Since we finished our exams at 28/5/2008, we started our preparations to Imagine Cup world finals. We traveled to alexandria during the last week to work on the project. We were confused in some parts of the project, such as the final step in our project which is the pattern recognition; we tried Back-Propagation Neural Networks and Support Vector machine. Support vector machine was very impressive that it's accuracy was 93% and in some times reached 100%, while Neural Networks were only 73.4%, so we chose Support vector machine of course. Now we are trying to integrate and package our final work in all the project.
During our idea research we found no real systems implementing the idea, all are talking about best algorithms and test sites; no real work. So, we found that our project provides many features that are not included in only one system, and those are:
1. Providing scanning ability in 2-D and 3-D GPR images.
2. No system until now tried to use Support Vector Machine while it provides a perfect accuracy. 3. We take the best algorithm from all researches we found and integrated them together, to form a very powerful system.
- We won the first place in Imagine Cup competition, and we are going to France isA. Does anyone can believe that. Really we are very happy and so excited.
Here is the links that contains the details:
http://www.elakhbar.org.eg/issues/17471/0112.html
http://www.masrawy.com/News/Technology/General/2008/april/14/egypt-microsoft.aspx
http://www.egynews.net/wps/portal/!ut/p/c0/04_SB8K8xLLM9MSSzPy8xBz9CP0os3hzMxMjkwAXIwMDbx8jAyNLQ8egYBNzo2ATE_2CbEdFANYT_Ag!/?WCM_GLOBAL_CONTEXT=/wps/wcm/connect/migration/ertu/news_science_technology/2008041411274496502277
http://www.shobiklobik.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=125939
http://www.link0777.com/Articles/TECHNOLOGY/default.aspx?url=http://news.link0777.com/News/technology/2008/april/14/egypt-microsoft.aspx
http://www.arabnet5.com/index.asp?c=2&id=13809
http://elbashayer.com/v1/news_detail.php?id=2722&cate_id=39
- We now are trying to focus in order to achieve our main target, which is passing the last term in our academic life (isA) successfully, then get prepared to represent our beloved country ever, EGYPT, in the finals. we are supposed to compete with other 59 team from 59 country all over the world.
- Our ambition is not limited only to imagine cup, but also we are seeking to win Made In Egypt competition.
- The 10th meeting
Attendees:
1. Marwa Moharram
2. Ahmad Galal
3. Ramy Essam
4. Mahmoud Hassan
5. Samer Refaat
6. Abd Allah Hazaa
Group Action Items:-
1. Requirement Specification document revision.
- The 9th meeting
Attendees:
1. Ahmad Helmy
2. Marwa Moharram
3. Ahmad Galal
4. Ramy Essam
5. Mahmoud Hassan
6. Samer Refaat
7. Abd Allah Hazaa
Group Action Items:-
1. Imagine Cup orientation.
2. Requirement Specificaion document rebuilding and issues.
- The 8th Meeting
Attendees:
1. Ahmad Helmy
2. Marwa Moharram
3. Ahmad Galal
4. Ramy Essam
5. Mahmoud Hassan
6.Samer Refaat
Group Action Items:-
1. Blog issues
a.Add Box.net widget to hold our work on th blog.
3. Effort estimation issues
a. Reformatting and rebuilding Effort Estimation document.
- Again we meet at the seventh meeting.
Attendees:
1. Ahmad Helmy
2. Marwa Moharram
3. Ahmad Galal
4. Ramy Essam
5. Mahmoud Hassan
Group Action Items:-
1. Blog issues
a. Remove our telephones from blog.
b. Remove documentation from blog and upload them into any server and put links to it.
2. Bug Tracking system issues
a. Add all members into it.
b. Write requirements as modules into “Feature request”.
c. Put blog issues as bugs in the bug tracking system.
d. Put MATLAB code into “CVS”.
3. Effort estimation issues
a. Fix hours’ calculations & equations.
b. Prototype is a use cases with screen shots.
4. Requirement specification issues: a. Security can be (Save program logs – User authentication).
5. Project Plan issues
a. Remove unneeded processes.
b. Specify project life cycle (may use Water Fall model).
c. Specify Deliverables (Project – Requirement – User manual).
d. Specify needed skills and available needed skills to know the needed skills.
6. Try to make a draft of the schedule/ time plan
- Sixth meeting was not too much longer, our supervisors collected the needed documents that was mentioned last meeting and were intending to send to us. we was advised to create a bug tracking system to handle our project modifications and specifying roles more clear. Another advise was about using what is called visual source safe (VSS); this tool is supposed to act as a server to keep our code safe and to avoid code merging meetings, and that is accomplished by allowing each team member to see the last modified code and give him the ability to update in it then put it again in the server, so that always keep the last updated code at the server.
- Fifth meeting was cool; that we had revised Effort Estimation, Requirement Specification Document (Update), and Project Plan Document. Our supervisor saw that we need another bunch of documents to make :(, she said that she will look for them; those other documents were Test Plan, Conceptual Design, Logical Design, and Physical Design.
- Here we back again with the fourth meeting, this meeting was all about revising Requirements Specification Document from the sponsor side. Our supervisor explained what we couldn't figure out with ourselves, that's to be Distribution List, Stakeholders, Mandating Verbs, Business Backgroud, Auditing, Compliance Requirements, Assumptions & Constraints, and Appendix. That is only what we couldn't figure out :)
- 3rd meeting: Our supervisors tend to explain some documents in this meeting such as requirement document, time plan, project plan, and effort estimate. At the end of the meeting we were assigned to accomplish some of the previous documents in order to deliver next Thursday (7/2/2008). Our assignment is to fill two documents: Requirement document and Effort Estimate document.
- 2nd meeting: This time our supervisors, Eng/Ahmed Helmy and Eng/Marwa Moharram, gave us a brief description about there working process and they told us that they will give us the company's templates to work on. They also told us that our work must be well documented in order to accomplish any project successfully.
- 1st meeting: It was a mix of introducing ourselves to them and introducing themselves to us, presenting and explaining our project from all it's sides, and orientation from them about what we will do during our sponsorship relation with them. They who suggested the idea of making a blog to our project in order to publish our work, if any one saw our blog and can help us in accomplishing our project, and to serve who will think about doing the same project in the future so as not to start from the beginning; but start from where we ended.
Team Members:
• Abd-Allah Hazaa Abd-Allah
Email: abdallh_gamal@yahoo.com
• Ahmad Galal Abd-El-Naiem
Email: medo6447@yahoo.com
• Ebtesam Fouad Sayed
Email: bosycat_love86@yahoo.com
• Mahmoud Hassan Abd-El-Aziz
Email: modi9hassan@yahoo.com
• Ramy Essam Hassan
Email: ramyessam19872005@yahoo.com
Cellular: +20-10-647-1695
• Samer Refaat Mahmoud
Email: samerrefaat@yahoo.com
Under the Supervision of:
• DR. Aliaa Youssif
Email: aliaay@helwan.edu.eg
Team Members:
• Abd-Allah Hazaa Abd-Allah
Email: abdallh_gamal@yahoo.com
• Ahmad Galal Abd-El-Naiem
Email: medo6447@yahoo.com
• Ebtesam Fouad Sayed
Email: bosycat_love86@yahoo.com
• Mahmoud Hassan Abd-El-Aziz
Email: modi9hassan@yahoo.com
• Ramy Essam Hassan
Email: ramyessam19872005@yahoo.com
Cellular: +20-10-647-1695
• Samer Refaat Mahmoud
Email: samerrefaat@yahoo.com
Under the Supervision of:
• DR. Aliaa Youssif
Email: aliaay@helwan.edu.eg
- We made a great effort to get our currently sponsor, ITWorx, First trial was arranging a meeting with OMS, software development company, but we was at the beginning of the year, so we didn't have the ability to accomplish the whole research about our project idea, so that we couldn't make a powerful presentation and this situation had a big effect on the company's decision to sponsor us.
- Another trial to get a sponsor was with Link Dev, software development company also, we had a meeting with them but unfortunately they had a saturation with sponsoring teams, as they mentioned .
- After that we send E-Mails to a lot of companies; finally we got a response from ITWorx and for who doesn't know, it is a big reputable company in the field of software development, THANK GOD . OH I was about to forget, when we send our proposal to ITWorx it was ranked the fourth one among other eleven proposals.
• 2,510 casualties in 13 countries in the Asia-Pacific region, down from 3,031 in 16 countries/areas in 2005.
• 165 casualties in eight countries/areas in Europe, down from 335 in 10 countries/areas in 2005.
• 205 casualties in 11 countries/areas in the Commonwealth of Independent States, down from 228 in 11 countries/areas in 2005.
• 539 casualties in 13 countries/areas in the Middle East-North Africa, down from 990 in 12 countries/areas in 2005.
• 1,127 casualties in four countries in the Americas, down from 1,167 in eight countries in 2005.
• 14 countries/areas where casualties had occurred in 2005 had no casualties in 2006.
• Four countries with no casualties in 2005 had new casualties recorded in 2006: ???Republic of Congo (one), Hungary (one), Indonesia (five) and Tunisia (one)??
reports include the following:
• Albania provided $233,000, in addition to funding of rehabilitation projects and unvalued in-kind contributions.
• Angola allocated $2.5 million for mine clearance in 2006, compared to $3 million in 2005.
• Azerbaijan provided $1.2 million in 2006, compared to roughly $750,000 in 2005 and $250,000 in 2004.
• Bosnia and Herzegovina contributed BAM20, 070,706 ($12.5 million) from central and local authorities, an increase from BAM17, 753,131 ($11.3 million) in 2005 (about 45 percent of the mine action budget in both years).
• Cambodia provided $1.2 million for mine action administration and programming.
• Chad contributed CFA165 million (some $300,000) to complement funding by UNDP.
• Chile provided $1.4 million, compared to approximately $1 million in government and armed forces contributions in 2005.
• Colombia provided COP2.562 billion ($1.1 million) for July 2006-June 2007, a large increase from $213,000 in July 2005-June 2006.
• Croatia provided HRK246, 757,250 ($42.3 million) or 82 percent of mine action funding from state budgets and state and local bodies, compared with HRK192, 769,625 ($32.4 million) or 57 percent in 2005.
Environment Representation and Classification of Mines
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