Tesi di Laurea
1. TITOLO: Enhanced user experience by using mass-market gesture recognition devices
DURATA: 6-9 mesi
PROFILO DEL CANDIDATO:
- Buona padronanza della lingua inglese
- Conoscenza della toolchain di sviluppo Microsoft ed in particolare dell’ambiente Visual Studio 2010.
- Buona capacità di sviluppo .NET con linguaggio C#.
- Utile la conoscenza del motore grafico XNA e del linguaggio C++
DESCRIZIONE DELLA TESI:
I dispositivi per il riconoscimento della gestualità rappresentano sicuramente una delle più interessanti soluzioni tecnologiche che potranno, nel breve termine, portare valore aggiunto nell’ottimizzazione della user experience. La tecnologia in questione già utilizzata in ambiti professionali, negli ultimi anni è stata introdotta anche nel mercato di massa, ed in particolare in quello delle console per videogame allo scopo di aumentare l’interazione uomo-macchina durante il gameplay dei videogiochi, trasformando il corpo umano in un controller vivente grazie alla capacità di riconoscere i movimenti di testa, braccia, mani e gambe.
Le previsioni di importanti analisti ripongono grande attenzione verso questa tecnologia, ipotizzandone un utilizzo che va oltre quello dei videogiochi, come ad esempio l’integrazione con le moderne SmartTV allo scopo di fornire all’utente nuove modalità per la gestione degli acquisti e per la navigazione all’interno di contenuti multimediali. La tesi proposta da ISMB in collaborazione con il Microsoft Innovation Center di Torino ha l’obiettivo di studiare il funzionamento del dispositivo Microsoft Kinect per ottimizzarne l’interfacciamento e la gestione tramite personal computer o un set-of-box embedded, finalizzata alla realizzazione di un’applicazione che ne dimostri le potenzialità.
Contatti: Fabrizio Dominici b-fadomi@microsoft.com 011 2276417
Massimiliano Spelat spelat@ismb.it 011 2276875
2. TITLE: Performance analysis of an HDTV decoder on a GPU-based system
DESCRIPTION: The significant amount of data which are processed by a High Definition TV decoder can be leverage by means of Graphical Processing Units installed on the decoder system. The objective of this work is to evaluate the performance of a Gstreamer-based DVB-T system over a Set-Top-Box platform equipped with GPU capabilities. The performance will be compared with traditional decoding architectures. After this step, the student will propose techniques to optimize and further exploit GPU capabilities.
Type: 4-6 months. Stage at ISMB, Istituto Superiore Mario Boella, Torino.
Requirements:
- MS students in Electronic Engineering/Computer Science or equivalent
- Experience with main programming languages (C/C++)
- Basic knowledge of digital video broadcasting (DVB) technologies and main video coding standards and formats
Contacts: gavelli@ismb.it
3. TITLE: Development of a Webkit-based architecture for future video applications
DESCRIPTION:
The objective of this thesis is the development of an extended multimedia player to be integrated in a common Internet web browser. The architecture will be based on the Webkit layout engine which is an open source layout engine used by many popular web browsers such as Safari, Google Chrome and Opera. The student will become familiar with WebKit APIs and HTML language in order to propose an architecture for an all-in-one system which allow the final user to switch from live TV and radio to precoded multimedia content by simply interacting with the web browser.
Type: 4-6 months. Stage at ISMB, Istituto Superiore Mario Boella, Torino.
Requirements:
- MS students in Electronic Engineering/Computer Science or equivalent
- Experience with main programming languages (C/C++)
- Basics knowledge of video communication (main video coding standards and formats)
- Basic knowledge of web technologies (HTML, Javascript, CSS, etc.)
Contacts: gavelli@ismb.it
4. TITLE: Image processing of terahearz 3D images for industrial component inspection
DESCRIPTION: The research in terahertz radiation and applications is quite recent: it was set about 15 years ago but rapidly led to new solutions, targeting unsolved problems in the fields of security, manufacturing, medical diagnostics but also spectroscopy, astronomy and telecommunications. As a matter of fact, most of such applications rely on new flavors of image processing and artificial vision, which need to be specifically customized to cope with THz-image features, especially for composite materials. The aim of the thesis is to develop algorithms to detect and align 3D shapes from terahertz tomographies with the corresponding CAD model. Many different image processing techniques (i.e. edge detection, noise reduction, pattern matching) will be involved in this work as to obtain an accurate system for further development.
Type: 4-6 months. Stage at ISMB, Istituto Superiore Mario Boella, Torino.
Requirements:
- MS students in Electronic Engineering/Computer Science or equivalent
- Experience with main programming languages (C/C++)
- Good knowledge of image processing techniques
Contacts: gavelli@ismb.it
5. TITOLO: Design of Cognitive Positioning Algorithms based on Wireless Technologies
DURATA: 6-9 months
PROFILO DEL CANDIDATO:
- Good knowledge of Matlab and C/C++ programming languages
- Familiarity with wireless networking
DESCRIZIONE DELLA TESI:
Motivation: Nowadays, various services in wireless communication networks depend on mobile positioning. Examples of location-based applications include: asset tracking, intruder detection, healthcare monitoring, emergency services and so forth. Cognitive positioning approaches have recently received much attention from the research community. These approaches acquire knowledge related to application’s requirements and environment characteristics and use such information to improve overall positioning performance.
Objectives: The main goal of this thesis is to develop novel cognitive positioning approaches that meet positioning requirements and minimize power consumption by adapting some position related parameters and PHY parameters such as transmission power
Contacts: pastrone@ismb.it
6. TITOLO: Design of Network Selection Algorithms in Multi-radio Wireless Networks
DURATA: 6-9 months
PROFILO DEL CANDIDATO:
- Good knowledge of C/C++, Java programming languages
- Familiarity with wireless technologies, networking and simulation tools
DESCRIZIONE DELLA TESI:
Motivation: Multi-radio wireless networks are foreseen to provide users with the possibility to be “always best connected” by leveraging on multiple radio interfaces to ensure availability and robustness in dynamic and harsh environments. This would also allow to achieve a considerably higher throughput compared to traditional single radio networks. While some approaches have been proposed to handle some aspect of multi-radio communication, a holistic and comprehensive solution is yet to be developed.
Objectives: The goal of this thesis is to define novel smart network selection algorithms able to dynamically select the most proper network interface, with the main focus on ensuring system robustness and availability, based on different parameters (context, environment, application policies, etc.), and meeting the user requirements.
Contacts: pastrone@ismb.it
7. TITOLO: Distributed Frequency Agility in Cognitive Radio for WPANs
DURATA: 6-9 months
PROFILO DEL CANDIDATO:
- Good knowledge of C/C++, Java programming languages
- Familiarity with wireless technologies, networking and simulation tools
DESCRIZIONE DELLA TESI:
Motivation: The performance of Wireless communications can be significantly degraded in the presence of RF interference. Spectrum awareness and dynamic frequency allocation allow efficient spectrum usage and increased communication reliability, by constantly monitoring the state of the available channels and reallocating to the best available one in case interference is present in the operating channel. However, current solutions lack in supporting large scale networks in terms of distributing the management task among the nodes in the network and managing different RF conditions over the same large scale network.
Objectives: The goal of this thesis is to develop a distributed and cooperative spectrum management algorithm, and the definition of adaptability and re-configurability techniques that optimize a given set of system parameters, for example packet loss rate, data throughput, workload and energy.
Contacts: pastrone@ismb.it
8. TITOLO: Real-time complex-event processing for Internet-of-Things applications
DURATA: 6-9 months
PROFILO DEL CANDIDATO:
- Good programming skills, ability with different languages (or ability to learn very fast …) e.g. Java, Phyton, Ruby, .net, etc. ; Signal processing skills.
DESCRIZIONE DELLA TESI:
Motivation: Extracting useful information for an extremely large number of asynchronous, heterogeneous, pervasive data sources (e.g. sensors distributed world-wide) is extremely difficult challenge due to algorithmic issue (e.g. how I can extract meaningful patterns from a bunch of garbage data ?) and scalability issues (how can I treat an immense amount of data in a scalable fashion ?).
Objectives: The objective of this thesis is to analyze existing complex-event processing (CEP) platforms, like ESPER, DARKSTAR, STREAMBASE, S4 and/or STORM (the technology behind Twitter®); and to implement a CEP-based framework to provide signal processing functionalities for asynchronous data-streams coming from large-scale, distributed and heterogeneous sources in an Internet-of-Things (IoT) paradigm. Signal processing issues related with the asynchronous nature of the incoming data must be analyzed and addressed where possible. Performance of the developed framework should be analyzed through a simulated or real test-bed.
Contacts: tomasi@ismb.it
9. TITOLO: Non-line-of-sight mitigation methods for UWB range-based localization
DURATA: 6-9 months
PROFILO DEL CANDIDATO:
- Matlab and (optionally) C/C++
- Signal processing, numeric filters, propagation models
DESCRIZIONE DELLA TESI:
Motivation: UWB (Ultra-Wide-Band) transceivers provide promising ranging performance (down to some cm.), which makes them the ideal platform for indoor ranging and positioning techniques. However, non-line-of-sight conditions hinders positioning performance due e.g. to reflection, absorption, multi-path, etc.
Objectives: The objective of this thesis is to survey current state-of-the-art propagation models and error mitigation approaches in Ultra-Wide-Band (UWB) ranging due in non-line-of-sight (NLoS) conditions. A mitigation method must be designed and implemented loosely- or tightly-coupled with non-linear filters for cooperative localization and tracking. Performance of the solution must be evaluated through simulations, and integrated in a real test-bed.
Contacts: tomasi@ismb.it
10. TITOLO: Experiments on iTetris platform for VANET simulation
TIPOLOGIA TESI: tesi per laurea di secondo livello (laurea magistrale).
DURATA: 6 mesi full time
PROFILO DEL CANDIDATO: C/C++ programming skills.
DESCRIZIONE DELLA TESI: iTetris is an open-source software, developed within a project founded by European community, integrating wireless communications and road traffic simulation platforms. In general, VANET simulations (done with NS3 network simulator) start from a traffic trace previously created by a mobility generator (e.g. SUMO). iTetris allows to introduce a feedback from network simulation to the mobility engine, in order to modify mobility depending on information sent on the network.
This thesis is meant to implement and simulate protocols to manage traffic with a centralized coordination system, mainly focused on parking assistance.
Se interessati inviare un curriculum a: pilosu@ismb.it
11. TITOLO: Visualization Techniques for VANET
TIPOLOGIA TESI: tesi per laurea di secondo livello (laurea magistrale).
DURATA: 6 mesi full time
PROFILO DEL CANDIDATO: Java programming skills and background in WiFi networking
DESCRIZIONE DELLA TESI: VANETs are a hot scientific topic and, due to the lack of large field trials, most of VANETs features are being studied by simulations. Consequently performances are studied through performance figures, which are often too synthetic to enable a deep understanding of phenomena. For this reason Visualization tools are being proposed to facilitate the analysis of results from simulation.
The work of this thesis foresees the enrichment of a tool (VIS MAGNA) developed by ISMB in Java. Currently the tool targets the comparative analysis between CSMA/CA and MS-Aloha (a proprietary synchronous MAC). Based on the available results from Politecnico and ISMB, the tool will be enriched with new features to show additional metrics through animations.
Se interessati inviare un curriculum a: brevi@ismb.it
12. TITOLO: Performance and cross-layer optimization/extensions for open source wifi drivers
TIPOLOGIA TESI: tesi per laurea di secondo livello (laurea magistrale).
DURATA: 6 mesi full time
PROFILO DEL CANDIDATO:
Highly critical with experimental results
Aptitude to work in a dynamic practical applied-research environment
Knowledge of software development with Linux (make, gcc, svn, etc)
Knowledge of wireless networking principles (knowledge of 802.11X standards is preferable)
DESCRIZIONE DELLA TESI: This project rises due to the need of using the wireless media in an industrial environment. The applications usually have strict timing and precision requirements (such as polling or factory monitoring applications) that can be overcome by making low-level radio/link information available at the application level; this thesis has as objectives to identify the alternatives to use low-level radio signals as control signals from wifi, useful in industrial applications; characterize the interlayer packet times within a generic realtime networking host.
In particular the student will be requested to:
Study the wifi network card driver architecture, so having a deep overview of the protocol stack and hardware interaction.
Perform several modifications to an open source network card driver (in Real Time Linux) in order to bring low-level notifications to the application level.
Plan and run comparative performance tests with the plain and modified drivers for: stability and packet timing.
Estimate an upper bound of the network packet times (for time - critical applications).
Se interessati inviare un curriculum a: gavilanes@ismb.it
13. TITOLO: Study and implementation of WiFi-based localization algorithms on mobile devices (Android)
TIPOLOGIA TESI: tesi per laurea di secondo livello (laurea magistrale).
DURATA: 6 mesi full time
PROFILO DEL CANDIDATO:
Knowledge of the major features of protocols IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n
Java programming
Matlab
DESCRIZIONE DELLA TESI: The aim of this thesis is a study of new WiFi localization algorithms and their implementation on mobile devices with Android operating system. The activity will be composed a first part of study/design and a second part of implementation of the proposed solution on a mobile device running Android.
Se interessati inviare un curriculum a: pilosu@ismb.it
14. TITOLO: Study of weighted leaderless synchronization algorithms for wireless nodes
TIPOLOGIA TESI: tesi per laurea di secondo livello (laurea magistrale).
DURATA: 6 mesi full time
PROFILO DEL CANDIDATO:
C/C++ programming
Matlab
Background in wireless communications
DESCRIZIONE DELLA TESI: Synchronization is a critical enabler for several communication techniques. In most cases it is achieved by means of an external common source (such as GPS) or by distribution techniques (clock trees). Unfortunately they do not apply to wireless indoor nodes. Leaderless synchronization are meant to cope with this problem and proposes to achieve synchronization in a distributed way, by consensus techniques. Literature on leaderless synchronization has not explored yet solutions where the nodes can be assigned different weights for the consensus algorithms: this corresponds to the situation where different nodes can provide distinct clock stability and, consequently, are expected to be preferable to drive consensus.
The thesis will study this problem through Matlab and NS-2.
Se interessati inviare un curriculum a: vesco@ismb.it
15. ARGOMENTO: adozione ed utilizzo delle ICT da parte della popolazione piemontese
TIPOLOGIA TESI: tesi per laurea di secondo livello (laurea magistrale).
DURATA: 6 mesi full time
PROFILO DEL CANDIDATO: studente di ingegneria gestionale o in scienze politiche con buona conoscenza della lingua inglese e forte interesse verso le tecnologie informatiche e della comunicazione
DESCRIZIONE DELLA TESI: La tesi si colloca nelle attività svolte per il 2011 dall’Osservatorio ICT della Regione Piemonte. Obiettivo della tesi sarà quello di analizzare la diffusione e l’utilizzo delle tecnologie da parte dei cittadini piemontesi. Le principali tematiche che vengono sviluppate nella ricerca sono relative alle relazioni tra ICT e occupazione e all’utilizzo delle tecnologie a fini di apprendimento ed in generale agli impatti che le ICT stanno avendo nella vita del cittadino.
Se interessati inviare un curriculum a: pautasso@ismb.it
16. ARGOMENTO: eGovernment in Piemonte: analisi del back office e del front office
TIPOLOGIA TESI: tesi per laurea di secondo livello (laurea magistrale).
DURATA: 6 mesi full time
PROFILO DEL CANDIDATO: studente di ingegneria gestionale o in scienze politiche con buona conoscenza della lingua inglese e forte interesse verso le tecnologie informatiche e della comunicazione
DESCRIZIONE DELLA TESI: La tesi si colloca nelle attività svolte per il 2011 dall’Osservatorio ICT della Regione Piemonte. Nello specifico lo studente verrà coinvolto in una duplice attività volta da un lato a monitorare la diffusione delle ICT nelle PA locali piemontesi (back office) e dall’altro ad analizzare l’offerta di servizi on line.
Se interessati inviare un curriculum a: pautasso@ismb.it
17. ARGOMENTO: Sviluppo di un modello di simulazione ad agenti sulla diffusione dell’Innovazione.
TIPOLOGIA TESI: tesi per laurea di secondo livello (laurea magistrale).
DURATA: 6 mesi full time
PROFILO DEL CANDIDATO: studente di ingegneria informatica o affini con solide competenze informatiche e di programmazione. La conoscenza di Java rappresenta un requisito indispensabile.
DESCRIZIONE DELLA TESI: la tesi si colloca nell’ambito di un progetto finanziato da Regione Piemonte su tematiche afferenti l’innovazione tecnologica. Nello specifico, lo studente verrà coinvolto nell’ottimizzazione di procedure di calcolo e di istruzioni contenute nelle classi Java di un modello di simulazione ad agenti sviluppato allo scopo di implementare una serie di scenari di policy inerenti la diffusione delle innovazioni. Egli dovrà, altresì, sviluppare l’architettura di un modello di simulazione ad agenti sviluppato mediante un altro linguaggio di programmazione (ad esempio NetLogo) riuscendo ad effettuare una comparazione dell’efficienza computazionale tra i due strumenti di simulazione.
Se interessati inviare un curriculum a: pautasso@ismb.it
18. ARGOMENTO: Analisi dei Modelli di business sostenibili per il riuso della Public Sector Information.
TIPOLOGIA TESI: tesi per laurea di secondo livello (laurea magistrale).
DURATA: 6 mesi full time
PROFILO DEL CANDIDATO: studente di ingegneria gestionale con buona conoscenza della lingua inglese e forte interesse verso le tecnologie informatiche e della comunicazione
DESCRIZIONE DELLA TESI: Il candidato affiancherà il gruppo di ricerca nell’analisi dei meccanismi di creazione del valore applicabili alla Public Sector Information (PSI).
La tesi prevede una prima fase di analisi esplorativa, seguita da una seconda tesa a concettualizzare un framework analitico per l’individuazione e la categorizzazione dei possibili business model.
La prima fase comprende lo studio dei connotati del paradigma Open Data, la comprensione degli economics legati alla PSI nonché una valutazione su scala europea delle iniziative più promettenti, da cui è possibile individuare le “buone pratiche” di riferimento. La seconda fase si incentra invece sulla mappatura di modelli di business archetipali a cui ricondurre i casi di studio esaminati; concentrandosi sull’ecosistema IT regionale, infine, il candidato sarà chiamato a valutare punti di forza e debolezza dell’iniziativa piemontese “dati.piemonte.it” alla luce delle conoscenze acquisite.
Se interessati inviare un curriculum a: pautasso@ismb.it