Final Year Project Proposals from Richard Sutcliffe:
Proposer ID: RSu
Title: [RSu04] A Speech-Driven Question Answering System for Musical Documents (new 6/9/2011)
The aim will be to build and evaluate a system which can answer simple questions about Irish classical music, based on information contained in a document collection. A typical exchange might be:-
Q: Who wrote 'In the Mountain Country'?
A: E. J. Moeran
Proposer ID: RSu
Title: [RSu01] Documentary Film: Life of a Musician (new 6/9/2011)
The aim will be to make a short documentary film concerning the life of a classical musician. It is assumed that there will be a mixture of studio footage, location shots and so on. You may like to compose music for your film as well. There may be local players, e.g. in the ICO, who would be willing to be the subject the film.
Proposer ID: RSu
Title: [RSu02] Documentary Film: Life of an Artist (new 6/9/2011)
The aim will be to make a short documentary film concerning the life of an artist (e.g. a portrait painter). It is assumed that there will be a mixture of studio footage, location shots and so on. You may like to compose music for your film as well.
Proposer ID: RSu
Title: [RSu03] Software + Robotics: Conducting Machine (new 6/9/2011)
The aim will be to design and build a robot that can conduct music. Given a simple input score, the robot will conduct it. This will be evaluated by getting the robot to conduct actual classical musicians. A very simple robot will be required; the main part of the project will be interpreting the score and deciding how to conduct it.
