Final Year Student Projects: Project Listing

1. Final Year Student Projects: Project Listing Prof. Michael R. Lyu Department of Computer Science and Engineering The Chinese University of Hong Kong

2. LYU0501: Video Search Engine on Internet Prof. Michael R. Lyu Department of Computer Science and Engineering The Chinese University of Hong Kong

3. 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.

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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.

7. 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.)

8. 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

9. 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

10. LYU0502: Museum Multilingual Guidance System over 3G Network • Using 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 system • Events notification to visitor via MMS or SMS • Billing interface to 3G Telco accounting system

11. LYU0502: Museum Multilingual Guidance System over 3G Network Internet 3G Telco 3G Network Museum MGS Museum Content Management Client Visitor’s 3G Phone

12. 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.

13. LYU0503: Mobile information Wallet (MIW) for Interactive Games Prof. Michael R. Lyu Department of Computer Science and Engineering The Chinese University of Hong Kong

14. 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.

15. LYU0503: Mobile Information Wallet forInteractive 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

16. LYU0503: Mobile Information Wallet forInteractive 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

17. LYU0504: P2P Digital TV Recorder Prof. Michael R. Lyu Department of Computer Science and Engineering The Chinese University of Hong Kong

18. LYU0504: P2P Digital TV Recorder • Motivations • Why 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?

19. 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

20. 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

21. LYU0504: P2P Digital TV Recorder • Students are required to • Conduct a feasibility study of the whole idea • Design an effective content distribution/replication 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

22. 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

23. Epilog (1) • Only hard-working students selected my projects…

24. 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 …

25. Epilog (2) • But their rewards can be quite descent…

26. My Previous FYP Students Succeeded in World Final of ACM Competition

27. J2ME Competition 2001

28. My FYP Teams Won 2003 Microsoft Web Xcellence Awards

29. 6th IT Excellent Awards 2004

30. You may be the next winner in… • Symbian Competition • 7th IT Excellence Awards • Digital Entertainment Competition • Moot Competition • CUHK VC Cup

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