Research Student Projects
As Principle Investigator, Prof Zhang has brought in 10 million pounds (GBP) of research grants to the NCCA from the EPSRC, AHRC, EU FP7 and EU H2020 as well as other funding organisations. His research focuses on a number of topics relating to 3D computer animation, virtual human modelling and simulation, and physics-based animation. He is also interested in virtual reality, medical visualisation and simulation, and conversational AI.
AI technology uses sound to count baby owls
Phantom Touch phenomenon as a manifestation of the Visual-AuditoryTactile Synaesthesia and its impact on the users in virtual reality
3d content creation exploiting 2d character animation
Fast Multiple-fluid Simulation
Virtual Reality Based Surgery Simulation
2.5D scene reconstruction from monocular images
Personalized Anatomical Skeleton Inference from Monocular inputs
Yoga Training in Immersive Environment
3D scene reconstruction using 3D Gaussian Splatting
Real-time Speech Emotion Recognition system in VR
