CS388-Week11-Update
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I only worked on finishing the first draft of the proposal this week.
CS388 – Week 11 – Updates
This past week, I’ve finalized the basic design for the game I will be implementing. It will be a horizontal auto-runner, where the player ducks/jumps to avoid obstacles to the beat of the music in order to keep playing. I … Read More
CS388 – Week 10 – Updates
This past week, my work has been split in two directions: First, I’ve been refamiliarizing myself with Unity, by means of going through my Game Design second project. Further than that, I’ve been familiarizing myself with Unity2D for the first … Read More
CS 388 – Week 11 – Updates
I extensively worked on the proposal last week, reading more papers and writing out what I plan to do helped me figure out the scope of the proposed project. I also experimented a bit more with tensorflow. I made some … Read More
CS388 – Week 11 – Update
This week, I revised my diagram again and selected papers to use for my proposal. I read through all of them carefully and wrote an outline for my proposal. I discussed the details of my ideas with Xunfei, modified some, … Read More
CS388 – Week 11 – Update
Much of my work this week has consisted on working through the first draft of the proposal as well as reading some papers for the next pass. I also found a couple other sources to use. These new sources were … Read More
CS388 – Week 10 – Update
This week I met with Charlie to discuss my project design. We also talked about GIS extension, which is a library to handle GIS data for NetLogo. Charlie talked about how to layer different types of data on a base … Read More
CS 388 – Week 11 – Update
I worked extensively on finishing the first draft. I rewrote the design and related works section.
CS 388 – Week 10 – Update
Uploaded papers I have finalized for the proposal. I will meet Xunfei to confirm the papers and talk more about the first draft. I have made an appointment with the writing center for the first draft. I spoke to the … Read More
CS 388 – Week 10 – Updates
I have narrowed my project to studying Facebook Reactions and how reactions may differ based on the gender of the post creator. I have also found papers that focus on facebook reactions. Because Facebook Reactions were released as a feature … Read More
CS 388 – Week 10 – Updates
After meeting with Xunfei, I decided to modify my diagram a bit so I redesigned it from my practice proposal. I also collected more papers that could be used in my proposal and read more articles and research papers. I … Read More
CS 388 – Week 10 – Updates
In order to get more familiar with neural networks I decided to use a program that lets you create neural networks. In order to do this I started reading about tensorflow and tensorflow graphs and their inner workings like variables, … Read More
CS388 – Week 10 – Updates
This past week I have been trying to find more research papers that discuss how to create a prototype fake news detector instead of papers that just talk about how to discern fake news from media. The hunt for those … Read More
CS 388 – Week 9 Updates
I discussed my new idea with Charlie and Xunfei. I searched for more papers about 3D modeling and volume estimation but could not find a lot. I will be creating an Andriod application, so I looked into Andriod camera API … Read More
CS 388 – Week 8 Updates
After coming back from CMU workshop for CS researches, I have decided to modify my idea a bit to integrate more CV into the project. From recipe recommendation and calorie estimation, I have decided to focus only on calorie estimation. … Read More
CS 388 – Week 7 Updates
I read and did more research on different algorithms of recipe recommendation. I removed some papers from my box that turned out to be not quite related and added some more papers. I also wrote the final version of my … Read More
CS388 – Week 10 – Update
During this past week, I have revised how I want to implement my social engineering attack. I want to use what is called a USB rubber ducky where you insert a MicroSD card into the USB. This card has payloads … Read More
Week 10 Updates
In the past week, I have: Finished a simple Hangman Game in Elixir, I coded it up during the weekend. It can be found here: https://github.com/hungphi98/Hangman_Elixir. I learned a lot of things while making this tiny game: decoupling design; BEAM … Read More
CS388 – Week 9 – Update
For this week, I started working on NetLogo, the software that I plan to use to create the simulation model for my project. I looked into the tutorials and the sample models library. NetLogo has its own programming language and … Read More
CS388 – Week 9 – Update
I found a MFCC library in GitHub and explored it a little bit. It directly takes a wav file as input and returns one N*1 array (a sequence of acoustic vector). I recorded my voice and converted to a wav … Read More
CS388-Week10-Update
I finished a first pass of all but one of the papers in my reading list, and also read some of the papers that are highly relevant to my project, which I had already read for a first pass, for … Read More
CS388 – Week 9 Update
This week I have: Learned about the P2P and different Protocols in the implementation Learned about the history of P2P, and different architectures in implementing a fully functional P2P File Sharing Application. It is quite colorful actually. Made a rough … Read More
CS 388 – Week 9 – Updates
This week, I worked more on my proposal outline. Tuesday morning, I met with somebody from EPIC to go over my grant application to go to GDC, at which I may try getting some playtesting data from my project from … Read More
CS 388 – Week 8 – Updates
During this week, I continued work on my literature review after meeting with Xunfei. After finishing the review, I also started work on my proposal outline, and continued looking for more resources to use in my project. I specifically need … Read More
CS388 – Week 9 – Updates
I’ve been working on the Lit Review and Proposal Outline this week and I finally finished the Lit Review fully. My Lit Review included sections on: Data sets: what kind of data has been tested and what do they extract … Read More
CS 388 – Week 9 – Updates
I am working on finding more papers that study gender bias in social media posts and narrowing my idea further. One challenge is finding a feasible way to collect data from a site (since APIs have limits), or finding an … Read More
CS 388 – Week 9 – Updates
This past week I worked on revising my literature review as well as writing my proposal outline that will serve as a starting point for my first proposal draft. I met with my advisor who helped me to come up … Read More
CS388-Week9-Update
I went over the broad categories that need to be addressed by the project proposal, and created a proposal outline for Assignment 7. I also worked with my advisor, Igor, to find a good candidate for the reduction adn start … Read More
CS388 – Week 9 – Updates
This week, I changed my method from hybrid to content-based filtering because there isn’t much research done in the hybrid method. So I chose to improve the content-based filtering instead. I also wrote my proposal outline and revised my diagram … Read More
CS388 – Week 9 – Updates
For this week, I wrote my proposal outline. During the next two weeks I will use this to construct the 1st draft of my proposal. I also spoke with Charlie about taking a different approach to the social engineering aspect … Read More
CS388 – Week 8 – Update
I finished my proposal outline. The next step is to write my proposal draft. I also discussed with Xunfei and she help me drew a better flowchart. I gained a clearer understanding about the flow of my project. I downloaded … Read More
CS388 – Week 8 – Update
I met with Charlie for the weekly meeting. We discussed different designs for my simulation model. I will first create some input data, which includes creating dummy values for the base map instead of using a real map. The main … Read More
CS 388 – Week 9 – Update
I met with Xunfei to improve my design outline for the proposal outline. I completed the outline on the box site. I am trying to find more ways to improve the existing system and see if there is anything else … Read More
CS388 – Week 8 – Updates
I wrote my project proposal this week and I already had most of the info ready. The sections that I didn’t feel really prepared for were the design and what software/hardware do you need sections. I didn’t have a good … Read More
CS388 – Week 7 – Updates
After reading articles for my literature review, I see that there are a lot of different ways to identify and classify media with misinformation. I will need to do a bit of work to be able to combine all the … Read More
CS 388 – Week 6 – Updates
I’ve chosen Charlie as my adviser for my project The idea that I picked for my Capstone is my Fake News Detection Idea The basic idea is that I would create a website/application and a website extension that takes mediums … Read More
CS 388 – Week 8 – Updates
I read over 20 papers in the last two weeks to work on my literature review. I met with my advisor and talked to him about my proposal and what could be improved in my literature review. I have found … Read More
CS388 – Week 7 – Update
This week, I mainly worked on reviewing my papers carefully and summarizing them for the literature review. I also met and talked with Xunfei about my proposal idea and came up with a preliminary idea. I will have to work … Read More
CS388 – Week 7 – Update
This week, I wrapped up my first draft of the literature review. I’ll be meeting with the writing center as I embark on my final draft. I’ve continued working on nailing down my exact idea that I’ll be proposing, as … Read More
CS388-Week8-Update
This week I worked on improving my understanding of the Parks Puzzle and exploring possible proof techniques to show that it is NP complete from two directions. I continued working on the Time Complexity chapters of “Introduction to The Theory … Read More
CS388 – Week 7 – Update
I’ve finished writing the Literature Review for my idea “Fire Spread Simulation Using Cellular Automata.” After reading the papers for my research, I found a recent paper on this topic which used Machine Learning to solve the drawbacks of previous … Read More
CS388 – Week 6 – Update
I’ve chosen “Fire Simulation Using Cellular Automata” as my final idea. I have also met with Charlie and decided to meet every week on Monday. I will also meet with Xunfei regularly for my research. Xunfei has suggested that I … Read More
CS388 – Week 7 – Update
I finalized my proposal to “Applying Voiceprint Recognition Technology to Identity Verification”. The keywords are voice recognition, voiceprint, feature extraction, voice detection, voice verification. The difficulty I might encounter is that there may be background noise in the voice input. If … Read More
CS 388 – Week 8 – Update
Received feedback for LR. I understood the mistakes I made and working on the revised LR. I also found additional papers that I will use. Met with Xunfei to discuss proposal outline and LR.
CS388 – Week 7 – Update
I did not add an update to week 6 due to the long weekend but had been working on my literature review, which I finished today. It was very useful to read and re-read certain articles and realise some are … Read More
CS 388 – Week 6 Updates
I have decided on the project I will be working on as my senior project. I have talked to Charlie about it, discuss my ideas regarding this project. He will be my advisor for the project. I have found 10 … Read More
CS 388 – Week 7 – Updates
I now know what idea I am going to go with, it’s a new idea and is not related to any of my old ideas. My new idea is about using neural networks and natural language processing to predict a … Read More
CS 388 – Week 5 Updates
I have talked to Xunfei about my 3 ideas and decided to discard one of my 3 ideas because of overhead issues. I wrote 2 annotated bibliographies of my 2 ideas with 3 papers each. I have also done more … Read More
CS388 – Week 4 Updates
I wrote 3 annotated bibliographies, one for each idea, and each of the annotated bibliographies is composed of 2 papers I have found for my ideas. I went to San Diego to attend Tapia conference of diversity in computing.
CS 388 – Week 6 – Updates
I’ve finalized the base project idea – I’m going with the one involving music generating AI. Additionally, I’ve officially gotten a proposal adviser, Xunfei, who I’ll be meeting with every Wednesday morning. I’m having some issues in limiting the scope … Read More
CS 388 – Week 5 – Updates
The First Responders Tech idea is not panning out in terms of finding any relevant research articles so that may be way to difficult for me to achieve in this time frame The Secure Paperless Voting Machine is working out … Read More
CS 388 – Week 4 – Update
Updates in Ideas My first “Fake News Detector” idea has remained mostly the same I still have not come up with a more doable idea for the secure paperless voting machines because there’s so much oversight with voting regulations and … Read More
CS388 – Week 6 – Update
My project is using Voice Print Recognition technology to check if the voiceprint of the input match the corresponding one in the database. This technology can be used in many identity verification scenes like customer services for bank, door lock, business … Read More
CS 388 – Week 7 – Update
This week I mainly finished my LR and spoke in detail regarding the project idea with Xunfei. It seems I like I know which technology to progress with and eliminate the two I was debating before. I also worked on … Read More
CS388 – Week 6 – Update
I read more papers on my ideas, met with my advisor to schedule a weekly meeting and discussed a new idea proposed by the company I interned with this summer. The new idea is a Neural Network driven A.I. that … Read More
CS388 – Week 6 – Update
This week, I finalized who my advisor will be (Charlie). I also decided that I will be working on my security testing idea as my main project. To start this, I spoke with Brendan Post (IT) to discuss my ideas. … Read More
CS388-Week6-Update
This week I spent some time finalizing my proposal idea. I discussed the Parks Puzzle with Igor and come to the conclusion that I should work on proving its NP-Completeness for my final project. I had to discuss this idea … Read More
CS388 – Week 6 – Update
In the past week, I searched and skimmed lots of papers to use for my own research. I also talked with Dave and Xunfei to refine my ideas. I also found a data scraping software to extract product information from … Read More
CS 388 – Week 6 – Update
In the past week, I have found papers for the literature review, started working on the paper. I have to talk with my advisor regarding the papers. I also found that the QR code would be a viable option rather … Read More
388 – Week 5 – Update
Most of the articles I have read this week have been quite informative and take the time to explain even the most basic things. However, this has not been true for all the articles that I have read. Some of … Read More
CS388 – Week 5 – Update
In the past week, I explored different ideas, talked to the faculty, and found more papers to read. I found lots of interesting paper related to my personalized skin care product recommendation idea. I found out that using content-based filtering … Read More
CS388 – Week 5 – Update
I haven’t decide my topic yet, but I was reading papers related to my three ideas to gain a deeper understanding on these ideas. My first idea is an AI tech for voice print recognition. It can be used for … Read More
CS388 – Week 5 – Update
This week I researched deeper into my three ideas, and now have developed preferences and better understandings of them. Specifically, I believe the natural language processing idea where I will create summaries of subjects in PDF’s seems to not only … Read More
CSS388 – Week 5 – Sources
In the past two weeks, I’ve read through a total of 12 sources, four for each idea, and created annotated bibliographies based on them. While some of these papers are more useful than others, each has been helpful in one … Read More
CS388 – Week 5 – Update
I spoke with Charlie this past week and we both decided that my first idea is my best one. So, I decided this was the one I was going to pursue my penetration testing idea and found 6 more articles … Read More
CS388 – Week 5 – Update
For my first idea, I have been researching methods and corner and shape detection that I might be able to apply to my implementation. I found a very relevant paper about shape detection using VLI and NIR imagery from drones, … Read More
CS388-Week5-Update
I found a very promising paper called “an introduction to the conjugate gradient method without the agonizing pain” and started working through it. I have only gotten through the first 10 pages or so, but it is helping me think … Read More
CS388-Week5-Update
Here are my comments for the papers I read this week. [1] Forest fires spread modeling using cellular automata approach. They described a method using cellular automata to simulate how fire spread over an area of island Brac in Croatia. … Read More
CS 388 – Week 4 – Update
For this week I tried to narrow down my research scope; I talked with Dave about my ideas, and where I might begin with researching each of them. I got some good ideas about previous work and what might work … Read More
CS 388 – Week 4 – Update
(I was attending a CS conference in California this week so my post is late.) I have read some papers related to my 3 topics. I gained a clear understanding of the technologies I need for my three topics. I … Read More
CS 388 – Week 5 – Update
In the past week, I read 3 more papers for each idea. I spoke to the faculty regarding the 3 ideas to decide which one is feasible for the final project. Some papers I found are listed below. I will … Read More
CS 388 – Week 4 – Update
I did a 2 pass reading of all the sources that I had collected over the last two weeks. I realized that some of the things I had in mind already exist. I’m still researching about pre-existing technologies/frameworks that could … Read More
Week 4
After talking to Igor, I realized I could incorporate a food recommendation system to my food ordering app. After thinking some more, I realized the food recommender might actually be more interesting than the food ordering system.
488 week 4
Started the draft of my outline and abstract. Continued working with the “jigsaw” idea/method ran into a hiccup with placing content while moving left and up, this will require a code segment to further regulate the placement based on there … Read More
CS388-Week4-Update
I have pretty much decided on my main topic, which is working on the complexity of the Parks Puzzle. I found a survey paper that goes over a number of puzzle problems, and provides a vast reading list, which I … Read More
CS388 – Week 4 – Update
For this week, I started reading more into the papers that I found initially interesting for my ideas. I found some to be less relevant than others, but still drew some nice views that may be helpful later to shape … Read More
CS388- Week4- Update
For this week, I created my annotated bibliographies for 2 papers of each of my 3 ideas. I also spoke with Charlie and refined 2 of 3 ideas. For my penetration testing idea, instead of making the project solely on … Read More
CS 388 – Week 4 – Update
This week, I did a first pass reading for a total of 6 papers and visited the writing center for the annotated bibliography. Some of them turned out to be less relevant to the topic than they had appeared, but … Read More
CS 388 – Week 4 – Update
Below are the papers I read for each idea this week. I also read more papers for my third idea, “Fire Spread Simulation” and found the cellular automata algorithm mentioned in one of the papers quite interesting. The basic idea … Read More
CS388 – Week 4 – Update
This week, I created annotated bibliographies for papers pertaining to each of my three ideas. I also further considered the possibilities for updating my project ideas – I’m likely to not go with the copyright detection idea. If I go … Read More
CSS 388 – Week 3 – Updates
This week, I browsed through chiefly ACM and Google Scholar to find five papers on each of my topics. I additionally met with Charlie to go through my three ideas, getting some helpful insights about my projects and what is … Read More
CS388 – Week 3 Updates
Talked to Charlie about my ideas and got feedback from him. Found 5 papers for each idea.
CS 388 – Week 3 – Update
I researched and made a list of papers that I will read in the upcoming week. Here is the list of papers, that I plan to read: Topic 1 Name: 3d Printer – A new Technique Paper List: (1) Innovations in … Read More
CS 388 – Week 3 – Updates
Summary of Updates: This week I spent a lot of time trying to refine my last two ideas to make it more suitable for a capstone and tried finding enough research articles about all three ideas. I struggled with finding … Read More
CS388 – Week 4 – Update
I visited the writing center for bibliography help and to sort out the papers. I was able to remove some irrelevant papers and finish up my assignment. The library management idea seems to be my project idea and I am … Read More
CS388-Week3-Updates
I am still exploring my new ideas. Idea 1 Title: AI Assistant for Safety Driving Description: My idea is to use facial recognition to detect fatigue driving or dangerous driving. A small camera will be placed in front of the … Read More
Week of 9/9
I have finished buying the parts to make the headset and i have finished setting up a unity environment, but haven’t been able to run tests there yet.
488 week 3
This week I tackled simple branching. I have gotten it to the point where it is fully functional but limited in content. At some point during the process, the algorithm will place a specified branch segment, It will then create … Read More
CS388-Week3-Updates
Idea #1Name of Your Project Computational complexity of the ‘Park Puzzle’What research topic/question your project is going to address? The Park Puzzle is a game that involves splitting a n*n grid into different colored continuous ‘parks’. A solution to a … Read More
CS388 – Week 3 – Update
Idea: Breakdown of Mathematical Proofs Using Natural Language Processing I wish to use natural language processing to break down a bachelor-level mathematical proof into the components that make up a proof (e.g. given knowledge, statements, calculations). This will be shown … Read More
CS388- Week3- Update
For this week, I read the papers on Moodle, met with Charlie to discuss my ideas, and read papers related to them. Below are some updates for each topic. Idea 1 Title: Improve Fire Identification Mapping and Monitoring Algorithm (FIMMA) … Read More
CS388 – Week 3 – Update
I further developed my ideas and added more details to each of them. Then I talked to Xunfei about modifications and got more suggestions from her. We looked through the research paper I found on Google Scholars together and searched … Read More