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Honours and Minor Thesis projects

Displaying 21 - 30 of 216 honours projects.


Primary supervisor: Thanh Thi Nguyen

This project focuses on identifying and distinguishing between authentic audio recordings and those that have been artificially generated or manipulated. As voice cloning technology advances, creating realistic audio deepfakes has become easier, raising concerns about misinformation and privacy. To combat this, this project aims to develop machine learning models to analyse audio features such as pitch, tone, cadence, and spectral characteristics.

Primary supervisor: Thanh Thi Nguyen

This project aims to identify the geographical position where an audio clip was recorded by analysing sound patterns and audio signals from the surrounding environment. This approach leverages hand-crafted and/or deep features to distinguish between different soundscapes associated with specific locations, like train stations, shopping malls, classrooms, hospitals, parks, and so on. Deep learning models are trained on labelled audio datasets that capture diverse environments and their unique acoustic signatures.

Primary supervisor: Thanh Thi Nguyen

This project involves enhancing traditional object detection methods by incorporating human pose estimation to identify weapons in various contexts, especially in surveillance and security applications. This approach leverages computer vision techniques that analyse the positions and movements of individuals, allowing systems to recognize not just the presence of weapons but also the intent and behaviour of the person carrying them.

Primary supervisor: Thanh Thi Nguyen

This project aims to develop techniques that enable users to find relevant audio content by inputting textual queries. This process leverages machine learning models, particularly natural language processing and audio signal processing, to bridge the gap between text and audio. When a user submits a query, the system analyses the text to understand its intent and context.

Primary supervisor: Thanh Thi Nguyen

This project involves the automated generation of textual descriptions for audio content, such as spoken language, sound events, or music. This process typically employs deep learning techniques, such as recurrent neural networks, transformer models, and so on, to analyse audio signals and generate coherent captions. By training on large datasets that include both audio recordings and corresponding textual descriptions, these models learn to recognize patterns and contextual meanings within the audio.

Primary supervisor: Daniel Schmidt

Adaptively smoothing one-dimensional signals remains an important problem, with applications in time series analysis, additive modelling and forecasting. The trend filter provides an novel class of adaptive smoothers; however, it is usually implemented in a frequentist framework using tools like the lasso and cross-validation. Bayesian implementations tend to rely on posterior sampling and as such do not provide simple, sparse point-estimates of the underlying curve.

Primary supervisor: Daniel Schmidt

Learning appropriate prior distributions from replications of experiments is a important problem in the space of hierarchical and empirical Bayes. In this problem, we exploit the fact that we have multiple repeats of similar experiments and pool these to learn an appropriate prior distribution for the unknown parameters of this set of problems. Standard solutions to this type of problem tend to be of mixed Bayesian and non-Bayesian form, and are somewhat ad-hoc in nature.

Primary supervisor: Daniel Schmidt

The spectral density of a time series (a series of time ordered data points -- for example, daily rainfall in the Amazon or the monthly stocks of fish in the Pacific) gives substantial information about the periodic patterns hidden in the data. Learning a good model of the spectral density is usually done through parametric methods like autoregressive moving average processes [1] because non-parametric methods struggle to deal with the interesting “non-smooth” nature of spectral densities. This project aims to apply a powerful and new non-parametric smoothing technique to this problem.

Primary supervisor: Yi-Shan Tsai

Feedback is crucial to learning success; yet, higher education continues to struggle with effective feedback processes. It is important to recognise that feedback as a process requires both teachers and students to take active roles and work as partners. However, one challenge to facilitate a two-way process of feedback is the difficulty to track feedback impact on learning, particularly how students interact with feedback.

Primary supervisor: Ehsan Shareghi

State-of- the-art Large Language Models hallucinate between 69-88% of responses to legal queries; hallucinate in at least 75% of responses regarding a court's main ruling; and reinforce incorrect legal assumptions and beliefs (Source: first reference under references section below). While there is excitement about LLMs facilitating access to justice by offering a low-cost method for the public to obtain legal advice, their limitations could exacerbate rather than mitigate the problem of access to justice.