Projects (64)

CAROUSEL+ Telepresent Dance Reducing Social Distancing Jan 1, 2021 - Dec 31, 2024
CAROUSEL focuses on how Augmented Reality (AR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies improve the quality of experience and social interaction in the frame of live virtual and hybrid events in the future. The Internet has developed until now i... Read More about CAROUSEL+ Telepresent Dance Reducing Social Distancing.

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.

Learning from Collaborative Storytelling: Enhancing Visual Scene Understanding through Human-Robot Interaction Apr 1, 2025 - Mar 31, 2028
The research project aims to revolutionise how robots comprehend and interact with the physical world by combining advanced techniques in video analysis, knowledge acquisition, and collaborative storytelling. In recent years, there has been a growing... Read More about Learning from Collaborative Storytelling: Enhancing Visual Scene Understanding through Human-Robot Interaction.

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.

Swarmchestrate - Application-level Swarm-based Orchestration Across the Cloud-to-Things Continuum Jan 1, 2024 - Dec 31, 2026
The next-generation of intelligent cyber-physical and IoT systems powered by artificial intelligence (AI) are becoming an essential part of our environment. With the ever-growing number of intelligent smart devices collecting huge amounts of data at... Read More about Swarmchestrate - Application-level Swarm-based Orchestration Across the Cloud-to-Things Continuum.

VanFill Innovation Voucher Jan 1, 2025 - May 31, 2025
An innovation voucher applied for in conjunction with VanFill

The Policy Cards project - CAPE funded Apr 1, 2023 - Mar 31, 2024
The purpose of the project is to continue and finish the development of the Policy Cards. The Policy Cards are a card-based ideation tool that facilitates the analysis and development of policy campaigns. Using card-based ideation allows for the deve... Read More about The Policy Cards project - CAPE funded.

Cloud based distribution system to tackle food poverty Mar 14, 2022 - Dec 15, 2023
Local food sectors, e.g. Foodbanks, still rely on paper-based referral systems whilst continuing to see increasing demand. In addition, the model of direct hand-outs of food parcels and electricity vouchers is unsustainable, lacks dignity for clients... Read More about Cloud based distribution system to tackle food poverty.

Multi-task, Multilingual, Multi-modal Language Generation Sep 9, 2019 - Sep 8, 2023
Language generation (LG) is a crucial technology if machines are to communicate with humans seamlessly using human natural language. A great number of different tasks within Natural Language Processing (NLP) are language generation tasks, and being a... Read More about Multi-task, Multilingual, Multi-modal Language Generation.

On the executability and malicious retention of adversarial malware samples generated using adversarial learning. Jan 27, 2023 - Jan 27, 2023
A SICSA Sponsored Research Theme Event
Machine Learning (ML) models have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial examples designed to fool ML models to classify them as benign rather than malicious. This has led to several research efforts geared... Read More about On the executability and malicious retention of adversarial malware samples generated using adversarial learning..

Link Forty2 Feb 1, 2022 - Aug 31, 2022
The aim of the project is to design a recruitment service for jobseekers and employers in the form of a software system, e.g., a web service or mobile app. The system is intended to re-define and speed up the recruitment process and lower the recruit... Read More about Link Forty2.

Sentinel: Security alert level automation Nov 1, 2021 - Jan 31, 2022
Prototype a SaaS platform for automation of risk assessment, management and associated security alerts as a service in high risk areas of the world. The core will be implementation of a prototype machine learning platform, together with development... Read More about Sentinel: Security alert level automation.

ChargeBreak - Electric Vehicle Suitability Tool Aug 23, 2021 - Dec 31, 2021
This partnership will deliver a tool which utilises Big Data processes and methodologies to simplify the selection of EVs. This will enable uptake of EVs across commercial fleets in a manner which is open to use by all across business sectors and ind... Read More about ChargeBreak - Electric Vehicle Suitability Tool.

Personal wellbeing through machine learning Nov 17, 2020 - May 31, 2021
Third Platform Technologies proposes a mental health mobile app that uses data and personal insights to empower people to lead more conscious, fulfilled and purposeful lives, on a global basis. A personal dataset for each user will be built up over t... Read More about Personal wellbeing through machine learning.

KTP Ace Aquatec Jun 1, 2021 - Nov 30, 2023
To develop, test and incorporate Innovative AI based approaches to improve accuracy of Individual fish identification and sea lice detection.

Hyperheuristics for infrastructure system optimisation Jun 1, 2020 - Dec 31, 2020
Continuum Industries novel software tech allows engineers to automate their work and evaluate millions of possible combinations of design parameters. Primary application lies in linear infrastructure design - roads, railways, pipelines, cables. Wher... Read More about Hyperheuristics for infrastructure system optimisation.

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.

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.

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.

Optimisation of AirNode mesh nets Sep 1, 2019 - Sep 30, 2020
Urban air quality affects the lives of millions, according to WHO statistics air quality contributes to 6.7% of all deaths worldwide. Managing air quality in urban areas is now a priority for governments. In order to manage air quality and to predic... Read More about Optimisation of AirNode mesh nets.