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+ | ====== DDoS Attack using Google-bots | ||
- | Currently offered Projects, Summer 2013 | + | 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/ | ||
- | (some projects still subject to confirmation) | + | Recommended Background: CSE 3213 or CSE 3214, CSE 3482 |
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+ | ====== | ||
- | **Supervisor**: | + | **Supervisor**: |
- | **Required Background**: | + | **Required Background**: |
+ | good math skills, knowledge of C and MATLAB programming languages | ||
- | The Leap Motion, leapmotion.com, is a new device that lets users control | + | 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. |
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+ | The goal of this project | ||
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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 | ||
- | ====== 3D Drawing System with 3Gear gesture tracker ====== | ||
- | **Supervisor**: | + | ====== Attentive Sensing for Sport Video Recording Markets ====== |
- | **Required Background**: 3D computer graphics, C/C++ coding | + | **Supervisor**: James Elder |
- | The 3Gear system, threegear.com, | + | **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 ====== | ||
- | ====== Tilt Target Selection on Touchscreen Phones ====== | + | **Supervisor: |
- | **Supervisor**: Scott MacKenzie | + | 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. | ||
- | **Required Background**: | + | Recently, in collaboration with Shafiei |
+ | an extension of JPF called jpf-nhandler. | ||
+ | is to apply this extension to log4j. | ||
- | Touchscreen mobile devices commonly use a built-in accelerometer to sense movement or tilting actions of the device. Tilt is commonly used the change the orientation of the display between portrait and landscape. | + | [1] David A. Dickey, B. Sinem Dorter, J. Michael German, Benjamin D. Madore, Mark W. Piper, Gabriel L. Zenarosa. " |
- | **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. | + | **Required Background:** General CSE408x prerequisites |
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ======Hybrid 2D/3D User Interfaces for 3D Rotation ====== | ||
- | ====== Attentive Sensing for Better Two-Way Communication in Remote Learning Environments ====== | + | **Supervisor: |
- | **Supervisor**: James Elder | + | **Required Background:** General 408X prerequisites, |
- | **Required Background**: | + | 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. |
- | good math skills, knowledge of C and MATLAB programming languages | + | \\ |
+ | ------------ | ||
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+ | ====== Immersive Virtual Reality Kitchen Planner ====== | ||
- | One of the challenges in remote learning is to allow students to communicate effectively with the lecturer. | + | **Supervisor:** Wolfgang Stuerzlinger |
- | + | ||
- | The goal of this project is to apply attentive sensing technology (www.elderlab.yorku.ca) to this problem. | + | |
- | + | ||
- | 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 | + | |
- | + | ||
- | ====== Continuation of a Path Diagram to Syntax Application ====== | + | **Required Background: |
- | **Supervisor**: | + | This project implements a kitchen planner application for an immersive virtual reality system. The implementation will be based on Unity 4. |
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ======3D Interaction in Immersive Virtual Reality====== | ||
- | **Required Background**: General CSE408x prerequisites | + | **Supervisor:** Wolfgang Stuerzlinger |
- | **Recommended | + | **Required |
- | Structural equation modeling (SEM) is a statistical technique that is becoming increasingly popular | + | This project implements and tests various 3D Navigation and 3D Interaction methods |
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+ | ------------ | ||
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- | 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. | ||
- | 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. | + | ====== Mining Software Repositories Data====== |
- | More details {{:continuation_of_a_path_diagram_to_syntax_application.pdf|here}}. | + | **Supervisor:** Zhen Ming (Jack) Jiang (zmjiang at cse dot yorku dot ca) |
+ | **Required Background: | ||
+ | **Short Description: | ||
- | ====== Numerical Methods ====== | + | \\ |
+ | ------------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
- | **Supervisor**: | + | ======Reliably tracking horizontal eye movements====== |
- | **Required Background**: Good grade in a Numerical Methods course and good knowledge | + | **Supervisor:** Wolfgang Stuerzlinger |
- | of Fortran, C or similar language. | + | |
- | **Description**: Write, debug and run several Fortran programs related to solving | + | **Required Background:** General 408X prerequisites, C++/C# coding experience. Ideally CSE3451, CSE4422 or CSE4452. |
- | polynomial equations, with a view to comparing different known methods. | + | |
- | ====== Enabling SaaS access | + | **Description: |
- | **Supervisor**: | + | \\ |
+ | ------------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
- | **Required Background**: | + | ======Model-based Design and Development |
- | 3402 -- Functional & Logic Programming, | + | |
- | 3101 -- Design and Analysis | + | |
- | 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. | + | **Supervisor:** Jia Xu |
- | 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 | + | **Required Background:** At least a B+ in Embedded Systems |
+ | such as Arduino. | ||
- | Learning objectives: | + | **Project Description: |
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+ | Model-based design with code generation tools can be used for simulation, rapid prototyping, | ||
- | ====== Predicting Angular Error in Rigid Registration ====== | + | \\ |
+ | ------------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
- | **Supervisor**: | + | ======C2000 Concerto Microcontrollers====== |
- | **Description**: Registration is a fundamental step in image-based surgical | + | **Supervisor:** Jia Xu |
- | 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 of a Tracked Pointer ====== | + | **Required Background: |
+ | strong C programming skills, solid knowledge of microcontrollers | ||
- | **Supervisor**: Burton Ma | + | **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. | ||
- | **Description**: | + | \\ |
- | 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. | + | |
+ | ======Real-Time Bidding Platform====== | ||
- | ====== A privacy safeguard framework for sharing photos on Facebook ====== | + | **Supervisor: |
- | **Supervisor**: Uyen Trang Nguyen | + | **Required Background:** At least a B+ in Operating System Fundamentals |
- | + | (CSE3221), strong Ubuntu/ | |
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+ | **Description:** Real-time bidding (RTB) is a new method of selling and buying online display advertising in real-time one ad impression at a time. Once a bid request has been sent out, all bids must be received within a strict deadline - generally under 100 milliseconds, | ||
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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**: | + | \\ |
+ | ------------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | More project proposals may be added here in the first week of the winter term. | ||
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+ | ------------------ | ||
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