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- | (Listed in order received.) | + | \\ |
+ | ====== DDoS Attack using Google-bots ====== | ||
+ | Project Outline: | ||
+ | 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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+ | Recommended Background: CSE 3213 or CSE 3214, CSE 3482 | ||
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+ | \\ | ||
====== Attentive Sensing for Better Two-Way Communication in Remote Learning Environments ====== | ====== Attentive Sensing for Better Two-Way Communication in Remote Learning Environments ====== | ||
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- Implement algorithms for detecting hand-raises based upon this investigation | - Implement algorithms for detecting hand-raises based upon this investigation | ||
- Evaluate these algorithms in a real-classroom setting, using proprietary attentive sensing technology | - 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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+ | ------------ | ||
- | ====== Continuation of a Path Diagram to Syntax Application ====== | ||
- | **Supervisor**: Jeff Edmonds | + | \\ |
+ | ====== Hunting for Bugs in Logging: applying JPF to log4j ====== | ||
- | **Required Background**: General CSE408x prerequisites | + | **Supervisor:** Franck van Breugel |
- | **Recommended Background**: Java software development | + | 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. | ||
- | Structural equation modeling | + | Recently, in collaboration with Shafiei |
+ | an extension of JPF called jpf-nhandler. The aim of this project | ||
+ | is to apply this extension to log4j. | ||
- | 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. | + | [1] David A. Dickey, B. Sinem Dorter, J. Michael German, Benjamin D. Madore, Mark W. Piper, Gabriel L. Zenarosa. " |
- | To date a promising functional application has been developed in JAVA by a Computer Science student as a 4080 project. The existing software allows the user to draw a path diagram and outputs code for the R package sem. There are a number of improvements to be made (refinements and additions to graphical user interface) and then the application needs to be extended to output syntax appropriate for additional software applications (openMX, MPlus and EQS). Though this project may not begin at “the first stages” of the software lifecycle, this scenario is likely common in the software development market. In addition, the student will be working with a primary “client” who is far less technically advanced, which is also reflective of real-world situations. | + | **Required Background: |
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+ | ------------ | ||
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+ | ======Hybrid 2D/3D User Interfaces for 3D Rotation ====== | ||
- | More details {{:continuation_of_a_path_diagram_to_syntax_application.pdf|here}}. | + | **Supervisor:** Wolfgang Stuerzlinger |
- | ====== YUsend Thermal Vacuum | + | **Required Background: |
- | **Supervisor**: | + | 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, but the 2D interface for precise adjustments. The project will use a Leap Motion or similar technology for 3D tracking. |
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+ | ------------ | ||
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+ | ====== Immersive Virtual Reality Kitchen Planner ====== | ||
- | **Required Background**: General CSE408x prerequisites, | + | **Supervisor:** Wolfgang Stuerzlinger |
- | **Description** The YUsend | + | **Required Background:** General 408X prerequisites, |
- | Specific tasks include: 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's (“Virtual Instrument”) to perform (a) Test set-up activities - checkout of sensor and lamps, assigning neumonics to temperature sensors, setting of alarm conditions | + | This project implements |
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ======3D Interaction | ||
+ | **Supervisor: | ||
- | ====== Game Playing Framework in Eiffel ====== | + | **Required Background: |
- | NO LONGER AVAILABLE | + | 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. |
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
- | **Supervisor**: | ||
- | **Required Background**: | + | ====== Mining Software Repositories Data====== |
- | **Description** Game playing frameworks in Eiffel such as Eiffelmedia usually wrap C frameworks in Eiffel. The goal of this project is to develop | + | **Supervisor:** Zhen Ming (Jack) Jiang (zmjiang at cse dot yorku dot ca) |
- | ====== Numerical Methods ====== | + | **Required Background: |
- | **Supervisor**: Mike McNamee | + | **Short Description: |
- | **Required Background**: | + | \\ |
- | of Fortran, C or similar language. | + | ------------------ |
+ | \\ | ||
- | **Description**: | + | ======Reliably tracking horizontal eye movements====== |
- | polynomial equations, with a view to comparing different known methods. | + | |
- | ====== Enabling SaaS access to an experimental AI planner ====== | + | **Supervisor: |
- | **Supervisor**: Sotirios Liaskos (liaskos at yorku dot ca) | + | **Required Background:** General 408X prerequisites, |
- | **Required Background**: Good knowledge of Unix tools / Python, Perl or Awk. Comfort | + | **Description: |
- | 3402 -- Functional & Logic Programming, | + | |
- | 3101 -- Design | + | |
- | 4302 -- Compilers and Interpreters. | + | |
- | **Description**: | + | \\ |
+ | ------------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
- | The components are various Unix executables | + | ======Model-based Design |
- | Learning objectives: | + | **Supervisor: |
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+ | **Required Background: | ||
+ | such as Arduino. | ||
- | ====== Predicting Angular Error in Rigid Registration ====== | + | **Project Description: |
- | **Supervisor**: | + | Model-based design with code generation tools can be used for simulation, rapid prototyping, |
- | **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 and actual registration data for testing purposes. | + | |
- | ====== | + | ======C2000 Concerto Microcontrollers====== |
- | **Supervisor**: Burton Ma | + | **Supervisor:** Jia Xu |
- | **Description**: Tracked pointers are the most common tools used in surgical | + | **Required Background:** At least a B+ in Embedded Systems (CSE3215), |
- | navigation systems. A typical pointer has a tracked target on one | + | strong C programming skills, solid knowledge |
- | 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, the | + | |
- | 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 | + | |
+ | **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. | ||
- | ====== A privacy safeguard framework for sharing photos on Facebook ====== | + | \\ |
+ | ------------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
- | **Supervisor**: | + | ======Real-Time Bidding Platform====== |
- | + | ||
+ | **Supervisor:** Jia Xu | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Required Background:** At least a B+ in Operating System Fundamentals | ||
+ | (CSE3221), strong Ubuntu/ | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Description: | ||
+ | |||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ------------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | |||
+ | ======Circuit and Board Design for a Pulsed Ground Penetrating Radar====== | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Supervisor: | ||
- | **Description**: | + | **Description:** The project requires |
- | One of the major privacy concerns in Online Social Networks is photo sharing. | + | |
- | **Required | + | **Required |
- | **Desired prerequisite**: | + | \\ |
+ | ------------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | More project proposals may be added here in the first week of the winter term. | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ------------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | \\ |
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