Historical:SoC 2009 student proposals

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:

Tom Templeton: The Template Project

• Enrolled second year master of Sample at Example University in Nowhereland.
• Coding Platform: Ubuntu 8.10, Pentium 4 3GHz, 1GB RAM
• The Template Project is all about a short description of an example project that does what it does according to specifications.

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 (Java only because I have to ;-) )
• Ghost removal for enfuse
• http://socghop.appspot.com/student_proposal/show/google/gsoc2009/stativ/t123797116006 Project proposal in Google's webapp

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

• PhD candidate, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
• 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
• Google webapp Proposal Link: Coming soon!

Yulia Kotseruba: Straight-line detection for automated lens calibration

• 4th year student at University of Toronto
• 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

Mokhtar M. Khorshid: Accounting for Camera Movements

• Holder of B.S. in Computer Science & Mathematics from AUC and starting my master studies in Computer Science.
• Coding Platform: Vista 64-bit, Quad Core 2.4 GHz, 6GB RAM, 8800 GTS graphics card, Visual Studio 2005/2008 .NET.
• Coding skills: Expert in C++ (10+ years), seasoned algorithm designer, I have experience with Computer graphics, OpenGL, and wxWidgets.
• Accounting for Camera Movements

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

(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)

• Project proposals available shortly