Final Year Student Projects: Project Listing

Final Year Student Projects: Project Listing

Prof. Michael R. LyuDepartment of Computer Science and

EngineeringThe Chinese University of Hong Kong

LYU0501: Video Search Engine on Internet

Prof. Michael R. LyuDepartment of Computer Science and

EngineeringThe Chinese University of Hong Kong

LYU0501: Video Search Engine on Internet

MotivationSearching 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.

LYU0501: Video Search Engine on Internet

AbstractDesign 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 algorithmsVideo data indexing: building efficient indexing for video data in the database

Searching on Internet

Video Data Collections

LYU0501: Video Search Engine on Internet

Open architecture and platform

Multimedia Processing

Image Features(Color, texture, etc.)

Text Data(Caption, OCR, etc.)

Indexing

Database

TechniquesWeb/Network programming in C++, Java, JSP/PHP, etc. Image and video processing: C/C++, DirectX / OpenCVDatabase indexing techniques: XML, SQL, etc.

LYU0501: Video Search Engine on Internet

LYU0501: Video Search Engine on Internet

Main research areasData indexing for multimedia Multimedia information retrievalMultimodal data analysis

NotesPart of this project might be participated in the TRECVID 2005 competition (competed with industrial and academic organizations such as IBM, CMU, etc.)

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

Network

Prof. Michael R. LyuDepartment of Computer Science and

EngineeringThe Chinese University of Hong Kong

LYU0502: Museum Multilingual Guidance System over 3G

NetworkTraditional 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

ConsHigh maintenance cost for the audio guide devicesContent update and management problemOne-way interaction

LYU0502: Museum Multilingual Guidance System over 3G

NetworkUsing visitor’s 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 systemEvents notification to visitor via MMS or SMS Billing interface to 3G Telco accounting system

LYU0502: Museum Multilingual Guidance System over 3G

Network

3G Telco

Internet

Visitor’s 3G Phone

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Museum Content Management Client

Museum MGS

Research AreaContent authoring and management protocolSystem design and integrationSymbian programming3G (UMTS)

Development PlatformMSWin or Linux, Symbian OS

Development LanguageVC++, Symbian C++

HardwarePC, Symbian 3G phones

Possible industrial collaboration with local 3G Telco.

LYU0502: Museum Multilingual Guidance System over 3G

Network

LYU0503: Mobile information Wallet (MIW) for Interactive

Games

Prof. Michael R. LyuDepartment of Computer Science and

EngineeringThe Chinese University of Hong Kong

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.

LYU0503: Mobile Information Wallet for Interactive Games

Students are required toDesign and implement the ‘copy & paste’ action on PC Define the format of a MIW message Understand the capability of different handheld devicesDevelop MIW software on different handheld devicesDevelop an interactive game based on the MIW messages

Research AreaBluetoothInter device connectivityNetwork securityInteractive games on mobile devices

Development PlatformMSWin, Windows Mobile 2003, Symbian, J2ME

Development LanguageVC++, Symbian C++, java

HardwarePC, PocketPC, Symbian phone, Smartphone

LYU0503: Mobile Information Wallet for Interactive Games

LYU0504: P2P Digital TV Recorder

Prof. Michael R. LyuDepartment of Computer Science and

EngineeringThe Chinese University of Hong Kong

LYU0504: P2P Digital TV Recorder

MotivationsWhy need to set recording schedule of your favorite TV program? I missed the last week’s program. Can I view it on demand? How about last month’s 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?

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 fashionMPEG-1 1 hour TV program = 600MBStorage requirement for 4 channels * 24 hours * 30 days * 600MB = 1.7TB

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 programsWith content replication factor set to 3, total storage requirement for one month is 5TB Number of DVRs is 5T / 100GB = 50

LYU0504: P2P Digital TV Recorder

Students are required to Conduct a feasibility study of the whole ideaDesign an effective content distribution/replication algorithm with bandwidth constraintsDesign a P2P on demand protocolDevelop a prototype program on WinXP Media Centre – HTPCDeploy the prototype at various locations for evaluation

Departmental labsStudents’ homes

Research AreaContent distribution/replication algorithm with bandwidth constraints P2P on demand protocolNetwork security

Development PlatformWinXP Media Centre

Development LanguageVC++

HardwareHTPC

LYU0504: P2P Digital TV Recorder

Epilog (1)

Only hard-working students selected my projects…

My previous FYP students

Justin Wan: 1998-1999 ACM Team

Kenny Kwok: 1998-2000 ACM Team

Starsky Wong: 1999-2000 ACM Team

Ho Man Lam: 2000-2002 ACM Team

Yeung Kam Wah: 2001-2002 ACM Team

Lam Yee: 2001-2002 ACM Team

And other top CS and CE students …

Epilog (2)

But their rewards can be quite descent…

My Previous FYP Students Succeeded in World Final of ACM Competition

J2ME Competition 2001

My FYP Teams Won 2003 Microsoft Web Xcellence Awards

6th IT Excellent Awards 2004

You may be the next winner in…

Symbian Competition7th IT Excellence AwardsDigital Entertainment CompetitionMoot CompetitionCUHK VC Cup

Epilog (3)Each FYP student will have his/her own seat and computer set in VIEW Laboratory (HSH101)Summer student helper opportunities