[Haskell-community] Requesting guidance for GSoC Project

[George Wilson]

Hi Khilan,

It sounds like you have everything you need to write up a proposal and
apply at https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com
Google has a guide for writing GSOC proposals here:
https://google.github.io/gsocguides/student/writing-a-proposal

Cheers,
George

On 20 March 2018 at 04:15, Khilan Ravani <khilanravani at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sir/Mam,
>
> I am a sophomore student pursuing Computer Science and Engineering (C.S.E)
> from Indian Institute of Information Technology, Vadodara. I am well adapt
> with concepts of Deep Learning, Image Processing & AI and am currently
> working on a few research topics in the same domain. I have adequate
> experience in machine learning and Signal / Image processing (completed a
> few deep learning based projects ) and am currently pursuing some research
> problems in Satellite Imaging (Hyper-spectral data analysis) and processing
> SAR images.
>
> Firstly, I would like to sincerely apologize to you for contacting you via
> the mailing list this late. Please forgive me for misinterpreting the
> process for new project ideas for participating in GSoC 2018 for Haskell
> organization. Actually, I tried to communicate my interest for 'Summer of
> Haskell' program (I was unaware at that time that it was only for years when
> Haskell didn't participate in GSoC) to the general committee
> (committee at haskell.org) from where George Wilson sir directed me towards Alp
> and Jared sir and then I got in touch with Alexey sir.
>
> The project that I aim to accomplish during the GSoC period is quite
> straightforward. I plan to enhance the existing code base of Haskell Image
> Processing (HIP) package with some new contemporary algorithms (with a few
> state of the art ones). The current version of HIP package has a limited
> scope and I plan to manifold the coverage of this library by adding various
> algorithms from different classes of image processing in it. I have
> discussed this project with Alp, Jared and Alexey sir of whom Alexey sir is
> the author of the HIP package. Some algorithms which I plan to implement
> include :
>
> 1) Adaptive Histogram Equalization (since Histogram is already implemented)
> 2) Canny Edge Detection, Contour Extraction
> 3) Hough transform
> 4) Gabor filter
> 5) Deconvolution
> 6) Otsu Thresholding method
> 7) Dithering (Floyd - Steinberg)
> 8) Un - implemented filters (HOG, LOG etc.)
> 9) Fingerprint (i.e Biometric) Detection.
>
> I feel that this project is doable within the summer period and that it can
> be a great addition to the Haskell organization since firstly, It would
> expand the scope of the library and increase the user base of Haskell and
> secondly, no other functional programming languages (including Clojure, Elm
> etc.) have a decent image processing library and hence it can be a very good
> chance for Haskell to be an obvious choice of developers looking forward to
> implement Computer vision problems with some functional programming
> language. I have had an discussion with  Alexey and Jared sir and they seem
> to agree that this project can be a really good addition for our Haskell
> organization.
>
> Also, for my technical skills : I do possess the required programming skills
> (C++, OpenCV, Python, Haskell (Basics), Tensorflow, Keras (CUDA framework),
> Watson API, Matlab) as well as the exposure to open source platforms such as
> github. Also, I can provide you with my CV if and when you say.
>
> I would be really delighted to know how you feel about this project. Once
> again, I am very sorry for contacting this late via the mailing lists and
> would like to sincerely request you to go through the project that I am
> suggesting and kindly provide your valuable opinions on the same.
>
> I will happily provide you with further clarifications on the project if you
> need any.
> Looking forward to hear from you.
>
> Thank you,
> Yours sincerely,
> Khilan Ravani.
>
>
>
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