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PhD Students
Lynn Azmi
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- Natural user interfaces
Currently working on a natural user interface. The aim is to develop a toy
world that can be manipulated in a natural manner.
This project is under the supervision of Geoff Wyvill and Alistair Knott.
(November 2007)
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Reece Arnott
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- Towards 3d 'photocopying'g
I have been interested for a number of years in the Reprap project , a project to design and build a hobbyist 3d printer
that can print its own parts. A 3d printer is a great tool if you have
the expertise to make good use of 3d modelling tools but for my PhD I
wanted to see if I could give the average person a simple way to
duplicate an object by deducing a 3d model from a set of digital
photographs taken with a normal handheld digital camera. The software
that has been created as part of my PhD is open-source, available on
SourceForge, and was
designed to be part of the Reprap software tool-chain. My supervisors
are Geoff Wyvill in Computer Science and Holger Regenbrecht in
Infomation Science, both at Otago University.
(March 2009)
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Hamza BENNANI
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- Surface Matching applied to medical imaging
Hamza BENNANI from Morocco has joined in June 2011 the graphics lab at University of Otago, Dunedin, as a PhD Student
on surface matching applied to medical imaging. He is a Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Engineer
graduating from applied mathematics and computer science department at ENSEEIHT Toulouse, France.
In 2009/2010, Hamza was an ERASMUS student in TU-Darmstadt, Germany. During the same period he worked at the Innovation
and Integration Systems department at T-Systems, Darmstadt where he worked on machine learning and computer vision techniques.
This work was the support of his masters thesis, involving the conception of an application for mobile phones able to recognize 2D Barcode on real time using video streaming.
His current work is really exciting, at the interface between human health and computer science. He enjoys creating transdisciplinary links and creating tools useful for everyone.
(June 2011)
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Nabeel Younus Khan
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- Blind People Navigation in Indoor
I am a Ph.D. student at Otago University, the Computer Science Department. I am supervised by Associate Professor Brendan McCane. My co-supervisor is Geoff Wyvill. I am currently in Vision/ Graphics research lab.
I am on a PhD scholarship and started my PhD in 2010. My research interests include computer vision, distributed systems and databases. Currently I am working on 'Blind People Navigation in Indoor' in my PhD. I am looking to make an application for blind which can help them to navigate inside the buildings.
I got my Master degree in Computer Software Engineering from Arid and National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan in 2007. Before coming to Otago, I was working as a Lecturer in my home university since 2008.
It has been a wonderful experience in New Zealand. For more information please visit my Personal Homepage.
(April 2010)
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Umair Mateen Khan
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- Bridging the Semantic Gap
At present there is no effective system that can identify objects in an image. This problem is known as semantic gap problem.
I will try to solve this problem by scaling up the size of the images collection and then finding semantic information presented in them.
As images containing similar objects produce similar features which can be used to retrieve image from a collection and this is how the Bag-of-Words method works.
Just as a child learns something through repeated exposures of an object so as a computer can. So for this technique to be effective each object should have many exposures in the collection.
(Feb 2011)
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MSc Students:
Jie Fu
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luminance mapping and feature matching
Research is for fun. I'm working closely with my supervisor Brendan McCane
and AreoGraph to investigate and implement techniques for lulminance
mapping and feature matching that are robust enough to match across
multiple exposures from a single camera and multiple exposures from
different cameras.
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400-Level Project Students
David Cassie
Nicholas Comer
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Kinect-based Tangible Interface
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Aaron Jackson
Benjamin MacDonell
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Spinal Cord Axon Segmentation
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Savneet Sachdev
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- The Dome Display
In my project 'The Dome Display', the aim is to create a software in which
a person will be interacting with the virtual environment by the use of
laser and gestures displayed on the dome.
(Year 2012)
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Luming Wan
