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International PhD Scholarship in Total Gesture Recognition, UK

/ May 11, 2011 Leave a Comment

Applications are invited for a full-time scholarship available in the School of Computing, Engineering and Physical Sciences. The scholarship is tenable for up to 3 years for a PhD (via MPhil route) [subject to satisfactory progress] and is open to international applicants only. UK/EU applicants are not eligible to apply. The scholarship will provide £15000 towards the cost of the International tuition fee over 3 years.
Total gesture recognition based on dynamic facial expression, body motion and hands sign is a vision pursued by the Applied Digital Signal and Image Processing (ADSIP) Research Centre. Over the past few years, the Centre has gradually and systematically developed a number of novel methodologies and algorithms for recognition of individual gesture modality through various research projects, such as dynamic 3D facial expression recognition, multi-camera based human motion tracking, and data-glove based dynamic hand gesture recognition.
The proposed project will tackle a number of major technical challenges associated with simultaneous capture, parallel processing, multi-feature tracking, and high-dimensional classification of dynamic body motion, facial expression and hand sign in 3D, in real time and in different physical scales which have not been attempted previously. Furthermore, the propose project will explore the advantages which could be gained by making use of the interconnected and interdependent nature of the three gesture modalities to increase the robustness and accuracy of recognition which is unlikely to be obtained based on single modality.

Scholarship Application Deadline: 13 May 2011

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International PhD Scholarship in School of Computing, Engineering and Physical Sciences at UCL, UK

/ May 6, 2011 Leave a Comment

Applications are invited for a full-time scholarship available in the School of Computing, Engineering and Physical Sciences. The scholarship is tenable for up to 3 years for a PhD (via MPhil route) [subject to satisfactory progress] and is open to international applicants only. UK/EU applicants are not eligible to apply. The scholarship will provide £15000 towards the cost of the International tuition fee over 3 years.   Manufacturing limitations and operational strains placed on wind turbine blades lead to fatigue and a shortened working life. The advent of flexible, aeroelastic blades (rather than rigid forms) will offer advantages in increasing fatigue life but challenges in geometrical, structural and aerodynamic characterisation. Wind tunnel trials do not scale up well to real life blades so that a fundamental understanding of the underlying physics is necessary if innovative large scale flexible blades are to be modelled successfully.
Against this background, the main objectives are:
1. The development of structural dynamic and FEA models for the complete wind turbine rotor or blades that can handle highly nonlinear effects e.g. from flexible blades with complex laminated composite and composite sandwich skins and webs;
2.The development of advanced models on rotor and blade aerodynamics, covering full 3D CFD rotor models, free wake models and improved BEM type models;
3. The advancement of computational mathematical models for the complex fluid-structure interaction problems that play a critical role in wind-turbine blade design, providing also a fundamental tool for a better understanding of the underlying physics;
4. To calculate the torque and thrust on the wind turbine generator under different wind speed and rotor geometry and therefore to predict the material strength needed in different environment and minimize the damage to the rotor.
5. To predict the rotor speed on varying wind speed, rotor geometry, and rotor load. And to simulate both transient state and steady state motion of the rotor, finally optimize the shape of the rotor blade and therefore maximize the power capacity.

Scholarship Application Deadline: 13 May 2011

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School of Computing Scholarships for MSc Courses, University of Kent, UK

/ March 22, 2011 Leave a Comment

The School of Computing offers a number of scholarships to MSc students of any nationality. The amount awarded depends on your tuition fee rate:UK and European Union students receive a discount equivalent to the standard full-time tuition fee (worth about £4500)Students from other countries receive a £2000 discount.Scholarships are awarded on the basis of academic merit as evidenced by your application form (including transcripts and references) and the online funding request form (see below).

In previous years most applicants with a First Class Honours degree from the UK (or equivalent) were awarded a scholarship and some candidates with a good Second Class Honours degree (or equivalent) also received funding.Scholarships are normally guaranteed for eligible overseas (non-EU) students with a degree meeting.We reserve the right to decline funding if the result was achieved only after multiple repetitions or if the degree was not awarded by a university with a good reputation.Applicants from other countries will be considered on an individual basis.

Scholarship Application Deadline:Before 31 July2011

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