Search Results for author: Peter Corcoran

Found 41 papers, 4 papers with code

Synthesizing CTA Image Data for Type-B Aortic Dissection using Stable Diffusion Models

no code implementations10 Feb 2024 Ayman Abaid, Muhammad Ali Farooq, Niamh Hynes, Peter Corcoran, Ihsan Ullah

It has been shown that Cardiac CTA images can be successfully generated using using Text to Image (T2I) stable diffusion model.

Derm-T2IM: Harnessing Synthetic Skin Lesion Data via Stable Diffusion Models for Enhanced Skin Disease Classification using ViT and CNN

no code implementations10 Jan 2024 Muhammad Ali Farooq, Wang Yao, Michael Schukat, Mark A Little, Peter Corcoran

This study explores the utilization of Dermatoscopic synthetic data generated through stable diffusion models as a strategy for enhancing the robustness of machine learning model training.

Few-Shot Learning Synthetic Data Generation

Data Center Audio/Video Intelligence on Device (DAVID) -- An Edge-AI Platform for Smart-Toys

no code implementations18 Nov 2023 Gabriel Cosache, Francisco Salgado, Cosmin Rotariu, George Sterpu, Rishabh Jain, Peter Corcoran

An overview is given of the DAVID Smart-Toy platform, one of the first Edge AI platform designs to incorporate advanced low-power data processing by neural inference models co-located with the relevant image or audio sensors.

Synthetic Speaking Children -- Why We Need Them and How to Make Them

no code implementations8 Nov 2023 Muhammad Ali Farooq, Dan Bigioi, Rishabh Jain, Wang Yao, Mariam Yiwere, Peter Corcoran

Contemporary Human Computer Interaction (HCI) research relies primarily on neural network models for machine vision and speech understanding of a system user.

A comparative analysis between Conformer-Transducer, Whisper, and wav2vec2 for improving the child speech recognition

1 code implementation7 Nov 2023 Andrei Barcovschi, Rishabh Jain, Peter Corcoran

We demonstrate that finetuning Conformer-transducer models on child speech yields significant improvements in ASR performance on child speech, compared to the non-finetuned models.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +1

Neuromorphic Seatbelt State Detection for In-Cabin Monitoring with Event Cameras

no code implementations15 Aug 2023 Paul Kielty, Cian Ryan, Mehdi Sefidgar Dilmaghani, Waseem Shariff, Joe Lemley, Peter Corcoran

In a binary classification task, the fastened/unfastened frames were identified with an F1 score of 0. 989 and 0. 944 on the simulated and real test sets respectively.

Binary Classification

Will your Doorbell Camera still recognize you as you grow old

no code implementations8 Aug 2023 Wang Yao, Muhammad Ali Farooq, Joseph Lemley, Peter Corcoran

This work explores the effect of age and aging on the performance of facial authentication methods.

Face Recognition MORPH

ChildGAN: Large Scale Synthetic Child Facial Data Using Domain Adaptation in StyleGAN

no code implementations25 Jul 2023 Muhammad Ali Farooq, Wang Yao, Gabriel Costache, Peter Corcoran

In this research work, we proposed a novel ChildGAN, a pair of GAN networks for generating synthetic boys and girls facial data derived from StyleGAN2.

Domain Adaptation Transfer Learning

Adaptation of Whisper models to child speech recognition

1 code implementation24 Jul 2023 Rishabh Jain, Andrei Barcovschi, Mariam Yiwere, Peter Corcoran, Horia Cucu

We demonstrate that finetuning Whisper on child speech yields significant improvements in ASR performance on child speech, compared to non finetuned Whisper models.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +1

Neuromorphic Sensing for Yawn Detection in Driver Drowsiness

no code implementations4 May 2023 Paul Kielty, Mehdi Sefidgar Dilmaghani, Cian Ryan, Joe Lemley, Peter Corcoran

An additional 12300 frames were generated from event simulations of a public dataset to test against other methods.

Autonomous Driving

Dataset Creation Pipeline for Camera-Based Heart Rate Estimation

no code implementations2 Mar 2023 Mohamed Moustafa, Amr Elrasad, Joseph Lemley, Peter Corcoran

The data prepared is to include camera frames as well as sensor readings from an electrocardiograph sensor.

Denoising Heart rate estimation

Development, Optimization, and Deployment of Thermal Forward Vision Systems for Advance Vehicular Applications on Edge Devices

1 code implementation18 Jan 2023 Muhammad Ali Farooq, Waseem Shariff, Faisal Khan, Peter Corcoran

In this research work, we have proposed a thermal tiny-YOLO multi-class object detection (TTYMOD) system as a smart forward sensing system that should remain effective in all weather and harsh environmental conditions using an end-to-end YOLO deep learning framework.

Model Optimization object-detection +2

Speech Driven Video Editing via an Audio-Conditioned Diffusion Model

no code implementations10 Jan 2023 Dan Bigioi, Shubhajit Basak, Michał Stypułkowski, Maciej Zięba, Hugh Jordan, Rachel McDonnell, Peter Corcoran

Taking inspiration from recent developments in visual generative tasks using diffusion models, we propose a method for end-to-end speech-driven video editing using a denoising diffusion model.

Denoising Face Model +2

Event-based YOLO Object Detection: Proof of Concept for Forward Perception System

no code implementations14 Dec 2022 Waseem Shariff, Muhammad Ali Farooq, Joe Lemley, Peter Corcoran

The focus is on building efficient state-of-the-art object detection networks with better inference results for fast-moving forward perception using an event camera.

object-detection Object Detection

DroneAttention: Sparse Weighted Temporal Attention for Drone-Camera Based Activity Recognition

no code implementations7 Dec 2022 Santosh Kumar Yadav, Achleshwar Luthra, Esha Pahwa, Kamlesh Tiwari, Heena Rathore, Hari Mohan Pandey, Peter Corcoran

To address such complexities, in this paper, we propose a novel Sparse Weighted Temporal Attention (SWTA) module to utilize sparsely sampled video frames for obtaining global weighted temporal attention.

Human Activity Recognition Optical Flow Estimation

SWTF: Sparse Weighted Temporal Fusion for Drone-Based Activity Recognition

no code implementations10 Nov 2022 Santosh Kumar Yadav, Esha Pahwa, Achleshwar Luthra, Kamlesh Tiwari, Hari Mohan Pandey, Peter Corcoran

To address such complexities, in this paper, we propose a novel Sparse Weighted Temporal Fusion (SWTF) module to utilize sparsely sampled video frames for obtaining global weighted temporal fusion outcome.

Human Activity Recognition Optical Flow Estimation

Control and Evaluation of Event Cameras Output Sharpness via Bias

no code implementations25 Oct 2022 Mehdi Sefidgar Dilmaghani, Waseem Shariff, Cian Ryan, Joe Lemley, Peter Corcoran

To increase the users degree of freedom in controlling the output of these cameras, such as changing the sensitivity of the sensor to light changes, controlling the number of generated events and other similar operations, the camera manufacturers usually introduce some tools to make sensor level changes in camera settings.

Recurrent Super-Resolution Method for Enhancing Low Quality Thermal Facial Data

no code implementations21 Sep 2022 David O'Callaghan, Cian Ryan, Waseem Shariff, Muhammad Ali Farooq, Joseph Lemley, Peter Corcoran

The process of obtaining high-resolution images from single or multiple low-resolution images of the same scene is of great interest for real-world image and signal processing applications.

Image Super-Resolution

A Wav2vec2-Based Experimental Study on Self-Supervised Learning Methods to Improve Child Speech Recognition

no code implementations6 Apr 2022 Rishabh Jain, Andrei Barcovschi, Mariam Yiwere, Dan Bigioi, Peter Corcoran, Horia Cucu

Our models outperformed the wav2vec2 BASE 960 on child speech which is considered a state-of-the-art ASR model on adult speech by just using 10 hours of child speech data in finetuning.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +2

Evaluation of Thermal Imaging on Embedded GPU Platforms for Application in Vehicular Assistance Systems

no code implementations5 Jan 2022 Muhammad Ali Farooq, Waseem Shariff, Peter Corcoran

This study is focused on evaluating the real-time performance of thermal object detection for smart and safe vehicular systems by deploying the trained networks on GPU & single-board EDGE-GPU computing platforms for onboard automotive sensor suite testing.

object-detection Object Detection

Object Detection in Thermal Spectrum for Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems (ADAS)

no code implementations20 Sep 2021 Muhammad Ali Farooq, Peter Corcoran, Cosmin Rotariu, Waseem Shariff

Object detection in thermal infrared spectrum provides more reliable data source in low-lighting conditions and different weather conditions, as it is useful both in-cabin and outside for pedestrian, animal, and vehicular detection as well as for detecting street-signs & lighting poles.

object-detection Object Detection

Towards End-to-End Neural Face Authentication in the Wild - Quantifying and Compensating for Directional Lighting Effects

no code implementations8 Apr 2021 Viktor Varkarakis, Wang Yao, Peter Corcoran

This work shows that an SoA neural face recognition model can be tuned to compensate for directional lighting effects, removing the need for a pre-processing step before applying facial recognition.

Face Recognition

Generating Thermal Image Data Samples using 3D Facial Modelling Techniques and Deep Learning Methodologies

no code implementations5 May 2020 Muhammad Ali Farooq, Peter Corcoran

The same technique is also used on our thermal face data acquired using prototype thermal camera (developed under Heliaus EU project) in an indoor lab environment which is then used for generating synthetic 3D face data along with varying yaw face angles and lastly facial depth map is generated.

Dataset Cleaning -- A Cross Validation Methodology for Large Facial Datasets using Face Recognition

no code implementations24 Mar 2020 Viktor Varkarakis, Peter Corcoran

In this work, it is presented a semi-automatic method for cleaning the noisy large face datasets with the use of face recognition.

Face Detection Face Recognition

Advanced Deep Learning Methodologies for Skin Cancer Classification in Prodromal Stages

no code implementations13 Mar 2020 Muhammad Ali Farooq, Asma Khatoon, Viktor Varkarakis, Peter Corcoran

The experimental results demonstrate notable improvement in train and validation accuracy by using the refined version of images of both the networks, however, the Inception-v3 network was able to achieve better validation accuracy thus it was finally selected to evaluate it on test data.

General Classification Robust classification +1

Towards Unconstrained Palmprint Recognition on Consumer Devices: a Literature Review

no code implementations2 Mar 2020 Adrian-S. Ungureanu, Saqib Salahuddin, Peter Corcoran

As a biometric palmprints have been largely under-utilized, but they offer some advantages over fingerprints and facial biometrics.

Deep Neural Network and Data Augmentation Methodology for off-axis iris segmentation in wearable headsets

no code implementations1 Mar 2019 Viktor Varkarakis, Shabab Bazrafkan, Peter Corcoran

A data augmentation methodology is presented and applied to generate a large dataset of off-axis iris regions and train a low-complexity deep neural network.

Data Augmentation Iris Segmentation +2

Efficient CNN Implementation for Eye-Gaze Estimation on Low-Power/Low-Quality Consumer Imaging Systems

no code implementations28 Jun 2018 Joseph Lemley, Anuradha Kar, Alexandru Drimbarean, Peter Corcoran

Accurate and efficient eye gaze estimation is important for emerging consumer electronic systems such as driver monitoring systems and novel user interfaces.

Gaze Estimation

Versatile Auxiliary Classifier with Generative Adversarial Network (VAC+GAN), Multi Class Scenarios

no code implementations19 Jun 2018 Shabab Bazrafkan, Peter Corcoran

Conditional generators learn the data distribution for each class in a multi-class scenario and generate samples for a specific class given the right input from the latent space.

General Classification Generative Adversarial Network

Versatile Auxiliary Regressor with Generative Adversarial network (VAR+GAN)

no code implementations28 May 2018 Shabab Bazrafkan, Peter Corcoran

Conditional generators are one of the successful implementations of such models wherein the created samples are constrained to a specific class.

Face Generation Generative Adversarial Network +1

Versatile Auxiliary Classifier with Generative Adversarial Network (VAC+GAN)

no code implementations1 May 2018 Shabab Bazrafkan, Hossein Javidnia, Peter Corcoran

One of the most interesting challenges in Artificial Intelligence is to train conditional generators which are able to provide labeled adversarial samples drawn from a specific distribution.

General Classification Generative Adversarial Network

Face Synthesis with Landmark Points from Generative Adversarial Networks and Inverse Latent Space Mapping

no code implementations1 Feb 2018 Shabab Bazrafkan, Hossein Javidnia, Peter Corcoran

There have been a tremendous amount of attempts to detect these points from facial images however, there has never been an attempt to synthesize a random face and generate its corresponding facial landmarks.

Image and Video Processing

An End to End Deep Neural Network for Iris Segmentation in Unconstraint Scenarios

no code implementations7 Dec 2017 Shabab Bazrafkan, Shejin Thavalengal, Peter Corcoran

Finally, the proposed model is compared with SegNet-basic, and a near-optimal tuning of the network is compared to a selection of other state-of-art iris segmentation algorithms.

Iris Segmentation Segmentation

Total Variation-Based Dense Depth from Multi-Camera Array

no code implementations21 Nov 2017 Hossein Javidnia, Peter Corcoran

Evaluation of this method based on a well-known benchmark indicates that the proposed framework performs well in terms of accuracy when compared to the top-ranked depth estimation methods and a baseline algorithm.

Depth Estimation

The Application of Preconditioned Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers in Depth from Focal Stack

no code implementations21 Nov 2017 Hossein Javidnia, Peter Corcoran

To tackle this issue, in this paper, a framework is proposed based on Preconditioned Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (PADMM) for depth from the focal stack and synthetic defocus application.

Occlusion Handling

Smart Augmentation - Learning an Optimal Data Augmentation Strategy

no code implementations24 Mar 2017 Joseph Lemley, Shabab Bazrafkan, Peter Corcoran

Smart Augmentation works by creating a network that learns how to generate augmented data during the training process of a target network in a way that reduces that networks loss.

Data Augmentation Transfer Learning

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