Dr Ata Kaban -- Room 32. Final Year & MSc project topics

* Data mining, visualisation

- data projections (dimensionality reduction)

- web log mining, text mining

- visualising time series

- outlier detection (e.g. to find peculiar quasars in astronomy)

- independent components analysis

* Music projects

- retrieval by tapped rhythm

- composition (e.g. using evolutionary techniques)

- style recognition (e.g. using machine learning)

- harmonisation (e.g. using a Hidden Markov Model)

* Image analysis

- face recognition (e.g. using PCA+LDA)

- image segmentation (e.g. using clustering)

- image super-resolution (e.g. using optimisation)

- image-text translation (image annotation)

* Bioinformatics

- gene network recovery (e.g. using screening+regression)

- gene or protein array classification

* Educational software

- interactive teaching for Machine Learning

see a past project: http://www.decisiontrees.net/

* Research oriented projects

- talk to me if interested (or find out what I do)

- check out also some of Bob Durrant’s project ideas.

* Students' own idea is most welcome

Expectations:

- enthusiasm for your project

- good programming skills

- willingness to work hard

- willingness to learn some new techniques [specially if you aim for a high mark!]

A useful pointer to concepts in Machine Learning

http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~tpminka/statlearn/glossary/glossary.html

Examples of past projects:

Machine learning for intrusion detection

Detecting faces in a still image

Automatic harmonisation of Bach chorales

Missing value prediction for galaxy spectra

Decision trees: An online interactive teaching tool

Image segmentation using entropy minimisation

Melody retrieval by tapped rhythm