for my HYP, for my master project, for my Ph.D project, blablabla...
Nowadays it's so difficult (and not advisable) to look for brandly new approaches, rather finding improvements to existing techniques may be a wiser choice...
Of course the situation in FYP is different. A project starting from scratch does not require novel contribution, but preliminary results are expected. If the project is a continuation of someone else's work, then improvement is a MUST...