Dr Mark Schier

PhD candidate and honours supervision

Higher degrees by research

Accredited to supervise Masters & Doctoral students as Principal Supervisor.

Honours

Available to supervise honours students.

Honours topics and outlines

Detection of human thresholds to light perception: In the dark and light adapted huan eye, there are different levels of minimum intensity that is required for perception. The aim of this project is to systematically measure these under varying conditions of illumination and type of light source

Eye movements and detection of attention related changes: Eye movements can be divided into two distinct types: saccades – where gaze jumps from one location to another, and smooth pursuit – where tracking of an object occurs. The scope of the project is to  examine the interaction between the two types of eye movements and how these are affected by external attentional changes.    

Facial recognition: effects of image size, separation ad position: Facial recognition is a widely used technique in our current community. Largely used for processing of identity documents at border control, immigration and extending more into everyday life. This project aims to investigate matching photographs or on-screen images with other similar images. The variables to be explored are the effect of images size/s, separation and location on screen.