School of Computer Science and Statistics
[MSc level] In this project, you will investigate learned motion matching and how it can be used for embodiment in VR, in particular body-swapping, where the user takes on the motion of somebody else. Student must be taking the Real Time Animation module and also a machine learning module and have strong programming in Unreal … Read more
[FYP or MSc Level] This project will investigate clothing a virtual character using existing cloth plugins (e.g. uDraper or Marvelous Designer), and applying them to photorealistic Metahuman characters in UE5. Cloth simulation will then be tested using Chaos cloth or other, and student will create an embodiment system, where the user can embody a character … Read more
[MSc Level] We will collaborate with award-winning animation studio Cartoon Saloon to investigate animated character body part recognition. This project aims to search through cartoon scenes in order to identify character body parts. This task is more difficult than typical human pose-estimation as cartoon characters are often drawn to defy the laws of physics. Knowledge … Read more
Metahuman characters [FYP] This project is about building an emotional conversational virtual agent in Unreal Engine that can take text as input and produce speech and associated animations on a Metahuman. The main aspect will be learning to work with virtual human animations and programming the to animate in state-machines. The project will involve integrating … Read more
CitizenMetaOne Youtuber live capture setup [FYP or MSc level] Become a virtual youtuber, and create your own live Metahuman system setup, using HTC Vive controllers for tracking the hands and a webcam for capturing the face. This project will use pre-existing animation plugins in Unreal Engine as a starting point (Faceware for the facial capture, … Read more
I am happy to supervise BA ICS/MCS, BAI/MAI, and MScCS projects in the area of Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, and Computer Architecture. I can suggest Final Year Projects and Dissertation topics in these areas but I am also open to suggestions from you. You find information about my work here. Please contact me by email … Read more
We are developing a web‐based system for Python programming (called “Pytch”) that targets beginning programmers (see the screenshot below). Because the system is web based a lot of the work will involve JavaScript, TypeScript and React but it’s not necessary to have experience of these at the outset. We have a number of ideas for … Read more
Happy to discuss student generated ideas and proposals in the area of computers and sustainability and particularly education. Projects could include: Prior projects that have been supervised include: Interested in both Computational Sustainability and Green Computing
The sudden rise of adversarial examples (i.e., input points intentionally crafted so to trick a model into misprediction) has shown that even state-of-the-art deep learning models can be extremely vulnerable to intelligent attacks. Unfortunately, the fragility of such models makes their deployment in safety-critical real-world applications (e.g., self-driving cars or eHealth) difficult to justify, hence … Read more
Increasingly, patients gather data relevant to their care on their phones and via wearable or home-based sensors. But getting that data into a form that can be shared seamlessly with the healthcare system is a challenge. And clinicians have concerns about the quality of the data where it came from and to what extent they … Read more