Honours Projects
The following is a list of academics interested in supervising projects, along with their research areas; some have also listed currently available honours projects. Also listed are a selection of past honours projects.
If you're a student considering what you want your honours project to be, you should use these as a starting point to get an idea of the areas of interest of academics, and discuss possible projects with them.
Current Research Areas and Proposed Projects
- Steve
Cassidy
research area: language technology
some past topics:
- Topic Segmentation in Spoken Dialogue
- Presenting Annotated Linguistic Data Using Stylesheet Transformations (PALDUST)
- Robert Dale
research area: language technology
specific proposed topics:
some past topics:
- Identifying and resolving one-anaphora
- Error Correction of OCR-generated Texts Using Corpus-Specific Information
- Creating a Voice Portal in the University Domain
- VoiceDBC: A Semi-Automatic Tool for Writing Speech Applications
- Christophe Doche
research area: cryptography
specific proposed topics:
- Mark
Dras
research area: language technology
specific proposed topics:
- Agent-based simulation of language change
- Machine Translation
- Paraphrase under constraints
- Using structure with heuristics in optimisation problems
- Agent-Based Economic Simulation: Modelling Cyclic Behaviour
- Genetic Programming in a Co-Evolutionary Environment
- GLEU: A Method for Automatic Evaluation of Sentence-Level Grammaticality
- Len Hamey
research area: computer vision, networks
specific proposed topics:
- Numberplate recognition
- On-line security protocol game: Develop a GUI on-line implementation of the security protocol game to help students understand security protocols
- Machine vision for industrial applications: Develop and test a real-world machine vision application, may involve working with an industry partner
- Machine Learning of Colour Image Analysis for Biscuit Grading
- Computer vision
- Neural networks
- Computer networks
- Object Motion with Occlusion
- Secure Voice over IP: Performance enhancement for VoIP through VPN and Firewall enforcing H.323 VoIP access control
- End-to-End Security for Voice over IP
- Securing Voice over IP: The role and implementation of a gatekeeper
- Number plate recognition segmentation
- Michael
Hitchens
research area: networks, computer games
specific proposed topics:
- Manolya
Kavakli
research area: computer graphics and games
specific proposed topics:
- Requirements Analysis for an Augmented Reality User Interface
- Integration of Motion Tracking into a Generic Virtual Reality Engine
- Augmented Prototyping On-Site
- Stereoscopic Heritage Design
- Biomechanical Modelling of Human Hand-Wrist Joint
- Virtual Gallipoli: An Educational War-strategy Simulation
- Environmental Simulation for Risk Assessment and Criminal Investigation
- Development of a Cyberspace Engine
- Analysis of Character Interaction in Computer Games (with Michael Hitchens)
- Modelling risk and strategies in gameplay
- 3D Sketching in Virtual Reality
- Risk assessment for crime prevention in Virtual Environments
- Bernard
Mans
research area: distributed algorithms, mobile ad hoc networks
some past topics:
- Topology control in mobile ad hoc networks
- Scott
McCallum
research area: algebraic computing
- Annabelle McIver
research area: randomised algorithms
specific proposed topics:
- Randomised security protocols
- Performance analysis of wireless sensor networks
- Electronic voting
- Diego Molla
Aliod
research area: language technology
specific proposed topics:
- Folksonomies
- Classification of Questions
- Answering Complex Questions
- Representing the Semantics of Sentences
- Graph-based Question Answering
- Search Wikipedia and Summarise
- Using the Web for Term Translation
- An Answer Comparison Engine for an Open-domain Intelligent Tutoring System
- WordNet Localisation
- JustAsk!: Improving Searches on the Macquarie Website
- QAUMEA -- Question Answering Using Mini ExtrAns
- Abhaya Nayak
research area: logics, belief revision
- Josef
Pieprzyk
research area: security, cryptography
some past topics:
- Application of Cumulative Arrays Secret Sharing Schemes into Threshold RSA Decryption
- Level Based Intrusion Detection in a CGI Environment
- Investigation of Factoring Algorithms
- Improvements on the PayWord Micropayment Scheme
- Incoercible Electronic Elections
- Computer Virus Detection: An Application of Firewall Technologies
- Debbie
Richards
research area: knowledge systems
specific proposed topics:
- Crime Scene Investigation
- An intelligent/adaptive user interface for training
- Working in team-based ICT projects
- Automatic validation of UML models
- Do we need girls in IT?
- Reconciling Use Case Descriptions from Multiple Viewpoints
- Data Mining in the Network Domain
- Using Artificial Intelligence and Immersive Virtual Environments to Assist Psychological Experimentation
- Rolf Schwitter
research area: language technology
some past topics:
- ECOLE: Providing Writing Assistance for a Controlled Language
- Igor
Shparlinski
research area: cryptography, number theory
- Tony
Sloane (not available 2008)
research area: programming languages, compilers
specific proposed topics:
- Compiler backend generation
- System specification using functional languages
- Specifying software for handheld computing devices
- Formal verification of attribute grammar specifications
- Extending an Interactive Development Environment to Support Compiler Specification
- Huaxiong Wang
research area: cryptography
some past topics:
- Design and Implementation of a Micropayment Scheme
- Yan Wang
research area: security models, e-commerce, P2P networks, trust computing
specified proposed topics:
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Rainer Wasinger
research area: VR, language technology
specific proposed topics:
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Jian Yang
research area: information systems
specific proposed topics:
Mark Dras, Honours Convenor
