Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR) is an important research area in AI that aims at extracting semantic information from multimedia data sources including perceivable media such as audio, image and video, indirectly perceivable sources such as text, bio-signals as well as not perceivable sources such as bio-information, stock prices, etc.
Digital Multimedia and Memory. Technology has the potential to transform the way that we think and remember, with potential positive and negative impacts on every aspect of our lives.
Zero-shot learning refers to a novel paradigm on learning how to recognise new concepts by just having a description of them. For example, zero-shot learning works on a setting of solving a classification problem when no labelled training examples are available for all classes, which are divided into two class subsets.
Kent's Centre for Journalism offers an MA by Research and a PhD in Journalism. These provide rigorous training for careers in academic journalism and communications roles.
About Film Studies Research, MPhil/PhD. REF rankings 2014. 87% of our research is rated 3* or 4* - indicating internationally excellent and world-leading quality – and 100% being awarded the same rating for its impact.
PhD. 3 years full-time; 6 years part-time. MPhil. 2 years full-time; 4 years part-time. Entry Requirements. An honours degree [2:1 or above] or equivalent overseas qualification.
Discovering facts to support claims. With the rise of fake and misleading news, it is becoming harder for people to understand which facts can and which cannot be trusted.
Identifying and predicting research & innovation trends. This PhD will work with millions of research publications, patents, social network and other datasets to develop new algorithms for identifying, analysing and predicting emerging research areas and innovations.
