Honours and Masters project

The Optimisation group is looking for multiple students to contribute to our world leading research. Our interests range from practical to theoretical. So whether you are interested in path finding for AI in games, solving a complex scheduling problem, designing new algorithms, or working on our specialised modelling language, we will have a project that is of interest to you!

Examples of projects that have been completed by summer students within the optimisation group include:

To operate, interact and navigate safely in dynamic human environments, an autonomous agent, e.g. a mobile social robot, must be equipped with a reliable perception system, which is not only able to understand the static environment around it, but also perceive and predict intricate human behaviours in this environment while considering their physical and social decorum and interactions.

In this project, the goal is to develop a new method (using computer vision and machine learning techniques) for robotic navigation in which goals can be specified at a much higher level of abstraction than has previously been possible. This will be achieved using deep learning to make informed predictions about a scene layout and navigating as an active observer in which the predictions inform actions.

3D localisation, reconstruction and mapping of the objects and human body in dynamic environments are important steps towards high-level 3D scene understanding, which has many applications in autonomous driving, robotics interaction and navigation. This project focuses on creating the scene representation in 3D which gives a complete scene understanding i.e pose, shape and size of different scene elements (humans and objects) and their spatio-temporal relationship.

Human behaviour understanding in videos is a crucial task in autonomous driving cars, robot navigation and surveillance systems. In a real scene comprising of several actors, each human is performing one or more individual actions. Moreover, they generally form several social groups with potentially different social connections, e.g. contribution toward a common activity or goal.

The ability to forecast human trajectory and/or body motion (i.e. pose dynamics and trajectory) from camera or other visual sensors is an essential component for many real-world applications, including robotics, healthcare, detection of perilous behavioural patterns in surveillance systems.

Visually discriminating the identity of multiple (similar looking) objects in a scene and creating individual tracks of their movements over time, namely multi-object tracking (MOT), is one of the basic yet most crucial vision tasks, imperative to tackle many real-world problems in surveillance, robotics/autonomous driving, health and biology.

Digital signatures are asymmetric cryptographic schemes used to validate the authenticity and integrity of digital messages or documents. The signer uses their private key to generate a signature on a message. Then, this signature can be validated by any verifier who knows the signer’s corresponding public key. Sometimes a digital message might require signatures from a group of signers. The naïve method to achieve this goal is collecting distinct signatures from all signers.

A lot of decision support systems have been developed to predict or suggest a diagnosis about the health conditions of patients with the aim to assist clinicians in their decisional process. One of the techniques that is proved to present an efficient tool for medical healthcare decision making is Bayesian networks (BNs). BNs are recognized as efficient graphical models that can be used to explain the relationships between variables.

This project is within the scope of the project “Artificial Intelligence in carDiac arrEst” (AIDE), which was led by Ambulance Victoria (AV) in Australia, involving a team of researchers at Monash University. This AIDE project has developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool to recognise potential Out-of-Hospital-Cardiac Arrest (OHCA) during the Triple Zero (000) call by using transcripts produced by Microsoft Automatic Speech Recognition service. In the next step, we aim to optimise the workflow of call-takers and investigate which workflows can lead to earlier identification of OHCA.…