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- | ====== Currently offered Projects, | + | ====== |
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+ | Currently offered Projects, | ||
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+ | (some projects still subject to confirmation) | ||
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+ | ====== 3D Drawing System with Leap Motion finger tracker ====== | ||
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+ | **Supervisor**: | ||
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+ | **Required Background**: | ||
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+ | The Leap Motion, leapmotion.com, | ||
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+ | ====== 3D Drawing System with 3Gear gesture tracker ====== | ||
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+ | **Supervisor**: | ||
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+ | **Required Background**: | ||
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+ | The 3Gear system, threegear.com, | ||
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+ | ====== Tilt Target Selection on Touchscreen Phones ====== | ||
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+ | **Supervisor**: | ||
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+ | **Required Background**: | ||
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+ | Touchscreen mobile devices commonly use a built-in accelerometer to sense movement or tilting actions of the device. | ||
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+ | **Readings**: | ||
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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 | ||
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+ | One of the challenges | ||
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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 | ||
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- | ====== YUsend Thermal Vacuum (TVAC) Test Manager ====== | ||
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- | **Required Background**: | + | ====== Numerical Methods ====== |
- | **Description** 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” application written using LabView' | + | **Supervisor**: Mike McNamee |
- | Specific tasks include: 1. Writing temperature acquisition card (OMEGA Engineering CIO-DAS-Temp) drivers for LabView - should be written | + | **Required Background**: Good grade in a Numerical Methods course |
+ | of Fortran, C or similar language. | ||
+ | **Description**: | ||
+ | polynomial equations, with a view to comparing different known methods. | ||
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- | **Supervisor**: | + | **Supervisor**: |
- | **Required Background**: | + | **Required Background**: |
+ | 3402 -- Functional & Logic Programming, | ||
+ | 3101 -- Design and Analysis of Algorithms, | ||
+ | 4302 -- Compilers and Interpreters. | ||
- | **Description** | + | **Description**: This project involves enriching and integrating a set of fairly complex scripts, which are components of an Artificial Intelligence |
- | ====== Numerical Methods ====== | + | 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. |
- | **Supervisor**: Mike McNamee | + | Learning objectives: |
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- | **Required Background**: | ||
- | of Fortran, C or similar language. | ||
- | **Description**: | + | ====== Predicting Angular Error in Rigid Registration ====== |
- | polynomial equations, with a view to comparing different known methods. | + | |
- | Prerequisites: | + | **Supervisor**: |
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+ | **Description**: | ||
+ | navigation. Several (seemingly) different approaches for predicting | ||
+ | distance errors in registration are known, but for some surgical | ||
+ | procedures, the angular error in registration is more important. | ||
+ | This project will validate an approach for predicting angular | ||
+ | error in registration; | ||
+ | simulated | ||
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+ | ====== Calibration of a Tracked Pointer ====== | ||
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+ | **Supervisor**: | ||
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+ | **Description**: | ||
+ | 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 | ||
+ | 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 | ||
+ | the variance of the calibrated tip position. | ||
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+ | ====== A privacy safeguard framework for sharing photos on Facebook ====== | ||
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+ | **Supervisor**: Uyen Trang Nguyen | ||
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+ | **Description**: | ||
+ | One of the major privacy concerns in Online Social Networks is photo sharing. | ||
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+ | **Required prerequisite background**: | ||
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+ | **Desired prerequisite**: |
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