Institutes and Centres
Institute for Multi-Sensor Processing & Content Analysis
Large Scale Surveillance Systems
The research undertakes effective video surveillance on public transport vehicles and places. The Large Scale Surveillance Systems is part of the Institute for Multi-Sensor Processing & Content Analysis (IMPCA).
Smart Homes
The concept of Smart Homes endeavours to allow senior citizens to maintain their dignity without compromising their daily lives and to help them to preserve an independent lifestyle. It enables them to continue to live in their own homes for longer without requiring live-in help or expensive institutional care.
Centre of Perceptive and Intelligent Machines in Complex Environments
Fundamental research into and constructs reliable large-scale systems of networked sensors, computational intelligence, mobile robots and knowledge sources to support a large variety of critical human tasks including surveillance and security, health care support and civil disaster support
Computational Media Aesthetics
CMA is an approach to crossing the semantic gap--"the simplicity of available visual features and the richness of user semantics"--by using knowledge of production grammars, the aesthetic elements they manipulate and their intended effects upon the audience, in order to infer about media content.
The Social Media Project.
Here our research emcompases discovering social context and using it for personal media management.
Adaptive User Interfaces
Virtual Human Markup Language
The language is designed to accommodate the various aspects of Human-Computer Interaction with regards to Facial Animation, Body Animation, Dialogue Manager interaction, Text to Speech production, Emotional Representation plus Hyper and Multi Media information.
Mentor system
A current area of teaching and learning research within our School is in reviewing and incorporating existing methods as well as developing new methods to produce a large scale software-based mentoring system which will benefit students as they progress through their university course.
European Union 5th Framework Project - Interface
The project will define new models and will implement advanced tools for audio-video analysis, synthesis and representation in order to provide essential technologies for the implementation of large-scale virtual and augmented environments. The metaphor, which will inspire the project approach, is oriented to make man-machine interaction as natural as possible, based on everyday human communication means like speech, facial expressions and body gestures from both sides.
European Union 6th Framework project - Companions
The overall vision of EMC2 is that of a platform for integrating high-quality research in mobile multimodal human-computer interfaces, ambient intelligent environments, intelligent agents, human language technology and an advanced ubiquitous memory concept requiring the storage and access of very large amounts of personal memory.
