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Project Lead: Wenting Duan; Project Student RAs: Oakleigh Weekes, Kyle Fogarty. The allocation of resources to combat litter is currently a manual process. However, dash-cameras are being more common in motoring, and potentially offer a mechanism by which litter can be more thoroughly and actively monitored. The Green Verge project seeks to implement a robust…
The LCAS team has announced they are recruiting for their Summer Research Internship programme! L-CAS is offering these research opportunities primarily to students of the University of Lincoln who are currently enrolled in one of the taught degree programmes. The opportunity is a summer internship, working directly with one or more of their research team to…
Congratulations to Liam Mason (PhD Student), on their @acm_chi paper winning a best paper award! Liam Mason, one of our PhD students from our School of Computer Science won the CHI best paper award. Well done Liam! We spoke to Liam, to get an insight into his best paper titled “Including the Experiences of Physically…
Lincoln Centre for Autonomous Systems (L-CAS) submitted research papers to SAC 2017 and HRI 2017, and have been accepted. The first paper to be presented at SAC 2017 is joint work with Dr Marc Hanheide‘s PhD student Peter Lightbody and Dr Tomas Krajnik on “A Versatile High-Performance Visual Fiducial Marker Detection System with Scalable Identity Encoding”. Fiducial markers have a wide…
Professor Nigel Allinson, Distinguished Chair of Image Engineering at the University of Lincoln, will deliver a fascinating talk as part of the pioneering Gravity Fields festival. Date: Saturday 24th September 2016 Time: 1:30pm Venue: Woolsthorpe Manor Ticket Price: £6 (£5) Suitable for age 14+ Book your place online Based in Grantham, Gravity Fields explores the physical sciences through science, arts…
LiGHTS Nights is coming to Lincoln and the School of Computer Science is putting on a variety of workshops and lectures you don’t want to miss. Produce real blacksmith artefacts with the latest 3D-printer technology, find out how Lincoln research is improving proton therapy for cancer sufferers, and get up close and personal with our all-seeing robots,…
A leading scientist making major strides in medical imaging, which could make proton therapy a viable treatment for many more cancer sufferers, will present his latest findings – including a new type of proton imaging – at a prestigious conference next month. Professor Nigel Allinson MBE, Distinguished Professor of Image Engineering at the University of Lincoln,…
Technology is supporting and aiding a variety of people and disabilities every single day, enriching their lives as much as possible. Autistic children can now get communication support from robots. Autism is a lifelong developmental disability that affects how a person communicates with, and relates to, other people. It also affects how they make sense…
A robot being developed to help elderly people stay independent and active for longer has been named by residents of three local care homes where it is going to be tested. As part of the ENRICHME project – pioneering robotics research funded by an EU Horizon 2020 grant – residents from LACE Housing Association’s housing…