Current Research opportunities
MSc (Species identification of bushmeat imports from Africa to Europe: Establishing molecular methods using transferrable technology.)
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The faculty continually offers various MSc & PhD research opportunities, the most current of which are listed below. Select Details for further information and who to contact.
PhD (Azoreductase: a potential novel target for antimicrobial agents)
PhD (Mechanisms of mobilization of Minimal Mobile Elements in bacteria)
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PhD (The repertoire of Minimal Mobile Elements within bacterial genome sequences and their role in horizontal gene transfer.)
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MSc (The role of Minimal Mobile Elements in species and strain variation in the Neisseria.)
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MSc by research (molecular microbiology)
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PhD (Investigation of Campylobacter adhesins)
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Fees-only Scholarships
Active Visual Surveillance, PhD
This project refers to the use of pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) cameras (or very high resolution cameras) for actively detecting and focusing situations of interest in the context of intelligent monitoring of spaces not only for security but for more "benign" ...
Supervisor: Prof S.A. Velastin
Action recognition in cluttered environments, PhD
This project focuses on being able to understand body language, its dynamics and the interactions between people with a particular focus on understanding actions in environments which are cluttered either because of the number of people or restrictions in ...
Supervisor: Prof S.A. Velastin
Research Project Ideas
Advanced natural z-pinned composite materials in offshore wind turbine blades to improve impact resistance under extreme conditions, PhD
FRP composite material design technology has become a main factor in structural integrity to design of composite sub-structures in various engineering disciplines. In particular case offshore wind turbine blades are typically manufactured from FRP composites and delamination failure is an important issue in these structures.
Supervisor: Dr Hessam Ghasemnejad
Query by content for medical image datasets, PhD
Query by image content (QBIC) is a method for content-based image retrieval (CBIR) that can search an image database to identify examples that match a query image or sub-image – given a sample image, show me similar images. It typically uses computer ...
Supervisor: Prof T. Ellis
Converting Films to 3D Movies (3DMovie), PhD
The success of new 3D movies has encouraged movie studios to release 3D versions of classic sci-fi and fantasy films. However, the process of adding depth to a movie frame is incredibly time-consuming and hence expensive. This research project will explore ...
Supervisor: Prof G. A. Jones
Determining the Origin of Digital Imagery, PhD
Digital cameras such as mobile phones and CCTV cameras have become widely available in recent years. Such imagery is likely to play an increasing role as evidence in police investigations and in courts of law. This proposal aims to develop a method of ...
Supervisor: Dr D. Greenhill
Machine learning approach for detection of illegal ‘designer’ performance-enhancing drugs , PhD
Anabolic androgenic steroids (AAS) are prohibited by sport governing bodies and governments signatories to the WADA Anti-Doping Code. Not only does their usage flout sports ethics and gives unfair advantage during competition, but they are harmful to ...
Supervisor: Dr J.C. Nebel
Medical ultrasound video transmission over next generation wireless networks, PhD
With the worldwide deployment of mobile and wireless networks, the wireless infrastructure can support many current and emerging healthcare applications. The project will address technical issues of wireless transmission of medical video, with a ...
Supervisor: Dr M.G. Martini
Finding Occlusion Layers in Video Streams using Pixel Motion, PhD
Segmentation of the different object elements within a video stream is a prerequisite of a number of 2D visual effects. This project focuses on the use of optical flow computation to recover motion boundaries.
Supervisor: Prof G. A. Jones
Quality-driven resource allocation and scheduling for multimedia transmission to multiple users over LTE wireless systems, PhD
How to efficiently serve multimedia streaming sessions over a multiple access wireless channel with shared communications resources is still a critical problem in wireless video transmission. The problem can be tackled at different layers of the protocol ...
Supervisor: Dr M.G. Martini
Topics in Usability and User Experience, MSc
Any relevant topic will be considered. Topics that match the focus of the Ux group are preferred (e-commerce, software engineering tools, web2.0 GUIs), but strong candidates with good ideas, are also encouraged to apply, particularly those who want to ...
Supervisor: Dr M. Colbert
Action Analysis for Computer Games, PhD
Computer games have attracted a wide market over the past few years and their appeal may be further enhanced through vision based inputs. The high speed and low cost requirements make system design challenging. In the upcoming generation of computer games ...
Supervisor: Dr V. Argyriou
Cross-layer design for wireless transmission of Scalable 3D Video over IP networks, PhD
Although source coding (source compression) and channel coding (for error protection) are usually treated separately, joint source and channel coding (JSCC) techniques allow improvements in end-to-end video quality through the joint design of source coding ...
Supervisor: Dr M.G. Martini
Local Analysis of Linear Differential-Algebraic Systems (LinDA), PhD
The aim of the LinDA project is to advance the state of the art of symbolically solving systems of linear DAEs. The project will focus on the local analysis of this type of system by addressing the following specific objectives ...
Supervisor: Dr E. Pfluegel
Information theory and channel coding for genomic signal processing, PhD
Some recent works have hypothesised the existence of error-correcting codes endowing genomes with the ability of being regenerated, not merely copied. The goal of this project will be to study the application of information theory and error-correcting ...
Supervisor: Dr M.G. Martini
Quality assessment for video sequences transmitted over wireless channels, PhD
Video Quality assessment is an important task of any video processing procedure. Both compression and transmission over error prone channels have an impact on video quality, although the effort in the research community was mainly oriented in only ...
Supervisor: Dr M.G. Martini
Cooperating communities of PTZ sensors (CoPs), PhD
The CoPs project aims to develop the collaborative architecture, visual-ocular reflexes and cross-sensor competencies to allow a community of autonomous pan-tilt and zoom (PTZ) sensors to monitor wide-area scenes. Specific wide-area tasks could include the ...
Supervisor: Prof G. A. Jones
Determining the Origin of Digital Imagery (DODI), PhD
This work is about developing a method of establishing the origin of digital imagery – specifically, whether a particular video or image was acquired from a particular camera. As digital imagery becomes more pervasive such questions are increasingly important.
Supervisor: Dr D. Greenhill