1. Indoor Navigation System Simulation:
Oftentimes people find themselves in an unfamiliar building trying to locate the closest restroom, an office or an electronics store in a shopping mall. We all use Google Maps to navigate outside, but such systems for indoor navigation are still at a premature state. This project involves simulating an indoor navigation system to guide a user inside a building to reach a desired location with turn-by-turn directions just like in a conventional GPS based navigator. For the sake of simplicity, we can assume the presence of a positioning module (like GPS) to determine the current location of the user inside the building. The maps for buildings should be formed with a collaborative effort, with different users tagging locations or objects as they encounter them. Rerouting will be needed when a user fails to follow the directions provided by the system. Keep in mind that in such a system, the streets will be corridors and ramps will be elevators or stairs. Also, we cannot expect our user to pass through walls, so entering a room will only be possible after exiting one!

2. Who am I?
Person recognition has been a hot topic in a variety of fields for years. With the proliferation in social networking, this topic is becoming even more important, as it is used in tasks like auto-tagging of pictures. This project involves developing a mobile person recognition system, which uses a combination of existing face recognition algorithms and the locations of users (using information from an application like Google Latitude) to make the most accurate prediction.

3. Programming Game:
Everyone likes games and the trend is for education to capitalize on this in order to encourage learning of various topics. In the end-product of this project, students would have to write little programs in order to progress through a game. One obvious scenario would be a spy breaking into a top-secret laboratory in order to steal the designs for a new missile system. The door has a combination lock on it, so students would have to write a program to try all the possible combinations until the correct one was found. When they eventually locate the designs, they are encrypted requiring the student to write a little program to decrypt them.

4. Collaborative note-taking and text-to-speech tool:
Taking notes in classes like History can be a daunting task, especially in the absence visual aids and a fast-speaking instructor. Wouldn’t it be great to have a tool for taking notes in collaboration with the other students sitting in the class and making these notes available to all in real-time? This project involves developing a note-taking tool, which operates like Google Docs in the sense that updates by one are seen by the others in real-time and all make edits on the same document. For a finishing touch, we can integrate this tool with a text-to-speech engine, so a visually-impaired student can go over the notes after class.

5. Gesture Recognition
Gesture recognition is a topic in computer science and language technology with the goal of interpreting human gestures via mathematical algorithms. Gestures can originate from any bodily motion or state but commonly originate from the face or hand. Current focuses in the field include emotion recognition from the face and hand gesture recognition

6. Soundtrack Recognition 7. Image Restoration/Enhancement 8. Video content Analysis 9. Crime scene reconstruction 10. Image processing