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<h1>Computer Science Honours Projects Offered 2011</h1>
<h4>8th March 2011</h4>
<h2>Contents</h2>
<p><a href="#_Toc287335584">1. Project: Privacy and Disconnected Databases.</a></p>
<p><a
href="#_Toc287335585">Proposer: Sonia
Berman </a><br><a
href="#_Toc287335586">Abbreviation: Privacy </a><br><a href="#_Toc287335587">Number of Students: 2 </a></p>
<p><a href="#_Toc287335588">2. Project: Location-aware Business information.</a></p>
<p><a
href="#_Toc287335589">Proposer: Sonia
Berman </a><br><a
href="#_Toc287335590">Abbreviation: <i>BusLoc</i> </a><br><a href="#_Toc287335591">Number of Students: 2 </a></p>
<p><a href="#_Toc287335592">3. Project: Innovative m-Learning.</a></p>
<p><a
href="#_Toc287335593">Proposer: Sonia
Berman </a><br><a
href="#_Toc287335594">Abbreviation: <i>mLearn</i> </a><br><a href="#_Toc287335595">Number
of Students: <i>2 or 3</i> </a></p>
<p><a href="#_Toc287335596">4. Project: CODECS and Interfaces for Mobile Video
Communication in SASL.</a></p>
<p><a
href="#_Toc287335597">Proposer: Edwin
Blake </a><br><a
href="#_Toc287335598">Abbreviation: CIMVCS </a><br><a href="#_Toc287335599">Number of
Students: 3 (2–4 possible)</a></p>
<p><a href="#_Toc287335600">5. Project: University Community Meshed Phone.</a></p>
<p><a
href="#_Toc287335601">Proposer: Edwin
Blake </a><br><a
href="#_Toc287335602">Abbreviation: UCMP </a><br><a href="#_Toc287335603">Number of
Students: 2 (possibly 3)</a></p>
<p><a href="#_Toc287335604">6. Project: Collecting User Generated Video Stories in SASL.</a></p>
<p><a
href="#_Toc287335605">Proposer: Edwin
Blake </a><br><a
href="#_Toc287335606">Abbreviation: VidStory </a><br><a href="#_Toc287335607">Number of
Students: 2 or 3 </a></p>
<p><a href="#_Toc287335608">7. Project: A Location-based Mobile Gaming Platform..</a></p>
<p><a
href="#_Toc287335609">Proposer: James
Gain </a><br><a
href="#_Toc287335610">Abbreviation: MobiLoc </a><br><a href="#_Toc287335611">Number of
Students: 3 (4 allowed but not
encouraged)</a></p>
<p><a href="#_Toc287335612">8. Project: A Sketch-based Interface for Modelling Trees
and Plants.</a></p>
<p><a
href="#_Toc287335613">Proposer: James Gain </a><br><a
href="#_Toc287335614">Abbreviation:
TreeDraw </a><br><a href="#_Toc287335615">Number of
Students: 2 (possibly 3)</a></p>
<p><a href="#_Toc287335616">9. Project: Touch-enabled Visualization of Heritage Data.</a></p>
<p><a
href="#_Toc287335617">Proposer: James
Gain </a><br><a
href="#_Toc287335618">Abbreviation: TouchViz </a><br><a href="#_Toc287335619">Number of
Students: 3 (4 allowed but not encouraged)</a></p>
<p><a href="#_Toc287335620">10. Project: Using
Mobile Phone Capabilities (voice, sms, photo, video) to report crime activities
or law infringements anonymously.</a></p>
<p><a
href="#_Toc287335621">Proposer: Anne
Kayem </a><br><a
href="#_Toc287335622">Abbreviation: Help Me </a><br><a href="#_Toc287335623">Number of
Students: 2 </a></p>
<p><a href="#_Toc287335624">11. Project: Integrating
Cryptographic Operations on SafeNet’s Hardware Security Modules: Case Study –
E-Payments.</a></p>
<p><a
href="#_Toc287335625">Proposer: Anne
Kayem </a><br><a
href="#_Toc287335626">Abbreviation: SNet-HSM </a><br><a href="#_Toc287335627">Number of Students: 2 </a></p>
<p><a href="#_Toc287335628">12. Project: Social Networks as a backbone for Small and Medium
Sized E-Business: Privacy Considerations.</a></p>
<p><a
href="#_Toc287335629">Proposer: Anne Kayem </a><br><a
href="#_Toc287335630">Abbreviation: SME-PRI</a><br><a href="#_Toc287335631">Number of Students: 2 </a></p>
<p><a href="#_Toc287335632">13. Project: 3D Molecule Lego.</a></p>
<p><a
href="#_Toc287335633">Proposer: Michelle
Kuttel</a><br><a
href="#_Toc287335634">Abbreviation: <i>MOLLEGO</i> </a><br><a href="#_Toc287335635">Number of
Students: <i>2, 3 or 4</i> </a></p>
<p><a href="#_Toc287335636">14. Project: Scalable multi-threaded tool for visualization of
radio astronomy data cubes.</a></p>
<p><a
href="#_Toc287335637">Proposer: Michelle
Kuttel</a><br><a
href="#_Toc287335638">Abbreviation: <i>ASTROVIS</i> </a><br><a href="#_Toc287335639">Number of
Students: <i>2 or 3</i> </a></p>
<p><a href="#_Toc287335640">15. Project: Can you create a MANET amongst students on campus?.</a></p>
<p><a
href="#_Toc287335641">Proposer: Dr Hanh Le </a><br><a
href="#_Toc287335642">Abbreviation: <i>MANET</i> </a><br><a href="#_Toc287335643">Number of
Students: <i>3 (or 4 or 2 if needed)</i></a></p>
<p><a href="#_Toc287335644">16. Project: An intelligent WSN based on agents.</a></p>
<p><a
href="#_Toc287335645">Proposer: Dr Hanh Le </a><br><a
href="#_Toc287335646">Abbreviation: WSN </a><br><a href="#_Toc287335647">Number of
Students: <i>3 (or 4 or 2 if needed)</i></a></p>
<p><a href="#_Toc287335648">17. Project: The use of Social Networks for Electronic
healthcare.</a></p>
<p><a
href="#_Toc287335649">Proposer: Dr Hanh
Le </a><br><a
href="#_Toc287335650">Abbreviation: <i>E-health</i> </a><br><a href="#_Toc287335651">Number of
Students: <i>3 (or 4 or 2 if needed)</i></a></p>
<p><a href="#_Toc287335652">18. Project: Compression of Radio Astronomy data sets.</a></p>
<p><a
href="#_Toc287335653">Proposer: Patrick
Marais </a><br><a
href="#_Toc287335654">Abbreviation: ASTCOMP </a><br><a href="#_Toc287335655">Number of
Students: <i>2 or 3</i> </a></p>
<p><a href="#_Toc287335656">19. Project: Automated Counting of Cape Fur Seal Pups on
Digital Aerial Photographs.</a></p>
<p><a
href="#_Toc287335657">Proposer: Patrick
Marais </a><br><a
href="#_Toc287335658">Abbreviation: <i>SEALS</i> </a><br><a href="#_Toc287335659">Number of
Students: <i>2 or 3</i> </a></p>
<p><a href="#_Toc287335660">20. Project: Reinventing the Mobile Interface.</a></p>
<p><a
href="#_Toc287335661">Proposer: Gary
Marsden </a><br><a
href="#_Toc287335662">Abbreviation: <i>iMobile</i> </a><br><a href="#_Toc287335663">Number of
Students: <i>2</i> </a></p>
<p><a href="#_Toc287335664">21. Project: Asynchronous Mobile Training.</a></p>
<p><a
href="#_Toc287335665">Proposer: Gary
Marsden </a><br><a
href="#_Toc287335666">Abbreviation: <i>mTraining</i> </a><br><a href="#_Toc287335667">Number of
Students: <i>2</i> </a></p>
<p><a href="#_Toc287335668">22. Project: Spaza Shop Mobile Management</a></p>
<p><a
href="#_Toc287335669">Proposer: Gary
Marsden </a><br><a
href="#_Toc287335670">Abbreviation: <i>iSpaza</i> </a><br><a href="#_Toc287335671">Number of
Students: <i>2-3</i> </a></p>
<p><a href="#_Toc287335672">23. Project: RoboCup Rescue Robot Project</a></p>
<p><a
href="#_Toc287335673">Proposer: Audrey Mbogho </a><br><a
href="#_Toc287335674">Abbreviation: <i>ROBOCUP</i> </a><br><a href="#_Toc287335675">Number of
Students: <i>4 (or 3)</i> </a></p>
<p><a href="#_Toc287335676">24. Project: SimplyCT Heritage.</a></p>
<p><a
href="#_Toc287335677">Proposer: Hussein
Suleman </a><br><a
href="#_Toc287335678">Abbreviation: <i>SimplyCT</i> </a><br><a href="#_Toc287335679">Number
of Students: <i>2, 3 or 4</i> </a></p>
<p><a href="#_Toc287335680">25. Project: Superimposed Bushman Information.</a></p>
<p><a
href="#_Toc287335681">Proposer: Hussein Suleman </a><br><a
href="#_Toc287335682">Abbreviation: <i>SIBush</i> </a><br><a href="#_Toc287335683">Number
of Students: <i>2 or 3</i> </a></p>
<p><a href="#_Toc287335684">26. Project: Online Meetings in Africa.</a></p>
<p><a
href="#_Toc287335685">Proposer: Hussein
Suleman </a><br><a
href="#_Toc287335686">Abbreviation:
AfriMeet</a><br><a href="#_Toc287335687">Number of Students: 2 or 3 </a></p>
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<h1>The Projects</h1>
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<h2><a name="_Toc287335584">1.
Project: Privacy and
Disconnected Databases</a></h2>
<h3><a name="_Toc287335585">Proposer: Sonia Berman</a> </h3>
<h3><a name="_Toc287335586">Abbreviation: Privacy</a> </h3>
<p>Brief Description: <i>This project is primarily an
ICT4D project aimed at helping users manage private data such as medical
records. In a developing world environment there are no centralised medical
health records, and patients are often given responsibility for transporting
and storing these records themselves. The first part of this project is
therefore about exploring how patients’ mobile phones might be used to store
and transport medical information in a secure way that can by read by a health
professional when the need arises; perhaps by synching the information on the
mobile phone with a clinic database.</i></p>
<p><i>The
second part of the project, however, deals with more complex issues of trust
around medical records that have resulted in working with NGOs dealing with
rape cases. Often it is the case that the patient will need to share some
information about their health with a particular official (e.g. showing an
employer a TB certificate) but preserve the privacy of the rest of the data. In
this part of the project, the goal is to develop a mobile application that is developed
according to UCD principles, allowing users to have control over data on their
handsets down to a fine granularity.</i> </p>
<p>Computer Science
Content:<b> </b> <i>ICT4D, distributed data sharing, data standards, mobile interaction
design, mobile programming </i></p>
<p>Specific Learning
Outcomes: <i>Working
with NGOs; dealing with sensitive data; working with end users </i></p>
<p>Skills Required by
Team as a Whole: <i> </i></p>
<p>•
Theory:<b> </b> <i>Distributed computing</i></p>
<p>Implementation: <i>For part 1, the difficulty will lie in understanding medical record
standards and security algorithms, then adapting them to the mobile. For part
2, the difficulty is in presenting the information to the user in a way that
allows them to make informed choices about the data they share and with whom
they share it. </i></p>
<p>Facilities
needed: <i>Mobile handsets and a medical database</i><b></b></p>
<p>Supervision: <i>Co-supervisor will be Gary Marsden with input from the Simelela NGO and
Shikoh Gitau, a PhD student in the department. Sonia is offering 3 projects but
will supervise at most 2 projects.</i></p>
<h4><a name="_Toc287335587">Number of Students: 2</a> </h4>
<h2><a name="_Toc287335588">2.
Project: Location-aware
Business information</a></h2>
<h3><a name="_Toc287335589">Proposer: Sonia Berman</a> </h3>
<h3><a name="_Toc287335590">Abbreviation:</a>
<i>BusLoc</i><i> </i></h3>
<p>Brief Description: <i>A project offering
location-aware business information on one’s mobile device has been suggested
by BSG. This will provide a personal guide to life in the business – areas of
interest, people to connect with that have things in common with you,
directions to make use of facilities (e.g. how to gain access to wireless
networks) etc. This will involve determining what types of information and
communication is required, and how to capture, store and exploit this in a
location-aware mobile application. One team member will concentrate on end-user
interaction, interface design and evaluation; the other with implementing the
system on a mobile device using spatial data.
</i> </p>
<p>Computer Science
Content:<b> </b> <i>distributed data sharing, databases, mobile interaction design, mobile
programming </i></p>
<p>Specific Learning
Outcomes: <i>mobile
programming, working with end users, working with spatial data</i></p>
<p>Skills Required by
Team as a Whole:<i> </i></p>
<p>•
Theory:<b> </b> <i>databases and HCI</i></p>
<p>Implementation: <i>For part 1 the difficulty will lie in understanding the business needs
and opportunities and how best to capture and present this information in a
location-aware system. For part 2 the
difficulty will lie in working with spatial data in a mobile system. </i></p>
<p>Facilities
needed: <i>Mobile
handset</i><b></b></p>
<p>Supervision: <i>Co-supervisor will be Gary Marsden with input from BSG. Sonia is
offering 3 projects but will supervise at most 2 projects.</i></p>
<h4><a name="_Toc287335591">Number of Students: 2</a> </h4>
<h2><a name="_Toc287335592">3.
Project: Innovative m-Learning</a></h2>
<h3><a name="_Toc287335593">Proposer: Sonia Berman</a> </h3>
<h3><a name="_Toc287335594">Abbreviation:</a>
<i>mLearn</i></h3>
<p>Brief Description: <i>This project will produce a
novel learning environment for a mobile device. It is based on a suggestion by
SAP Research. The target market can range from primary school children to
adults, and the content from material for educating the general public (e.g.
about chronic diseases) to specific school or university topics such as poetry
or SQL. The system can furthermore be targeted at the learners or the teachers,
e.g. by creating a system to quickly and efficiently produce educational
content like short video clips that can be viewed from a mobile phone.
User-centred design will be important as will appropriate evaluation of the
final product.</i> </p>
<p>Computer Science
Content:<b> </b> <i>mobile
databases, mobile interaction design, mobile programming</i></p>
<p>Specific Learning
Outcomes: <i>mobile
programming, dealing with multimedia data; working with end users </i></p>
<p>Skills Required by
Team as a Whole:<i> </i></p>
<p>•
Theory:<b> </b> <i>Databases, HCI</i></p>
<p>Implementation: <i>The focus is on design, implementation and validation of software. Experimental design is also expected.</i></p>
<p>Facilities
needed: <i>Mobile
handset</i><b></b></p>
<p>Supervision: <i>Co-supervisor will be Gary Marsden with input from SAP. Sonia is
offering 3 projects but will supervise at most 2 projects.</i></p>
<h4><a name="_Toc287335595">Number of Students: <i>2 or 3</i></a></h4>
<h2><a name="_Toc287335596">4.
Project: CODECS and Interfaces
for Mobile Video Communication in SASL</a></h2>
<h3><a name="_Toc287335597"><strong>Proposer:</strong> Edwin Blake</a></h3>
<h3><a name="_Toc287335598"><strong>Abbreviation:</strong></a>
CIMVCS</h3>
<p><strong>Brief Description:</strong> This project builds on preliminary work done at UCT and UWC in
Video Communication for Deaf people who use South African Sign Language (SASL).
Your task will be to investigate efficient video encoding and/or build a video
chat system on Android cell phones with good cameras. You will design and test
a system, and you may first want to experiment on a computer-based simulator
and then on real phones to allow some or all of the following:</p>
<p>•
Effective video compression for Deaf
communication in real-time and/or using store-and-forward. There are open
source CODECs (see <a href="http://www.videolan.org/developers/x264.html">www.videolan.org/developers/x264.html</a>) that
can be adapted to emphasize regions of interest to SASL users. The psychology
department has an eye tracker which could be used to identify such regions of
interest.</p>
<p>•
Good user interface design using a very
simple gesture based interface. In a gesture based interface the users will
make specific hand gestures to control the interface. We work closely with an
NGO for the Deaf and you will be able to test designs with them.</p>
<p>•
The best cameras are often at the back
of the phone but that means that the display cannot be on the phone screen. The
phone will on a stand and you can either try a mirror or TV as the main
display.</p>
<p>The connection to the other phone can be
via 3G, GPRS, or WiFi.</p>
<p><strong>Computer Science Content:</strong><b> </b> <i>Design for Interaction, Image processing, mobile computing, video
CODECs.</i></p>
<p><strong>Specific Learning Outcomes: </strong> You will learn how to design
a region of interest encoder. You will learn to build a complete mobile system
and deploy it with real users.<i></i></p>
<p><strong>Skills Required by Team as a Whole:</strong><i> </i>This can be quite a large project depending on the size of the team.
Skills needed include:<strong></strong></p>
<p>•
<strong>Theory:</strong><b> </b> Region of interest CODEC
design. <i>Image processing, user-centred
design </i></p>
<p>•
<strong>Implementation:</strong> <i>You will have to get to grips with Android, which probably one of the
best entries into mobile programming.</i></p>
<p>•
<b>OTHER: </b>User Interface design and an
interest in ICT 4 D issues.</p>
<p><strong>Facilities needed:</strong> Android phones (Samsung)
will be provided. You will have access to a SASL interpreter for your user
studies. Possible use of eye tracking equipment. There is funding to cover
incidental costs.<i></i></p>
<p><strong>Supervision:</strong> Supervision via regular
weekly meetings. Regular meetings with Deaf users to get to grips with requirements. There is the possibility of funding for
students on the team.<i></i></p>
<h4><a name="_Toc287335599"><strong>Number of Students:</strong> 3 (2–4 possible)</a></h4>
<h2><a name="_Toc287335600">5.
Project: University Community
Meshed Phone</a></h2>
<h3><a name="_Toc287335601"><strong>Proposer:</strong> Edwin Blake</a></h3>
<h3><a name="_Toc287335602"><strong>Abbreviation:</strong></a>
UCMP</h3>
<p><strong>Brief Description:</strong> The Village Telco Organization (an international organization based
in Cape Town) has produced a device called the “mesh potato” <i>(<a
href="http://www.villagetelco.org/about/mesh-potato/mesh-potato-faq/">www.villagetelco.org/about/mesh-potato/mesh-potato-faq/</a>).
</i>The Mesh Potato (MP) is a device that acts as node on a meshed wireless
(WiFi) network and allows the connection of a plain old phone or a computer via
an Ethernet port. The MP can act as a WiFi infrastructure node and allow mobile
phones to join the network as SIP (Session Initiation Protocol, for voice calls
over IP). An Android mobile phone should
also be able to act as a node on the network since it too can run the required
mesh network protocol called BATMAN. We will be getting a number of Samsung
Android phones before June for such projects.</p>
<p>We currently have a number of mesh potatoes
(about 14 and can get more), this is enough to set up a well connected network
on campus The purpose of this project is to design and implement a phone system
for upper campus and investigate the use and obstacles to use. The possibility
exists of extending the network with long distance connections to other MP
networks at UWC and Bo-Kaap. While the
initial system will be free it could be commercialized it in the longer term
and the project could address the feasibility of this.</p>
<p><strong>Computer Science Content:</strong><b> </b> Wireless mesh networks,
mobile phone application development. Also depends on where the group takes the
project: it could include usability and user experience testing.<i></i></p>
<p><strong>Specific Learning Outcomes: </strong> Meshed network protocols and
adaptation. Open source design and development on mobile phones. User testing.<i></i></p>
<p><strong>Skills Required by Team as a
Whole: </strong></p>
<p>•
<strong>Theory:</strong><b> </b> Mesh networks</p>
<p>•
<strong>Implementation:</strong> Solid system implementation skills, willingness to learn about
development on Android mobile phones (probably one of the best ways to learn
about mobile programming).</p>
<p>•
<b>OTHER</b>: User testing.</p>
<p><strong>Facilities needed:</strong> This project will require
mesh potato devices (already purchased) and Android mobile phones (which are
expected in May). Funding is available to purchase other requirements.<i></i></p>
<p><strong>Supervision:</strong> Co-supervised by Dr Hanh Le.
The group will have regular weekly meetings, and a project website will be set
up for coordination.<i></i></p>
<h4><a name="_Toc287335603"><strong>Number of Students:</strong> 2 (possibly 3)</a></h4>
<h2><a name="_Toc287335604">6.
Project: Collecting User
Generated Video Stories in SASL</a></h2>
<h3><a name="_Toc287335605"><strong>Proposer:</strong> Edwin Blake</a></h3>
<h3><a name="_Toc287335606"><strong>Abbreviation:</strong></a>
VidStory</h3>
<p><strong>Brief Description:</strong> There is a need for user generated content from the Deaf community.
As pointed out above Deaf people prefer to communicate using video in South
African Sign Language (SASL). The idea
is to allow Deaf users to tell their own stories about whatever interests them
or to allow them to share important information about using facilities (e.g.,
how to use the Computers at the NGO we work with, or what to do at a Police
station if you have to report a theft). The project would comprise two aspects:</p>
<ol start=1 type=1>
<li>An
interface for capturing and editing content (think of how to add signing
captions and commentary.</li>
<li>An
interface for distributing content. Here we are inspired by Gary Marsden’s
work on Big Board (see <a
href="http://www.hastac.org/blogs/melissa-brough/bluetooth-big-boards-digital-storytelling">www.hastac.org/blogs/melissa-brough/bluetooth-big-boards-digital-storytelling</a>
for an outsider’s perspective).
However the bandwidth offered by Bluetooth might not be sufficient
and we should look at WiFi based solutions.</li>
</ol>
<p>All of this has to be developed in
collaboration with the Deaf community (there is funding to pay for a SASL
interpreter). You will be expected to use user centred design techniques and
will be assisted with the undertaking a contextual enquiry and the use of
technology probes. The target platform
will be PCs and Android mobile phones.
You may use a large screen display for disseminating the information. </p>
<p><strong>Computer Science Content:</strong><b> </b> User centred design, usability
testing, mobile design and implementation.</p>
<p><strong>Specific Learning Outcomes: </strong> You will learn to build a
complete mobile system and deploy it with real users.<i></i></p>
<p><strong>Skills Required by Team as a Whole:</strong></p>
<p>•
<strong>Theory:</strong><b> </b> Some background and
willingness to learn about user centred design. <i></i></p>
<p>•
<strong>Implementation:</strong> The whole system should
ideally run on mobile devices, so you will have to learn to work with them and
design interfaces on them.</p>
<p>•
<b>OTHER</b>: User testing.</p>
<p><strong>Facilities needed:</strong> Samsung Android mobile
phones and large screen display.<i></i></p>
<p><strong>Supervision:</strong> Supervision via regular
weekly meetings. Regular meetings with Deaf users to get to grips with
requirements. There is the possibility
of funding for students on the team.<i></i></p>
<h4><a name="_Toc287335607"><strong>Number of Students:</strong> 2 or 3</a></h4>
<h2><a name="_Toc287335608">7.
Project: A Location-based
Mobile Gaming Platform</a></h2>
<h3><a name="_Toc287335609"><strong>Proposer:</strong> James Gain</a></h3>
<h3><a name="_Toc287335610"><strong>Abbreviation:</strong></a>
MobiLoc</h3>
<p><strong>Brief Description:</strong> </p>
<p>Many modern cell-phones come equipped with
GPS, which enables the location of the cell phone to be determined with
reasonable accuracy. When combined with rich map data sources, such as
OpenStreetMap and Google Maps, which provide detailed street maps of much of
the world, this enables a class of location-based cell-phone application. A
typical example is providing tourists with information on (and possibly
directions to) nearby sites of interest.</p>
<p>Given a cell-phone with camera and
tilt-detection it is also possible to create Augmented Reality applications
that overlay real-world images from a cell-phone camera with digital location-based
information. One example of this is Google Goggles, which can overlay
information about landmarks based on a photo search.</p>
<p>This project will involve creating a system
for multi-player Augmented Reality gaming application on cell-phones. The
system will use a central server to track player locations, manage game state
and provide appropriately filtered views from OpenStreetMap. The implementation
should be general enough that it can be used for different games. The final
system will be evaluated both through performance experiments but also using a
multi-player game to be developed over the course of the project.</p>
<p><strong>Computer Science Content:</strong><b> </b><strong>Human-Computer Interaction
(augmented reality, playability testing), Computer Games (game engine design
and development), Mobile Development (client-server optimization,
location-awareness)</strong></p>
<p><strong>Specific Learning Outcomes: </strong><strong>Iterative system development,
play-testing and system experiments and optimization</strong><b><i></i></b></p>
<p><strong>Skills Required by Team as a Whole: </strong><i></i></p>
<ul type=disc>
<li><strong>Theory:</strong> easy to moderate [augmented reality
techniques, latency hiding, playability]</li>
</ul>
<ul type=disc>
<strong>Implementation:</strong>
difficult [android development, client-server architecture, OpenStreetMap
integration, multi-player gaming]</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Facilities needed:</strong> At least two (but preferably
more) Samsung Galaxy or equivalent high-end cell-phones. Android development
environment.<i></i></p>
<p><strong>Supervision:</strong> <strong>James Gain.
Weekly meetings with supervisor expected, occasional attendance and
presentation at research group meetings may also be required</strong><b>.</b></p>
<h4><a name="_Toc287335611"><strong>Number of Students:</strong> 3 (4 allowed but not encouraged)</a></h4>
<p><o:p> </o:p></p>
<h2><a name="_Toc287335612">8.
Project: A Sketch-based
Interface for Modelling Trees and Plants</a></h2>
<h3><a name="_Toc287335613"><strong>Proposer:</strong> James Gain</a></h3>
<h3><a name="_Toc287335614"><strong>Abbreviation:</strong></a>
TreeDraw</h3>
<p><strong>Brief Description:</strong> </p>
<p><strong>Lindenmayer systems (or L-systems) are a grammar-based method for
creating procedural computer graphics content. Most commonly this involves
creating the geometry of trees and plants for games and Visual Effects. Each
L-system rule set encodes a particular species of plant and can be used to
generate a potentially wide range of individual trees representative of that species.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Unfortunately, creating a set of L-system rules by hand is a time
consuming and complicated endeavour not well suited to untrained users. This
project will involve developing a sketching interface, in which a user draws a
2D representation of a tree or plant, and from which corresponding L-system
rules will be derived. The user will be able to visualize the results by
running the L-system thereby enabling a cycle of refinement of the original
sketch and rule-set. As part of this project an existing L-system parser and
interpreter will be provided.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Reference – Prusinkiewicz, P. and Lindenmayer, A. The Algorithmic Beauty
of Plants. Springer Verlag. <a href="http://algorithmicbotany.org/papers/#abop">http://algorithmicbotany.org/papers/#abop</a></strong></p>
<p><strong>Computer Science Content</strong><strong>: Computer Graphics (procedural
methods, visualization</strong><strong>)</strong>, Image Processing (stroke recognition), Grammars (L-system parsing
and interpretation)<i></i></p>
<p><strong>Specific Learning Outcomes: </strong><i></i></p>
<p><strong>Skills Required by Team as a Whole:</strong></p>
<ul type=disc>
<strong>Theory:</strong><b> </b> difficult [advanced computer graphics]<i></i></li>
<strong>Implementation:</strong> moderate [stroke recognition, tree
rendering with uncertainty visualization, deriving L-system rules]</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Facilities needed:</strong> no special facilities needed (beyond a standard PC and C++
compiler).<i></i></p>
<p><strong>Supervision: </strong><strong>James Gain and Rudolph Neeser.
Weekly meetings with supervisor expected, occasional attendance and
presentation with larger research group (including Julian Kenwood and Patrick
Marais) may also be required</strong><b>.</b></p>
<h4><a name="_Toc287335615"><strong>Number of Students:</strong> 2 (possibly 3)</a></h4>
<h2><a name="_Toc287335616">9.
Project: Touch-enabled Visualization
of Heritage Data</a></h2>
<h3><a name="_Toc287335617"><strong>Proposer:</strong> James Gain</a> </h3>
<h3><a name="_Toc287335618"><strong>Abbreviation:</strong></a>
TouchViz</h3>
<p><strong>Brief Description:</strong></p>
<p><strong>In computer-based museum displays it is important that visitors be able
to quickly master how the display is navigated so that they can begin to absorb
what is being displayed. Recent developments in large surface multi-touch
devices (such as the Microsoft Surface) offer the potential for a particularly
intuitive interaction mechanism that does away with peripherals such as the
mouse and keyboard.</strong></p>
<p><strong>This project will involve developing a collaborative museum-style
visualization of African heritage sites, such as the stone churches in
Lalibela, Ethiopia. It will be based around multi-touch interaction to control
virtual walkthroughs of the site, cutaways to interior views and displaying
annotations of the data on demand. In addition the project will involve
researching ways to support multiple collaborating users.</strong></p>
<p>Development will be done in collaboration
with the Geomatics Department at UCT, which will provide real-world data from
heritage sites in Africa.</p>
<p><strong>Computer Science Content:</strong><b> </b> Human-Computer Interaction
(touch- and gesture-based interaction), Visualization (rendering of large
point-based data-sets)</p>
<p><strong>Specific Learning Outcomes: </strong> Visualization and Interaction
design and development. Iterative experimentation-based research. </p>
<p><strong>Skills Required by Team as a Whole:</strong></p>
<ul type=disc>
<strong>Theory:</strong><b> </b>Moderate [gesture
recognition, level of detail rendering, multimedia databases]<i> </i></li>
<strong>Implementation:</strong>
Moderate [computer graphics and interface implementation]</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Facilities needed:</strong> Geomatics datasets, Touch-enabled display surface<i></i></p>
<p><strong>Supervision:</strong> <strong>James Gain and
Patrick Marais. Weekly meetings with supervisor expected, occasional
presentations to the research group of Prof. Heinz Rüther in Geomatics may also
be required</strong><b>.</b></p>
<h4><a name="_Toc287335619"><strong>Number of Students: </strong>3 (4 allowed but not encouraged)</a></h4>
<h2><a name="_Toc287335620">10.
Project: Using Mobile Phone Capabilities (voice, sms,
photo, video) to report crime activities or law infringements anonymously</a> </h2>
<h3><a name="_Toc287335621"><strong>Proposer:</strong> Anne Kayem</a></h3>
<h3><a name="_Toc287335622"><strong>Abbreviation:</strong></a>
Help Me</h3>
<p><strong>Brief
Description:</strong>
Crime is a problem that has arguably become a normal aspect of daily
life in many parts of the world. For Africa, crime and corruption has become a
major hindrance to economic development and so it makes sense to find ways of
addressing this issue. Efforts in South Africa include “702 Radio” (<a
href="http://www.702.co.za/press/blowingwhistle.asp">www.702.co.za/press/blowingwhistle.asp</a>)
and “South African Police Service Crime stop line” (<a
href="http://www.saps.gov.za/_dynamicModules/internetsite/crimestop.asp">www.saps.gov.za/_dynamicModules/internetsite/crimestop.asp</a>)
that are aimed at encouraging citizens to report criminal activities
anonymously. Yet, in spite of the popularity of mobile phones and increased
access to the internet that make communication a matter of “clicking a button”,
this idea has failed to result in meaningful change.</p>
<p>In this project,
we are interested in discovering the challenges and concerns, from an
information security perspective, that users face in anonymously reporting
crime activities or law infringements via mobile phone. In order to do this,
two aspects need to be addressed, namely:</p>
<ol start=1 type=1>
<li>The security challenges users face in using mobile devices to
make anonymous reports (e.g. fear of their cell phone numbers being associated
with the message, need for encryption to enhance message privacy,
exasperation with having to insert passwords repeatedly and/or delays in
transmission, ...). </li>
</ol>
<p>** The expectation is that the team member in charge of this will
formulate a questionnaire that will be used to gather the data. The data
analysis will then be based on a data mining technique that the team member
will choose.</p>
<ol start=2 type=1>
<li>How to design a framework and implement a prototype to overcome
the challenges of anonymous crime and/or law infringement reporting (e.g.
secure data gathering and message translation into a common format,
techniques/algorithms to anonymize messages, information analysis and
extraction...). </li>
</ol>
<p>** In this case, we will model the general framework to integrate
the functionalities mentioned above and then implement one or two of the
functionalities (depending on time).</p>
<p>For more
information please email me at <a href="mailto:akayem@cs.uct.ac.za">akayem@cs.uct.ac.za</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Computer Science Content:</strong><b> </b> </p>
<ul type=disc>
<li>Information
Security</li>
<ul type=circle>
<li>Data Privacy
and Message Anonymity</li>
<li>Data
Mining</li>
</ul>
</ul>
<p><strong>Specific Learning Outcomes: </strong> </p>
<ul type=disc>
<li>Data
Gathering and Analysis (Create a website or application to collect data in
addition to field data collection)</li>
<li>Design
of a framework to anonymize and translate messages (e.g. from different
languages or formats) that are transmitted from mobile phones </li>
<li>Prototype
implementation of the framework and evaluation (in terms of cost,
scalability, throughput ...) with respect to existing solutions e.g. <strong></strong></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Skills Required by Team as a
Whole: </strong></p>
<ul type=disc>
<li><strong>Theory:</strong><b> </b> Software Modelling and Design; Data
Mining; knowledge of some machine learning technique(s) might be helpful. <i></i></li>
</ul>
<p>•
<strong>Implementation:</strong> Good Programming Skills;
Weka and/or Matlab (Data Analysis)</p>
<p>•
<b>OTHER:</b> Ability to work in a team. Work will be split into two on the basis of
two criteria, namely – “Field study and data analysis” and “Framework design
and prototype implementation”.</p>
<p><b>** </b>Experience with questionnaire
formulation is a plus (but not required).<b>
</b></p>
<p><strong>Facilities needed:</strong> Mobile Phones, and Desktop
Computers, Internet access; Java; Weka; and Matlab</p>
<p><strong>Supervision:</strong> One on one meeting with
supervisor – 1X/week; Group meetings (2x/month); Monthly presentation (progress
status) and consultation with SAP (1X/month).</p>
<h4><a name="_Toc287335623"><strong>Number of Students:</strong> 2</a> </h4>
<h2><a name="_Toc287335624">11.
Project: Integrating Cryptographic Operations on
SafeNet’s Hardware Security Modules: Case Study – E-Payments</a> </h2>
<h3><a name="_Toc287335625"><strong>Proposer:</strong> Anne Kayem</a></h3>
<h3><a name="_Toc287335626"><strong>Abbreviation:</strong></a>
SNet-HSM</h3>
<p><strong>Brief
Description:</strong>
Securing payments originating from various hardware devices and software
processes is a key concern for companies and/or individuals wishing to do
business over the Internet or via various electronic/mobile devices. In this
project, we want to use – as a case study – the S1 Corporation’s SafeNet
Hardware Security Modules (HSM) payment platform, to study the theoretical and
practical concerns of supporting this platform with cryptography. The SafeNet
HSM is a particular brand of an HSM device that is popular in Electronic Funds
Transfer (EFT) markets. </p>
<p>The S1
Corporation which is based in Cape Town, South Africa, provides e-payments
services to over 300 clients located in 50 countries. Currently, S1 uses two
platforms to ensure that these services are provided in a way that optimises
performance and flexibility in addition to saving costs. The first payment
platform provides support for devices like bank cards that run cryptographic
operations while the second provides support for devices like ATM machines that
contain HSMs. HSMs are typically physically secured to be tamper-proof, and contain all the
processors, memory and storage required to perform cryptographic operations at
a high level of throughput, securely, and store the secret keys required for
accessibility to payment information.</p>
<p>The aim of this
project is to create a framework that implements cryptographic support for the
SafeNet HSM and then compare the capabilities of the framework on other HSM
devices. An analysis based on metrics like cost, transaction time, throughput,
and scalability will serve as a basis for the comparison and a feasibility
study to decide whether combining SafeNet HSMs with cryptographic operations is
a viable solution for EFTs. </p>
<p>For more
information please email me at akayem@cs.uct.ac.za.</p>
<p><strong>Computer Science Content:</strong><b> </b> </p>
<ul type=disc>
<li>Information
Security</li>
<ul type=circle>
<li>Applied
Cryptography</li>
</ul>
</ul>
<p><strong>Specific Learning Outcomes: </strong> </p>
<ul type=disc>
<li>Design
a security framework to integrate cryptographic operations (like
encryption, etc) on to an HSM platform (e.g. SafeNet platform)</li>
<li>Implement
the integrated platform (using Java)</li>
<li>Evaluate
the scalability of the proposed solution (in terms of cost, scalability,
throughput ...) with respect to existing solutions that the S1 Corporation
provides namely cryptographic operations and HSMs.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Skills Required by Team as a
Whole: </strong></p>
<ul type=disc>
<li><strong>Theory:</strong><b> </b> Discrete Mathematics, Cryptographic key
management and Encryption
Algorithms (DES and 3DES encryption)<i>
</i></li>
</ul>
<p>•
<strong>Implementation:</strong> Good Java Programming Skills</p>
<p>•
<b>OTHER:</b> Ability to work in a team</p>
<p><strong>Facilities needed:</strong> Mobile Phones, Desktop
Computers, and SafeNet HSM (-- provided by S1 Corporation) Internet access,
Java<i></i></p>
<p><strong>Supervision:</strong> One on one meetings with
supervisor – 1X/week; Group meetings (2x/month); Monthly presentation (progress
status); Practical and/or research consultations with S1 Corporation possible.</p>
<h4><a name="_Toc287335627"><strong>Number of
Students:</strong>
2</a> </h4>
<h2><a name="_Toc287335628">12.
Project: Social Networks as a
backbone for Small and Medium Sized E-Business: Privacy Considerations</a></h2>
<h3><a name="_Toc287335629"><strong>Proposer:</strong></a>
Anne Kayem</h3>
<h3><a name="_Toc287335630"><strong>Abbreviation:</strong></a> SME-PRI</h3>
<p><strong>Brief
Description:</strong> Social networks have become a
popular platform for exchanging information seamlessly. With social networks
like Facebook, and MySpace, one has the impression that there are no
boundaries. Increasingly, small and medium sized E-business (SME) is beginning
to give serious consideration to the business potential of using social
networks as a method growing the size of their clientele. The advantage of this
is that it removes the cost of advertising on popular media channels like the
radio and television. However, news reports like the one involving Facebook in
October of 2010 (<a
href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/208058/facebook_privacy_fail_apps_leak_private_info_report.html">www.pcworld.com/article/208058/facebook_privacy_fail_apps_leak_private_info_report.html</a>),
raise privacy concerns that need to be addressed if SMEs are going to “trust”
social networks enough to use them as a backbone for growing their businesses
and handling online transactions.</p>
<p>In this project we are interested in
addressing in finding answers to the following questions:</p>
<p>1.
What are the privacy
considerations that SMEs need to take into consideration in using social
networks as a backbone? (Can they interact with large organisations? How do
they handle situations involving conflicting security requirements?)</p>
<p>2.
What sorts of SMEs are
interested in support from social networks and why? (use case scenarios)</p>
<p>3.
How do we design a privacy
mechanism that adapts intelligently to changes in network performance without
compromising privacy?</p>
<p>For more
information please email me at akayem@cs.uct.ac.za.</p>
<p><strong>Computer Science Content:</strong><b> </b> </p>
<p>•
Information Security</p>
<p>o
Data Sharing and Privacy</p>
<p><strong>Specific Learning Outcomes: </strong> </p>
<ul type=disc>
<li>Survey
Paper : Evaluating the privacy considerations in using social networks as
a backbone for SMEs</li>
<li>Prototype
Design, Implementation and Testing</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Skills Required by Team as a Whole:</strong><i> </i></p>
<ul type=disc>
<li><strong>Theory:</strong><b> </b> Data privacy considerations for SMEs wanting
to use social networks as a backbone; Software Modelling and Design;
knowledge of some machine learning technique(s) might be helpful (but not
necessary) in designing/creating the prototype.</li>
</ul>
<p>•
<strong>Implementation:</strong> Create a prototype application or plug-in to facilitate
connectivity to a social network and enforce privacy</p>
<p>•
<b>OTHER:</b> Field work – data gathering and
prototype testing (online and offline); </p>
<p><strong>Facilities needed:</strong> Desktop Computers, Mobile
Phones, Internet Access...</p>
<p><strong>Supervision:</strong> One on one meeting with
supervisor – 1X/week; Group meetings (bi-weekly); 1 presentation per month
(progress status) and consultation with SAP.<strong></strong></p>
<h4><a name="_Toc287335631"><strong>Number of
Students:</strong>
2</a> </h4>
<h2><a name="_Toc287335632">13.
Project: 3D Molecule Lego</a></h2>
<h3><a name="_Toc287335633"><strong>Proposer:</strong> Michelle Kuttel</a> </h3>
<h3><a name="_Toc287335634"><strong>Abbreviation:</strong></a>
<i>MOLLEGO</i><i> </i></h3>
<p><strong>Brief Description:</strong> <i>The task in this project is
to design a suitable, intuitive molecule builder so that your average 6-year
old can successfully build a 3D model of a carbohydrate, DNA or a protein. You don’t have to know anything about
chemistry – the idea is to treat molecules as lego-like bricks which stick together
according to certain defined rules.
There is also potential to develop this into a game of “who can build
the best structure”, along the lines of a recent paper in Nature (</i><i>Predicting protein structures with a multiplayer online game, Cooper et
al., NATURE| Vol 466,5 August 2010) or else develop an iPad version of the
interface.</i><i></i></p>
<p><strong>Computer Science Content:</strong><b> </b> <i>Algorithm development and open-source software engineering. </i></p>
<p><strong>Specific Learning Outcomes: </strong><i>You will learn about
software design and engineering. You
will have experience with direct contact with the “clients” for requirements
specification (Göran Widmalm and his group at the University of Stockholm,
Sweden). </i></p>
<p><strong>Skills Required by Team as a Whole:</strong></p>
<ul type=disc>
<strong>Theory:</strong><b> </b> <i>Absolutely no prior experience with chemistry is required. However, you will have to be willing to
learn the basics of molecular structure (which is useful knowledge!). </i></li>
<strong>Implementation:</strong> <i>Implementation will be of average difficulty for an Honours
project. The emphasis will be on an
interactive design process to obtain a really useful and user-friendly
product.</i></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Facilities needed:</strong> <i>Standard PC/laptop or an iPad if that is the focus.</i></p>
<p><strong>Supervision:</strong> <i>We are very excited about
this project, which has the potential to create a very useful tool. You will have weekly meetings with Michelle,
together with remote Co-supervision by Göran Widmalm (University of Stockholm,
Sweden). </i></p>
<h4><a name="_Toc287335635"><strong>Number of Students:</strong> <i>2, 3 or 4</i></a></h4>
<h2><a name="_Toc287335636">14.
Project: Scalable
multi-threaded tool for visualization of radio astronomy data cubes.</a></h2>
<h3><a name="_Toc287335637"><strong>Proposer:</strong> Michelle Kuttel</a> </h3>
<h3><a name="_Toc287335638"><strong>Abbreviation:</strong></a>
<i>ASTROVIS</i><i> </i></h3>
<p><strong>Brief Description:</strong> <i>The South African bid for
hosting the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), which will be the largest radio
telescope in the world, has vastly increased the focus on astronomical research
in our country. As part of the bid, a
new large South African radio telescope is being built in the Karoo
(“MeerKAT”), and scheduled to come online in 2015. As smaller prototype called
KAT-7 is already being commissioned.
The size and complexity of the MeerKAT telescope (not to mention the
future SKA) will vastly increase the radio astronomical data output. We have a collaboration with the Astronomy
Department at UCT to build software tools to assist with processing and
analysing the increased volume of data.
For example, current tools used to visualize radio astronomy data (such
as Karma) will not be able to handle the new much larger data cubes. In this project, you will develop a new
scalable, multithreaded system for visualizing radio astronomy data cubes. </i></p>
<p><strong>Computer Science Content:</strong><b> </b><i>Parallel computing and
visualization, multi-threading, 3D –data visualization.</i></p>
<p><strong>Specific Learning Outcomes: </strong> <i>You will learn about how to build scalable applications to handle large
dataset, parallel multithreaded computing, and visualization algorithms.</i></p>
<p><strong>Skills Required by Team as a Whole:</strong><i> </i><strong></strong></p>
<ul type=disc>
<strong>Theory:</strong><b> </b> <i>No
prior experience with Astronomy required, but a strong interest in
developing computational tools for Astronomy. Must not be afraid of a challenge! </i></li>
<strong>Implementation:</strong> <i>Challenging,
but very interesting! </i></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Facilities needed:</strong> <i>Multicore CPU, reasonable GPU, access to astronomical data cubes.</i></p>
<p><strong>Supervision:</strong> <i>Weekly meetings with Michelle, Meetings with Astronomy supervisor Erwin
de Blok as necessary, fortnightly meetings with the postgraduate students
working in the DARC Astronomical Research Computing (DARC) group.</i></p>
<h4><a name="_Toc287335639"><strong>Number of Students:</strong> <i>2 or 3</i></a></h4>
<h2><a name="_Toc287335640">15. Project: Can you create a MANET amongst students on campus?</a> </h2>
<h3><a name="_Toc287335641"><strong>Proposer:</strong></a> Dr
Hanh Le</h3>
<h3><a name="_Toc287335642"><strong>Abbreviation:</strong></a> <i>MANET</i></h3>
<p><strong>Brief Description:</strong> </p>
<p>Many students have mobile phones that have
network capabilities but cannot access network applications at low or zero cost
on campus. Can you create a Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET) amongst them so that
useful applications can be realized? </p>
<p>Possible outputs are 1) a file sharing
application amongst our students without the need of PCs, laptops or even
wireless access points; 2) movement patterns of the students (nodes) for future
research. </p>
<p><strong>Computer Science Content:</strong><b> </b> Networking, Programming <i></i></p>
<p><strong>Specific Learning Outcomes: </strong> Wireless communications<i></i></p>
<p><strong>Skills Required by Team as a
Whole: </strong><i></i></p>
<p>•
<strong>Theory:</strong><b> </b> <i>Networking</i></p>
<p>•
<strong>Implementation:</strong> Programming for mobile
phones<i></i></p>
<p><strong>Facilities needed:</strong> Some mobile phones can be
provided for testing but it would be better if your software works with existing
students’ phones <i></i></p>
<p><strong>Supervision:</strong> Weekly meeting <i></i></p>
<h4><a name="_Toc287335643"><strong>Number of Students:</strong> <i>3 (or 4 or 2 if needed)</i></a></h4>
<h2><a name="_Toc287335644">16.
Project: An intelligent WSN
based on agents.</a></h2>
<h3><a name="_Toc287335645"><strong>Proposer:</strong></a> Dr
Hanh Le</h3>
<h3><a name="_Toc287335646"><strong>Abbreviation:</strong></a> WSN</h3>
<p><strong>Brief Description:</strong> </p>
<p>Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) involve a
high number of small sensors to perceive information about the environment such
as temperature, humidity, etc. The type and capability of sensors varies
depending on their roles and applications. We propose a framework that allows a
node to construct its functionality and software network architecture using
agents to best suited to its need. The main benefit of the framework is to
avoid overloading sensors with unnecessary features and to enable sensors with
re-configurability. This project entails developing mobile agents (e.g. routing
and encryption functions/agents) as a part of the framework and then deploying
the framework onto SunSPOT sensors.</p>
<p><strong>Computer Science Content:</strong><b> </b> Artificial Intelligent,
Networking and Programming<i></i></p>
<p><strong>Specific Learning Outcomes: </strong> AI and WSN<i></i></p>
<p><strong>Skills Required by Team as a Whole:</strong><i> </i></p>
<p>•
<strong>Theory:</strong><b> </b> WSN, AI<i> </i></p>
<p>•
<strong>Implementation:</strong> Programming for wireless
sensors (e.g. Sun SPOT) <i></i></p>
<p><strong>Facilities needed:</strong> Sun SPOTs are provided <i></i></p>
<p><strong>Supervision:</strong> Weekly meeting and co-supervised by Dr. Audrey Mbogho<i></i></p>
<h4><a name="_Toc287335647"><strong>Number of Students:</strong> <i>3 (or 4 or 2 if needed)</i></a></h4>
<h2><a name="_Toc287335648">17. Project: The use of Social Networks for Electronic healthcare</a> </h2>
<h3><a name="_Toc287335649"><strong>Proposer:</strong> Dr Hanh Le</a></h3>
<h3><a name="_Toc287335650"><strong>Abbreviation:</strong></a>
<i>E-health</i></h3>
<p><strong>Brief Description:</strong> </p>
<p>Social networks involve a high number of
users and help people stay updated at relatively low cost. Electronic
healthcare applications are supposed to help patients to manage their medical
condition better. This project investigates the ability to use social networks
for an electronic healthcare application. For example, people may want to share
information about new drugs or publish medical advices. Specifically a
“Diabetes Management Software” will be built. Students are required to develop
interfaces between the software and a social network, and study the behaviour
of the users on both systems. </p>
<p><strong>Computer Science Content:</strong><b> </b> Networking, Programming <i></i></p>
<p><strong>Specific Learning Outcomes: </strong> Social Network<i></i></p>
<p><strong>Skills Required by Team as a
Whole: </strong><i></i></p>
<p>•
<strong>Theory:</strong><b> </b> <i>Networking</i></p>
<p>•
<strong>Implementation:</strong> Programming for mobile
phones<i></i></p>
<p><strong>Facilities needed:</strong> Some mobile phones can be
provided for testing but it would be better if your software works with users’
phones <i></i></p>
<p><strong>Supervision:</strong> Weekly meeting <i></i></p>
<h4><a name="_Toc287335651"><strong>Number of Students:</strong> <i>3 (or 4 or 2 if needed)</i></a></h4>
<h2><a name="_Toc287335652">18.
Project: Compression of Radio
Astronomy data sets</a></h2>
<h3><a name="_Toc287335653"><strong>Proposer:</strong> Patrick Marais</a> </h3>
<h3><a name="_Toc287335654"><strong>Abbreviation:</strong></a>
ASTCOMP</h3>
<p><strong>Brief Description:</strong> <i>The data sets produced by
radio-astronomy surveys are huge, and will grow even larger with the advent of
large-scale radio telescopes like MeerKAT. The data that streams from the
sensors is often represented as a ‘data cube’, in which each 2D image corresponds
to information across the sky in a portion of the radio spectrum. Scientists
are interested in analysing these data cubes, to evaluate current cosmological
models, among other applications, and also need techniques which will allow
this data to be efficiently compressed. Currently, simple generic compression
schemes are used to shrink the data set sizes – but these take no account of
the properties of the data cube itself. </i></p>
<p><i>The
purpose of this project is to evaluate existing image compression methods,
which accommodate prior knowledge about image content, and to assess the
usefulness of these methods in this context. An important design goal for any
new algorithm is to avoid the need to decompress the entire data set in order
to examine only part of the data. An enhanced algorithm, based on existing
techniques, which is fast and outperforms naïve entropy coders will be hugely
beneficial to the radio astronomy community. It may also be possible to adapt
existing algorithms to run on a GPU, which would further enhance performance
gains. </i></p>
<p><strong>Computer Science Content:</strong><b> </b> <i>Data compression; image compression; data structures and algorithms
(possibly GPU alg. design, depending on student interest)</i></p>
<p><strong>Specific Learning Outcomes: </strong> <i>Design, implement and test algorithms and data structures based on a
problem spec.</i></p>
<p><strong>Skills Required by Team as a Whole:</strong><i> Several compression
algorithms will need to be understood, implemented and evaluated. They will
also need to be modified to meet the design goals states above (efficiency, partial
data decompression). More specific information on project components is listed
below: </i><strong></strong></p>
<p>•
<strong>Theory:</strong><b> </b> <i>This project will involve understanding a number of image/data
compression techniques – this maybe be somewhat challenging. Someone with an interest in algorithm design
would have a distinct advantage. </i></p>
<p>•
<strong>Implementation:</strong> <i>The implementation will require coding up some existing schemes and
modifying them to take account of the characteristics of data cubes. If the
project evolves in that direction, familiarity with GOU coding would also be
useful.</i></p>
<p>•
<b>Evaluation<i>:</i></b><i> A comprehensive evaluation
will need to be conducted for each developed method. </i></p>
<p><strong>Facilities needed:</strong> <i>Standard hardware will suffice; data sets will be provided. </i></p>
<p><strong>Supervision:</strong> <i>I will provide input on image/data compression; The UCT astronomy
department (Prof De Blok) will provide data sets and expertise in radio
astronomy. </i></p>
<h4><a name="_Toc287335655"><strong>Number of Students:</strong> <i>2 or 3</i></a></h4>
<h2><a name="_Toc287335656">19.
Project: Automated Counting of
Cape Fur Seal Pups on Digital Aerial Photographs</a> </h2>
<h3><a name="_Toc287335657"><strong>Proposer:</strong> Patrick Marais</a> </h3>
<h3><a name="_Toc287335658"><strong>Abbreviation:</strong></a>
<i>SEALS</i></h3>
<p><strong>Brief Description:</strong> In order to manage and monitor the Cape fur seal population, seals
must be counted on a regular basis. Traditional techniques relied on manual
counting, which is obviously labour intensive and expensive. More recently,
aerial surveys have become popular since these provide high resolution images
which can be analyzed by experts away from the colony sites at a convenient
time. Unfortunately, such manual scrutiny is still time consuming and prone to
error. The solution is to develop an
automated image processing system which can scan an image and identify seals of
the appropriate age category, and thus count them. </p>
<p><i>Your
task is to develop a system that can identify juvenile seals – pups – by using
ideas from image segmentation</i>. Since there are many
algorithms that one can attempt, this project can scale to accommodate more
than two people. A common code base will have to be developed, and then a
series of separate algorithms will need to be implemented, tweaked and analysed.
</p>
<p><strong>Computer Science Content:</strong><b> </b> <i>This project will require techniques from image processing and computer
vision. Specifically, those algorithms dealing with object
recognition/segmentation will need to be explored in some depth to develop a
feasible solution. </i></p>
<p><strong>Specific Learning Outcomes: </strong> Software design; algorithm
design; validation</p>
<p><strong>Skills Required by Team as a
Whole: </strong><i>This project will require
students with a strong programming background and an interest in image
processing/manipulation. A fair amount of reading will also be required to gain
understanding of the basic techniques used in image processing and
segmentation. </i><strong></strong></p>
<p>•
<strong>Theory:</strong><b> </b> <i>The theory behind object recognition can be quite complex. The specific
features of the images (resolution, terrain changes, occlusion of seals) will
make this very challenging. </i></p>
<p>•
<strong>Implementation:</strong> <i>The implementation will require image processing tools to be developed
(perhaps a library can be used), as well as object recognition algorithms and
data structures. </i></p>
<p><strong>Facilities needed:</strong> The computer hardware in the
honours lab should be adequate; open source software/libraries can be used for
some parts; data will be provided by the client. <strong>Supervision:</strong> Dr Audrey Mbogho will serve as co-supervisor,
and Mr Mduduzi Seakamele from Oceans and Coasts Research is the client. Audrey
and Patrick will provide help with image processing and segmentation
techniques, and Mduduzi will provide expertise on seal classification and prior
work.<i></i></p>
<h4><a name="_Toc287335659"><strong>Number of Students:</strong> <i>2 or 3</i></a></h4>
<h2><a name="_Toc287335660">20. Project: Reinventing the Mobile Interface</a></h2>
<h3><a name="_Toc287335661"><strong>Proposer:</strong> Gary Marsden</a></h3>
<h3><a name="_Toc287335662"><strong>Abbreviation:</strong></a>
<i>iMobile</i><i> </i></h3>
<p><strong>Brief Description:</strong> <i>Current smartphone interfaces
are based on the notion of applications. Our interaction is based around what
app provides the information and functionality we require. I (and many other
researchers) believe this model has outlived it usefulness. This project is
focussed on creating the next generation of mobile interface. </i></p>
<p><i>One
part of the project will be to implement the ‘lifestreams’ interface on a
mobile architecture such as WM7 or Android. Lifestreams is a document-based
interface metaphor that visualises your interactions as a series of messages.
To date, it is has only existed as a desktop system but lends itself to mobile
interaction.</i></p>
<p><i>The
second part of the project will be to investigate other metaphors and design
new ones using high-fidelity prototypes. Here the student will be required to
design and then test those designs with groups of users.</i> </p>
<p><strong>Computer Science Content:</strong><b> </b> <i>Generally, mobile computing. Specifically mobile interaction design and
mobile interface design.</i></p>
<p><strong>Specific Learning Outcomes: </strong> <i>Interaction design, mobile programming, interface programming and
mobile prototyping</i></p>
<p><strong>Skills Required by Team as a
Whole: </strong></p>
<ul type=disc>
<strong>Theory:</strong><b> </b> <i>None
in the classic sense. Just need to have completed MID course.</i></li>
<strong>Implementation:</strong> <i>For
one person, the difficulty will lie in wrapping a new interface over an
existing platform; coming to grips with how the mobile platform works.</i></li>
<b>OTHER:</b> <i>For the other person,
the difficulty lies in designing prototypes and synthesising research
ideas and results.</i></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Facilities needed:</strong> <i>Mobile handsets will be provided.</i></p>
<p><strong>Supervision:</strong> <i>I will be available for weekly meetings, along with two postgraduate
students working in this area.</i></p>
<h4><a name="_Toc287335663"><strong>Number of Students:</strong> <i>2</i></a></h4>
<h2><a name="_Toc287335664">21.
Project: Asynchronous Mobile
Training</a></h2>
<h3><a name="_Toc287335665"><strong>Proposer:</strong> Gary Marsden</a><strong> </strong></h3>
<h3><a name="_Toc287335666"><strong>Abbreviation:</strong></a>
<i>mTraining</i><i> </i></h3>
<p><strong>Brief Description:</strong> <i>This project is about
continuing the highly successful Big Board project from Microsoft. This project
is also Microsoft funded and it seeks to create a system to distribute
video-based training materials to semi-literate health workers. The system
works by registering the Bluetooth ID’s of health workers’ handsets and sending
them training videos over Bluetooth. Whenever the worker next comes within
range of the system, the system checks to see what video that have watched and
automatically sends them new material.</i></p>
<p><i>There
are two aspects to this project. </i></p>
<p><i>The
first is to implement the Bluetooth file exchange system. The code for this has
been largely finished, but on Windows Mobile 6.5. We need the system ported to
Android and then extended to keep track of which Bluetooth ID has watched which
videos.</i></p>
<p><i>The
second part of the project is to work with midwives to design an interface
which facilitates them uploading and checking on material. Midwife training
does not include a lot of ICT, so these interfaces have to be very carefully
designed using techniques such as PD, prototyping etc.</i></p>
<p><i>Alternatively,
the second part of the project could be purely technical about marrying Bluetooth
technology to Mule networks, so that information is spread in a peer-to-peer
fashion, rather than from a central point.</i></p>
<p><strong>Computer Science Content:</strong><b> </b> <i>Generally, mobile computing. Specifically mobile interaction design and
mobile interface design.</i></p>
<p><strong>Specific Learning Outcomes: </strong> <i>Interaction design, mobile programming, interface programming and
mobile prototyping</i></p>
<p><strong>Skills Required by Team as a Whole:</strong><i> <strong></strong></i></p>
<ul type=disc>
<strong>Theory:</strong><b> </b> <i>None
in the classic sense. Just need to have completed MID course.</i></li>
<strong>Implementation:</strong> <i>For
one person, the difficulty will lie porting code to a completely new
platform, then adding functionality to that code.</i></li>
<b>OTHER:</b> <i>For the other person,
the difficulty lies in designing prototypes and synthesising research
ideas and results.</i></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Facilities needed:</strong> <i>Handsets and access to health professionals will be provided</i></p>
<p><strong>Supervision:</strong> <i>This project is currently funded by Microsoft research using a
maternity hospital in Sierra Leone as a testbed for a general system to
distribute training materials. There are many groups across the developing
world who need such a system and there is much interest in what can be
produced.</i></p>
<h4><a name="_Toc287335667"><strong>Number of Students:</strong> <i>2</i></a></h4>
<h2><a name="_Toc287335668">22. Project: Spaza Shop Mobile Management</a></h2>
<h3><a name="_Toc287335669"><strong>Proposer:</strong> Gary Marsden</a> </h3>
<h3><a name="_Toc287335670"><strong>Abbreviation:</strong></a>
<i>iSpaza</i><i> </i></h3>
<p><strong>Brief Description:</strong> <i>The idea for this project
comes from two sources. Firstly, my research into book keeping systems for
informal traders – we have worked with an NGO that has a paper-based system
that we are converting to run on Android. Secondly, a commercial company, S1,
that has a secure mobile payments platform that would allow informal traders to
conduct cashless payments.</i></p>
<p><i>There
are a number of ways that this project could go. If you are interested in any
of the following topics on a mobile platform, then the project could be
constructed to incorporate those interests: secure transactions; mobile
interface design; stock management and accountancy systems; image processing
and OCR.</i></p>
<p><strong>Computer Science Content:</strong><b> </b> <i>Mobile platforms</i></p>
<p><strong>Specific Learning Outcomes: </strong> <i>Implementing commercial applications on a mobile platform – could
include HCI, security or databases. </i></p>
<p><strong>Skills Required by Team as a Whole:</strong><i> </i></p>
<ul type=disc>
<b>OTHER:</b> Hard to say at this point.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Facilities needed:</strong> <i>Mobile handsets will be provided</i></p>
<p><strong>Supervision:</strong> <i>I will have weekly meetings and work on this project with a postgrad
student who has a lot of Android and mobile payment experience. S1 will offer a
liaison person and information regarding their platform.</i></p>
<h4><a name="_Toc287335671"><strong>Number of Students:</strong> <i>2-3</i></a></h4>
<h2><a name="_Toc287335672">23. Project: RoboCup Rescue Robot Project</a></h2>
<h3><a name="_Toc287335673"><strong>Proposer:</strong> Audrey Mbogho</a> </h3>
<h3><a name="_Toc287335674"><strong>Abbreviation:</strong></a>
<i>ROBOCUP</i></h3>
<p><strong>Brief Description:</strong> <i>The intention of the RoboCup
Rescue project is to promote research and development in Artificial
Intelligence and Robotics (See <a href="http://www.robocuprescue.org/">www.robocuprescue.org/</a>).</i></p>
<p><i>This
project will involve the software development for a rescue robot that is
developed by the Robotics and Agents Research Laboratory, Department of Mechanical
Engineering, UCT.</i></p>
<p><strong>Computer Science Content:</strong><b> </b><i>Robot Control, Image
Processing, Speech Recognition, Human Computer Interfaces </i></p>
<p><strong>Specific Learning Outcomes: </strong><i>Fostering the learning in
artificial intelligence and robotics, overcoming operator-interaction challenges</i></p>
<p><strong>Skills Required by Team as a
Whole: </strong></p>
<p><i><u>Student
1: Robot Control</u></i></p>
<p><i>A control
interface to operate the different functions of the Robot</i><i></i></p>
<p><i>Selection
of an appropriate interface for the user as well as testing what skill level/
training is needed to operate the robot.</i><i></i></p>
<p><i>Main
systems that need to be controlled-</i><i></i></p>
<p><i>Robot Base
- this will be the control of the motion of the robot- forward , back, turn,
as well as the flipper positioning. This will include that speed that the
robot moves at.</i><i></i></p>
<p><i>Robot Arm -
this will be the control of the position of the arm and the operation of the
manipulator.</i><i></i></p>
<p><i>Robot Sensor Payload - this
will be the control and selection for the different sensors.</i></p>
<p><strong><u>Student 2: Image Processing</u></strong></p>
<p><i>Image processing of
all the video streams to help the operator navigate and find victims. This will
be for the optical cameras as well as the thermal camera. This will include
face detection, Hazmat sighs detection and identification, detection of the
rolling E set.</i></p>
<p><i>Generate a 3D map of
the world around the robot. The map can then be used for navigation.</i></p>
<p><i><u>Student 3: Speech
recognition</u></i></p>
<p><i>Processing to the
audio to detect repetitive pattern and speech.</i></p>
<p><i><u>Student 4: Human
Computer Interface</u></i><i></i></p>
<p><i>The development of a
user- friendly interface that is intuitive and does not subject the user to
sensory overload.</i></p>
<p><i>The human-computer
interface must take a minimalistic approach and only display the selected video
streams and what is core to operating the robot. It must only bring in other
data if requested or if required i.e. Motor overload. Intelligence in the
system is needed - to think for the user to simplify the operation of the
robot.</i></p>
<p>•
<strong>Theory:</strong><b> </b><i>Image Processing, Speech
Recognition, Artificial Intelligence </i></p>
<p>•
<strong>Implementation:</strong> <i>IMPLEMENTATION DIFFICULTY - MODERATE </i></p>
<p><strong>Facilities needed:</strong> <i>rescue robot to be supplied by Robotics and Agents lab. Data Includes:</i></p>
<p><i>•
4 video streams</i></p>
<p><i>•
Thermal image video stream</i></p>
<p><i>•
CO<sub>2</sub> sensor</i></p>
<p><i>•
GPS</i></p>
<p><i>•
Inertial measurement unit (IMU)</i></p>
<p><i>•
Audio stream (sending and receiving)</i></p>
<p><i>•
Laser 3D mapper</i></p>
<p><strong>Supervision:</strong> Audrey Mbogho, Anet Potgieter and Stephen Marais: <i>Speech Recognition, Image Processing, HCI,
AI, development of software, meetings and presentations at the Robotics and
Agents Research Lab, Mech Eng</i></p>
<h4><a name="_Toc287335675"><strong>Number of
Students:</strong> <i>4 (or 3)</i></a></h4>
<h2><a name="_Toc287335676">24. Project: SimplyCT Heritage</a></h2>
<h3><a name="_Toc287335677">Proposer: Hussein </a><a
name="__DdeLink__372_366320345"></a>Suleman</h3>
<h3><a name="_Toc287335678">Abbreviation:</a>
<i>SimplyCT</i></h3>
<p>Brief Description: <i>Digital heritage collections
are emerging in many countries/regions as a means to record and disseminate
various forms of heritage (culture, language, history, etc.). While the systems for managing these
collections are often custom-developed, it is clear that there are many common
requirements. Thus, configurable
reusable software for the management of heritage collections should be
feasible.</i></p>
<p><i>The
aim of this project is to develop a set of Web-based tools to manage heritage
collections and make them accessible to end-users. Curators needs specific tools for management,
such as the ability to upload objects, organise into categories and edit
metadata. End-users need typical search
and browse functions. The simplyCT framework
that defines simple data stores and common component layouts must be used.</i></p>
<p><i>The
project is focused on three desirable criteria:</i></p>
<p><b><i>1. </i></b><i>Reconfigurability of the system – how
easily can the system be redeployed for a different community/collection?<b></b></i></p>
<p><b><i>2. </i></b><i>Scalability – how well can the system
operate with very large collections?<b></b></i></p>
<p><b><i>3. </i></b><i> Preservation – what guarantee do we have that
the digital objects and their organisation will be readable in the distant
future?<b></b></i></p>
<p><i>This
project can have a substantial impact if it can be demonstrated in the context
of new collections and new communities.
Our partners include organisations such as the Centre for Curating the
Archive at UCT (that is interested in periodically adding new collections), the
Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts in New Delhi (that is interested in
very large manuscript collections) and the District Six Museum in Cape Town
(that is interested in an existing solution that can be reconfigured for their
needs).<b></b></i></p>
<p>Computer
Science Content:<b> </b> <i>Digital Libraries, Web technology, cultural
heritage preservation, Web 2.0 techniques, information retrieval</i><b></b></p>
<p>Specific Learning
Outcomes: <i>System
implementation; research methodology; experimental evaluation.</i></p>
<p>Skills Required by
Team as a Whole:</p>
<p>Theory:<b> </b> <i>Nothing particular.</i></p>
<p>Implementation: <i>Knowledge of Web technology and XML will be useful. Some knowledge of information retrieval will
be useful for aspects of the project, but these will be covered in the WWW
course.</i></p>
<p><b>Other:</b> <i>Excitement about contributing to the preservation of endangered
cultures!</i></p>
<p>Facilities needed: <i>Server and data storage space will be provided.</i></p>
<p>Supervision: <i>Hussein Suleman, with input from various partners. This project will be hosted within the
Digital Libraries Laboratory – students will be encouraged to attend DL
activities when relevant or to get input/assistance from senior research students.</i></p>
<h4><a name="_Toc287335679">Number of Students: <i>2, 3 or
4</i></a></h4>
<h2><a name="_Toc287335680">25. Project: Superimposed Bushman Information</a></h2>
<h3><a name="_Toc287335681">Proposer: Hussein Suleman</a></h3>
<h3><a name="_Toc287335682">Abbreviation:</a>
<i>SIBush</i></h3>
<p>Brief Description: <i>The Bleek and Lloyd
collection of Bushman stories, drawings and dictionaries are world-famous as
the last documentary record of the culture of the Bushmen of this region.</i></p>
<p><i>Over a period of 5 years, this
collection has been digitised and carefully organised into online
Web-accessible collections. It is now
possible to make use of the collection in teaching, research, performances,
exhibitions, etc.</i></p>
<p><i>The aim of this project is to develop a
set of Web 2.0 tools to reuse the content and assemble it in interesting ways,
both automatically and manually, implementing the emerging theory of
superimposed information for layered and separable archives. A typical automatic assembly of the content
could be the illustration of the Bushman stories based purely on analysis of
the corresponding word patterns/statistics.
A typical manual assembly would be a tool that allows authoring of Web
pages (or PDFs or other documents) with embedded content from the B&L
collections, thus allowing reuse and the creation of new forms of expression
that can be contributed back into the community.</i></p>
<p><i>This project can have a substantial
impact in how we appreciate and assimilate the culture of the Bushmen in a
modern context.</i></p>
<p><i>See
http://lloydbleekcollection.cs.uct.ac.za/ and
http://lloydbleekcollection.cs.uct.ac.za/dictionaries/.</i></p>
<p>Computer Science
Content:<b> </b> <i>Digital Libraries, Web technology, cultural heritage preservation, Web
2.0 techniques, information retrieval</i></p>
<p>Specific Learning
Outcomes: <i>System
implementation; research methodology; experimental evaluation.</i></p>
<p>Skills Required by
Team as a Whole:</p>
<p>Theory:<b> </b> <i>Nothing
particular.</i><b></b></p>
<p>Implementation: <i>Knowledge of Web technology and XML will be useful. Some knowledge of information retrieval will
be useful for aspects of the project, but these will be covered in the WWW
course.</i></p>
<p><b>Other:</b> <i>Excitement about contributing to the preservation of endangered
cultures!</i></p>
<p>Facilities needed: <i>Server and data storage space will be provided.</i></p>
<p>Supervision: <i>Hussein Suleman, with input from the Centre for Curating the Archive
(UCT Fine Arts). This project will be
hosted within the Digital Libraries Laboratory – students will be encouraged to
attend DL activities when relevant or to get input/assistance from senior
research students.</i></p>
<h4><a name="_Toc287335683">Number of Students: <i>2 or 3</i></a></h4>
<h2><a name="_Toc287335684">26. Project: Online Meetings in Africa</a></h2>
<h3><a name="__RefHeading__198_18652099191"></a><a name="_Toc287335685">Proposer: Hussein Suleman</a></h3>
<h3><a
name="__RefHeading__200_18652099191"></a><a name="_Toc287335686">Abbreviation: AfriMeet</a></h3>
<p><b>Brief
Description:</b> <i>Hosting
a meeting with remote participants is often a nightmare when using South
African Internet connections, notorious for unstable and low bandwidth. Commercial and open source tools all work to
varying degrees, but most fail at some point as they were all designed with the
assumption of fast and stable connections.
Commercial software acquired by UCT last year failed to deal with the
low bandwidth connections.</i></p>
<p><i>This project is about the design and development of a
developing-country-aware application to host online meetings where multiple
participants can share audio, video and presentations.</i></p>
<p><i>In a low-bandwidth meeting environment, the emphasis
is on a different set of criteria, such as:</i></p>
<p>-
<i>pre-fetching of static data</i></p>
<p>-
<i>prioritisation of audio</i></p>
<p>-
<i>clear meeting procedure encoding (e.g., virtual hand-raising)</i></p>
<p>-
<i>video keyframing</i></p>
<p>-
<i>minimalism in messaging protocols</i></p>
<p>-
<i>graceful degradation over unstable connections</i></p>
<p><i>This project can demonstrate how to build better
conferencing applications that work in all parts of the world, not just the
northern hemisphere.</i></p>
<p><b>Computer
Science Content: </b> <i>Web
technology, multimedia interfacing, Web 2.0 techniques, network protocols</i></p>
<p><b>Specific
Learning Outcomes: </b> <i>System
implementation; research methodology; experimental evaluation.</i></p>
<p><b>Skills
Required by Team as a Whole:</b></p>
<p><b>Theory: </b> <i>Nothing particular.</i></p>
<p><b>Implementation:</b> <i>Knowledge of Web technology and XML will be useful. An ability to interact with multimedia and
multimedia devices will be useful, but can be learnt.</i></p>
<p><b>Other:</b> <i>Excitement about changing perceptions on
software development for developing countries.</i></p>
<p><b>Facilities
needed:</b> <i>Server and data storage space, if required,
will be provided. Any additional
hardware (such as cameras), if required, will be provided.</i></p>
<p><b>Supervision:</b> <i>Hussein Suleman. This project
will be hosted within the Digital Libraries Laboratory – students will be
encouraged to attend DL activities when relevant or to get input/assistance
from senior research students.</i></p>
<h4><a name="_Toc287335687">Number of Students: 2 or 3</a></h4>
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