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Earlham CS/DS Portfolios

2016

Program Design and Progress

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While I am waiting for the Kinect to arrive in the mail, hopefully by tomorrow, I have been planning out the structure of my program and what exactly it is going to do. More will be added and revised as the gestures and musical output get more complex, but the foundation and the basic idea … Read more

Update 10/26/16

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After further researching open-source projects and tools that are available to me, I have decided that I will instead focus on ffmpeg.  It is similar to Xvid in the sense that it is an open-source project that provides codecs for compressing and decompression data, but it has better documentation and seems easier to work with. … Read more

Work Progress For This week

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I played around with Wikitude and Vuforia SDKs and tested the sample examples that they gave. The next step would be testing how well each platform can recognize the target image. I have talked with Xunfei about how I should test these on certain scenarios like when there are multiple recognizable objects are in the view … Read more

Building a Chrome Extension

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Never done it before, but Google’s guide here is a good start. I was traveling late last week with some Physics research students, so my accomplishments for this project this time around are sparser than in the past. I’ll sit down tomorrow or Thursday to sketch out a design on whiteboard for how the process should … Read more

Setup Complications Part 2

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Thanks to Charlie, I added a 2-slot PCI Express USB 3.0 Card into the PC, and now instead of these devices from the Kinect: Bus 001 Device 006: ID 045e:02c4 Microsoft Corp. Bus 001 Device 003: ID 045e:02d9 Microsoft Corp. I get these: Bus 004 Device 003: ID 045e:02c4 Microsoft Corp. Bus 004 Device 002: … Read more

Setup Complications

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My biggest fear for this project is being able to setup the hardware and software libraries in such a way that they would be able to work together. In terms of installing the libraries, I ran into a few complications that I had to manually fix myself, but thankfully, there weren’t any major issues I … Read more

Timeline & Design

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This is my estimated timeline for this semester.

Timeline

I have also included my literature review and project proposal too.

Literature review – LiteratureReview_SawYan

Project Proposal – Proposal_SawYan

 

The following is the design flowchart for EARL: mobile app for better campus experiences. Input information will come from GPS, Text and markers when the device recognize them and it will be fed into the device for tracking. Then the device will look for the relevant virtual overlay for that object in the database. For finding the correct one, the application will render the virtual information and show it on the screen as an output.

Draft Design

Project Proposal

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presentation-3 project-proposal I have completed my project proposal and powerpoint.  Below is the timeline I have constructed for my project. October 21: Be familiarized with the Xvid codec, how it works, and how to make simple modifications to it to change compression. November 6: Have unique, decently working, personal compression algorithm. At this point I … Read more

Progress Update as of 10/19/16

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I’ve obtained an Arduino uno board and have been working and messing around with the sensors given to me. Also, I have obtained a Watts up meter and have watched and measured the voltage used during different cycles and different machines.  I have arrived at the conclusion that any Voltage over 100V indicates that a … Read more

Project Design and Proposal

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The current version of the proposal, which includes my revised thoughts from the survey paper as well as the design and timeline of the project: Proposal.pdf Presentation-3.pdf Deadlines: October 26: Develop a preliminary test build for the application by learning a simple gesture and controlling the playback of a sawtooth wave. November 2: Add more … Read more

Project Design

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First, the documents. Presentation Proposal The proposal outlines some research on HCI, in addition to a proposed browser extension (Chrome) to facilitate easier interface comparison tests on the scale of academic and independent developers. I will complete an IRB form and a (visual) sketch of the software logic for upload by the time of the … Read more

current approach: GeoBurst method

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The GeoBurst algorithm detects local news events by looking for spatiotemporal ‘bursts’ of activity. This cluster analysis uses methods which look at geo-tag clusters of phrases. Phrase network analysis has been able to historically link user clouds, however the use of GPS in mobile devices has led many users of social media to indicate their … Read more

Gitlab

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We use a self-hosted gitlab page for the Applied Groups and other internal CS work. All seniors have an account, which they can access through gitlab.cluster.earlham.edu upon receiving an email with your password. If you haven’t worked with git, it’s good to learn now. Version control through git is ubiquitous in software development, so knowing … Read more

Next Steps

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I’ve been trying to figure out which libraries and frameworks are best for developing my Kinect application on Linux, and without testing any of the libraries I’ve found for compatibility so far, the search has been really difficult. This paper provides one possible setup, using: openFrameworks for essential libraries such as OpenGL, a choice number … Read more

Break Update

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I spent some time over break reading The Design of Everyday Things, the first work of popular literature on user design I’ve read for this project. I’m about a third of the way through – it’s a quick and illuminating read – and I’ll finish the relevant sections soon. Some of his insights will certainly … Read more

Literature Review

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Couple of things: The paper: craig_literature_review The presentation: craig_presentation As noted in my update of the annotated bibliography post, I had cited one paper incorrectly there. This mistake was corrected and has not been repeated in the literature review.

Road Map

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First, the annotated bibliography, the preliminary version submitted two days ago: craig_annotated_bibliography. Second, I want to outline my general plan here. After a meeting with Charlie this week and carefully reading some of the more fundamental papers for the topic, I have greater clarity about the project. My general plan, subject to – potentially major – modification as the … Read more

Annotated Bibliography

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Annotated Bibliography Surveys various methods for gesture recognition and audio processing for the purpose of playing music through physical motion.

Updated Project Idea

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Topic: Augmented Reality to enhance campus tour experience Advisor: Xunfei Jiang I would like to develop an interactive and informative mobile application that will assist the prospies and other outside visitors during their campus visits with the use of Augmented Reality. By using Augmented Reality’s ability to create virtual overlays on the mobile screens, I would like to provide … Read more

New Project Proposal

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Now that I have a better understanding of what I want (and need) to do, here’s the first draft of my new plan: Using the 3D motion tracking data of the Microsoft Kinect, our goal is to create a virtual conductor application that uses gesture recognition algorithms in order to detect beats and control the … Read more

Project Topic

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I have chosen to do my senior project on data compression and my adviser for the project will be Xunfei Jiang. Data compression is the concept of compressing data to fit into a smaller space.  Lossless compression is when when some form of data, like a video file, is compressed into less space with no … Read more

Project Topic

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Project Idea (Charlie is the Advisor): Developing some sort of hardware/software combination that would allow for monitoring of washers and dryers on Earlham’s campus. I would then create an app of some sort so that students could go on to the app and be able to 1) get notifications when a machine is done 2) … Read more

Topic Statement

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Deeksha Srinath Senior Seminar Topic Statement Advisor: Charlie Peck   My interest in how social media today is influencing our lives influenced my topic. I will be working to design a unified data model for Facebook and Twitter data. I will be doing this in order to be able to query a pool of data … Read more

Project Topic

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For my Senior Research, my topic will be a data mining project using data collected from Twitter. Twitter’s API offers 1% of a spatial bandwidth (in my case, the continental U.S.A.) for users to collect. This data has been collected for over 3 years, and represents well over one billion tweets. Of these, a significant … Read more

Revised Project Proposal

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. . ., but it may be revised again soon. Our goal is to make a 3D rhythm game that would, among other possible applications, teach players the gestural motions of an orchestral conductor and act as a teacher for conducting music. The basic gameplay is that at certain points in the music, the game … Read more

Senior Project in HCI

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Big Picture Topic: Software Interfaces and Human Behavior Adviser: Charlie Peck Description While this requires some additional refinement, I’ve settled on the general topic and hope to incorporate some of my interests from the other topics along the way. I will study how interfaces affect interactions between humans and computers. There is a rich history in … Read more

Updated Project Idea

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Intelligent Personal Assistant for Medicine Research Supervisor: Dave Barbella I want to build a software (potentially mobile application) that acts as an intelligent personal assistant for medical purpose. The inspiration comes from modern programs like Siri, but instead of being a general purpose, I want it to have a narrower focus (i.e. medicine). While I … Read more

Potential Project Ideas

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Connecting a seemingly similar history to a surprisingly variable present With this project, I would examine how a set of nations (a subset of Scandinavian nations) that are today relatively homogeneous in terms of race and economic capacity have vastly differing attitudes and policies around immigration and integration of immigrants. This interest developed as I … Read more

Ideas

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I’m primarily interested in human-computer interaction (HCI) and, extending the notion further, how the principles of computer science, when applied through software or social networks, produce changes in human behavior. In general I’m drawing my thoughts from behavioral economics, network theory, research into user experience of software, and the general principles of software engineering and structuring … Read more

Potential Projects (UPDATED: SEP21)

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UPDATED IDEA: Object Recognition and Tracking for Augmented Reality While exploring more about Augmented Reality and AR-based applications currently circulating on the internet, I have seen limitations of Augmented Reality, especially in object recognition and tracking. I would like to see the current status of the capability of object recognition and tracking technologies available and … Read more

Project Ideas

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1.)  Data Compression I am interested in how data is represented as MPEG, JPEG, and other file formats, and how this data can be used to display an image or video.  In particular, I am interested in the compression algorithms used to store this data in a smaller space, with little or no loss in … Read more

Project Ideas

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Topic: bioinformatics to track ones health: The goal of this research is to be able to use ones personal health data to track and display a time line of ones health progress. By first gathering relevant data from various inputs, this software will be able to organize and store all the data. Second is the display of … Read more

Categories Sam

Project Topic

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Facial Recognition Facial recognition is something that we as human beings have been doing since the beginning of time. We have also become masters at identifying a person’s mood or emotion simply by looking at their facial expression. Today, we have harnessed the powers of artificial intelligence and are now able to apply it to … Read more

Project Ideas

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Idea 1 (Intelligent Personal Assistant for Medicine): I want to build a software (potentially mobile application) that acts as an intelligent personal assistant for medical purpose. The inspiration comes from modern programs like Siri, but instead of being a general purpose, I want it to have a narrower focus (i.e. medicine). While I am still … Read more

Project Ideas

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Some of this is copy and pasted from the email I sent last spring, but anyway, here’s my two project ideas: Expanding on the research that I have been doing with Forrest, I hope to make a 3D rhythm game that just uses two Raspberry Pi infrared (NoIR) cameras as well as one infrared sensor … Read more

Research project ideas

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Possible research: Spatial computational resource allocation see also: CyberGIS’16 panel Data structures are fundamental to the efficiency of algorithms pertaining to transfer and storage, computation, and visualization. Parallel and distributed computing comes in many implementations whose purposes vary greatly. Using centralized computing networks, new resources are available to more institutions, however the bridge between onsite … Read more

Panel overview

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Panel: Future Directions of CyberGIS and Geospatial Data Science (Chair: Shaowen Wang) Panelists: Budhendra Bhaduri, Mike Goodchild, Daniel S. Katz, Mansour Raad, Tapani Sarjakoski, and Judy — Selected topics by Ben Liebersohn Michael: 3D domains are limited, more GIS integration with 3D rendition and simulation be well received. Support for different types of data, which … Read more

Project Ideas

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<!–Idea 1: Developing some sort of hardware/software combination that would allow for monitoring of washers and dryers on Earlham’s campus. I would then create an app of some sort so that students could go on to the app and be able to 1) get notifications when a machine is done 2) look to see which … Read more