Final Year Student Projects: Project Listing

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Final Year Student Projects Project Listing
Prof. Michael R. Lyu Department of Computer
Science and Engineering The Chinese University of
Hong Kong
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LYU0501 Video Search Engine on Internet

• Prof. Michael R. Lyu
• Department of Computer Science and Engineering
• The Chinese University of Hong Kong

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LYU0501 Video Search Engine on Internet

• Motivation
• Searching engine for web documents is popular and
  successful in commercial while video search
  engine is immature till now.
• Huge volumes of video data are rapidly produced
  daily which forms a very large potential business
  market.
• No successful commercial product yet.Even those
  from famous commercial companies such as Google,
  IBM, etc. still work poorly.

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LYU0501 Video Search Engine on Internet

• Abstract
• Design and develop a platform for Web-based video
  search engine over the Internet.
• Video data collection develop tools for crawling
  video data using different network protocols
  (like http/mms/rpt/bt/exeem)
• Video content analysis and retrieval design and
  develop an open architecture to enable plug-ins
  of different searching algorithms
• Video data indexing building efficient indexing
  for video data in the database

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LYU0501 Video Search Engine on Internet
Video Data Collections
Searching on Internet
Multimedia Processing
Image Features(Color, texture, etc.)
Text Data(Caption, OCR, etc.)
Indexing
Open architecture and platform
Database
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LYU0501 Video Search Engine on Internet

• Techniques
• Web/Network programming in C, Java, JSP/PHP,
  etc.
• Image and video processing C/C, DirectX /
  OpenCV
• Database indexing techniques XML, SQL, etc.

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LYU0501 Video Search Engine on Internet

• Main research areas
• Data indexing for multimedia
• Multimedia information retrieval
• Multimodal data analysis
• Notes
• Part of this project might be participated in the
  TRECVID 2005 competition (competed with
  industrial and academic organizations such as
  IBM, CMU, etc.)

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LYU0502 Museum Multilingual Guidance System
(MGS) over 3G Network

• Prof. Michael R. Lyu
• Department of Computer Science and Engineering
• The Chinese University of Hong Kong

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LYU0502 Museum Multilingual Guidance System over
3G Network

• Traditional Museum multilingual guidance system
  is one-way information system
• Visitors borrow the audio guide device and press
  a number to hear explanation of the exhibits
• Cons
• High maintenance cost for the audio guide devices
• Content update and management problem
• One-way interaction

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LYU0502 Museum Multilingual Guidance System over
3G Network

• Using visitors own 3G handset to connect the
  museum multilingual guidance system (MGS)
• The museum MGS is a content portal server running
  on 3G Telco machines, it is designed with
• Content authoring and management interface for
  museum staff to update multilingual content
• Interactive 3G video information system
• Events notification to visitor via MMS or SMS
• Billing interface to 3G Telco accounting system

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LYU0502 Museum Multilingual Guidance System over
3G Network
Internet
3G Telco
3G Network
Museum MGS
Museum Content Management Client
Visitors 3G Phone
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LYU0502 Museum Multilingual Guidance System over
3G Network

• Research Area
• Content authoring and management protocol
• System design and integration
• Symbian programming
• 3G (UMTS)
• Development Platform
• MSWin or Linux, Symbian OS
• Development Language
• VC, Symbian C
• Hardware
• PC, Symbian 3G phones
• Possible industrial collaboration with local 3G
  Telco.

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LYU0503 Mobile information Wallet (MIW) for
Interactive Games

• Prof. Michael R. Lyu
• Department of Computer Science and Engineering
• The Chinese University of Hong Kong

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LYU0503 Mobile Information Wallet for
Interactive Games

• In this project, students are required to design
  a system framework and develop programs to enable
  PocketPC and Smartphone into Mobile Information
  Wallet (MIW)
• Using the MIW, users can copy paste text,
  pictures, files from PC to mobile devices using
  bluetooth connections
• For example, when browsing the Web, you can copy
  paste the restaurant address and phone number
  to the MIW, without pen or paper.
• Between two MIWs, information can be easily
  interchanged.

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LYU0503 Mobile Information Wallet for
Interactive Games

• Students are required to
• Design and implement the copy paste action on
  PC
• Define the format of a MIW message
• Understand the capability of different handheld
  devices
• Develop MIW software on different handheld
  devices
• Develop an interactive game based on the MIW
  messages

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LYU0503 Mobile Information Wallet for
Interactive Games

• Research Area
• Bluetooth
• Inter device connectivity
• Network security
• Interactive games on mobile devices
• Development Platform
• MSWin, Windows Mobile 2003, Symbian, J2ME
• Development Language
• VC, Symbian C, java
• Hardware
• PC, PocketPC, Symbian phone, Smartphone

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LYU0504 P2P Digital TV Recorder

• Prof. Michael R. Lyu
• Department of Computer Science and Engineering
• The Chinese University of Hong Kong

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LYU0504 P2P Digital TV Recorder

• Motivations
• Why need to set recording schedule of your
  favorite TV program?
• I missed the last weeks program. Can I view it
  on demand?
• How about last months TV drama series?
• I want to share digital photos and videos with my
  buddy in Canada. Is there any easy way that he
  can retrieve them seamlessly?

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LYU0504 P2P Digital TV Recorder

• Previous questions can be answered by a ultimate
  large storage digital video recorder (DVR),
  recording all TV channel in 24 x 7 fashion
• MPEG-1 1 hour TV program 600MB
• Storage requirement for 4 channels 24 hours
  30 days 600MB 1.7TB

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LYU0504 P2P Digital TV Recorder

• How about decentralizing the central solution by
  inter-connecting many small digital video
  recorders with 100GB storage on Internet ?
• Each DVR record different parts of TV programs
• With content replication factor set to 3, total
  storage requirement for one month is 5TB
• Number of DVRs is 5T / 100GB 50

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LYU0504 P2P Digital TV Recorder

• Students are required to
• Conduct a feasibility study of the whole idea
• Design an effective content distribution/replicati
  on algorithm with bandwidth constraints
• Design a P2P on demand protocol
• Develop a prototype program on WinXP Media Centre
  HTPC
• Deploy the prototype at various locations for
  evaluation
• Departmental labs
• Students homes

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LYU0504 P2P Digital TV Recorder

• Research Area
• Content distribution/replication algorithm with
  bandwidth constraints
• P2P on demand protocol
• Network security
• Development Platform
• WinXP Media Centre
• Development Language
• VC
• Hardware
• HTPC

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Epilog (1)

• Only hard-working students selected my projects

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My previous FYP students
Ho Man Lam 2000-2002 ACM Team
Justin Wan 1998-1999 ACM Team
Kenny Kwok 1998-2000 ACM Team
Yeung Kam Wah 2001-2002 ACM Team
Starsky Wong 1999-2000 ACM Team
Lam Yee 2001-2002 ACM Team
And other top CS and CE students
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Epilog (2)

• But their rewards can be quite descent

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My Previous FYP Students Succeeded in World Final
of ACM Competition
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J2ME Competition 2001
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My FYP Teams Won 2003 Microsoft Web Xcellence
Awards
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6th IT Excellent Awards 2004
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You may be the next winner in

• Symbian Competition
• 7th IT Excellence Awards
• Digital Entertainment Competition
• Moot Competition
• CUHK VC Cup

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Epilog (3)

• Each FYP student will have his/her own seat and
  computer set in VIEW Laboratory (HSH101)
• Summer student helper opportunities