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NeFT-Net: N-window extended frequency transformer for rhythmic motion prediction

Journal Article
Ademola, A., Sinclair, D., Koniaris, B., Hannah, S., & Mitchell, K. (2025)
NeFT-Net: N-window extended frequency transformer for rhythmic motion prediction. Computers and Graphics, 129, Article 104244. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cag.2025.104244
Advancements in prediction of human motion sequences are critical for enabling online virtual reality (VR) users to dance and move in ways that accurately mirror real-world ac...

HoloJig: Interactive Spoken Prompt Specified Generative AI Environments

Journal Article
Casas, L., Hannah, S., & Mitchell, K. (online)
HoloJig: Interactive Spoken Prompt Specified Generative AI Environments. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, https://doi.org/10.1109/mcg.2025.3553780
HoloJig offers an interactive, speech-to-VR, virtual reality experience that generates diverse environments in real-time based on live spoken descriptions. Unlike traditional ...

Machine learning for animatronic development and optimization

Patent
Mitchell, K., Castellon, J., Bacher, M., McCrory, M., Stolarz, J., & Ayala, A. (2025)
Machine learning for animatronic development and optimization. US12236168B2
Techniques for animatronic design are provided. A plurality of simulated meshes is generated using a physics simulation model, where the plurality of simulated meshes correspo...

Audio Occlusion Experiment Data

Data
McSeveney, S., Tamariz, M., McGregor, I., Koniaris, B., & Mitchell, K. (2025)
Audio Occlusion Experiment Data. [Data]
This dataset comprises anonymous user study participant responses of audio occlusion to investigate presence response of body occlusions in the presence of sound sources in th...

Synchronous Patterned Motion Avatars

Patent
Mitchell, K., Sinclair, D., Koniaris, B., & Ademola, A. (2024)
Synchronous Patterned Motion Avatars

Improved Double Deep Q Network-Based Task Scheduling Algorithm in Edge Computing for Makespan Optimization

Journal Article
Zeng, L., Liu, Q., Shen, S., & Liu, X. (2024)
Improved Double Deep Q Network-Based Task Scheduling Algorithm in Edge Computing for Makespan Optimization. Tsinghua Science and Technology, 29(3), 806 - 817. https://doi.org/10.26599/TST.2023.9010058
Edge computing nodes undertake more and more tasks as business density grows. How to efficiently allocate large-scale and dynamic workloads to edge computing resources has bec...

DanceMark: An open telemetry framework for latency sensitive real-time networked immersive experiences

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Koniaris, B., Sinclair, D., & Mitchell, K. (2024, March)
DanceMark: An open telemetry framework for latency sensitive real-time networked immersive experiences. Presented at IEEE VR Workshop on Open Access Tools and Libraries for Virtual Reality, Orlando, FL
DanceMark is an open telemetry framework designed for latency-sensitive real-time networked immersive experiences, focusing on online dancing in virtual reality within the Dan...

Method and system for visually seamless grafting of volumetric data

Patent
Mitchell, K. J. (2024)
Method and system for visually seamless grafting of volumetric data
Visually seamless grafting of volumetric data. In some implementations, a method includes obtaining volumetric data that represents a first volume including one or more three-...

Expressive Talking Avatars

Journal Article
Pan, Y., Tan, S., Cheng, S., Lin, Q., Zeng, Z., & Mitchell, K. (2024)
Expressive Talking Avatars. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 30(5), 2538-2548. https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2024.3372047
Stylized avatars are common virtual representations used in VR to support interaction and communication between remote collaborators. However, explicit expressions are notorio...

Augmented Reality Methods and Systems

Patent
Cambra, L. C., & Mitchell, K. (2024)
Augmented Reality Methods and Systems. US11908068
Methods and systems employing augmented reality techniques via real-world objects for various purposes. Computer implemented methods are provided for animated augmentation of ...

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Learning from Collaborative Storytelling: Enhancing Visual Scene Understanding through Human-Robot Interaction

2025 - 2028
The research project aims to revolutionise how robots comprehend and interact with the physical world by combining advanced techniques in video analysis, knowledge acquisition, and collaborative story...
Funder: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council | Value: £439,581

VanFill Innovation Voucher

2025 - 2025
An innovation voucher applied for in conjunction with VanFill
Funder: Scottish Funding Council | Value: £7,495

Swarmchestrate - Application-level Swarm-based Orchestration Across the Cloud-to-Things Continuum

2024 - 2026
The next-generation of intelligent cyber-physical and IoT systems powered by artificial intelligence (AI) are becoming an essential part of our environment. With the ever-growing number of intelligent...
Funder: European Commission | Value: £357,303

The Policy Cards project - CAPE funded

2023 - 2024
The purpose of the project is to continue and finish the development of the Policy Cards. The Policy Cards are a card-based ideation tool that facilitates the analysis and development of policy campai...
Funder: Research England | Value: £11,311

On the executability and malicious retention of adversarial malware samples generated using adversarial learning.

2023 - 2023
A SICSA Sponsored Research Theme Event Machine Learning (ML) models have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial examples designed to fool ML models to classify them as benign rather than malicious...
Funder: The Scottish Informatics & Computer Science Alliance

SICSA AI Small Grant

2023 - 2023
We are working on a computer vision project to make construction sites and, more general, workshops operations safer. In particular, we are interested on analysing videos of personnel performing certa...
Funder: The Scottish Informatics & Computer Science Alliance | Value: £378

Data Driven Analysis of PEMFT Benefits

2022 - 2022
PEMFT Ltd is a company founded in June 2020 to develop the business potential of a pulsed electromagnetic therapy device created by founder, Donald McGregor. Field-testing of the device has generated ...
Funder: Scottish Funding Council | Value: £5,000

Evolutionary based Generative Adversarial Learning Approach to Metamorphic Malware Detection

2022 - 2022
Malicious attacks account for a significant portion of attacks to information assets and computer networks in organisations today. More specifically, dangerous groups of malware that transform their c...
Funder: The Scottish Informatics & Computer Science Alliance | Value: £1,200

Cloud based distribution system to tackle food poverty

2022 - 2023
Local food sectors, e.g. Foodbanks, still rely on paper-based referral systems whilst continuing to see increasing demand. In addition, the model of direct hand-outs of food parcels and electricity vo...
Funder: Scottish Funding Council | Value: £570

Link Forty2

2022 - 2022
The aim of the project is to design a recruitment service for jobseekers and employers in the form of a software system, e.g., a web service or mobile app. The system is intended to re-define and spee...
Funder: Scottish Funding Council | Value: £5,000

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AI-Driven Conversational Storytelling with Humans in Natural Language

2023 - date
Lewis Watson | Director of Studies: Dr Yanchao Yu | Second Supervisor: Prof Kenny Mitchell

An investigation of olfactory display technology for the enhancement of presence within virtual reality experiences

2018 - 2023
Andrew McKelvey | Director of Studies: Dr Emilia Sobolewska | Second Supervisor: Dr Michael Smyth

Application of evolutionary machine learning in metamorphic malware analysis and detection

2017 - 2021
Dr Kehinde Babaagba | Director of Studies: Dr Thomas Tan | Second Supervisor: Prof Emma Hart

Semantic model-driven framework for validating quality requirements of internet of things streaming data

2016 - 2021
Dr Oluwaseun Bamgboye | Director of Studies: Prof Xiaodong Liu | Second Supervisor: Dr Peter Cruickshank

Intermediated Reality

2016 - 2020
Real-time solutions to reducing the gap between virtual and physical worlds for photorealistic interactive Augmented Reality (AR) are presented. First, a method of texture deforma...
Dr Llogari Casas Cambra | Director of Studies: Prof Kenny Mitchell | Second Supervisor: Dr Kevin Chalmers

Evolving planar mechanisms for the conceptual stage of mechanical design

2015 - 2020
Dr Paul Lapok | Director of Studies: Alistair Lawson | Second Supervisor: Prof Ben Paechter

Visualisation techniques to facilitate argument exploration

2015 - 2020
Arguments are structures of premises and conclusions that underpin rational reasoning processes. Within complex knowledge domains, especially...
Dana Khartabil | Director of Studies: Dr Simon Wells | Second Supervisor: Prof Jessie Kennedy

Towards a unified method to synthesising scenarios and solvers in combinatorial optimisation via graph-based approaches

2015 - 2020
Christopher Stone | Director of Studies: Prof Emma Hart | Second Supervisor: Prof Ben Paechter

Visualisation support for biological Bayesian network inference

2015 - 2019
Network models are often created to describe interactions between components in biological systems. At a molecular level the involved com...
Thanasis Vogogias | Director of Studies: Prof Jessie Kennedy

A closer look at adaptation mechanisms in simulated environment-driven evolutionary swarm robotics

2013 - 2018
Swarm robotics is a special case within the general field of robotics. The distributed nature makes it...
Dr Andreas Steyven | Director of Studies: Prof Emma Hart | Second Supervisor: Prof Ben Paechter
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Connecting people through dance: ENU-developed tech heads to world’s biggest gaming conference

21 August 2024
Immersive game Carousel Dancing aims to combat loneliness through fun. The Edinburgh Napier University (ENU) team behind new immersive gaming technology, which aims to tackle loneliness and social iso...

Prof. Emma Hart invited to join Scottish Government Steering Group to develop an Artificial Intelligence (AI) strategy for Scotland.

17 September 2019
Prof. Emma Hart has been invited by Minister Kate Forbes to join a Scottish Government Steering Group to develop an Artificial Intelligence (AI) strategy for Scotland.

Researchers from Nature-Inspired Intelligent Systems group win Best Paper Award@GECCO 2019

17 July 2019
PhD student Mohamad Alissa with supervisors Dr Kevin Sim and Prof. Emma Hart won the Best Paper award in the ECOM track at GECCO 2019 in Prague for their paper: Algorithm Selection Using Deep Learnin...

Prof . Emma Hart gives interview "An Insider's Guide to Evolutionary Computation"

17 December 2018
Laura van Beers from ContactEngine, a London based company delivering software that enables its customers to proactively engage customers in AI-driven conversations to fulfil their business objective...

Prof. Emma Hart invited to talk at Scotland IS Software Engineering Leader's Forum to discuss SICSA's work on AI

20 November 2018
Prof. Emma Hart gave an invited talk at the monthly meet-up of the Scotland IS Software Engineering forum on behalf of the SICSA AI theme to describe the work taking place across Scottish Universities...

Prof. Emma Hart interviewed in new video released by Sentient AI to provide unique insights to business leaders on the growing applicability of evolutionary computation

14 August 2018
Sentient Technologies, a world leader in artificial intelligence (AI) products based on evolutionary computation, today announced a new video collection that provides unique insights to the burgeonin...

Prof. Emma Hart and Dr Kevin Sim win Bronze Award in International Humies competition for work on predicting wind damage in Forestry

19 July 2018
The Annual Humies prize is awarded at the International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation for human-competitive results that have been produced by any form of genetic and evolutionar...

Evolutionary Robotics Research Nominated for Best Paper Award

15 July 2018
Prof. Emma Hart, Dr Andreas Steyven and Prof. Ben Paechter have been nominated for a prestigious best paper award at the GECCO 18, Kyoto, Japan for new work in evolving a diverse team of swarm robot...

Prof. Emma Hart invited as a keynote speaker at IJCCI in Funchal, Madeira, November 2017

1 November 2017
The International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence brings together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the field of Computational Intelligence both from theoretical an...

Dr. Simon Powers has been appointed as an Associate Editor for Adaptive Behavior

19 October 2017
Adaptive Behavior is an indexed, international peer reviewed journal that publishes articles on adaptive behavior in biological systems and autonomous artificial systems. Dr. Simon Powers has been inv...
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Seminar: The evolutionary iron law of oligarchy

Wednesday 11th December, 4-5pm C44
11 December 2019

School of Computing PhD Workshop Series - Final Event

16:00 in CoRe44 (room C44) Merchiston Campus
31 October 2018

Engineering Sustainable and Adaptive systems in Dynamic and Unpredictable Environments - School of Computing Seminar Series

14:00 in CoRe44, room C44, Merchiston Campus
14 June 2018

Evolutionary robotics: a tool to understand and design collective behaviours in collective adaptive systems - School of Computing Seminar Series

Core44, Room C44, Merchiston Campus
8 June 2018

Do's and Don'ts for Writing a Thesis - School of Computing PhD Workshop Series

16:00 CoRe44, room C44 Merchiston
6 June 2018

eScience at UCPH & Ubiquitous Data Analysis for MUMMERING - School of Computing Seminar Series

14:00 in CoRe44, room C44, Merchiston Campus
16 May 2018

Pint of Science: Mother Nature Knows Best (Lessons for a Computer Scientist)

Frankenstein Bar, 26 George IV Bridge, Edinburgh
16 May 2018

Connect the dots and spot the gaps - School of Computing PhD Workshop Series

16:00 in Core44, room C44, Merchiston campus
2 May 2018

IT Management Research at Polytechnic School of the University of Sao Paulo - School of Computing Seminar Series

11:00, CORE44, room C44 Mechiston Campus
27 April 2018

Equality, hierarchy, oligarchy: Model-driven investigation of the evolutionary origins of social organization - School of Computing Seminar Series

15:00 in Core44, room C44 Merchiston Campus
25 April 2018