DMK Research

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Kingston University’s reputation for high quality, innovative research has developed very rapidly over the last few years as a result of the significant investment that has been made in this area. We have consolidated our research strengths through the creation of centres of research excellence and are committed to providing a supportive environment for research and to the encouragement of a pervasive research culture. We have a growing number of active international collaborations, and our expanding community of home and international research students contributes significantly to our success.

The Digital Media Kingston initiative has been developed as a direct result of research undertaken across faculties, disciplines and in collaboration with industry.

For further information on research at Kingston
visit: www.kingston.ac.uk/research.

Research Centres

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"We have consolidated our research strengths through the creation of centres of research excellence and are committed to providing a supportive environment."
Professor Penny Sparke, Kingston University’s Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research and Enterprise

Research Degrees

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… a flexible approach to carrying out research… allowing you to study on a full-time basis or to combine your research studies with employment…

Research Projects

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We have a growing number of active international collaborations, and our expanding community of home and international research students contributes significantly to our success.

Research Outputs

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RAE Units of Assessment 2008

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The Government’s Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) rates the quality of all research in UK universities. The latest assessment (2008) rated 70% of Kingston University’s research submissions as excellent at international level. This assessment has meant the University’s research grant from the Higher Education Funding Body for England has nearly tripled this year.

Under the new rating system, 12 of the 18 units we submitted achieved between five and 15% at 4*, denoting world-leading research. A full list of the 2008 ratings is on the RAE website.

Strengths flagged for individual units of assessment include:

— Computer Science and Informatics4 (23) – developing staff; collaboration with industry and users and Art and Design11 (63) – indications of sustainability and esteem.

Research in the Computing and Informatics category was well-rated in the recent Research Assessment Exercise. Overall, 80% of research activity was judged to be at an international level or higher with 5% judged world leading. In fact compared with other HE institutions, the Faculty's Computing and Informatics research has made one of the most substantial jumps in position in RAE2008 ranking tables. In particular, CISM is recognised as a world-leading player in research in intelligent visual surveillance. Our Digital Imaging Research Centre, a centre of excellence for research, has nearly twenty researchers working including academics, visiting professors and researchers, making it one of the largest centres in this topic worldwide.

During the past few years, the University has also supervised many research degree students undertaking projects such as curating contemporary design; film and television screen design; e-commerce; innovation and entrepreneurship; creative industries and the creative economy.

Research Hub

PhD Scholarship Opportunity

Posted on 05/01/2011 by Karen Cham

Italianicity

‘Computing Italianicity; Semantic Software’; a  machine learning system designed by Karen Cham (2006)

“Content Retrieval using Narrative Ontologies (CRuNO)”, PhD

This CISM Faculty Scholarship offers a £16,000 per annum bursary (for a maximum of three years). In addition, Home/EU fees will be covered as well as funding for equipment, conference trips and training.

The proposed PhD, co-supervised by Karen Cham and in collaboration with the British Film Institute (BFi), will develop methods and methodologies to investigate the automatic extraction of semantic concepts out of produced video content. Many categories of video content are produced following the well established codes and conventions of media production in order to convey concepts. These categories include different genres of feature film and drama as well as advertisements. Such conventions in form and content act to engage the viewer by signifying emotional concepts such as ‘freedom’, ‘success’, ‘authority’, ‘danger’ etc. The proposed research project will investigate techniques for automatic analysis of this content, and develop appropriate representations for this task by testing established methodologies from theoretical analysis to allow machine learning of the relationship between the two. The aim is to allow automatic tagging of video content using these high level semantic concepts, which can then be used to effectively search for video content http://cism.kingston.ac.uk/research/vacancies/details.php?VacancyID=115

Research — Latest News

MSc by Research Opportunity

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Posted on 24/03/2011 by Karen Cham
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What Contexts make users Click?
Martin Colbert’s Google Research Award
a display ad: what context will make users click the advert below?

Web users soon get used to display adverts, and learn to ignore them, so many sites resort to attention-grabbing advert designs or deceptive page layouts to boost click through rates. This is a problem for us, … read the rest of this entry …

PhD Scholarship Opportunity

Posted in Hub
Posted on 05/01/2011 by Karen Cham
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Italianicity

‘Computing Italianicity; Semantic Software’; a  machine learning system designed by Karen Cham (2006)
“Content Retrieval using Narrative Ontologies (CRuNO)”, PhD
This CISM Faculty Scholarship offers a £16,000 per annum bursary (for a maximum of three years). In addition, Home/EU fees will be covered as well as funding for equipment, conference trips and training.
The … read the rest of this entry …

C:ADM2010 International Conference

Posted in Research
Posted on 20/07/2010 by Karen Cham
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“Cybernetics: Art, Design, Mathematics — A Meta-Disciplinary Conversation” is a conference where the main business will be to confer—to explore ideas through discussion and open exchange, in other words, to take part in an enormous brainstorm together! It is concerned with forming and asking the next question rather than reporting on … read the rest of this entry …

Tobii X120 Eye Tracker

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Posted on 13/05/2010 by Karen Cham
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Congratulations to DMKs Dr Martin Colbert whose Usability Lab has recently been upgraded to include a 30k Tobii X120 Eye Tracker. This tool allows users to ‘experience how people look at physical objects or scenes’. Tobii Technology specializes in eye tracking and eye control. This technology makes it possible for computers to know … read the rest of this entry …

The Visual Voice

Posted in Research Projects
Posted on 23/04/2010 by Site admin
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The Visual Voice is a collaborative research project between Dr John Rubin & Dr Frank Millward that research explores the connections between scientific and artistic visualization processes and their relationships to sound, knowing that each can inform the other and that the blurred divide between technical and artistic is interdisciplinary territory where new knowledge is … read the rest of this entry …

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