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This year’s Final Year Projects Exhibition of the University of Malta’s Faculty of ICT will include around 70 projects which relate to various aspects of ICT, both applied and theoretical, with a mixture of commercially orientated works. The projects represent various fields of study in ICT, as well as some cross-disciplinary areas of study.
The exhibition is open to the public on Friday July 12, 2013 between 5pm and 8pm and will be housed in the ‘old’ Computing Building accessible from Car Park 2 located next to the Campus Library.
In the area of transportation and routing, one can identify such projects as a micro-controller for parking areas, location-aware vehicular routing, traffic congestion avoidance, intelligent transport management, optimisation of marine routes, tracking and driver assistance, vehicle detection, and more.
In the area of microchip and embedded system design, one notes a number of projects in field-programmable gate array (FPGA) application, customisation and design as well as the design of innovative analogue to digital convertor (ADC) techniques, and others.
The area of verification and modeling sees such projects as novel monitoring approaches for distributed and non-distributed systems, automated “bot player” detection through verification, ways of describing compensations (i.e. showing that a system remains consistent and therefore correctly functioning even after it has recovered from a fault), automatically generating visual software design models from natural language descriptions, various projects in programming language theory, automatic test-case generation, and more.
The areas of security, data management and cloud-based technology boasts such projects as fraud detection, malicious computer use detection, a signals-based intrusion detection system, enhancing signature-based detection, data mining to help customer relationship management, software to handle missing data in medical questionnaires, audio fingerprinting, spatial databases for routing issues, building large “personal clouds” from space-limited consumer cloud services, reliable data collection on mobile devices, and others.
In the field of communications, there is image colourisation used as a compression technique, object tracking through image processing used to control an autonomous helicopter, and autonomous signals-based intrusion detection.
In the general area of entertainment and graphics, one can highlight such projects as alternate reality story-telling, alternate reality techniques in traditional gaming, an adaptive game opponent, acceleration structures for ray tracing, and producing the perfect basketball shot.
The area of assistive and social technology sees such projects as web-based recommender systems, a recruitment system based on information in social networks, improvements in real-time online reservation systems, semantically linking articles and micro blogs, user profiling for assisted living facilities, and more.
A few interesting projects lie within cross-disciplinary areas of health, astronomy and biometrics: predicting blood-glucose levels of diabetic patients; a brain-computer interface (BCI) for use with expert systems; searching for planets in the Kepler fields using parameter estimation; iris recognition; and a smartphone-based system for obesity management in children.
This year a number of companies will be recognising the best projects. These Gold Sponsors are Bit8 Ltd, Microsoft Malta, Computime, ISL Limited and CCBill EU.
The Faculty of ICT is also holding a seminar for prospective students on Friday July 12 at 4.30pm, at the Science Lecture Theatre, (SLT).
Seminar attendees will be given a tour of the exhibited projects.