Following are key focus areas of research that would be under study in MAGic
•Procedurally Generated Animation {Quadruped, biped, fish, birds, etc.)
•Procedurally Generated Modelling
•Motion Synthesis
•Biomechanics and Gait Analysis
•Gesture Recognition
•Face Emotional Gesture/Expression Recognition
•Simulation and Visualization
•Augmented Reality
•Game Development
•Mobile Game Development
• Animated short Movie
•Stop Motion based short movie
Following are various Topics for Research & Project work
Procedural Animation Techniques
Currently I am Looking for Students to Work on The following topics of Procedural Animation using Various Techniques, such as Foot Pint based, Physics Based, Kinematics Based, Data Driven or Petrographical etc.
Computer Graphics & Animation
1. Animated clips in MAYA showcasing the Ethics and Manners In Islam.
2. Animated Movie using MAYA.
3. Stop-Motion based animated short Movie.
4. Procedural Animation of a Person Performing NIMAZ.
5. Procedural Animation of Piano Keys (person Playing Piano).
6. Automated and Interactive Procedural Animation of Sindhi Folk Dance.
7. Interactive Procedural Animation of Birds flying and Landing.
8. Interactive Procedural Animation of Fish Swimming.
9. Interactive Procedural Animation of House Lizard Walking on wall.
10. A system of Text to Animation of Facial Expressions.
11. Phonetic based Text to Animation of Facial Lip Synchronization.
12. Automated Hair simulation with procedurally driven joints.
13. Automated and interactive simulation of Octopus Tentacles with procedurally driven joints in MAYA,
14. Procedural Modelling of Buildings (Mud/Twig houses in Sindh)
15. Procedural modelling and texturing of cars.
16. Driving Cars - Procedural Animation in Cars
Game Development
1. Development of FPS game using FPS Creator.
2. Development of FPS game with AI based Non Playing Characters (NPC).
3. Development of 3D Game ‘Battle of IICT’ using UNITY 3D
4. Analysis of AI based Non Player Characters (NPS) in modern Games
5. Development of Mobile Game ‘Rickshaw Rage’
6. Artificial Intelligence based LUDO game with NPC.
Multimedia
Artificial Intelligence
1. Intelligent Tourist Information System
2. A machine learning approach in financial markets
3. Performance Comparison of AI Algorithms – Anytime Algorithms
4. Real Time Speech Driven Face Animation
5. Optimizing Genetic Algorithms for Time Critical Problems
6. Classification of objects in images based on various object representations
7. AI based prediction of Stock Exchange Behaviour.
8. AI based predictive keyboard for Windows 10.
Natural Language Processing
1. Advance Sindhi-Urdu Typing Tutor.
2. Information Retrieval and searching System for Quarnic Text
3. Stemming techniques for extracting Text in Holy Quran
4. A Context Aware Identification and Classification of Quaranic Text with Hadith and Tafseer.