I've published the API for my signal function library, as well as my preproposal and my proposal, at http://eamsden.github.com/pushbasedFRP/. When I have a full draft of my thesis, I expect to put the draft at this location as well. The code repository now contains a simple demonstration application. This upcoming week will be a great deal of writing, implementation of the comparison application, and debugging of the signal function library.
Saturday, June 23, 2012
Monday, June 4, 2012
Summer Research
I'll be working on two projects this summer. The first of these projects is my Master's thesis, "Push-based Signal-function Functional Reactive Programming" supervised by Matthew Fluet, materials for which will be moving to my domain. The second is a project on Subtle Gaze Direction for Video under the supervision of Reynold Bailey which is counting as a co-op for me.
Master's Thesis
Currently I have nearly completed the FRP system which I will describe in my master's thesis. Remaining work includes writing demonstration and testing programs, formalizing the semantics somewhat, writing my thesis, submitting a condensed version to a conference (The ICFP Student Research Competition and IFL are current considerations), and defense.
Subtle Gaze Direction for Video
Currently the program for this project is capable of displaying a sequence of gaze direction queues in a video, using the MWM illusion. However, it does not yet have a way to integrate eye-tracking information to hide the illusion when the user's eye moves toward it. The program is currently quite poorly engineered, due to its ancestry, an NVidia® CUDA® video decoding demo. I am considering a re-write of the program to avoid these issues.