CSC492 Projects

2014 ideas

Turn our collection fo mobile phones into mobile mobile phones. Add wheels, controller circuitry and let them drive themselves around. Mobile phones to robots.
One graphic/day. Use CS, mine data and come up with intersting charts, similar to http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/. Example: Voroni diagram of McDonalds and of Hospitals.
Rewrite my TA application system using Ajax. I have been meaning to do this.
Twitter mining and understanding. Mine tweets, understand something about the social network, for example, understand the spread of ebola.
Use our linux labs (60 systems) together to solve some interesting, difficult problems.
Improve my iris recognition code. This is a machine learning/computational vision problem.
Write Javascript that understands what part of a web page the user is reading and reports back to central server. Understand how organizations are already doing this... http://www.businessinsider.com/this-is-how-facebook-is-tracking-your-internet-activity-2012-9?op=1

Parallel Algorithms and their implementation, Jun Sasaki, Summer 2002 1) Understand the field of parallel algorithms 2) Understand the MPI (Message Passing Interface). An application programming interface allowing 'simple' expression of parallel algorithms using a network of computers. 3) Implement parallel algorithms using MPI in our lab of 40 computers for a) Numerical algorithms (heat flow equation) b) Solution of combinatorial problems (Hamiltonian Path) 4) Analyze the results produced in 3 above Face Recognition, Ravinder Mann, Fall 2003 (Write software which can) recognize a sample face from a set of given faces. Use of Principal Component Analysis [Using Eigenface approach]. Use a simple approach for recognition and compare it with Eigenface approach . Suggest which one is better and why. It may happen that in some cases latter may work better than former approach and vice versa. OpenGL on the GameBoy Advance, Daniel Zabawa, Spring 2004 To implement a basic 3-dimensional renderer for use on the Nintendo GameBoy Advance(tm). To achieve an acceptable level of performance, then extend the feature set as far as possible. There are three main goals here. First, to gain insight into the 3d graphics pipeline at the lowest level, and it's design and implementation issues. Second, to undertake an exercise in optimization, in terms of both speed and memory, at both high and low levels. Finally, to learn an unfamiliar system intimately, and hopefully gain insight in the process of learning other systems efficiently. Vehicular Signal Acquisition and Processing, James McCrae, Summer/Fall 2004 The development of a computer system which is physically connected to the sensors of the vehicle's motor to acquire signals. Also, the development of a software solution to acquiring and processing the data from the connection. Finally, an open exploration into the relevance and potential for this system - and Computer Science in automotive technology. (GoBlue) Cellphone based e-commerce solution, Shadid Haque and Sazzad Kamal, Summer/Fall 2004 Working with industry (Nokia, Rogers wireless, and Moneris electronic billing solutions) we develop a complete e-commerce solution. The front end for this application is the customers cellphone. This will allow customized and quick access to store services. Voice XML and Multimodal Browsers, Farhang Farid, Fall 2004 A new breed of web browsers is emerging, those that can understand a users voice and synthesize speech. We explore web based applications using these multimodal browsers and the emerging standard used to specify them (XML+V). The final application developed with this technology is a voice enabled media player. This device allows its user to request (by voice) the creation of song playlists and their execution (play, stop, etc.). Basically, a voice enabled IPOD. Volumetric Rendering, Andy Chow, Philips Benjamin, Rahil Ashraf, Fall 2004 supervised jointly with Virgis Barzda (Physics) The physics department has legacy research software (Mu) and hardware (VolumePro 500). Mu+VolumePro500 allow the physics department to display and explore three dimensional volumetric data obtained from some of their microscopes. To continue advancing their explorations, they have purchased the VolumePro1000. Our goal is to understand and document the Mu software, the new VolumePro1000, port Mu to the new hardware and add additional features to Mu. These new features include the ability to manipulate and display multiple channels of volumetric data. Artificial Intelligence on the Cellphone, Sazzad Kamal, Spring 2005 To make a game for cell phones that learns from experience. Sazzad Kamel implemented a version of TicTacToe that learns from playing either the cellphone user or another TicTacToe strategy. The novel aspect of this project is that strategies can visit and play other strategies on other cellphones. They can then return to the original cellphone, having learned from the experience. Download Manager Sorter, Daniel Kozimor, Fall 2005 This project received a $2000 award from the OSOA Student Experience Program. Contribute to the open source web browser Firefox. Daniel added logical and physical sorting abilities to the Mozilla Download Manager. The Complexity of Games, Stefan Gueorguiev and Omar Beidoun, Fall 2005 This research project investigates the computational complexity of some simple games and puzzles. As well as understanding the complexity classes P, NP, P-SPACE, and the relation to each other, the students investigated proofs of NP-completeness and P-Space- completeness for some common games and puzzles. Finally, the students investigated the computational complexity of some new puzzles. Occluder Light Suppression and Large Screen Displays, Adrian Balaura and Ryan Figueiredo, Fall 2005 This project received a $2000 award from the OSOA Student Experience Program. Students developed a system to determine if there is a foreign object located between a data projector and the projection surface. Once an object is found, the system will modify the projection to exclude that object. One practical use of this extension is to avoid projecting in the eyes of presenters when they stand in front of their presentations. The second part of this project develops a multi-projector, high resolution, large screen display. This allows two projectors to be used to, together, display a single high resolution image. Introduction to Information Security, Farhang Farid, Fall 2005 An investigation into aspects of information security. The report covers the history of cryptography and system security with some investigation into software security (buffer overruns and integer overflows). Actionstep: Porting Openstep to Flash, Scott Hyndman, Spring 2006 This project received a $2000 award from the OSOA Student Experience Program. Macromedia's Flash engine has a limited set of widgits (textboxes, dropdown list boxes, tables etc.) used to create Graphical User Interfaces. The Actionstep open source project addresses this issue by implementing the OpenStep Application Kit in ActionScript (so making the OpenStep Application Kit available to developers of Flash applications). For his project, Scott developed a major portion of the codebase of this open source project. Clubs Management Software, Arvand Owji, Spring 2006 Arvand developed a web based Student Club management system. This system (based on PHP) provides clubs the ability to manage their members, advertise events, register students in events and manage student payments for events.