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Multimodal Visual Understanding through Reinforcement Learning
Develop algorithms to automatically analyse human sports quality and performance from multiple data sources including different views and imaging devices.
- Supervisor
- Dr Xin Yu
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering, Information and computing sciences
Enhancing Plant Phenotyping Accuracy through Analysing Video Data
Explore the development and implementation of a deep learning framework specifically designed for analyzing video data in agricultural research trials.
- Supervisor
- Professor Helen Huang, Professor Scott Chapman and Dr Mahsa Baktashmotlagh
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences
Semantic Segmentation for Crop Health and Damage Assessment
Develop novel semantic segmentation algorithms that are robust to variations in lighting, crop types, and environmental conditions.
- Supervisor
- Professor Helen Huang, Professor Scott Chapman and Dr Mahsa Baktashmotlagh
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences, Information and computing sciences
Optimising light-driven microalgae cell factories: Biochemical studies of Photosystem II mutants and their light harvesting systems
Develop high-efficiency microalgae cell lines to power light-driven biochemistry from the production of high-value pharmaceuticals to renewable fuels.
- Supervisor
- Professor Ben Hankamer
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences
Structure-guided optimisation of light-driven microalgae cell factories using atomic resolution cryo-electron microscopy
Solve the structures of key light-harvesting complex proteins to enable the engineering of next-gen cell lines.
- Supervisor
- Professor Ben Hankamer and Dr Ian Ross
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences
Biomarkers in gynaecological cancer
Discover and validate biomarkers that improve outcomes for women with gynaecological cancer and will involve working with clinical samples, conducting laboratory work, and analysing data.
- Supervisor
- Professor Andreas Obermair, Dr Eva Baxter and Dr Zoe West
- Location
- Herston
- Research areas
- Biomedical and clinical sciences
Generalisable 3D Vision
Develop advanced multi-modal 3D vision techniques to achieve generalisable practice and solutions.
- Supervisor
- Dr Yadan Luo
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Information and computing sciences
Scanning Probe Microscopy for Atomic-Scale Engineering
Harness the full potential of this technique by using it to induce and track bond-selective chemical reactions in organic molecules.
- Supervisor
- Dr Peter Jacobson and Professor Ben Powell
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Physical sciences
Retrofitting damaged bridge elements with hybrid FRP composites to promote re-use and sustainability
Improve the sustainability of FRP retrofits applied to reinforced concrete structures by developing new types of hybrid FRP composites that combine more sustainable or recycled fibres with a smaller quantity of high-performance fibres.
- Supervisor
- Professor Rebecca Gravina
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering
Economic assessment of risks and rewards for on-farm tactical and strategic investments in the Australian grains industry
Assess, through prescriptive and predictive methods, how opportunities like on-farm grain storage, improved fertilizer management, and weather forecasts can help growers remain economically competitive in the long term under risk.
- Supervisor
- Dr Adam Komarek and Dr Nan Ye
- Location
- Gatton
- Research areas
- Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences, Economics, Information and computing sciences, Mathematical sciences