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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 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 | ||
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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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+ | ====== 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. | ||
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+ | 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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+ | ====== Hunting for Bugs in Logging: applying JPF to log4j ====== | ||
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+ | **Supervisor: | ||
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+ | Description: | ||
+ | Java PathFinder (JPF) is a tool that can detect bugs in Java code. | ||
+ | The Java library Apache log4j allows developers to control which log | ||
+ | statements are output. | ||
+ | to detect bugs in log4j by means of JPF with very limited succes. | ||
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+ | Recently, in collaboration with Shafiei (NASA) we have developed | ||
+ | an extension of JPF called jpf-nhandler. | ||
+ | is to apply this extension to log4j. | ||
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+ | [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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+ | ======Hybrid 2D/3D User Interfaces for 3D Rotation | ||
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+ | **Supervisor: | ||
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+ | **Required Background: | ||
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+ | 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 ====== | ||
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+ | **Supervisor: | ||
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+ | **Required Background: | ||
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+ | This project implements a kitchen planner application for an immersive virtual reality system. The implementation will be based on Unity 4. | ||
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+ | ======3D Interaction | ||
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+ | **Supervisor: | ||
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+ | **Required Background: | ||
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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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+ | Additional current possible | ||
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+ | =====Past Proposed Projects from Summer 2013===== | ||
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+ | ======Tracking and Activity Recognition Through Consensus in Distributed Camera Networks====== | ||
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+ | **Supervisor**: | ||
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+ | **Required Background: ** Computer Vision or Signal and Systems Course preferred; Matlab; Interest in Signal/ | ||
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+ | **Short Description: | ||
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+ | [1] A. Mohammadi and A. Asif, Distributed Particle Filter Implementation with Intermittent/ | ||
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+ | [2] A. Mohammadi and A. Asif, Decentralized Sensor Selection based on the Distributed Posterior Cramer-Rao Lower Bound, in proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Information Fusion, Singapore, 2012. pp. 1668-1675. | ||
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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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- | ====== YUsend Thermal Vacuum (TVAC) Test Manager ====== | ||
- | **Supervisor**: | ||
- | **Required Background**: | + | ====== Enabling SaaS access to an experimental AI planner ====== |
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+ | **Required Background**: | ||
+ | 3402 -- Functional & Logic Programming, | ||
+ | 3101 -- Design and Analysis of Algorithms, | ||
+ | 4302 -- Compilers and Interpreters. | ||
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+ | **Description**: | ||
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+ | 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 | ||
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+ | Learning objectives: | ||
+ | * Understand the technologies and process involved in turning native code into a web-service (" | ||
+ | * Study a state-of-the-art AI planner and understand its workings. | ||
+ | * Exercise scripting skills. | ||
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+ | ====== Predicting Angular Error in Rigid Registration ====== | ||
- | **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**: Burton Ma |
- | Specific tasks include: 1. Writing temperature acquisition card (OMEGA Engineering CIO-DAS-Temp) drivers | + | **Description**: Registration is a fundamental step in image-based surgical |
+ | navigation. Several | ||
+ | distance errors | ||
+ | procedures, the angular error in registration is more important. | ||
+ | This project will validate an approach | ||
+ | error in registration; | ||
+ | simulated | ||
+ | ====== Calibration of a Tracked Pointer ====== | ||
- | ====== Game Playing Framework in Eiffel ====== | + | **Supervisor**: |
- | **Supervisor**: Jonathan Ostroff | + | **Description**: Tracked pointers are the most common tools used in surgical |
+ | 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. | ||
- | **Required Background**: | ||
- | **Description** Game playing frameworks in Eiffel such as Eiffelmedia usually wrap C frameworks in Eiffel. The goal of this project is to develop (initially, a simple) | + | ====== A privacy safeguard |
- | ====== Numerical Methods ====== | + | **Supervisor**: |
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- | **Supervisor**: Mike McNamee | + | **Description**: |
+ | One of the major privacy concerns in Online Social Networks is photo sharing. | ||
- | **Required | + | **Required |
- | of Fortran, C or similar language. | + | |
- | **Description**: Write, debug and run several Fortran programs related to solving | + | **Desired prerequisite**: Knowledge of image processing, Facebook API, JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) |
- | polynomial equations, with a view to comparing different known methods. | + |
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