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- | ====== 3D Drawing System with Leap Motion finger tracker ====== | + | ===Dynamic Interface Detection and Control Project=== |
- | **Supervisor**: Wolfgang Stuerzlinger | + | **Supervisor: Michael Jenkin** |
- | **Required Background**: | ||
- | The Leap Motion, leapmotion.com, is a new device that lets users control | + | Contrary to most industries, fine chemical manufacturing is dominated by batch production methods. Increasing economic, environmental and safety pressures are motivating |
- | ====== 3D Drawing System with 3Gear gesture tracker ====== | + | Extraction of the reaction mixture for purification and/or further processing is an important step in chemical manufacturing. This is a relatively straightforward operation in batch production, but offers several challenges for flowing processes. In order to facilitate continuous liquid extraction we require a sophisticated control system. This project involves designing, constructing and evaluating a pertinent practical problem in the field. |
- | **Supervisor**: | + | A key step in the process takes place in a clear tube that is mounted vertically. The tube contains two fluids with a boundary between them. During the process material flows into and out of the tube from the top and the bottom. Chemical reactions take place within this tube and It is essential that the position of the boundary be monitored as its position in the tube is used to control the flow of materials into the tube. |
- | **Required Background**: | + | One way of solving this problem is to float a marker at the boundary between the two liquids and to monitor this boundary using a video camera. Although this approach solves the problem, it requires the introduction of a specific float within the tube. Can we build a system that monitors the boundary without resorting to the use of an artificial float? |
- | The 3Gear system, threegear.com, | + | Specific goals of the project include: |
+ | - Develop | ||
+ | - Evaluate the performance of the system over a range of different (and typical) fluids | ||
+ | - Explore the use of different illuminant/ | ||
- | ====== Comparison | + | The successful candidate(s) will have the experience |
- | **Supervisor**: | + | For further information please contact, |
- | **Required Background**: | + | Michael Jenkin (jenkin@cse.yorku.ca) or Michal Organ (organ@yorku.ca) |
- | This project compares the Leap Motion and the 3Gear System against each other in a comparative Fitts' law study | + | \\ |
+ | ====== DDoS Attack using Google-bots ====== | ||
- | ====== Tilt Target Selection on Touchscreen Phones ====== | + | **Supervisor**: |
- | **Supervisor**: Scott MacKenzie | + | **Recommended Background**: CSE 3213 or CSE 3214, CSE 3482 |
- | **Required Background**: | + | Not long ago, botnets - networks of compromised computers - were seen as |
+ | the most effective | ||
+ | of Service (DDoS) attacks. However, with the growing popularity | ||
+ | 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, | ||
+ | estimation of the framework' | ||
+ | to an actual (real-world) target/ | ||
- | Touchscreen mobile devices commonly use a built-in accelerometer to sense movement or tilting actions of the device. | ||
- | **Readings**: | ||
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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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- | **Supervisor**: Jeff Edmonds | + | **Supervisor:** Franck van Breugel |
- | **Required Background**: General CSE408x prerequisites | + | 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. | ||
- | **Recommended Background**: | + | Recently, in collaboration with Shafiei (NASA) we have developed |
+ | an extension of JPF called jpf-nhandler. | ||
+ | is to apply this extension to log4j. | ||
- | Structural equation modeling (SEM) is a statistical technique that is becoming increasingly popular in the educational and behavioral sciences. SEM allows researchers to test the validity of hypothesized models involving complex relationships among multiple variables. Collected data is used to estimate the parameters of the equations and assessing the fit of the model. | + | [1] David A. Dickey, B. Sinem Dorter, J. Michael German, Benjamin D. Madore, Mark W. Piper, Gabriel L. Zenarosa. " |
- | The software required is an application that allows researchers to define their hypothesized models visually and will output the correct syntax | + | **Required Background: |
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+ | ======Hybrid 2D/3D User Interfaces | ||
- | 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. | + | **Supervisor: |
- | More details {{:continuation_of_a_path_diagram_to_syntax_application.pdf|here}}. | + | **Required Background:** General 408X prerequisites, |
- | ====== | + | 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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+ | ====== | ||
- | **Supervisor**: Rob Allison (co-supervised with Hugh Chesser, Space Engineering) | + | **Supervisor:** Wolfgang Stuerzlinger |
- | **Required Background**: General | + | **Required Background:** General |
- | **Description** The YUsend (York University Space Engineering Nanosatellite Demonstration) Lab has procured | + | This project implements |
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+ | ======3D Interaction in Immersive Virtual Reality====== | ||
- | 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 for sensors and lamps (b) Acquire and monitor temperature data and control lamp voltage during test, raise operator alarms for temperature or IR lamp anomalous conditions as required © Store temperature and control data for subsequent analysis and reporting. 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' | + | **Supervisor:** Wolfgang Stuerzlinger |
+ | **Required Background: | ||
+ | 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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- | ====== | + | ====== |
- | **Supervisor**: Mike McNamee | + | **Supervisor:** Zhen Ming (Jack) Jiang (zmjiang at cse dot yorku dot ca) |
- | **Required Background**: Good grade in a Numerical Methods course | + | **Required Background:** Good programming skills |
- | of Fortran, C or similar language. | + | |
- | **Description**: Write, debug and run several Fortran programs related to solving | + | **Short Description:** Software engineering data (e.g., source code repositories |
- | polynomial equations, with a view to comparing different known methods. | + | |
- | ====== Enabling SaaS access to an experimental AI planner ====== | + | \\ |
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+ | \\ | ||
- | **Supervisor**: | + | ======Reliably tracking horizontal eye movements====== |
- | **Required Background**: Good knowledge of Unix tools / Python, Perl or Awk. Comfort with algorithms and programming. Essential: 2031 -- Software Tools. Desired: | + | **Supervisor:** Wolfgang Stuerzlinger |
- | 3402 -- Functional & Logic Programming, | + | |
- | 3101 -- Design and Analysis of Algorithms, | + | |
- | 4302 -- Compilers and Interpreters. | + | |
- | **Description**: This project involves enriching and integrating a set of fairly complex scripts, which are components of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) planner, and exporting them to the public in a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) fashion. | + | **Required Background:** General 408X prerequisites, C++/C# coding experience. Ideally CSE3451, CSE4422 or CSE4452. |
- | The components are various Unix executables | + | **Description: |
- | 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. | + | |
+ | ======Model-based Design and Development of Embedded Systems with Code Generation Tools====== | ||
- | ====== Predicting Angular Error in Rigid Registration ====== | + | **Supervisor: |
- | **Supervisor**: Burton Ma | + | **Required Background:** At least a B+ in Embedded Systems (CSE3215), MATLAB, C programming skills, solid experience in using a microcontroller |
+ | such as Arduino. | ||
- | **Description**: Registration is a fundamental step in image-based surgical | + | **Project |
- | 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. | + | |
- | ====== Calibration | + | Model-based design with code generation tools can be used for simulation, rapid prototyping, |
- | **Supervisor**: | + | \\ |
+ | ------------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
- | **Description**: | + | ======C2000 Concerto Microcontrollers====== |
- | 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. | + | |
+ | **Supervisor: | ||
- | ====== A privacy safeguard framework for sharing photos on Facebook ====== | + | **Required Background: |
+ | strong C programming skills, solid knowledge of microcontrollers | ||
- | **Supervisor**: | + | **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. | ||
+ | |||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ------------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
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+ | ======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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