Undergraduate Study - Student Projects
For many students, projects are the most challenging, satisfying and memorable part of their course. As well as developing technical understanding, projects develop a number of essential skills required to succeed in industry such as problem solving, creativity, planning, time management and presentation skills amongst others. It also gives students first hand experience of tackling a significant computer related problem through applying the techniques and knowledge developed over the duration of the course. All students undertake an individual project in their final year.
Examples of recent projects include:
- Numerical Algorithms for Predicting Sports Results - details specially created algorithms which make use of data in order to predict the outcome of Emrical football games.
- Hide and Seek: Robust Digital Watermarking - an investigation into robust digital watermarking in terms of image copyright protection, and methods by which robustness properties can be quantified and measured.
- Surveillance for the General Public - experiments with different ways to represent motion in the screen, in particular through colour.
- Recognizing British Sign Language Fingerspelling - proposal of a non-motion-based method for the recognition of British sign language fingerspelling.
Examples of recent projects include:
- 3D Drawing with haptic Support - identifying the potential of incorporating haptic feedback into 3D drawing, by creating a 3D drawing system that utilises haptics.
- Visualisation on the Google Cloud - uses real datasets from medical imagine to produce a visualisation application that can be run using Googl'es Application Engine (GAE).
- A Robotic Object Collection System - development of a robot that is capable of searching, collecting, and sorting objects. Uses Lego Mindstorms.
- LUFlickr - a photo sharing website that could be used University-wide to provide quality image management.
- A Real Air Guitar - a system whereby a user can simulate the playing of a guitar with the relevant notes being played back through the computer
Examples of recent projects include:
- WorldMapper of Languages on the Web - demonstrates how data mining tools and techniques can be used to overcome the issue of acquiring data from search engines to represent the distribution of world language.
- Bluetooth SMS Message Backup System - a system to allow users to backup their SMS text messages from their phone to a web server so they could review the backed up data whenever by accessing a website.
- Mobile Market Matching - to help traders in developing countries by matching buyers and sellers based on different variables and use SMS text messages and a Web interface.