays of 500,000 points in a 25 dimensional space. The aim is to identify clusters that correspond to a biologist' |
- | **Recommended Background**: | + | No Biology knowledge is required. The student should be a strong programmer. Knowledge of C/C++ is desirable but not essential. The work involves reading and understanding existing algorithms and working with the supervisor to design and implement improved algorithms and to measure the performance of the proposed algorithm(s). |
- | __Description__ | + | For more information, |
- | An opportunity exists for a small number of students | + | |
+ | Required Background: General CSE408x prerequisites | ||
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- | ====== Athenians Data Project ====== | ||
- | **Supervisor**: | + | ======Metaheuristic-based Optimization techniques====== |
- | **Required Background**: General CSE408x prerequisites | + | **Supervisor:** Suprakash Datta |
- | **Recommended Background**: | + | Optimization is a crucial step in many computational problems. For computational problems that seem (or are known to be) intractable, |
- | __Description__ | + | The student should be a strong programmer. A good grasp of algorithms |
- | The Athenians Project is a multi-year, ongoing project | + | |
- | Possible project ideas for this term span from simpler ones such as | + | |
- | 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 ====== | + | For more information, |
- | **Supervisor**: James Elder | + | Required Background: General CSE408x prerequisites |
- | **Requirements**: | + | \\ |
- | __Description__ | + | ======Data visualization in Skydive====== |
- | To provide visual surveillance over a large environment, | + | **Supervisor: |
- | This problem can be addressed by automatically pre-mapping two-dimensional surveillance video data into three-dimensional coordinates. | + | Skydive is a prototype system designed for database visualization using a concept of the so called |
+ | 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 | ||
+ | data pyramids. The D2I module works with a small subset | ||
+ | and stores data in main memory (RAM). The VC module uses the graphic card’s capabilities to | ||
+ | perform | ||
+ | graphical representation of the data. | ||
+ | Currently the system support three presentation models implemented within the Visualization | ||
+ | Component, namely: | ||
- | Mapping surveillance video to three-dimensional coordinates requires construction of a virtual model of the three-dimensional scene. | + | • a 2D heat-map; |
- | This project will investigate | + | • a 2.5 D heat-map by 3D barchart; and |
- | Although the Manhattan world assumption provides powerful constraints, | + | • a 2.5 D terrain (by mesh and UV-mapping). |
- | The student will work closely with graduate students and postdoctoral fellows at York University, | + | The goal of the project is to implement two additional ways of data visualization |
+ | extend some of existing ones, that is: | ||
- | For more information on the laboratory: [[http:// | + | 1. Implement and test functions for data pyramid-based visualization of time series. |
- | ---- | + | 2. Implement functions for visualization based on cross-product of data pyramids. |
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- | ====== Estimating Pedestrian | + | 3. Add support for specular |
- | **Supervisor**: James Elder | + | Required Background: CSE 3421, Java programming course, (C programming course a plus) |
- | **Requirements**: | ||
- | __Description__ | + | \\ |
- | 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. | + | =====Genome-wide identification |
- | 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. | + | **Supervisor: |
- | 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:// | + | The Hudak Lab in the Biology Department has an opening for a fourth-year Honours student to assist with a bioinformatics project. We study the pokeweed plant, Phytolacca americana, which displays broad-spectrum virus resistance. To evaluate pokeweed gene expression, we recently sequenced the plant’s mRNA and small RNA transcriptomes under jasmonic acid (JA) treatment. JA is a plant hormone that mediates defence against pathogens and insect herbivores. We are interested in learning how pokeweed gene expression is regulated by miRNAs during biotic stress. |
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- | ====== Tandem repeat detection using spectral methods ====== | + | 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 |
- | **Required Background**: | + | 2) Correlation of miRNA and mRNA expression changes to identify genes that are regulated by miRNAs |
- | **Recommended Background**: | + | 3) Conducting pathway analysis to determine which biological processes are controlled by miRNAs |
- | __Description__ | + | 4) Construction |
- | DNA sequences | + | This work will contribute to a scientific manuscript on miRNA-mediated |
- | 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:// | + | Requirements: |
- | 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. | + | 1) Pre-requisites as per EECS Calendar |
+ | 2) Facility with script-writing/ | ||
+ | 3) Preference for students with knowledge of statistics and familiarity with R programming | ||
+ | 4) Able to begin in September 2015 | ||
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- | ====== | + | 1) Manipulate and analyze quantitative biological data |
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+ | 2) Develop and test hypotheses by modifying existing software and writing new script | ||
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+ | 3) Manage a CentOS computer server to store and facilitate ongoing research | ||
+ | |||
+ | No knowledge of biology is required. | ||
+ | |||
+ | For more information, | ||
+ | Hudak Lab website- http:// | ||
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+ | RNA sequencing- http:// | ||
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+ | miRNAs- http:// | ||
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+ | \\ | ||
+ | =====Dynamic Interface Detection and Control Project===== | ||
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+ | **Supervisor: | ||
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+ | 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. | ||
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+ | 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, but offers several challenges for flowing processes. In order to facilitate continuous liquid extraction we require a sophisticated control system. This project involves designing, constructing and evaluating a pertinent practical problem in the field. | ||
+ | |||
+ | 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? | ||
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+ | Specific goals of the project include: | ||
+ | |||
+ | - Develop a computer vision system that can detect | ||
+ | |||
+ | - 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, | ||
+ | |||
+ | For further information please contact, | ||
+ | |||
+ | Michael Jenkin (jenkin@cse.yorku.ca) or Michal Organ (organ@yorku.ca) | ||
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+ | \\ | ||
+ | ===== DDoS Attack using Google-bots ===== | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Supervisor: | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Recommended Background**: | ||
+ | |||
+ | 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/ | ||
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+ | ====== Attentive Sensing for Better Two-Way Communication in Remote Learning Environments ====== | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Supervisor**: | ||
+ | |||
+ | **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 is to apply attentive sensing technology (www.elderlab.yorku.ca) to this problem. | ||
+ | |||
+ | 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 | ||
+ | - Evaluate these algorithms in a real-classroom setting, using proprietary attentive sensing technology | ||
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+ | ====== | ||
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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 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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- | **Supervisor**: | + | \\ |
+ | ====== JPF in a Jar ====== | ||
- | **Required Background**: | + | **Supervisor:** Franck van Breugel |
- | 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. | + | |
+ | Description: | ||
+ | JPF, which is short for Java PathFinder, is an open source | ||
+ | tool that has been developed at NASA's Ames Research Center. | ||
+ | The aim of JPF is to find bugs in Java code. Instead of | ||
+ | using testing to find those bugs, JPF uses model checking. | ||
+ | The facts that JPF is downloaded hundreds of times per month | ||
+ | and that some of the key papers on JPF have been cited more | ||
+ | than a thousand times reflect the popularity of JPF. In | ||
+ | fact it is the most popular model checker for Java. | ||
- | **Recommended Background**: | + | A study done by Cambridge University in 2014 found that the |
- | Possession | + | global cost of debugging code has risen to $312 billion annually. |
+ | Furthermore, | ||
+ | programming time with finding and fixing bugs. As a consequence, | ||
+ | advocating the use tools, such as JPF, may have significant impact. | ||
- | __Description__ | + | Installing JPF is far from trivial. The tool itself has been |
- | This project involves extending a touch-based text entry method to include automatic error correction. The method, as is, uses Graffiti strokes entered via a finger on a touch-based Android tablet. | + | implemented in Java. |
+ | feasible | ||
+ | This would make it significantly simplifying | ||
+ | process | ||
+ | accessible | ||
+ | The aim of this project is to attempt to put JPF in a jar. | ||
+ | Since JPF relies on a number of configuration files, so-called | ||
+ | Java properties files, incorporating these properly into the | ||
+ | jar is one of the challenges. | ||
+ | another challenge. | ||
+ | our modifications to JPF should ideally be limited to only a | ||
+ | few classes, yet another challenge. | ||
+ | In this project you may collaborate with graduate students | ||
+ | of the DisCoVeri group (discoveri.eecs.yorku.ca) and | ||
+ | computer scientists of NASA. For more information, | ||
+ | free to send email to franck@cse.yorku.ca. | ||
- | ---- | + | **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/ |
- | ---- | + | |
- | ====== 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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