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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 ====== | ||
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- | __Description__ | ||
- | 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 ====== | ||
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- | **Requirements**: | ||
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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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- | __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:// | ||
- | ---- | + | The goal of this project is to modify York University’s patented attentive sensor technology |
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- | ====== Tandem repeat detection using spectral methods ====== | + | The student |
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- | **Supervisor**: | + | 1. Ground-truth available datasets |
- | + | 2. Evaluate current attentive algorithms | |
- | **Required Background**: | + | 3. Modify |
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- | **Recommended Background**: | + | ------------ |
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- | __Description__ | + | |
- | DNA sequences | + | |
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- | 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:// | + | |
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- | 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 | + | |
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- | ====== Touch- and Gesture-based Text Entry With Automatic Error Correction ====== | + | |
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- | **Supervisor**: | + | |
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- | **Required Background**: | + | |
- | CSE3461 (or equivalent), CSE3311 (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. | + | |
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- | **Recommended Background**: | + | |
- | Possession of an Android touch-based phone or tablet would be an asset, but is not essential. | + | |
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- | __Description__ | + | |
- | This project involves extending a touch-based text entry method to include automatic error correction. | + | |
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- | ====== Early Breast Cancer Detection based on MRI’s. ====== | + | |
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- | **Supervisor**: | + | |
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- | **Required Background**: | + | |
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- | **Recommended background**: | + | |
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- | 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 ====== | + | |
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- | **Supervisor**: | + | |
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- | **Required Background**: | + | |
- | General prerequisites | + | |
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- | __Description__ | + | |
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- | Recently, Graphics Processing Units (GPU' | + | |
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- | During the recent years, there is an increasing demand in the job market | + | |
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- | References | + | |
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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, | + | |
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- | __Description__ | + | |
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- | In this project you will compare several efficient methods for solving polynomials. | + | |
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- | ====== MF7114 Assembler ====== | + | |
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- | **Supervisor**: | + | |
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- | **Required Background**: | + | |
- | Some knowledge of microprocessor architecture and assembly programming | + | |
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- | __Description__ | + | |
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- | Every microprocessor is supported by a variety of software tools, such as assemblers, disassemblers, and debuggers | + | |
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- | Background Information: The MF7114 CPU was the first microprocessor designed and | + | |
- | 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 | + | |
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- | http:// | + | |
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- | ====== MF7114 Debugger ====== | + | |
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- | **Supervisor**: | + | |
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- | **Required Background**: | + | |
- | Some knowledge of microprocessor architecture and assembly programming | + | |
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- | __Description__ | + | |
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- | Every microprocessor is supported by a variety of software tools, such as assemblers, | + | |
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- | Background Information: | + | |
- | 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 a debugger possible. More information | + | |
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- | http://www.cse.yorku.ca/ | + | |
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- | ======Web Crawlers Behaving Like Humans: Are We There Yet!? ====== | + | |
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- | **Supervisor**: | + | |
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- | **Required Background**: | + | |
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- | __Description__ | + | |
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- | Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are recognized as one | + | |
- | of the most serious threats to today' | + | |
- | simplicity of their execution and their ability to severely degrade | + | |
- | the quality at which Web-based services are offered to the end users. | + | |
- | An especially challenging form of DDoS attacks are the so-called | + | |
- | Application-Layer DDoS attacks. Namely: | + | |
- | 1) In Application-Layer DDoS attacks, the attackers utilize a flood | + | |
- | of legitimate-looking Layer-7 network sessions (i.e., sessions that | + | |
- | are generally hard to detect and/or filter out by a firewall or an | + | |
- | IDS system); | + | |
- | 2) Increasingly, | + | |
- | cleverly programmed crawler that executes a semi-random walk over the | + | |
- | web site links, thereby attempting | + | |
- | visitor. | + | |
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- | The goal of this project is to investigate the state of the art in | + | |
- | malicious web crawler design. In particular, the project will look | + | |
- | into the challenges of designing a smart-DDoS-crawler from the | + | |
- | attacker point of view - one of these challenges being the estimation | + | |
- | of web-page popularity assuming no a priori access to the web-logs | + | |
- | of the victim web-site. | + | |
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- | ====== GFI Sandbox | + | |
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- | **Supervisor**: | + | |
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- | **Required Background**: | + | |
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- | __Description__ | + | |
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- | GFI Sandbox is a sophisticated industry-leading tool for quick and | + | |
- | safe analysis of malware behaviour. The goals of this project are: | + | |
- | 1) familiarize yourself with the operation of GFI Sandbox; | + | |
- | 2) using readily available GFI Sandbox Feeds (i.e., ThreatTrack Feeds), | + | |
- | build a database of malware designed specifically for execution of | + | |
- | DDoS-attacks | + | |
- | 3) examine the behaviour of the collected malware 'upon execution'; | + | |
- | 4) propose and build an environment - comprising the standard freeware | + | |
- | security tools - for longer term (beyond immediate execution) analysis | + | |
- | of the collected malware. | + | |
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- | Network analysis of EEG data: Understanding connections in the brain | + | |
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- | ====== Network analysis of EEG data: Understanding connections in the brain ====== | + | |
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- | **Supervisor**: | + | |
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- | **Required Background**: | + | |
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+ | ====== Hunting for Bugs in Logging: applying JPF to log4j ====== | ||
- | __Description__ | + | **Supervisor: |
- | Electroencephalogram (EEG) data indicates electrical activity at particular locations in the brain. Using EEG data from multiple sensors, it is possible to find correlations among the measurements, | + | |
- | The tools that are used to analyze communication networks | + | Description: |
+ | Java PathFinder (JPF) is a tool that can detect bugs in Java code. | ||
+ | The Java library Apache log4j allows developers | ||
+ | statements are output. In the past, Dickey et al. [1] have attempted | ||
+ | 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. " |
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- | ====== | + | **Required Background: |
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+ | ------------ | ||
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+ | ======Hybrid 2D/3D User Interfaces for 3D Rotation | ||
- | **Supervisor**: Jeff Edmonds | + | **Supervisor:** Wolfgang Stuerzlinger |
- | **Required Background**: JAVA | + | **Required Background:** General 408X prerequisites, |
- | **Recommended Background**: | + | 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 ====== | ||
- | __Description__ | + | **Supervisor: |
- | The software required is an application that allows researchers to define their hypothesized models visually and will output the correct syntax for the analytical software of their choosing. | + | |
- | To date a promising functional application has been developed in JAVA by a Computer | + | **Required Background: |
- | This a cross-disciplinary | + | This project |
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+ | ------------ | ||
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+ | ======3D Interaction in Immersive Virtual Reality====== | ||
+ | **Supervisor: | ||
- | ---- | + | **Required Background:** General 408X prerequisites, |
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- | ====== | + | 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. |
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+ | ------------ | ||
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+ | ====== | ||
+ | **Supervisor: | ||
- | **Supervisor**: Rob Allison | + | **Required Background:** Good programming skills |
- | **Required Background**: | + | |
+ | **Short Description: | ||
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- | __Description__ | + | ====== Mining Software Repositories Data====== |
- | The YUsend (York University Space Engineering Nanosatellite Demonstration) Lab has procured a Windows XP-based industrial computer and temperature acquisition card (as well as other hardware) for performing TVAC testing of nanosatellites in the CSIL Lab (PSE 003). A "TVAC Test Manager" | + | |
- | Specific tasks include: | + | **Supervisor:** Zhen Ming (Jack) Jiang (zmjiang at cse dot yorku dot ca) |
- | 1. Writing temperature acquisition card (OMEGA Engineering CIO-DAS-Temp) drivers for LabView - should be written in Visual C++ or similar and compiled into SubVI format. | + | |
- | 2. Write LabView VI' | + | |
- | 3. (Optional) Interface the Test Manager with an orbital simulation tool which would be used to compute IR lamp inputs based on a simulation of the nanosatellite' | + | |
+ | **Required Background: | ||
+ | **Short Description: | ||
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- | ---- | + | Project proposals may be added here in the first week of fall term. |
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