Computational linguistics, cognitive science, etc.
Many projects are available in computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, etc. (see here — https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Carl.Vogel/main.2024-2025.shtml).
All Projects
[Unavailable] Cinematic Lighting in VR: Enhancing Emotional Storytelling Through Real-Time Illumination
[FYP or MSc Level] This project will explore how lighting design, informed by cinematography and psychological theories, can be used to enhance emotional expressivity in characters and user immersion within a real-time VR open-world environment. The student will research emotional lighting techniques from film and psychology—such as color theory, contrast, and lighting direction—and apply them … Read more
[Unavailable] Deep Fake Enfacement Experiment
[MSc Level] This project will involve creating a real-time enfacment system from the state of the art deep-fake networks, and conducting perceptual experiments to identify if participants have ownership of their new face, and if properties of the source-actor (e.g., age, gender, etc.) can be perceived, even though the generated video is a photorealistic … Read more
[Unavailable] Non-verbal behaviours for speaking virtual avatars
[MSc level] Virtual assistants are becoming commonplace but the ability for them to gesture naturally and appropriately is still a huge research challenge (see image which shows a typical assistant displayed from the neck up, without gesturing arms and hands). In this project, you will develop a method to automatically learn structure from speech sequences … Read more
[Unavailable] Learned Motion Matching for body-swapping experiences in VR
[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
[TAKEN] How does it feel if your avatar in Virtual Reality is wearing realistic clothing?
[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
[Unavailable] Cartoon Pose Estimation
[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
[TAKEN] Virtual Conversational Agent with Emotions
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
[Unavailable] Enfacement for Deep Fakes
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
Computer Graphics – Computer Vision – Computer Architecture
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