Research Projects

Semester and Thesis projects

• Robust Q-learning from demonstrations (Master project) [report]
• Learning intuitive physics with robot manipulator (Semester project) [report]
• Robot learning from demonstration: Extracting low-level motion primitives and high-level macro actions (Semester project) [report]
  • Object localization with monocular image using neural network
  • Implementation of the Polynomial fully-connected layer
• Deep learning for image restoration (End of study internship) [report (public version)] [code]
  • Proof-of-concept of a variable noisy Image denoising network
  • Application of neural network on "streak" reduction
• Convolutional neural network and object classification (Semester project) [report]
  • Implementation of XNet: a cuDNN wrapper for building neural network
  • Application of sketch classification on 3D sketch-based model retrieval

Course projects

• Data analysis
  • Le Temps: analysis of swiss neutrality before and after the Cold War using Iramuteq
  • Relation between online course grade and course activities such as video viewing and thread posting
• Algorithm and machine learning
  • Face detection using AdaBoost accelerated by MPI (proposed by Viola and Jones in 2004)
  • Sketch-based model retrieval: use TF-IDF on Gabor filters to generate bag-of-features (method proposed by Eitz et al. in 2012)
  • Graph-cuts and photo-montage (adapted from Kwatra et al. in 2003 and Agarwala et al. in 2004)
  • Linear programming and approximation for maximum concurrent flow problem
  • Dancing link and its applications in classic games (algorithm created by Knuth in 2000)
  • Solving Rubik's Cube with IDA* (proposed by Korf in 1997)
• Development
  • Android development: Set! multiplayer version
  • Unity 3D: asymmetric multiplayer VR game with HTC Vive
  • Unity 3D: a robot simulation based on Coupe de France Robotique 2015