Computer Engineering Commons^™

Graphical User Interface For Evidential Reasoning Models, Rohin Gopalakrishnan

Master's Projects

The Capri system is an evidential reasoning system based on the belief function calculus to support automated reasoning and decision making in uncertain environments. Example domains of application include, medical diagnosis, as well as identifying biological biomarkers. The purpose of this project is to build a Python web-based and app-based Graphical User Interface (GUI), called PyGrapher, that facilitates building graphical evidential reasoning models. The graphical models built using PyGrapher will then be converted to a form that is suitable for input to the Capri system. The PyGrapher system provides an intuitive means to build and manipulate evidential reasoning models as …

X264 Video Encoding Frontend, Alvin Lam

Computer Science and Software Engineering

x264 is a free video codec for encoding video streams into the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC format. It has become the new standard for video encoding, providing higher quality with a higher compression than that of XviD. x264 provides a command line interface as well as an API and is used in popular applications such as HandBrake and FFmpeg. Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) is a very popular audio coding standard for lossy digital audio compression. AAC provides a higher sound quality than MP3 at similar bitrates. This senior project describes the design and implementation of a x264 video encoding frontend that uses …

Bruno The Robotic Bear, Aaron Brauner, Ian Panzer

Computer Engineering

Creating homemade robots are becoming a popular hobby among engineers. With the dramatic reduction in costs over the past few decades, it is finally possible to build a personal automated mailbox. Microcontrollers needed to function as the brains of the robot are also becoming powerful enough that relatively complicated instructions could be programmed into the robot to handle a plethora of sensors and peripherals. In order to demonstrate how the Computer Engineering department models the synthesis of computer science and electrical engineering, the topic chosen was robotics, specifically, a stuffed bear robot.

The microcontroller chosen was the Arduino Mega 2560 …