SIGUS - Framework for Digital Inclusion of Persons with Special Needs
- Summary: This project aims to promote the development of computer systems that can be used by persons with special needs. A software framework, integrating machine learning and computer vision tools, will be constructed and will aid to the development of computer-human interfaces based on the interpretation of visual signs, captured through a CCD camera. Some prototypes for eye-gaze and head-movements wheelchair control and sign-language interpretation will be implemented. All the results will be made freely available through the Internet.
- Researchers: Prof. Dr. Hemerson Pistori [Coord.], Prof. M.Sc. Amaury Antônio de Castro Junior, Prof. Dr. João José Neto (USP), Prof. M.Sc. Mauro Conti Pereira, Prof. M.Sc. Priscila Silva Martins e Prof. Tania Regina Vilela dos Santos (Pedagogia)
- Students: Álvaro Roberto Silvestre Fialho (PG), Breno de Paula Fernandes (IC), Denys Gonçalves dos Santos (IC), Emerson Galves Moretto (PG), Fábio Mamoré Conde (PG), Kleber Padovani de Souza (IC), Odenir Paula da Silva Junior (IC), Roger Sedlacek Fibiger (PG), Vinicius Assis Saueia da Silva (IC).
- Situation: Under development
- Website: http://www.gpec.ucdb.br/sigus
- Partners: Laboratório de Linguagens e Tecnologias Adaptativa - PCS - USP. Empresa Usina de Idéias (Campo Grande, MS).
- External Finance: FUNDECT - Protocolo: 1305.192.74.14092004.
Please visite the project's website for additional information (in portuguese):
www.gpec.ucdb.br/sigus
INFOPISCI - Development of an Information System for Control and Support
Decision Making in Mato Grosso do Sul Fish Breeding Productive Chain
- Summary: This project intends to attack the fish breeding sector
bottleneck at Mato Grosso do Sul, which is lack of control, management and technical support in cultivated fish production. The rural producer, specially the small and medium
ones, have no tools to help in the decision making process. This information system will
allow them to store data about the production in order to develop models that will
help decision making process and help the follow-up of native fish from Pantanal
and Mid-West region of Brazil.
- Researchers: Prof. Dr. José Francisco Vianna [Coord.], Prof. Dr. André Riyuiti Hirakawa (USP), Profa.
M.Sc. Danielle Passos de Ruchkys, Prof. Dr. Hemerson Pistori, Prof. M.Sc. Jeferson Pistori, João Lorena Campos (Mar & Terra), Prof. M.Sc. Leonardo Souza Silva.
- Situation: Under development.
- Partners: Laboratory of Agriculture Automation -
Escola Politecnica da USP (LAA-POLI).
- External Finance: FUNDECT - Protocolo: 1507.192.100.13092004
TATO (REMOTE TOUCH) - Sensory Substitution System as a mobility aid for blind people, using Electrotactile Stimulation and Digital Image Processing.
- Summary: The original system was developed at USP by professor
Mauro C. Pereira during his PhD, as a mobility aid to visually handicapped
people, allowing them to deal with a practical problem in his/her diary life,
the familiarization of an unknown environment. The usual techniques of orientation and mobility
take too much time. The system uses sensory substitution (SS) of vision by
touch, by capturing images in a PC, digitally treating them to detect its
edges and lower its resolution, and then pass it to the user via cutaneous
electrical stimulation on the abdomen. A prototype of the equipment was built,
composed of hardware and software of stimulation, and software to digitally
process the image, and also a flexible electrode matrix. Currently it is under
adjustment and training tests. This equipment also allows experiments on
experimental psychology and experiments of somesthesic systems (touch), being
of great interest for professors at USP (Universidade de Sao Paulo), at the
departments of Psychology and of Physiology at ICB.
- Researchers: Prof. M.Sc. Mauro Conti Pereira [Coord.], Prof. Dr. Fuad Kassab Junior (USP), Prof. Dr. Albert Schiaveto de Souza, Prof. M.Sc. Edson Antonio Batista, Prof. M.Sc. Wanderlei Mendes Ferreira, Prof. Dr. Alexandre Cesar Rodrigues da Silva (FEIS - UNESP).
- Students: Bruno Alves Benante (EC-Mauro), Eduardo Barbosa Moreira (EM-Mauro), Thiller Fiorini Dalacosta (EM-Wanderlei), Nadya Kalache (EM-Edson), Daniel Magalhães Franco (ENF-Albert).
MPMS - Desenvolvimento de Sistema de Controle de Inquéritos Civis da Promotoria do Meio Ambiente do Ministério Público Estadual de Mato Grosso do Sul
- Summary: Este projeto tem como objetivo geral projetar, desenvolver e implantar um sistema computacional para o controle de inquéritos civis pertencentes à Coordenadoria de Apoio Operacional do Meio Ambiente. Entre as características mais importantes do sistema estão a possibilidade de operação através da Internet, a utilização de Software Livre e a transferência de tecnologia para o Ministério Público, através da disponibilização dos códigos fontes, modelagem e documentação.
- Researchers: Prof. Pedro Bastos [Coord.], Sr. Carlos Oshiro (MPE/MS), Prof. M.Sc. Jeferson Pistori.
- Situation: Under development (Projeto de Extensão)
- Partners: Ministério Público do Mato Grosso do Sul
TOPOLINO - Computer Vision System for Automatic Animal Behaviour Analysis
- Summary: An important step in new drugs development is related to experiments with animals. Visual observation of rodents behaviour changings is largely used to analyse the effects of new medical treatments after. This project aims to construct a low cost computer system to automatize rodents behaviour analysis, extracting, from images captures by a CCD camera, relevant information related to well stabelished experiments, like the open-field, water-maze and plus-maze.
- Researchers: Prof. Dr. Hemerson Pistori [Coord.], Prof. Dr. Albert Schiaveto de Souza (Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde - CCBS - UCDB), Prof. Dr. João José Neto (LTA - USP).
- Students: Bruno Brandoli Machado (IC), Edy Alberth Kamiya (PG), João Bosco Oliveira Monteiro (PG), Jonathan Andrade Silva (IC), Wesley Nunes Goncalves (IC).
- Situation: Under development.
- Website: www.gpec.ucdb.br/topolino
- Partners: Centro de Ciência Biológicas e da Saúde - CCBS - UCDB, DigithoBrasil
Please visite the project's website for additional information (in portuguese):
www.gpec.ucdb.br/topolino
DTCOURO - Automatic Detection of Bovine Leather Defects
- Summary: Visual inspection of leather is an important step in bovine leather classification. Defects like scars, open fissures and pin holes, to cite a few, may decrease leather quality, making it inappropriate for certain applications. Besides, in order to stimulate investments on bovine leather care, in the farms and during transportation, it is important to have a reliable and automatized system that could classify the leather and award producers of higher quality leather. This project will research, implement and evaluate some computer vision techniques for automatic leather inspection in three different places: farm, cold storage plant and tannery.
- Researchers: Prof. Dr. Hemerson Pistori [Coord.], Dr. Manuel Antonio Chagas Jacinto (EMBRAPA Gado de Corte), M.Sc.Mariana de Aragão Pereira (EMBRAPA Gado de Corte)Prof. M.Sc. Mauro Conti Pereira, Dr. Pedro Paulo Pires (EMBRAPA Gado de Corte), Profa. M.Sc. Priscila Silva Martins. Prof. Dr. João José Neto (LTA - USP)
- Students: Daniel de Azevedo Scalabrini (PG), Denny Alexandre Tadao Sakakibara (IC), Lucélia de Araújo Ramirez (IC), Wagner Beloti Leal (PG), William Paraguassu Amorim (IC).
- Situation: Em planejamento.
- Website: www.gpec.ucdb.br/dtcouro
- Partners: EMBRAPA Gado de Corte
Please visite the project's website for additional information (in portuguese):
www.gpec.ucdb.br/dtcouro
FONO - Audio Signal Processing for Stuttering Correction.
- Summary: This project aims to create the means to reduce or end
speaker problems like stuttering, involving health professionals -
Phonoaudiologists - and professors from Mechatronics and Computer Engineering. This work uses acoustic
signal modifications like intensity, frequency band and delays, and observes
their consequences in talking pattern in
stutterer and normal fluency people. Software and hardware
tools using DSP techniques are being developed.
- Researchers: Profª Dra. Valéria Gibin Duarte (Phono/UCDB) [Coord.], Prof Wanderlei Mendes Ferreira, Prof Mauro Conti Pereira, Profª Sandra Costa Prudente (Phono/UCDB).
- Students: Roberto Henrique Rocha Viana (EC-Mauro), Alexangelo Alexandrino Dembogurski (EM-Wanderlei), Marcia Lika Suguiura Toda (Phono-Sandra), Neide Godoy Pereira Marques (Phono-Sandra) , Solange Hespanhol Cavalcante (Phono-Valeria), Jadson Justi (Phono-Valeria)
- Situation: Under development.
- Partners: Phonoaudiologia Clinic of
UCDB
ADAPTOOLS - Integrated Environment to Development Adaptive Automate.
For more information visit the project page:
www.gpec.ucdb.br/adaptools
ROBOCUP - Development of technologies to form one robot soccer
team
- Summary: The goal here is the development of UCDB's robot soccer team to participate in
regional and national competitions involving its many technological aspects
(mechanical, electronic for control and communication, computer vision and games
strategy). Its results can also be applied in the development of new ideas in robotics, with applications in industry and agribusiness.
- Researchers: Prof. M.Sc. Mauro Conti Pereira [Coord.],
Prof.M.Sc.Amaury Antônio de Castro Junior, Prof.M.Sc.Edson Antônio Batista,
Prof.M.Sc.Gedson Faria, Prof.M.Sc.Priscila Martins, Prof.Dr.Hemerson Pistori,
Prof.Dr.André Hirakawa (LAA/USP), João José Neto (LTA/USP).
CPU - FPGA-based didactical CPU and its use in engineering
- Summary: The main goal of this project is the design and implementation of
a CPU for didactic use and
its software tools, using simulators and Altera's FPGA kit. This should provide the
feasibility of similar projects to be done during the disciplines by students
from UCDB and the other schools involved, in both mechatronics and computer engineering courses. The idea is that the student will be able to
develop a complete project of a complex digital system during the disciplines of Digital Circuits, Digital
Design and Computer
Architecture, and later use tools and FGPA-based CPU in Operating Systems and Compilers.
- Researchers: Prof. M.Sc. Mauro Conti Pereira [Coord.], Priscila Aparecida de Moraes, Edson Antonio Batista, Eduardo Marques (ICMC - USP), Alexandre Cesar Rodrigues da Silva (DEE-FEIS-UNESP), Fabrizio Leonardi (FEI).
- Students: Lucas de Moura Bueno (EC-Priscila), Eduardo Gonçalves Ribeiro (EC-Priscila)
- Partners: FEI (Sao Bernardo), ICMC- USP (Sao Carlos), Faculdade de
Eng.Eletrica de Ilhas Solteira, UNESP.
ACCESSIBILITY - accessibility in web pages
- Summary: This involves studies about accessibility to the web contents
to make possible the use of web pages and systems for all kinds of users.
- Researchers: Evelise Izumi Kawasaki
[Coord.], Alfredo Lanari de Aragão, Cláudio Zarate Sanavria.
- Students: Rosykler Nogueira Borges (IC), Alexandre Suzuki Kouchi (IC).
- Partners: UMI - Better Age University.
WIRELESS SENSORS - Using wireless sensors to adequate insume application in
plantation.
- Summary: The goal is to design an experimental automation system
using wireless sensors networks and precision agriculture techniques, in order
to help the decision making process in a farm environment.
- Researchers: Luciano Gonda [Coord.], Carlos Eduardo Cugnasca (LAA/USP), Edson Antonio Batista, Danielle Passos de Ruchkys, Felix Abrão Neto.
- Students: Erick Pfeifer (IC-Mechatronics Eng.), Ricardo Cezar Bonfim Rodrigues.(IC-Computer
Eng.)
DOMOTICA - Implementation of a Home and Office automation system
using open software tools.
- Summary: The intention here is to create home and building automation
that allows environment control and equipment monitoring via web, from a local
network or cellular. It uses public domain, open and standard tools, to lower
its costs and give more flexibility in the building of intelligent systems.
The project should serve as a catalyst for the technical team to acquire emerging
new technologies.
- Researchers: Prof. M.Sc. Edson Antonio Batista [Coord.],
Prof.Dr.Alexandre César Rodrigues da Silva (DEE-FEIS-UNESP), Prof.Dr.Aparecido Augusto de Carvalho (DEE-FEIS-UNESP),
Prof.Dr..Carlos Eduardo Cugnasca (LAA-USP), Prof.M.Sc.Mauro Conti Pereira,
Prof.M.Sc.Luciano Gonda, Prof.M.Sc.Priscila Aparecida de Moraes, Prof.M.Sc.Wanderlei Mendes Ferreira.
- Students: Erick Pfeifer (EM-Edson), Ricardo Cezar Bonfim Rodrigues (EC-Priscila).
KITS - Development of electronic didactical kits (Future
project)
- Summary: This covers the development of electronic kits that will
allow greater and faster learning of the experiments in areas like digital
electronics, analog electronics and telecommunication.
- Researchers: Prof. M.Sc. Mauro Conti Pereira [Coord.],
Prof.M.Sc.Edson Antonio Batista, Prof.Dr.Alexandre Cesar Rodrigues da Silva (DEE-FEIS-UNESP),
Prof.Dr.Fabrizio Leonardi (FEI)
ADAPTBAYES -
AdaptBayes - Adaptive Bayesian Networks applied to Medical Diagnosis
CLUSTER - Study, integration and characterization of a computer
cluster to develop applications in energy and processing of geographic
information
- Summary: This project intends to study techniques for load balancing
and distribution. to modeling, development and use in parallel applications
for electrical energy and processing of geographic information.
- Researchers: Prof. M.Sc. Amaury de Castro Junior, Prof. M.Sc. Danielle Passos de Ruchkys, Prof. M.Sc. Luciano Gonda, Prof. M.Sc. Ricardo Ribeiro dos Santos, Prof. Dr. Milton Ernesto Romero Romero.
- Students: Denys Gonçalves dos Santos (IC), William Pereira de Paula (IC).
- Situation: In development.
- Partners: Departamento de Engenharia Elétrica - UFMS
HOUGH-CIRCLE - Development of a plug-in for the ImageJ
package, to implement a a algorithm for detecting circles using Hough transforms.
GENESE - de Development of a web based tool for creating
didactic-pedagogic materials for distance learning (future project)
- Summary: The main goal of this project is to develop a free software
tool for the collaborative creation of material for distance learning. It
should allow teachers to create content in a manner independent to the media
used to publish it. This way the teacher will not need to know mechanisms,
languages and techniques to create his material in different medias like www,
printed or CD-ROM. It should also allows the teacher to get help from an
instructional designer or pedagogical adviser, capable of offering hints in
how to better organize the teaching material, adjusting it to the media and
distance learning wished.
- Researchers: Prof. M.Sc. Alfredo Lanari de Aragão [Coord.], Prof. M.Sc. Evelise Izumi Kawasaki, Prof. Cláudio Zarate Sanavria.
- Students: Rodrigo Nakaya Kanomata, Tatiane do Carmo Silva, Cheile Aparecida Almeida e Jefferson Collusso Ribeiro.
- Situation: In planning.