1. FYP titles 2016-17 By Prof. KH Wong FYP 2016-7 v6.31

2. KHW1601 (CS or CE) Virtual tourism using 3-D computer vision and head mount device (software part) If you are wearing a head mount device such as the OCULUS (https://www.oculus.com/en-us/), you can feel you are in anywhere you like in the virtual world. To extend it to the real world, we propose to build a robot that carries a set of cameras to capture the images in 3-D at a remote place (e.g. at Tokyo). The 3-D data will be sent back to the user and displayed through the OCULUS (e.g. at Hong Kong). There may be extended features, for example, the system can provide tourist or shopping information to users. This system enables users to visit other countries with little cost. Even disabled people can travel far away without leaving their homes. https://www.oculus.com/en-us/ For the software part, students need to solve the display and network problems etc. Knowledge required: C++ and opencv FYP 2016-7 v6.32

3. KHW1602 (CE) Virtual tourism using 3-D computer vision and head mount device (hardware part) If you are wearing a head mount device such as the OCULUS (https://www.oculus.com/en-us/), you can feel you are in anywhere you like in the virtual world. To extend it to the real world, we propose to build a robot that carries a set of cameras to capture the images in 3-D at a remote place (e.g. at Tokyo). The 3-D data will be sent back to the user and displayed through the OCULUS (e.g. at Hong Kong). There may be extended features, for example, the system can provide tourist or shopping information to users. This system enables users to visit other countries with little cost. Even disabled people can travel far away without leaving their homes. https://www.oculus.com/en-us/ For the hardware part, students need to solve the robot control and computer vision problems. etc. Knowledge required: Embedded systems, C++ and opencv FYP 2016-7 v6.33

4. KHW1603 (CS or CE) 3D scanning of a large area for virtual world development Scanning a large area using a low-cost scanner such as the Kinect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinect ) is a challenging task because it can only scan a narrow field of view of around 75 degrees. We propose to place the scanner at different places to obtain partial local 3-D data first. Then combine the local data into a global model afterwards. So the scanning area can be much extended. It has many applications such as computer game development and virtual map construction. The scanning results can be displayed by 3-D televisions or head mount devices such as the OCULUS (https://www.oculus.com/en-us/ ). Techniques of computer vison will be involved and students also need to learn some software for handling the Kinect device. An example of scanning an area is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qij3dK5OzBw.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinecthttps://www.oculus.com/en-us/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qij3dK5OzBw FYP 2016-7 v6.34

5. KHW1604 (CE) Open hardware project on embedded systems In this project students are required to use Embedded Systems (such as raspberry pie -- http://www.raspberrypi.org/ ), and/or Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA, -- http://zedboard.org/ ) to build a useful product. The project enables students to polish their skills in hardware/software design, and system integration. Students can choose their own topic. However, there are a few suggestions, for example:http://www.raspberrypi.org/http://zedboard.org/ A robot that can play a musical instrument, such as the Violin, Erhu, or the Flute. The main task is to control the motors to simulate human actions for playing these instruments e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ7wv2z8Wgk&list=UUfy2Eumi HMeoUorMFR0woZA&index=1&feature=plcp http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ7wv2z8Wgk&list=UUfy2Eumi HMeoUorMFR0woZA&index=1&feature=plcp A self navigated wheelchair -- The wheelchair has 3-D scanners and cameras, so it can navigate freely in homes or shopping malls that the wheelchair will not knock down objects or other people. FYP 2016-7 v6.35

6. KHW1605 (CE) Open hardware project on Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) In computer vision algorithms such as face detection and object recognition, the CPU needs to handle all pixels of an image repeatedly Hence the system is inefficient in CPU usage and power consumption. FPGA offers an alternative method that solves these problems by low-level logic-gate approaches. It can produce a system which is low cost to build and low power to run. Students may choose to enhance the functions of one of our previous projects using a Xilinx board (see the demo below). We welcome students who are interested in hardware development, especially who want to polish their skills in VHDL and embedded system programming. Video demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6L_bPeTDHBs&feature=youtu.b e https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6L_bPeTDHBs&feature=youtu.b e Programming : VHDL and C++ FYP 2016-7 v6.36