Projects (566)

Keep Learning Jul 1, 2021 - May 31, 2025

The project proposes a novel architecture for designing optimisation systems that “keeps learning” when exposed to a continual stream of instances: these systems will autonomously adapt their components over time to respond to gradual drift in the... Read More about Keep Learning.

COG-MHEAR: Towards cognitively-inspired, 5G-IoT enabled multi-modal hearing aids Mar 1, 2021 - Feb 28, 2026
Embracing the multimodal nature of speech presents both opportunities and challenges for hearing assistive technology:
on the one hand there are opportunities for the design of new multimodal audio-visual (AV) algorithms; on the other hand,
multimo... Read More about COG-MHEAR: Towards cognitively-inspired, 5G-IoT enabled multi-modal hearing aids.

Internet Search Improved By User-side Data Sep 1, 2019 - Jun 30, 2020
The objective is to clearly demonstrate that better internet search can be achieved through the use of user-side personalisation (under the full control of the user) and with no personal data revealed to external third-party services. One essential i... Read More about Internet Search Improved By User-side Data.

Cryptodoc Jun 1, 2019 - Sep 30, 2019
This project aims to investigate the integration of a cipher policy for the protection of data, and how these can be applied into a cloud-based infrastructure. A key focus for the implementation will be in the creation of a simple cipher policy for t... Read More about Cryptodoc.

Cloud platform containerised services design Jun 1, 2019 - Sep 30, 2019
This project will focus on the design and development of a distributed software architecture for the platform with innovative technology approaches. This includes microservices with containerisation, a focus on multi-tenancy, and the use of NoSQL to... Read More about Cloud platform containerised services design.

Bus Passenger Analytics Jan 1, 2020 - Apr 30, 2020
Passengers using the Lothian Buses network may use a smart card (Ridacard) to pay for their journey, swiping the card on boarding a vehicle. Smart card journeys account for about 1/3rd of journeys made. This generates data recording when an individu... Read More about Bus Passenger Analytics.

Impacts of School Street closures on the local highway network Jan 23, 2020 - May 31, 2022
This project is to extend understanding of wider impacts of temporary street closures. It will consider any re-distributional effects of street closures around schools and it is under consideration whether it can also assessment impacts on current in... Read More about Impacts of School Street closures on the local highway network.

Repairing Polluted Artificial Intelligent Systems with Machine Unlearning Dec 1, 2019 - Jul 31, 2021
This project is intended to seek in-depth understanding of the new promising decentralised machine learning scheme, namely federated learning, and develop a proof-of-concept algorithm-independent unlearning scheme for federated learning. Our new mach... Read More about Repairing Polluted Artificial Intelligent Systems with Machine Unlearning.

Increase total physical activity time through active travel across the population Sep 1, 2019 - Aug 31, 2020
A major element of the project is to help increase total physical activity time through active travel across the population. Research interests include:
- translational research to ensure the evidence–base on transport, the built environment and he... Read More about Increase total physical activity time through active travel across the population.

Extending a microservices architecture to support user functions and provide cloud APIs Oct 1, 2019 - Jan 31, 2020
Extending a containerised microservices architecture developed in the initial project to support a set of user functions required for the platform's MVP. Additionally, the project will deliver cloud APIs for later use with the company's consumer app... Read More about Extending a microservices architecture to support user functions and provide cloud APIs.

How are we positioning apprenticeships? A critical analysis of job adverts for degree apprentices Jan 1, 2020 - Aug 31, 2021
The introduction of the degree apprenticeship presents opportunities for students to pursue a degree while working in paid positions relevant to their studies. Within this model, employers take an active role in recruitment, funding, and degree conte... Read More about How are we positioning apprenticeships? A critical analysis of job adverts for degree apprentices.

Natural Language Generation for Low-resource Domains Mar 1, 2021 - Dec 31, 2024
In the UK, around one in four people suffer from a mental health problem every year [1]. Mental well-being can affect all aspects of our lives, including our work, relationships, and family lives. A lack of personalised information along with the men... Read More about Natural Language Generation for Low-resource Domains.

Mortice Lock Prototype Development Dec 2, 2019 - Dec 31, 2020
The company has designed a new lock on CAD (computer aided design) which is about 95% complete, the design needs to completed by an expert to the British standards requirements and so as the lock is manufacture ready. The outcome will be a new innov... Read More about Mortice Lock Prototype Development.

SIRT 2019-20 (WP1&2) Sep 1, 2019 - Aug 31, 2020

Our research activities are focused on understanding the physical and mechanical properties of wood and how these affect its performance in different applications. Our main aim is to better understand how the management site, and climate, of forest... Read More about SIRT 2019-20 (WP1&2).

Wood Products Innovation Fund - Outreach Oct 1, 2019 - Sep 30, 2020
To undertake outreach activities to promote the finding of WPIF on behalf of Scottish Forestry.

Towards Guided Self-Organisation in Artificial Complex Systems: A Swarm Robotics Case Study Mar 18, 2020 - Mar 17, 2024
Swarm robotics refers to the design and coordination of large numbers of simple physical robots. Uses include environmental applications such as pollution monitoring in the oceans using aquatic robots to monitoring deforestation using drones; conduct... Read More about Towards Guided Self-Organisation in Artificial Complex Systems: A Swarm Robotics Case Study.

AI-based privacy-preserving biometric authentication with mass-market smart devices Oct 1, 2021 - Sep 30, 2024
Increasingly our identity is key to our online security, and where online services must integrate with these, in order to provide increased levels of trust. But there are now many constraints in how biometric and behavioural data can be used within t... Read More about AI-based privacy-preserving biometric authentication with mass-market smart devices.

Adapting to Industry 4.0 oriented international education and research collaboration Oct 1, 2020 - Sep 30, 2025
The project aims to utilise the seed fund from British Council to develop an international research and education network to 1) form a virtual research centre on AI and Robotic for Industry 4.0; 2) conducting a thorough evaluation of the current rese... Read More about Adapting to Industry 4.0 oriented international education and research collaboration.

Essential Evidence for Scotland Year 2 Jul 1, 2020 - Jun 30, 2021
Translational research can be powerful in providing practitioners with targeted evidence summaries when they have neither time, knowledge of, nor access to much of the peer reviewed evidence base. The value of de-jargonised summaries of robust academ... Read More about Essential Evidence for Scotland Year 2.

HyHo Silver Jan 1, 2021 - Apr 30, 2021
The objective of the project is to examine the practicality of the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) being able to offer a fuel cell / combined heat and power installation at a local jewellery company (Sheila Fleet), with the aim of helping to dec... Read More about HyHo Silver.