[TAKEN] Modern delay-tolerant email

Email is inherently a delay-tolerant application. However, modern email deployments involve online checks used by anti-spam mechanisms, non-standard UA/MS interactions, MFA client authentication and hop-by-hop encryption all of which can be problematic in the face of high delays or disruptions, and perhaps especially at scale. The project here is to analyse how significant delay and … Read more

Sign Language Recognition [TAKEN]

Sign Language Recognition (SLR) is a field of Computational Linguistics that sits at the intersection of Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing – aiming to effectively extract salient linguistic features from visual data of sign language users. Recent SLR research has centred Machine Learning approaches, however, these methods typically rely on large-scale datasets which are … Read more

TAKEN: Personalisation of an Irish language AAC system

This project is intended to build on, and further develop an Irish-language AAC system that RĂ­an Errity developed last year. The goal is to develop a facility that allows the individual user to design their own personal boards and adapt the system to their own context and requirements.

Identifying Employability Skills in LinkedIn Profiles (Taken)

This project will look at how to assess LinkedIn profiles to identify whether the owner of the profile exhibits a set of employability skills such as reliability, common sense, commitment, motivation, enthusiasm, ability to deal with pressure, etc. The project will require an analysis of the LinkedIn features which could potentially allow users to exhibit … Read more

Modelling number of species

This project is for the MSc in Statistics and Sustainability. In this project, we’ll look at the various ways in which ecologists have attempted to answer the question ‘How many species are there?’. Some of these methods are statistical, and we’ll focus on those, but we’ll also take a look at some of the other … Read more

[Unavailable] Cartoon pose perception using eye-tracking

[MSc Level] We will collaborate with award-winning animation studio Cartoon Saloon to investigate perception of pose for stylized cartoon characters, such as those used in their films. Cartoon characters are often drawn to defy the laws of physics, and there is little known about perception of these characters – what makes a cartoon pose similar … Read more