Project Proposals (09-10)

Dr. Cathal Gurrin
(L2.42, extn 5234, cgurrin at computing…)

Email me if contacting me before the 26^th October 2009.

YouTube Video Search Engine

YouTube has been the most popular video search engine for many years now. The purpose of this project is to download some YouTube content and index it using the SOLR search engine and provide a WWW interface to this local index of video. The novel and innovative aspect of this project is in the development of a novel WWW interface to the video content. Keyframe extraction tools will be provided by CDVP, along with access to CDVP staff.

Novel Mobile Interface to a Video Search Engine

Building on top of a pre-existing video search engine (API provided) that indexes hundreds of hours of TV content, the aim of this project is to build a mobile interface to the video search engine. The mobile device will be provided as well as the underlying video search engine functionality and interface elements such as streaming video and keyframes for the video content.

The Colour of Life

Researchers at the School of Computing are world renound for their research into e-memories (Google it!) . Part of this research as been looking into the capture of thousands of digital photographs per day, over a number of years. In all the largest archive we have is 5,000,000 images. The aim of this project is to take a subset of these images, as well as a description of the colours in the images and build a map of the colour of life. i.e. what colours are most visible at midday on a Saturday, or what is the colour of a Tuesday afternoon. The photos will be provided, along with the colour descriptions for each image, metadata (date/time/location) for each image. This project requires a student with imagination and an interest in how to represent data visually. The end result will be the first-of-its-kind colour map of a segment of the colours a person encounters in everyday life.

The Location Mapper

Ongoing research into e-memories at the CDVP has resulted in the generation of multi-year location logs for individuals, which were captured by GPS devices. Hence these logs contain GPS locations and timestamps every five seconds for a number of years. The purpose of this project is to make this data browsable through a Web-based mapping interface, such as google maps. The raw GPS data will need to be summarised depending on the size of the map view area and the number of points at this place. A student with an interest in human computer interaction and a knowledge of databases would be ideal for this project.