DMK Research Degrees
Kingston University degrees offer a flexible approach to carrying out research. They allow you to study on a full-time basis or to combine your research studies with employment. We carry out a wide range of research activities at Kingston, ranging from traditional academic disciplines to more contemporary problems or developments.
Research students at Kingston benefit from: the opportunity to acquire specialist subject and more general key skills to enhance your future career prospects; a supportive research environment, centred on focused research groups; top-quality teaching and staff who are active researchers themselves; a regular programme of specialist subject and interdisciplinary research seminars, plus the chance to circulate your research findings to the wider academic community; massive investment in our learning resources and facilities.
MA by Research
This flexible learning programme allows students to pursue an individual programme of research in any field, supported by research methods training, and taught modules as appropriate. The degree involves investigation and evaluation of an approved research project and the presentation of a dissertation of between 10,000 and 20,000 words or equivalent for studio based subjects. The award of MA or MSc by Research is at the same level as the MPhil, but carries half the credits (180).
The programme lasts one year full time or two years part time. To be eligible you will need a good honours degree in a related discipline. Applications will also be considered if you have no formal qualifications but can satisfy the admissions tutor of your motivation and ability to work at masters level.
Further Information
For further information on research within the Faculty and to find out more about research opportunities, contact our research administrator:
T: +44 (0)20 8417 4016
E: fadaresearch-enterprise@kingston.ac.uk
For further information on research within the Faculty and to find out more about research opportunities, contact our research administrator:
T: +44 (0)20 8417 4016
E: fadaresearch-enterprise@kingston.ac.uk
MSc by Research
This one-year full-time or two-year part-time flexible learning programme provides an alternative to a taught course for anyone who wants to conduct an extended research project in a specific area. Guided by a personal supervisor, students gain the fundamental analytical and data gathering techniques they need to pursue an individual programme of original research.
The programme includes a compulsory module of research training and the completion of a thesis which will then be the subject of an oral examination. You will normally need a good honours degree or a relevant professional qualification.
Entry Requirements
You will normally need a first or second class honours degree or equivalent in a subject appropriate to the proposed field of research.
English Language Requirement
Applicants whose first language is not English will need to have achieved a good level of competence in written and spoken English and should possess a suitable English Language Qualification.
Further Information
Contact Bee Tang, Faculty Research Officer
T: +44 (0) 208 417 2054
E: b.tang@kingston.ac.uk
Contact Bee Tang, Faculty Research Officer
T: +44 (0) 208 417 2054
E: b.tang@kingston.ac.uk
Master of Philosophy (MPhil) (FADA)
Typically an MPhil takes about two years full time or three/four years part time. An MPhil thesis is 20-40,000 words long or its equivalent for studio-based research and is the subject of an oral examination in which you will show how you have critically managed and investigated your area of research.
Further Information
For further information on research within the Faculty and to find out more about research opportunities, contact our research administrator:
T: +44 (0)20 8417 4016
E: fadaresearch-enterprise@kingston.ac.uk
For further information on research within the Faculty and to find out more about research opportunities, contact our research administrator:
T: +44 (0)20 8417 4016
E: fadaresearch-enterprise@kingston.ac.uk
Master of Philosophy (MPhil) (CISM)
Typically an MPhil takes about two years full time or three/four years part time. An MPhil thesis is 20-40,000 words long or its equivalent for studio-based research and is the subject of an oral examination in which you will show how you have critically managed and investigated your area of research.
Entry Requirements
You will normally need a first or second class honours degree or equivalent in a subject appropriate to the proposed field of research.
English Language Requirement
Applicants whose first language is not English will need to have achieved a good level of competence in written and spoken English and should possess a suitable English Language Qualification.
Further Information
Contact Bee Tang, Faculty Research Officer
T: +44 (0) 208 417 2054
E: b.tang@kingston.ac.uk
Contact Bee Tang, Faculty Research Officer
T: +44 (0) 208 417 2054
E: b.tang@kingston.ac.uk
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) (FADA)
A PhD usually takes three to four years of full-time study or four to six years part time. You will normally be expected to have a masters degree or a good honours degree or equivalent in a subject relevant to your proposed research programme.
The PhD thesis is typically about 40-80,000 words long or its equivalent for studio-based research. On completion it will be the subject of an oral examination in which you will show both how you have critically investigated your area of research and made an independent and original contribution to knowledge.
Further Information
For further information on research within the Faculty and to find out more about research opportunities, contact our research administrator:
T: +44 (0)20 8417 4016
E: fadaresearch-enterprise@kingston.ac.uk
For further information on research within the Faculty and to find out more about research opportunities, contact our research administrator:
T: +44 (0)20 8417 4016
E: fadaresearch-enterprise@kingston.ac.uk
Doctoral School Research Degrees (CISM)
These are the opportunities currently available within the Faculty of Computing, Information Systems and Mathematics.
Funded Scholarships
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Fees-only Scholarship (Doctoral School)
Action Analysis for Computer Games, PhD
Supervisor: Dr V. Argyriou
Computer games have attracted a wide market over the past few years and their appeal may be further enhanced through vision based inputs. The high speed and low cost requirements make system design challenging. In the upcoming generation of computer games interaction will be mainly using human gestures...
more information and application details
Supervisor's homepage and their other projects
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Validation of Objective Indicators of Credibility, PhD
Supervisor: Dr M. Colbert
Many web user interfaces are currently designed to meet ‘credibility’ targets – visitors should believe that the web site is operated by knowledgeable and trustworthy people. Usability studies have identified many features of a user interface that contribute to, or detract from, credibility...
more information and application details
Supervisor's homepage and their other projects
—
Enhancing game-play through real-time computer vision, PhD
Supervisor: Dr D. Greenhill
The announcement of the Xbox 360’s controller-less peripheral Natal and Sony’s Motion Controller has generated huge interest as vision based gaming becomes an increasingly important research area. Computer vision control allows the movement or gesture of the player to affect the gameplay...
more information and application details
Supervisor's homepage and their other projects
—
Development of 3D image vision approaches for unsupervised high content screening of bioimaging datasets, PhD
Supervisor: Dr A. Hoppe
The combination of light microscopy and image processing has led to the development of more objective, quantitative analysis techniques in experimental biology. The analysis of biomedical image data is challenging but has provided an insight into complex biological processes. The current problems...
more information and application details
Supervisor's homepage and their other projects
—
Multi-Modal Analysis and Modelling of Dialogue, PhD
Supervisor: Dr G.J.A. Hunter
There is much “meaning” in what people are saying to others which is not obvious from the words used alone. Changes in intonation, pitch and use of pauses, as well as facial expressions and hand gestures can give other cues, expressing emotion or sarcasm, indicating questions and passing other...
more information and application details
Supervisor's homepage and their other projects
—
Emerging mobile WIMAX (IEEE802.16m) Standard for m-health Applications, PhD
Supervisor: Prof R. S. H. Istepanian
The recent years have witnessed major demand for mobile healthcare ( m-health) applications for the different important clinical scenarios. In parallel to this demand, recent years have witnessed the introduction and wider proliferation of WIMAX systems for broadband wireless access services...
more information and application details
Supervisor's homepage and their other projects
—
Converting Films to 3D Movies (3DMovie), PhD
Supervisor: Prof G.A. Jones
The ground-breaking film Avatar has encouraged movie studios to release 3D versions of classic sci-fi and fantasy films such as Star Wars, The Matrix and The Lord of the Rings. The process of adding depth to non-CG elements in a movie frame, however, is incredibly time-consuming and hence expensive...
more information and application details
Supervisor's homepage and their other projects
—
Software Quality Assurance and Measurement Framework for Software Defects Detection and Containment, PhD
Supervisor: Dr S. Khaddaj
Many organisations use software quality assurance (SQA) measurement frameworks. However, before such a framework is developed and adopted the organisation needs to define what is meant by quality. To help this definition process, numerous approaches and quality models exist. Many of the early...
more information and application details
Supervisor's homepage and their other projects
—
Tracking 2D Articulate Motion, PhD
Supervisor: Dr D. Makris
Interpreting human motion can benefit a wide variety of industrial sectors, such as sports analysis for virtual replaying and analysis of athletes’ motion patterns, visual surveillance for gait analysis, behaviour understanding and event detection, Human Computer Interaction for body motion based...
more information and application details
Supervisor's homepage and their other projects
—
Video quality assessment and source models for scalable and 3D video over wireless networks, PhD
Supervisor: Dr M.G. Martini
Wireless video transmission is a challenging task due to the high bandwidth required by video transmission and to the error prone wireless channel. In order to transmit video over bandwidth constrained channels, compression has to be performed. Since compression increases the sensitivity of transmission...
more information and application details
Supervisor's homepage and their other projects
—
QoS and Energy aware routing for Wireless Sensor Networks, PhD
Supervisor: Dr C. Politis
The problem of energy scarcity in the Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) has led to the development of several techniques in all layers of network protocol stack. These techniques aim to enable sensor nodes to efficiently use energy resources. In this context, network layer is not an exception. Hence...
more information and application details
Supervisor's homepage and their other projects
—
Biologically inspired detection and tracking of humans, PhD
Supervisor: Dr S.A. Velastin Human beings have specialised in being able to detect and follow other humans in spite of sensor (eye) movement and noise as well as cluttered environments. It is believed that such ability is the result of evolution plus intensive training during early years...
more information and application details
Supervisor's homepage and their other projects
—
Research Project ideas
—
Extraction of Subconscious Behaviour Hints
from Human Body Motion Data, PhD
Supervisor: Dr J. Francik
Precise human body motion data may be relatively easily utilised due to recent development in affordable instrumented motion capture systems. Also, rapid progress in markerless motion capture, entirely based on computer vision solutions, will make the acquisition of such data even more common...
more information and application details
Supervisor's homepage and their other projects
—
Vision Based Gaming, PhD Supervisor: Dr D. Greenhill
The Sony EyeToy ™ is one of a number of new input devices in the latest generation of games consoles. The EyeToy device makes use of data from a video camera to analyse the position and movement of the player which is then used to control the gameplay. There are currently only a relatively small...
more information and application details
Supervisor's homepage and their other projects
—
Next Generation of medical wireless network sensors
and mobile Communication technologies for enhanced exercise capacity for people with mild COPD, PhD
Supervisor: Prof R. S. H. Istepanian
This project reflects collaboration between the MINT and PHIRE research centres at Kingston University and St George’s, University of London. The main objective of the proposal is the design and development of next generation of wireless sensor networks and mobile communications technologies in...
more information and application details
Supervisor's homepage and their other projects
—
Local Intelligent Control for PTZs under
Remote Operator Control (LInC), PhD
Supervisor: Prof G.A. Jones
Control of a remote PTZ (pan,tilt and zoom) dome is complicated by the large communication and protocol delays. This project will explore the use of local intelligent image processing and control algorithms placed on the remote PTZ to support the remote human controller. Key tasks will be to establish...
more information and application details
Supervisor's homepage and their other projects
—
Evaluating Stereo PTZ for Real-time Image Tracking, PhD
Supervisor: Prof G.A. Jones
The availability of depth data significantly enhances the standard imagery generated by video cameras. Though non-trivial, such depth data can be recovered using a stereo pair of cameras. Active stereo heads use precision-manufactured equipment to direct the gaze of stereo cameras. Analysing the two...
more information and application details
Supervisor's homepage and their other projects
—
Sign Language Recognition, PhD
Supervisor: Dr D. Makris
Sign language is a well-spread and successful communication method in deaf communities. However, the communication between deaf and non-deaf people may be problematic, because very few non-deaf people can use sign language. A Computer Vision system that automatically interprets sign language from...
more information and application details
Supervisor's homepage and their other projects
—
Genetics-inspired framework for video processing, PhD
Supervisor: Dr J.-C. Nebel
Although state-of-the-art visual surveillance algorithms have been the product of extensive work by many researchers worldwide for more than a decade, current approaches are still not sufficient to handle the very wide range of data exhibited by CCTV videos. Consequently, a new approach is required...
more information and application details
Supervisor's homepage and their other projects
—
Parsing Algorithms and Editing Paradigms
for Spoken Mathematics, PhD
Supervisor: Dr E. Pfluegel
Recent progress in the availability of efficient and accurate automatic speech recognisers (ASR) has meant that many computer-based tasks, such as editing text documents, can now be carried out without the use of keyboard or mouse, simply by using speech commands. This is true to a lesser extent for...
more information and application details
Supervisor's homepage and their other projects
—
Green Communications in Licensed and LE Bands, PhD
Supervisor: Dr C. Politis
Green communications are viewed as a novel approach for improving primarily the energy efficiency of wireless communication systems by researching innovative and effective PHY and MAC techniques...
more information and application details
Supervisor's homepage and their other projects
—
Multi-Robot Coordination, PhD
Supervisor: Dr P. Remagnino
A candidate is sought to carry out robotics research with our 7 small Surveyor SRV-1 robots. The robots have a single camera on-board and the aim is to design and develop algorithms to coordinate the robots to perform a number of tasks, including the charting of an unexplored area, the monitoring of...
more information and application details
Supervisor's homepage and their other projects
—
Active Visual Surveillance, PhD
Supervisor: Dr S.A. Velastin
This project refers to the use of pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) cameras (or very high resolution cameras) for actively detecting and focusing situations of interest in the context of intelligent monitoring of spaces not only for security but for more "benign" applications such as assisted living (elderly, disabled)...
more information and application details
Supervisor's homepage and their other projects
—
Funded Scholarships
—
Fees-only Scholarship (Doctoral School)
Action Analysis for Computer Games, PhD
Supervisor: Dr V. Argyriou
Computer games have attracted a wide market over the past few years and their appeal may be further enhanced through vision based inputs. The high speed and low cost requirements make system design challenging. In the upcoming generation of computer games interaction will be mainly using human gestures...
more information and application details
Supervisor's homepage and their other projects
—
Validation of Objective Indicators of Credibility, PhD
Supervisor: Dr M. Colbert
Many web user interfaces are currently designed to meet ‘credibility’ targets – visitors should believe that the web site is operated by knowledgeable and trustworthy people. Usability studies have identified many features of a user interface that contribute to, or detract from, credibility...
more information and application details
Supervisor's homepage and their other projects
—
Enhancing game-play through real-time computer vision, PhD
Supervisor: Dr D. Greenhill
The announcement of the Xbox 360’s controller-less peripheral Natal and Sony’s Motion Controller has generated huge interest as vision based gaming becomes an increasingly important research area. Computer vision control allows the movement or gesture of the player to affect the gameplay...
more information and application details
Supervisor's homepage and their other projects
—
Development of 3D image vision approaches for unsupervised high content screening of bioimaging datasets, PhD
Supervisor: Dr A. Hoppe
The combination of light microscopy and image processing has led to the development of more objective, quantitative analysis techniques in experimental biology. The analysis of biomedical image data is challenging but has provided an insight into complex biological processes. The current problems...
more information and application details
Supervisor's homepage and their other projects
—
Multi-Modal Analysis and Modelling of Dialogue, PhD
Supervisor: Dr G.J.A. Hunter
There is much “meaning” in what people are saying to others which is not obvious from the words used alone. Changes in intonation, pitch and use of pauses, as well as facial expressions and hand gestures can give other cues, expressing emotion or sarcasm, indicating questions and passing other...
more information and application details
Supervisor's homepage and their other projects
—
Emerging mobile WIMAX (IEEE802.16m) Standard for m-health Applications, PhD
Supervisor: Prof R. S. H. Istepanian
The recent years have witnessed major demand for mobile healthcare ( m-health) applications for the different important clinical scenarios. In parallel to this demand, recent years have witnessed the introduction and wider proliferation of WIMAX systems for broadband wireless access services...
more information and application details
Supervisor's homepage and their other projects
—
Converting Films to 3D Movies (3DMovie), PhD
Supervisor: Prof G.A. Jones
The ground-breaking film Avatar has encouraged movie studios to release 3D versions of classic sci-fi and fantasy films such as Star Wars, The Matrix and The Lord of the Rings. The process of adding depth to non-CG elements in a movie frame, however, is incredibly time-consuming and hence expensive...
more information and application details
Supervisor's homepage and their other projects
—
Software Quality Assurance and Measurement Framework for Software Defects Detection and Containment, PhD
Supervisor: Dr S. Khaddaj
Many organisations use software quality assurance (SQA) measurement frameworks. However, before such a framework is developed and adopted the organisation needs to define what is meant by quality. To help this definition process, numerous approaches and quality models exist. Many of the early...
more information and application details
Supervisor's homepage and their other projects
—
Tracking 2D Articulate Motion, PhD
Supervisor: Dr D. Makris
Interpreting human motion can benefit a wide variety of industrial sectors, such as sports analysis for virtual replaying and analysis of athletes’ motion patterns, visual surveillance for gait analysis, behaviour understanding and event detection, Human Computer Interaction for body motion based...
more information and application details
Supervisor's homepage and their other projects
—
Video quality assessment and source models for scalable and 3D video over wireless networks, PhD
Supervisor: Dr M.G. Martini
Wireless video transmission is a challenging task due to the high bandwidth required by video transmission and to the error prone wireless channel. In order to transmit video over bandwidth constrained channels, compression has to be performed. Since compression increases the sensitivity of transmission...
more information and application details
Supervisor's homepage and their other projects
—
QoS and Energy aware routing for Wireless Sensor Networks, PhD
Supervisor: Dr C. Politis
The problem of energy scarcity in the Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) has led to the development of several techniques in all layers of network protocol stack. These techniques aim to enable sensor nodes to efficiently use energy resources. In this context, network layer is not an exception. Hence...
more information and application details
Supervisor's homepage and their other projects
—
Biologically inspired detection and tracking of humans, PhD
Supervisor: Dr S.A. Velastin Human beings have specialised in being able to detect and follow other humans in spite of sensor (eye) movement and noise as well as cluttered environments. It is believed that such ability is the result of evolution plus intensive training during early years...
more information and application details
Supervisor's homepage and their other projects
—
Research Project ideas
—
Extraction of Subconscious Behaviour Hints
from Human Body Motion Data, PhD
Supervisor: Dr J. Francik
Precise human body motion data may be relatively easily utilised due to recent development in affordable instrumented motion capture systems. Also, rapid progress in markerless motion capture, entirely based on computer vision solutions, will make the acquisition of such data even more common...
more information and application details
Supervisor's homepage and their other projects
—
Vision Based Gaming, PhD Supervisor: Dr D. Greenhill
The Sony EyeToy ™ is one of a number of new input devices in the latest generation of games consoles. The EyeToy device makes use of data from a video camera to analyse the position and movement of the player which is then used to control the gameplay. There are currently only a relatively small...
more information and application details
Supervisor's homepage and their other projects
—
Next Generation of medical wireless network sensors
and mobile Communication technologies for enhanced exercise capacity for people with mild COPD, PhD
Supervisor: Prof R. S. H. Istepanian
This project reflects collaboration between the MINT and PHIRE research centres at Kingston University and St George’s, University of London. The main objective of the proposal is the design and development of next generation of wireless sensor networks and mobile communications technologies in...
more information and application details
Supervisor's homepage and their other projects
—
Local Intelligent Control for PTZs under
Remote Operator Control (LInC), PhD
Supervisor: Prof G.A. Jones
Control of a remote PTZ (pan,tilt and zoom) dome is complicated by the large communication and protocol delays. This project will explore the use of local intelligent image processing and control algorithms placed on the remote PTZ to support the remote human controller. Key tasks will be to establish...
more information and application details
Supervisor's homepage and their other projects
—
Evaluating Stereo PTZ for Real-time Image Tracking, PhD
Supervisor: Prof G.A. Jones
The availability of depth data significantly enhances the standard imagery generated by video cameras. Though non-trivial, such depth data can be recovered using a stereo pair of cameras. Active stereo heads use precision-manufactured equipment to direct the gaze of stereo cameras. Analysing the two...
more information and application details
Supervisor's homepage and their other projects
—
Sign Language Recognition, PhD
Supervisor: Dr D. Makris
Sign language is a well-spread and successful communication method in deaf communities. However, the communication between deaf and non-deaf people may be problematic, because very few non-deaf people can use sign language. A Computer Vision system that automatically interprets sign language from...
more information and application details
Supervisor's homepage and their other projects
—
Genetics-inspired framework for video processing, PhD
Supervisor: Dr J.-C. Nebel
Although state-of-the-art visual surveillance algorithms have been the product of extensive work by many researchers worldwide for more than a decade, current approaches are still not sufficient to handle the very wide range of data exhibited by CCTV videos. Consequently, a new approach is required...
more information and application details
Supervisor's homepage and their other projects
—
Parsing Algorithms and Editing Paradigms
for Spoken Mathematics, PhD
Supervisor: Dr E. Pfluegel
Recent progress in the availability of efficient and accurate automatic speech recognisers (ASR) has meant that many computer-based tasks, such as editing text documents, can now be carried out without the use of keyboard or mouse, simply by using speech commands. This is true to a lesser extent for...
more information and application details
Supervisor's homepage and their other projects
—
Green Communications in Licensed and LE Bands, PhD
Supervisor: Dr C. Politis
Green communications are viewed as a novel approach for improving primarily the energy efficiency of wireless communication systems by researching innovative and effective PHY and MAC techniques...
more information and application details
Supervisor's homepage and their other projects
—
Multi-Robot Coordination, PhD
Supervisor: Dr P. Remagnino
A candidate is sought to carry out robotics research with our 7 small Surveyor SRV-1 robots. The robots have a single camera on-board and the aim is to design and develop algorithms to coordinate the robots to perform a number of tasks, including the charting of an unexplored area, the monitoring of...
more information and application details
Supervisor's homepage and their other projects
—
Active Visual Surveillance, PhD
Supervisor: Dr S.A. Velastin
This project refers to the use of pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) cameras (or very high resolution cameras) for actively detecting and focusing situations of interest in the context of intelligent monitoring of spaces not only for security but for more "benign" applications such as assisted living (elderly, disabled)...
more information and application details
Supervisor's homepage and their other projects
—
Further Information
Contact Bee Tang, Faculty Research Officer
T: +44 (0) 208 417 2054
E: b.tang@kingston.ac.uk
Contact Bee Tang, Faculty Research Officer
T: +44 (0) 208 417 2054
E: b.tang@kingston.ac.uk