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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 |
- | ====== Comparison | + | - Develop a computer vision system that can detect and monitor the interface between two miscible fluids |
- | **Supervisor**: | + | - Evaluate the performance of the system over a range of different (and typical) fluids |
- | **Required Background**: | + | - Explore the use of different illuminant/filter choices to simplify the task for specific fluid combinations. |
- | This project compares | + | The successful candidate(s) will have the experience of working with a diverse group of scientists |
- | ====== Tilt Target Selection on Touchscreen Phones ====== | + | For further information please contact, |
- | **Supervisor**: | + | Michael Jenkin (jenkin@cse.yorku.ca) or Michal Organ (organ@yorku.ca) |
- | **Required Background**: | + | \\ |
+ | ====== DDoS Attack using Google-bots ====== | ||
- | Touchscreen mobile devices commonly use a built-in accelerometer to sense movement or tilting actions of the device. | + | **Supervisor**: |
- | **Readings**: MacKenzie, I. S., & Teather, R. J. (2012). FittsTilt: The application of Fitts’ law to tilt-based interaction. Proceedings of the Seventh Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction – NordiCHI 2012, pp. 568-577. New York: ACM. | + | **Recommended Background**: CSE 3213 or CSE 3214, CSE 3482 |
+ | 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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====== 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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+ | 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 for the analytical software of their choosing. | + | **Required Background: |
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- | 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. | ||
- | More details {{: | + | ====== Immersive Virtual Reality Kitchen Planner ====== |
- | ====== YUsend Thermal Vacuum (TVAC) Test Manager ====== | + | **Supervisor: |
- | **Supervisor**: Rob Allison (co-supervised with Hugh Chesser, Space Engineering) | + | **Required Background:** General 408X prerequisites, 3D Computer Graphics (3431) completed or equivalent, 4431 desired, Javascript or C# coding experience |
- | **Required Background**: | + | 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 in Immersive Virtual Reality====== | ||
- | **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:** Wolfgang Stuerzlinger |
- | 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 | + | **Required Background:** General 408X prerequisites, |
+ | 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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+ | ====== Mining Software Repositories Data====== | ||
- | ====== Numerical Methods ====== | + | **Supervisor: |
- | **Supervisor**: Mike McNamee | + | **Required Background:** Good programming skills in Java; Good analytical and communication skills; Knowledge in AI and statistics; Interested in large scale software analysis |
- | **Required Background**: Good grade in a Numerical Methods course | + | **Short Description: |
- | of Fortran, C or similar language. | + | |
- | **Description**: | + | \\ |
- | polynomial equations, with a view to comparing different known methods. | + | ------------------ |
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- | ====== | + | ======Reliably tracking horizontal eye movements====== |
- | **Supervisor**: Sotirios Liaskos (liaskos at yorku dot ca) | + | **Supervisor:** Wolfgang Stuerzlinger |
- | **Required Background**: Good knowledge of Unix tools / Python, Perl or Awk. Comfort with algorithms and programming. Essential: 2031 -- Software Tools. Desired: | + | **Required Background:** General 408X prerequisites, |
- | 3402 -- Functional & Logic Programming, | + | |
- | 3101 -- Design and Analysis of Algorithms, | + | |
- | 4302 -- Compilers and Interpreters. | + | |
- | **Description**: This project involves enriching | + | **Description:** The Intel Perceptual Computing SDK includes support for head tracking |
- | 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. | + | \\ |
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- | Learning objectives: | + | ======Model-based Design |
- | * Understand the technologies | + | |
- | * Study a state-of-the-art AI planner and understand its workings. | + | |
- | * Exercise scripting skills. | + | |
+ | **Supervisor: | ||
- | ====== Predicting Angular Error in Rigid Registration ====== | + | **Required Background: |
+ | such as Arduino. | ||
- | **Supervisor**: Burton Ma | + | **Project Description: |
- | **Description**: | + | Model-based |
- | navigation. Several (seemingly) different approaches | + | |
- | distance errors in registration are known, but for some surgical | + | |
- | procedures, the angular error in registration is more important. | + | |
- | This project | + | |
- | error in registration; | + | |
- | simulated | + | |
- | ====== Calibration of a Tracked Pointer ====== | + | \\ |
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- | **Supervisor**: | + | ======C2000 Concerto Microcontrollers====== |
- | **Description**: Tracked pointers are the most common tools used in surgical | + | **Supervisor:** Jia Xu |
- | 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: | ||
+ | strong C programming skills, solid knowledge of microcontrollers | ||
- | ====== A privacy safeguard framework | + | **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 | ||
+ | that runs on C2000 Concerto Microcontrollers. | ||
- | **Supervisor**: | + | \\ |
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+ | ======Real-Time Bidding Platform====== | ||
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+ | **Supervisor:** Jia Xu | ||
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+ | **Required Background:** At least a B+ in Operating System Fundamentals | ||
+ | (CSE3221), strong Ubuntu/ | ||
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+ | **Description: | ||
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+ | \\ | ||
+ | ------------------ | ||
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+ | ======Circuit and Board Design for a Pulsed Ground Penetrating Radar====== | ||
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+ | **Supervisor: | ||
- | **Description**: | + | **Description:** The project requires |
- | One of the major privacy concerns in Online Social Networks is photo sharing. | + | |
- | **Required | + | **Required |
- | **Desired prerequisite**: | + | \\ |
+ | ------------------ | ||
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+ | More project proposals may be added here in the first week of the winter term. | ||
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+ | ------------------ | ||
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