University of Lincoln, UK
Research by two graduates from the University of Lincoln, UK, will be discussed at the world’s leading conference on entertainment computing. Sean Oxspring and Nick Bull, who both graduated with a BSc in Games Computing in September 2013, have had academic papers accepted to ACE 2013 – the 10th international conference on Advances in Computer…
On Friday 8th November we have Ed from Google coming in to talk to current students about his role at Google and how he got there. He works within the technical side of Google Maps but will also tell you more about working for Google and the areas within it such as Google Maps and…
Richard Stallman will be visiting the University of Lincoln on the 29th November 2013 to give an evening colloquium about the free software movement and the GNU Project. Richard Stallman is best known for launching the GNU Project in 1983, to create a “Unix-like computer operating system composed entirely of free software”. This is the…
Wheelchair Revolution: Motion-Based Games for Players with Mobility Disabilities The growing popularity of motion-based video games such as Dance Dance Revolution, Dance Central, or Wii Fit creates new challenges for game design. Research has shown that such games have a variety of benefits, for example, improved cognition, physical health, and emotional well-being. However, they remain…
Video games are slowly moving out of the monitor and into the real world. And this next stage of development in the world of gaming will be shared with Computer Science students during a special workshop. ‘Real-world’ or Mixed Reality gaming is fast becoming the next big thing in computer games advancement. Students will be…
Analysing cats’ facial expressions could lead to a major breakthrough in helping to alleviate feline suffering. Computer vision expert Dr Georgios Tzimiropoulos, from the University of Lincoln, UK, has been pioneering the development of self-learning computer vision systems to aid the automatic detection of facial expressions. Although the focus has been on humans, the technology will now…
Typing in text to find a film clip on YouTube often results in diverse (and sometimes unrelated) videos being suggested. This problem could soon be resolved with the advent of smarter video-search engines that are able to pick and choose the most relevant videos by analysing a tiny fraction of video frames. Research to create…
Vital data on bat behaviour is being analysed by a computer vision system developed by the University of Lincoln and Lincolnshire Bat Group. The technique, which uses a high-speed camera, filming in infra-red, is being developed by academics at the University of Lincoln, UK. It monitors wing beat frequency which might enable the Group to…
Using robots to understand animal social cognition: We are offering a funded PhD position for an enthusiastic and highly-motivated student to join a thriving and dynamic research environment, and benefit from close associations with both the School of Life Sciences and the School of Computer Science. The aim of this project is to develop a robot that…