[gdal-dev] GSOC 2016

Dmitry Baryshnikov bishop.dev at gmail.com
Wed Apr 6 05:57:28 PDT 2016


Hi Sarthak,

Thanks for submitting your proposal. Proposals are frozen at this point.
Right now we're completing ranking and waiting for Google to assign slots.

Best regards,
     Dmitry

06.04.2016 14:49, sarthak agarwal пишет:
> Hello Dmitry,
>
> As you know I did submit the proposal on the GSoC portal but there has 
> been no discussion of any kind.
> I also completed my GSoC task(fixed the bug) on time.
>
> So I request you to kindly review my proposal once and provide your 
> feedback. I will make the necessary changes or if you want to change 
> the idea and implementation we can work on that also.
> I am really interested in applying for the program and contibuting to 
> gdal.
>
> Regards,
> Sarthak
>
> On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 12:13 AM, sarthak agarwal 
> <sarthak0415 at gmail.com <mailto:sarthak0415 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I have submitted the proposal, please check it once and provide
>     your feedback.
>
>     Sarthak
>
>     On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 2:01 PM, Dmitry Baryshnikov
>     <bishop.dev at gmail.com <mailto:bishop.dev at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         Hi Sarthak,
>
>         Thank you for you note, but I already wrote:
>
>         >    Don't wait for anybody with proposal. The new GSoC site
>         is right place to discuss proposals.
>
>         So I expected to see and comment, if needed, your proposal on
>         this site. Let me remind you the site -
>         https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/
>
>         Best regards,
>              Dmitry
>
>         25.03.2016 10:17, sarthak agarwal пишет:
>>         The deadline is today.
>>
>>         Sarthak
>>
>>         On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 1:52 AM, sarthak agarwal
>>         <sarthak0415 at gmail.com <mailto:sarthak0415 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>             Hello Dmitry,
>>
>>             I fixed the bug (I guess).
>>             Now coming to my proposal for GSoC, So I was thinking of
>>             working on project #4 *Auto-detection of EPSG codes from
>>             incomplete WKT.*
>>
>>             What I understood from the project is that we need to
>>             predict the EPSG code of certain files on the basis of
>>             some attributes which are available in the file.
>>
>>             The attributes can be extracted from the file for which I
>>             read this
>>             <http://www.gdal.org/osr_tutorial.html#querying_coordinate_system>.
>>
>>             Now to solve this problem I thought a lot of methods but
>>             I think the best way to solve it will be using machine
>>             learning.
>>
>>             The way ML will handle this problem is as follows-
>>
>>              1. We need to find the EPSG code for a file (testing data)
>>              2. We have a file with some attributes
>>                 (projections,datum,etc ).
>>              3. We need to the guess the best suitable class for that
>>                 file(EPSG)
>>              4. Also, we have many files for which we know the
>>                 attributes and the corresponding class (training data).
>>
>>             This problem is now translated into an ML problem which
>>             can be solved using the following models-
>>
>>             1. Bayesian Stastics
>>             <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterior_probability>
>>
>>                 where,
>>                 posteriror probability = probability of this file
>>                 have EPSG code 'a'.
>>                 prior probability = probability of occurence of EPSG
>>                 code 'a'.
>>
>>                 likelihood probablity = cases where we saw such
>>                 attributes when the EPSG code is 'a'.
>>
>>
>>             2. or we can use a simple knn where k is the number of
>>             possible EPSG code and the dimension of the feature
>>             vector is the number of possible attributes. we need to
>>             the find a valid and promising weight function).
>>
>>
>>             3. We can use multi-class SVM.
>>
>>             4. any other suggestion from the community regarding the
>>             possible choice of the algo.
>>
>>             I am thinking of actually implementing all these algo(may
>>             add algo in future depending upon the suggestion) and
>>             select the algo which gives the best performance among
>>             all of them.
>>
>>             Please provide me feedback on my proposal and suggestion
>>             if I can add/change anything.
>>             And since very less time is left in the deadline, I would
>>             like to convert it into proposal ASAP with your help.
>>
>>             Regards,
>>             Sarthak
>>
>>>>
>
>

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