Difference between revisions of "Historical:SoC 2009 student proposals"

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Student Proposals: Student info and short project synopsis, with link to a new Wiki page where the project is expanded in full detail. See template below:

MO Faruque Sarker: Handling very large images using VIPS

A second year PhD student at U of Wales, Newport under Robotic Intelligence Lab (my homepage at: http://ril.newport.ac.uk/sarker/index.php).
Coding Platform: Ubuntu 8.10 x64, Pentium 4 3GHz, 32GB RAM
I'm interested to work in processing large images in Hugin. We have got a 16 mega-pixel Prosilica GE4900C CCD camera for tracking about 30 mobile robots. It gives about 50MB image file per frame using a huge memory. I'm running my tracking algorithm on Ubuntu 8.10 x64 and got some nice results of tracking markers (http://ril.newport.ac.uk/sarker/index.php?pid=21).

Handling very large images using VIPS

Lukáš Jirkovský

first year undergrad of University of West Bohemia
Platform used for coding: Arch Linux, Pentium 4 Northwood 2GHz, 1.5 GB RAM
Coding skills: C++, PHP, Java, Matlab
Ghost removal for enfuse
http://socghop.appspot.com/student_proposal/show/google/gsoc2009/stativ/t123797116006 Project proposal in Google's webapp

Prashant Kumar Aanand

2rd Year student pursuing a Bachelors in Architecture and Regional Planning at Indian Institute of Technology, INDIA.
Coding platform : Ubuntu 8.10 * 32; Pentium 4; 3GHz; 2GB Ram.
coding skills : c++, Java, Matlab.
Hugin colour balancing :- introducing new features like temperature curves etc
Hugin raw support : better modularization

León Moctezuma: QuickTimeVR Playback in VLC

Enrolled last Semester Bachelor of Computer Science at [www.buap.mx Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla].
Coding Platform: Ubuntu 8.10
Project proposal on the VideoLAN Wiki
Mentor (VLC): Most likely Antoine Cellier.
Comentor (FreePV): Yuval Levy. Note: we're discussing this with VLC / Jean-Baptiste Kempf, including Wiimote navigation.
http://socghop.appspot.com/student_proposal/review/google/gsoc2009/leonox/t123831053541 Google webapp proposal

Dev Ghosh: Mosaic Mode for Hugin/Panotools

PhD candidate, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Coding Platform: Ubuntu 8.10, AMD Athlon 64 3500+, 2 GB RAM, Eclipse
Coding skills: C/C++, MATLAB, Python
Possible Mentor: Daniel German
Mosaic Mode for Hugin/Panotools
Google webapp Proposal Link: (Incomplete and can't edit right now. Please see wiki link above.) http://socghop.appspot.com/student_proposal/show/google/gsoc2009/dkg/t123865551999

Yulia Kotseruba: Straight-line detection for automated lens calibration

4th year Computer Science student at University of Toronto studying Artificial Intelligence
Coding Platform: Mac OS 10.5.6, 2.53 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB RAM, XCode, Eclipse
Coding skills: C/C++, Java, Python, Matlab, OpenGL, Prolog
Straight-line detection for automated lens calibration
LightTwist
http://socghop.appspot.com/student_proposal/show/google/gsoc2009/albiorix/t123854228105 Google proposal

Mokhtar M. Khorshid: Accounting for Camera Movements

Holder of B.S. in Computer Science & Mathematics from AUC (top of my class) and starting my master studies in Computer Science.
Coding Platform: Vista 64-bit (as well as Windows XP 32-bit Professional & Ubuntu 8.10 on secondary machines), Quad Core 2.4 GHz, 6GB RAM, 8800 GTS graphics card, Visual Studio 2005/2008 .NET (in addition to Eclipse + GCC).
Coding skills: Expert in C++ (10+ years), seasoned algorithm designer (ACM programming contestant that ranked 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th in various national and regional contests), I have experience with Computer graphics, OpenGL, and wxWidgets. Last year I participated in GSoC and built the wxWallCtrl, check an unofficial binary sample here: [1]. I am familiar with SVN, Perforce, and SourceSafe and most bug tracking systems.
I am the lead software architect of the I2B game project ([2])
Accounting for Camera Movements
My GSoC proposal link is [3]. We are currently discussing concrete requirements since task may be altered.

Tim Nugent

3rd Year PhD student in Bioinformatics at University College London, UK
Ubuntu and Centos Linux, with XP imprisoned in Vmware
Coding skills: C/C++, Perl
Straight-line detection for automated lens calibration
Bracketing Panorama Model

Seth Berrier: Simple Masking & Bracketed/HDR Exposure Stacks

(Sorry for the last minute addition. Hope I can find room among this qualified bunch!)

6th Year PhD student & Doctoral Candidate in Computer Science at University of Minnestoa, USA
Main Coding Platform: Mac OS X 10.5 w/ Apple GNU Toolchain & Eclipse IDE, 15" MacBook Pro, 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo, 4G mem, NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT
Other Platforms:
- Win XP Pro w/ Visual C++ & VS .net, 2k5 or 2k8 OR MinGW & Eclipse IDE
- Other *nix platforms (Ubuntu & Solaris in particular) using basic GNU toolchain from shell
Computer Science Knowledge:
- Veteran in C++ (with a bit of C#, Java, Perl, LISP, StandardML, Pascal, Fortran, Basic, VB for Apps, HTML, Javascript)
- Very experienced in OpenGL, GLUT, Cg and general graphics algorithms
- Basic knowledge of Qt GUI programming & Qt Eclipse integration
- Experienced with Matlab and some LabVIEW
- Good Numerical Methods foundation with some practical experience
- Basic, non-theoretical experience in real-time image processing for computer vision (Hough transform, Canny edge detection, etc)
Simple Masking & Bracketed/HDR Exposure Stacks

James Legg: Enblend / Enfuse Gimp plugin

I'm in the third and final year of a Computer Science and Mathmatics BSc at the University of York, in the United Kingdom.
Coding Platform: Ubuntu 8.10, Pentium dual-core 2GHz, 2GB RAM
The Enfuse / Enblend Gimp plugin will allow a user of the Gimp to use the Enblend or Enfuse algorithms to merge layers of an image through the Gimp's menu or using a Gimp script.

Sumit Sinha

2rd Year student pursuing a Bachelors degree in Computer Science at Indian Institute of Technology, INDIA
Coding Platform: Vista 32-bit, Dual Core 1.6 GHz, 1GB RAM, Visual Studio 2005/2008 .NET.
Coding skills: C/C++, JAVA
Better Algorithm for Seam Optimization in Enblend/Enfuse
Hugin RAW support

Joe Templeman

Studying at Imperial College London, 2nd Year Computing MEng student

Coding:

Main coding platform: Ubuntu 8.04: 2.66Ghz C2D E6750, 4GB RAM, Eclipse, GDB etc
- Alternative platforms include Windows XP, Dell D430, 1.2Ghz C2D ULV, 2GB RAM, Visual Studio 2005/2008, Eclipse
Experienced C and Java, also C++, Haskell, Prolog
Strong mathematical and theortical grounding including
- Logical/Inductive reasoning about programs
- Formal specifications
- Software engineering design patterns

Photography Skills:

Nikon D50, D1H, 8mm Peleng fisheye, 15-30mm Sigma
I’ve not been very active recently but I invested a lot of time into Hugin and panoramas in general and hosted a load on Flickr.
- I wrote quite a widely used tutorial
- Feel free to check out my Panoramas etc, all using Hugin here.
I’ve also worked as a part time post-production photography consultant specialising in photo-stitching, specifically Hugin.
- http://www.bennorthover.com/folio4.html (The stereographic projections I assisted on are 3,4 and 5th and published as an advert in the economist)

Project:

Achin Agarwal

Second year undergraduate student of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.
Coding Platform: Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.53 GHz, 512 MB graphics card NVIDIA chipset2250, Windows XP, Visual Studio 2005/2008.
Coding skills: C, C++, Java, OpenGL, MATLAB.
Utility for creating a Philosphere.

Satyajeet Singh

Final year undergraduate student at Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, Delhi University, New Delhi, India.
Coding: Intel P4 3.0 GHz, 1 GB RAM, Windows XP, Fedora Core 9, Visual Studio 2008, OpenCV
Coding Skills: C, C++, Visual Basic. I like coding and have developed recent interest in the field of Image Processing in last 10 months.