Saint Louis University |
Dept. of Math & Computer Science |
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Computer Science 491/496/497
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The first phase of the capstone experience is the selection of a project and the creation of teams. To help in this process, this page includes a list of some brief summaries of potential project ideas, although this list is by no means exhaustive. We very much welcome project ideas that stem from the team.
You may also wish to take a look at past project descriptions that have been selected in recent years. Those are not meant as future projects, but instead as a demonstration of the range and scope of capstone projects.
Organization: Math/CS Department
Contact Person: Kevin Scannell <scannell@slu.edu>
Description: A WordNet is a database of word senses with links between them (synonyms, broader/narrower terms, part/whole relations, etc.). The most famous of these is the Princeton WordNet (http://wordnet.princeton.edu) which is freely available. The site visualthesaurus.com allows one to navigate the Princeton WordNet in a web browser, but sadly it's a subscription service. It should be quite easy to do something even better using a modern open source .js library like d3 (https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Gallery) or arborjs (http://arborjs.org/).
Organization: SLU Department of History
Contact Person: Thomas Finan <finantj@slu.edu>
Description: Conceptually, I am building a 3D model of the landscape and features of my archaeological project in Ireland using survey data, site plans, aerial photography, satellite imagery, etc. At the end of the day my goal is to produce an interactive learning experience that allows visitors to learn about the site through video, text, and experience, but also allows them to modify the reconstructions based upon varying interpretations of the archaeological and historical records.
Potential technical platforms might include Unity3D, Google Earth, and Sketchup, together with Java programming.
Organization: SLU Department of Biology
Contact Person: Richard Mayden <@slu.edu>
Description: The help is needed in setting up some webpages to pull movies and photos from a data base into specific pages. On some of the pages I need basically a "chat room" or blog for researchers to discuss about the individual bone or muscle that is illustrated in movies or photographs.
Organization: National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
Contact Person: Rob Anderson <Robert.C.Anderson@nga.mil>
Description: We would like your group to provide feature tracking and localization support, as depicted in the attached music video of one of our AFIT/NGA flights with the Rascal. The main goal would be to show the ability to reliably match a certain number of features across frames and save off the pixel line and sample for each feature in each frame, along with associated metadata; e.g., camera/aircraft position and pose information. The flights would be conducted on small UAV platforms, either indoors or in an open field, flying over surveyed targets. Later we would want to take to a military range. Of course we would like a music video similar to the one attached for briefing purposes. The feature tracking information would be used for testing another newly developed Kalman Filter to improve navigation. Finally, we may want to either develop or test new 3D algorithms.