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-====== Currently offered Projects, Fall 2012 (updated August 22, 2012)  ======
+====== Currently offered Projects, Fall 2012 (updated September 5, 2012)  ======
 (Listed in order received.)
+====== Attentive Sensing for Better Two-Way Communication in Remote Learning Environments ======
+**Supervisor**: James Elder
+**Required Background**: General CSE408x prerequisites, good programming skills,
+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.  For example, when a student asks a question, communication will be more effective if the instructor has a zoomed view of the student’s face, so that s/he can interpret expressions etc.
+The goal of this project is to apply attentive sensing technology (www.elderlab.yorku.ca) to this problem.  This technology is able to monitor a large environment such as a classroom and direct a high-resolution ‘attentive’ sensor to events of interest.
+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 based upon this investigation
+  - Evaluate these algorithms in a real-classroom setting, using proprietary attentive sensing technology
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 ====== Game Playing Framework in Eiffel ======
+NO LONGER AVAILABLE
 **Supervisor**: Jonathan Ostroff
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+====== A privacy safeguard framework for sharing photos on Facebook ======
+**Supervisor**: Uyen Trang Nguyen
+**Description**:
+One of the major privacy concerns in Online Social Networks is photo sharing.  A user may post his/her friends’ photos without their consent.  The friends have no control over the user’s Facebook activities, namely photo sharing.  In this project, we design and implement a third-party Facebook application that allows people to protect their identities in photos uploaded by another user without their consent.
+**Required prerequisite background**:  Proficiency in programming, especially in Java and Web application programming.
+**Desired prerequisite**: Knowledge of image processing, Facebook API, JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)