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IMVIP 2023 Program
Please Note: This program may change due to updates. To view the definitive/latest program, please log into your Microsoft CMT account and check this link.
IMVIP 2023 Training Day - Opening Remarks
Session Chair: Peter Corcoran
Wednesday, August 30, 2023 at 9:15:00 AM – Wednesday, August 30, 2023 at 9:30:00 AM
Venue: Alice Perry Building G017
SS01: Multimodal Data: Innovations in Data Generation and Augmentation
Session Chair: Teerath Kumar Menghwar
Wednesday, August 30, 2023 at 9:30:00 AM – Wednesday, August 30, 2023 at 10:50:00 AM
Venue: Alice Perry Building G017
Adapting the CycleGAN Architecture for Text Style Transfer (20m)
Michela Lorandi (Dublin City University) Maram A. Mohamed (Insight SFI Centre for Data Analytics, Dublin City University.) Kevin McGuinness (DCU)
Assessment of Synthetic Turfgrass Dataset Generation for Divot Detection (20m)
Stephen Foy (ATU and TUD)
A Comparative Study of Image-to-Image Translation Using GANs for Synthetic Child Race Data (20m)
Wang Yao (University of Galway) Muhammad Ali Farooq (University of Galway) Joseph Lemley (Xperi Corporation, Galway, Ireland) Peter Corcoran (University of Galway)
AudRandAug: Random Image Augmentations for Audio Classification (20m)
Teerath Kumar (Dublin City Universtiy) Muhammad Turab (Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Gjovik, Norway) Alessandra Mileo (Dublin City University) Malika Bendechache (University of Galway)
Training Workshop: Large Scale Data Acquisitions on
Human Subjects
Session Chair: Joseph Lemley and Paul Kielty
Wednesday, August 30, 2023 at 9:30:00 AM – Wednesday, August 30, 2023 at 10:40:00 AM
Venue: Alice Perry Building G047
Coffee Break #1
Wednesday, August 30, 2023 at 10:50:00 AM – Wednesday, August 30, 2023 at 11:10:00 AM
Venue: Foyer, Alice Perry Building
SS02: Deep Learning in Medical Image Processing
Session Chair: MaliKa Bendechache
Wednesday, August 30, 2023 at 11:15:00 AM – Wednesday, August 30, 2023 at 12:15:00 PM
Venue: Alice Perry Building G017
Compact & Capable: Harnessing Graph Neural Networks and Edge Convolution for Medical Image Classification (20m)
Aryan Singh (University of limerick) Pepijn van de Ven (University of Limerick) Ciarán Eising (University of Limerick)
Assessing Intra-class Diversity and Quality of Synthetically Generated Images in a Biomedical and Non-biomedical Setting (20m)
Muhammad Muneeb Saad (Munster Technological University, Ireland); Mubashir Husain Rehmani (Munster Technological University); Ruairí O'Reilly (Cork Institute of Technology)
Facial Camera-Based Heart Rate Estimation Using r-PPG Convolutional Neural Networks (20m)
Mohamed Moustafa (University of Galway); Joseph Lemley (Xperi Corporation, Galway, Ireland); Peter Corcoran (University of Galway)
Training Workshop: Synthetic Data Generation with GANs
Session Chair: Muhammad Ali Farooq
Wednesday, August 30, 2023 at 11:15:00 AM – Wednesday, August 30, 2023 at 12:25:00 PM
Venue: Alice Perry Building G047
Lunch #1
Wednesday, August 30, 2023 at 12:30:00 PM – Wednesday, August 30, 2023 at 1:15:00 PM
Venue: Foyer, Alice Perry Building
SS03: Immersive Technologies for Health, Rehabilitation, and User Experience
Session Chair: Niall Murray (TUS) & Attracta Brennan (UG)
Wednesday, August 30, 2023 at 1:20:00 PM – Wednesday, August 30, 2023 at 3:00:00 PM
Venue: Alice Perry Building G017
A QoE and Visual Attention Evaluation on the Influence of Spatial Audio in 360° videos (20m)
Amit Hirway (Technological University of the Shannon ) Yuansong Qiao (Athlone Institute of Technology) Niall Murray (Athlone Institute of Technology)
An Expert Evaluation of a VR Intervention for Children with ASD (20m)
Yujing Zhang (Technological University of the Shannon); Conor Keighrey (Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest); Niall Murray (Athlone Institute of Technology)
A Quality of Experience Evaluation of an Interactive Multisensory 2.5D Virtual Reality Art Exhibit (20m)
Chen Chen (Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands); Niall Murray (Athlone Institute of Technology); Conor Keighrey (Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest)
Virtual Rehabilitation for Patients with Osteoporosis: Translating Physiotherapy Exercises into Exergames (20m)
Eléa Thuilier (University of Galway); John Carey (University of Galway); John Dingliana (Trinity College Dublin); Mary Dempsey (University of Galway ); Shane Biggins (HSE); Kenzo Thuilier (Université de Rennes); Attracta Brennan (University of Galway)
Designing the VR Probe: An Introductory Application to Virtual Reality for People Living with Dementia (PLWD) (20m)
Gearóid Reilly (University of Galway); Gabriel-Miro Muntean (Dublin City University); Aisling Flynn (University of Galway); Attracta Brennan (University of Galway); Sam Redfern (University of Galway)
Coffee Break #2 and Mini-Poster Session
Wednesday, August 30, 2023 at 3:00:00 PM – Wednesday, August 30, 2023 at 3:30:00 PM
Venue: Foyer, Alice Perry Building
Quality of Multimedia Experience Prediction using Peripheral Physiological Signals
Sowmya Vijayakumar (Technological University of the Shannon) ; Peter Corcoran (University of Galway) ; Niall Murray (Athlone Institute of Technology)
Physiological Synchrony: A Novel Approach to Evaluating User Quality of Experience in Collaborative Distributed Virtual Reality Environments
Bhagyabati Moharana (Technological University of Shannon: Midlands Midwest) ; Niall Murray (Athlone Institute of Technology) ; Conor Keighrey (Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest)
SS04: The Machine Vision Privacy Challenge #1
Session Chair: Peter Corcoran, Gabriel Costache, Joe Lemley
Wednesday, August 30, 2023 at 3:30:00 PM – Wednesday, August 30, 2023 at 4:40:00 PM
Venue: Alice Perry Building G017
Data Privacy & Machine Vision - Solving the "Cameras are Everywhere" Problem (20m)
Peter Corcoran (University of Galway)
Thermal Vision – Privacy Challenges & Solutions (15m)
Muhammad Ali Farooq (University of Galway); Waseem Shariff (University of Galway)
Event Camera and Neuromorphic Vision for Sensing without Seeing (15m)
Waseem Shariff (University of Galway); Paul Kielty (University of Galway); Mehdi Sefidgar Dilmaghani (University of Galway)
DAVID - A Privacy-by-Design Edge-AI Smart-Toy Platform (20m)
Peter Corcoran (University of Galway ); Gabriel Costache (Xperi)
SS04: The Machine Vision Privacy Challenge #2 - Panel Session
Session Chair: Peter Corcoran, Gabriel Costache, Joe Lemley
Wednesday, August 30, 2023 at 4:10:00 PM – Wednesday, August 30, 2023 at 4:55:00 PM
Venue: Alice Perry Engineering Building
IMVIP 2023 Main Conference - Welcome & Opening Remarks
Session Chair: Peter Corcoran and Head of Schools
Thursday, August 31, 2023 at 8:50:00 AM – Thursday, August 31, 2023 at 9:00:00 AM
Venue: Alice Perry Engineering Building
Keynote from Xperi CTO
Session Chair: Peter Corcoran
Thursday, August 31, 2023 at 9:00:00 AM – Thursday, August 31, 2023 at 10:00:00 AM
Venue: Alice Perry Engineering Building
Keynote: Driver Monitoring Systems and Next-Generation Perceptual AI (40m)
Petronel Bigioi (Xperi)
Petronel Bigioi is Xperi's CTO of Product, responsible for leading the engineering team focused on developing image processing and audio solutions for the home, automotive and mobile markets. He is co-inventor on more than 250 granted patents, is an IEEE fellow and member of the Consumer Technologies Society of IEEE. He has over 25 years of experience in the digital still camera and mobile phone industries. In this keynote talk he will explore the future of Perceptual AI in the context of the next generation of Automotive Driver Monitoring Systems and future Consumer Technologies
Session 01: Explainable AI and DeepFakes #1
Session Chair: Peter Corcoran
Thursday, August 31, 2023 at 10:00:00 AM – Thursday, August 31, 2023 at 11:00:00 PM
Venue: Alice Perry Engineering Building
Evaluation of Explainable AI Localisation Performance Using Relevance F-Score (20m)
Gregory Balogh (Queen's University Belfast); Niall McLaughlin (Queen's University Belfast); Austen Rainer (Queen's University Belfast)
Sampling Matters in Explanations: Towards Trustworthy Attribution Analysis Building Block in Visual Models through Maximizing Explanation Certainty (20m)
Jiaolin Luo (University of Galway); James McDermott (University of Galway); Colm O'Riordan (University of Galway)
Learning from Exemplary Explanations (20m)
Misgina Tsighe Hagos (University College Dublin); Kathleen Curran (UCD); Brian Mac Namee (University College Dublin )
Coffee Break #3
Thursday, August 31, 2023 at 11:00:00 AM – Thursday, August 31, 2023 at 11:20:00 AM
Venue: Alice Perry Engineering Building
Session 01: Explainable AI and DeepFakes #2
Session Chair: Peter Corcoran
Thursday, August 31, 2023 at 11:20:00 AM – Thursday, August 31, 2023 at 12:00:00 PM
Venue: Alice Perry Engineering Building
DF-Net: The Digital Forensics Network for Image Forgery Detection
David Fischinger (AIT); Martin Boyer (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH)
DF2023: The Digital Forensics 2023 Dataset for Image Forgery Detection
David Fischinger (AIT); Martin Boyer (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH)
Session 02: Humans, Facial, Gesture, and Action Analysis
Session Chair:
Thursday, August 31, 2023 at 12:00:00 PM – Thursday, August 31, 2023 at 12:40:00 PM
Venue: Alice Perry Engineering Building
Development of a Classification-based Eye Gaze estimation technique using an Integrated Laptop Camera: two models are better than one (20m)
Jack Cribbin (Maynooth University); Charles Markham (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)
A lightweight 3D dense facial landmark estimation model from position map data (20m)
Shubhajit Basak (University of Galway); Sathish Mangapuram (Xperi); Gabriel Costache (Xperi); Rachel Mc Donnell (Trinity College Dublin); Michael Schukat (University of Galway)
Poster Session #1 + Lunch
Thursday, August 31, 2023 at 12:40:00 PM – Thursday, August 31, 2023 at 1:50:00 PM
Venue: Alice Perry Engineering Building
Wang Yao (University of Galway); Muhammad Ali Farooq (University of Galway); Joseph Lemley (Xperi Corporation, Galway, Ireland); Peter Corcoran (University of Galway)
Defect Classification in Additive Manufacturing Using CNN-Based Vision Processing
The Impact of Glare on End of Production Line Camera Calibration Algorithms: A Brief Analysis
(Valeo)*; Ishan Vermani (Valeo)
Automatic Archery Scoring System Using Deep learning and Image Processing
Deep Learning enabled Computer Vision in Remanufacturing and Refurbishment Applications: Defect Detection and Grading for Smart Phones
Reenu Mohandas (University of Limerick); Colin Fitzpatrick (University of Limerik)
Improving GMM registration with class encoding
Solmaz Panahi (maynooth university); Jérémy Chopin (Maynooth University); Rozenn Dahyot (Maynooth University); Matej Ulicny (Maynooth University)
Calculating Breathing Rates from Remote PPG Signals Using Machine Learning Methods
The Xperi 3D Full Body Photogrammetric Scanner
Stefan Bigioi (Xperi); Jakub Pawelec (Xperi Inc), Victor Vlad (Xperi Inc.); and Padraic Toomey (Xperi Inc.)
Rachel Corcoran (Trinity College Dublin) ; Joseph Lemley (Xperi Corporation, Galway, Ireland) ; Paul Kielty (University of Galway)
Neuromorphic Seatbelt State Detection for In-Cabin Monitoring with Event Cameras
FRANK FOWLEY (UCD); Anthony Ventresque (UCD School of Computer Science)
Session 03: Vision-based Object Detection & Tracking #1
Session Chair: Hamza Riaz (DCU) and Hossein Javidnia (DCU)
Thursday, August 31, 2023 at 2:00:00 PM – Thursday, August 31, 2023 at 3:20:00 PM
Venue: Alice Perry Engineering Building
YUDO: YOLO for Uniform Directed Object Detection
Djordje Nedeljkovic (Independent Researcher)
Accurate object detection using the sensor fusion of an event-based and a frame-based camera
Orla Sealy Phelan (University of Galway); Brian Deegan (University of Galway); Dara Molloy (University of Galway); Roshan George (University of Galway); Martin Glavin (University of Galway); Edward Jones (University of Galway)
A Comparative Analysis of Deep Learning Mobile Networks on Marine Vessel Detection
Dipak Gaire Sharma (University College Dublin); Michael O'Neill (University College Dublin)
Towards the Use of Computer Vision Techniques on Streetscape Imagery to Empower Citizens in the Planning Enforcement Process
Paul Cuffe (University College Dublin); Sam Lynch (University College Dublin)
Coffee Break #4
Thursday, August 31, 2023 at 3:20:00 PM – Thursday, August 31, 2023 at 3:40:00 PM
Venue: Alice Perry Engineering Building
Session 03: Vision-based Object Detection & Tracking #2
Session Chair: Hamza Riaz (DCU) and Hossein Javidnia (DCU)
Thursday, August 31, 2023 at 3:40:00 PM – Thursday, August 31, 2023 at 4:40:00 PM
Venue: Alice Perry Engineering Building
Feature Based Approaches for Homography Estimation (20m)
Samuel Venezia (Ulster University); Sonya Coleman (School of Computing and Intelligent Systems, University of Ulster); Dermot Kerr (Ulster University)
Uncompromising Operator Safety: A Standalone Device Approach for Threat Immunity and Malfunction Prevention through Visual Cognition (20m)
Mihai Penica (University of Limerick);Eoin O’Connell (University of Limerick); Reenu Mohandas (University of Limerick); William O’Brien (University of Limerick ); Sean McGrath (University of Limerick ); Martin Hayes (University of Limerick )
YOLOatr : Deep Learning Based Automatic Target Detection and Localization in Thermal Infrared Imagery (20m)
Aon Safdar (NUST); Muhammad Usman Akram (National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)); Muhammad Anwar (Malardalens University ); Muhammad Abdul Basit Malik (National University of Sciences & Technology); Mian Ibad Ali Shah (University of Galway); Farooque Azam (NUST)
Session 04: Applications in Transportation
Session Chair: Muhammad Ali Farooq
Friday, September 1, 2023 at 9:00:00 AM – Friday, September 1, 2023 at 10:00:00 AM
Venue: Alice Perry Engineering Building
Decisive Data using Multi-Modality Optical Sensors for Advanced Vehicular Systems (20m)
Muhammad Ali Farooq (University of Galway); Waseem Shariff (University of Galway); Mehdi Sefidgar Dilmaghani (University of Galway); Wang Yao (University of Galway); Moazam Soomro (University of Central Florida); Peter Corcoran (University of Galway )
Navigating Uncertainty: The Role of Short-Term Trajectory Prediction in Autonomous Vehicle Safety (20m)
Sushil Sharma (University of Limerick); Ganesh Sistu (Valeo Vision Systems); Arindam Das (Valeo); Ciarán Eising (University of Limerick)
Aerially Determined Dynamic Environment Mapping for Enhanced Road Vehicle Awareness (20m)
Brendan Halligan (University of Galway); Dara Molloy (University of Galway); Edward Jones (University of Galway); Brian Deegan (University of Galway); Martin Glavin (University of Galway); Liam Kilmartin (University of Galway)
Session 05: Medical Imaging, Healthcare & Assistive Technologies
Session Chair: Kathleen Curran (UCD)
Friday, September 1, 2023 at 10:00:00 AM – Friday, September 1, 2023 at 10:40:00 AM
Venue: Alice Perry Engineering Building
Empowering Visually Impaired Individuals: A Novel Use of Apple Live Photos and Android Motion Photos (20m)
Seyedalireza Khoshsirat (University of Delaware); Chandra Kambhamettu (University of Delaware)
Saliency Maps as an Explainable AI Method in Medical Imaging: A Case Study on Brain Tumor Classification (20m)
Ayse KELES (Türkiye Ministry of Health, General Directorate of Health Information System); Ozan AKÇAY (Dokuz Eylül University, Institute of Health Science); Halil KUL (Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University Department of Neurosurgery Ankara City Hospital); Malika Bendechache (University of Galway)
Poster Session #2 + Coffee Break #5
Sessin Chair: Michael Shaukat (UoG)
Friday, September 1, 2023 at 10:40:00 AM – Friday, September 1, 2023 at 11:30:00 AM
Venue: Alice Perry Engineering Building
Katterine N Rios Peralta (University College Dublin)*; David MacManus (University College Dublin); Michaela Davis (University College Dublin); Kathleen Curran (UCD)
Towards a performance analysis on pre-trained Visual Question Answering models for autonomous driving
Kaavya Rekanar (University of Limerick); Ciarán Eising (University of Limerick); Martin Hayes (University of Limerick); Ganesh Sistu (Valeo Vision Systems)
Evaluate Fine-tuning Strategies for Fetal Head Ultrasound Image Segmentation with U-Net
FANGYIJIE WANG (University College Dublin); Guenole Silvestre (University College Dublin); Kathleen Curran (UCD)
Hardware Accelerators in Autonomous Driving
Ken Power (Motional, Inc.); Ciarán Eising (University of Limerick)
Self-Supervised Online Camera Calibration for Automated Driving and Parking Applications
An Ensemble Deep Learning Approach for COVID-19 Severity Prediction Using Chest CT Scans
Sidra Aleem (Dublin City University); Mayug Maniparambil (ML Labs); Noel Connor (Home); Suzanne Little (Dublin City University, Ireland); Kevin McGuinness (DCU)
Explaining decisions of a light weight deep network model for Coronary Artery Disease classification in Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Talha Iqbal (Insight Centre for Data Analytics, University of Galway); Ihsan Ullah (School of Computer Science, National University of Ireland Galway)
Non-Contact Breathing Rate Detection Using Optical Flow
Robyn Maxwell (Xperi); Adara Andonie (Xperi Corporation); Timothy Hanley (Xperi Corporation, Galway, Ireland); Dara Golden (Xperi Corporation, Galway, Ireland); Ashkan Parsi (Xperi Inc.); Joseph Lemley (Xperi Corporation, Galway, Ireland)
Non-Contact NIR PPG Sensing through Large Sequence Signal Regression
Spurious Correlation Mitigation in CXR Images via Reinforcement learning and Self-Supervision
Session 06: Transformer Based Methods
Session Chair: Kathleen Curran (UCD)
Friday, September 1, 2023 at 11:30:00 AM – Friday, September 1, 2023 at 12:10:00 PM
Venue: Alice Perry Engineering Building
Domain Generalisation with Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Vision Transformers (20m)
Hamza Riaz (Dublin City University); Alan Smeaton (Insight Centre for Data Analytics, Dublin City University)
Dynamic Cost Volumes with Scalable Transformer Architecture for Optical Flow (20m)
Vemburaj Chockalingam Yadav (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence); Alain Pagani (DFKI); Didier Stricker (DFKI)
Session 07: New Datasets and Misc. Applications #1
Session Chair: Hossein Javidnia (DCU)
Friday, September 1, 2023 at 12:10:00 PM – Friday, September 1, 2023 at 12:50:00 PM
Venue: Alice Perry Engineering Building
DeepSky dataset: A new benchmark for ground-based cloud classification using all-sky images (20m)
Dimitrios Tsourounis (University of Patras); Dimitris Kastaniotis (University of Patras); Panagiotis Tzoumanikas (University of Patras); George Andrianakos (Irida Labs); Orestis Panagopoulos (University of Patras); Andreas Kazantzidis (University of Patras); Christos Theoharatos (Irida Labs); George Economou (University of Patras)
Haptic Gloves (SM-EXO) for Multi-Users in Pick-and-Place Collaborative Robot Simulated Environment (20m)
Rupal Srivastava (Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands, Athlone); Eber Lawrence Souza Gouveia (Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands, Athlone); Niall Murray (Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands, Athlone); Declan Devine (Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands, Athlone)
Closing Keynote + Lunch
Session Chair: Peter Corcoran
Friday, September 1, 2023 at 12:50:00 PM – Friday, September 1, 2023 at 1:50:00 PM
Venue: Alice Perry Engineering Building
Fake Children: Why we need them and how to make them. (40m)
Peter Corcoran (National University of Ireland, Galway ) Muhammad Ali Farooq (University of Galway)
How do you manage GDPR and ethical concerns when your application is for a Smart-Toy and you need data from a vulnerable population, such as young children, in order to train your Edge-AI Machine Vision system? The presenters provide some insights into the power and potential of today's neural technologies to build a gende- balanced dataset of child data, including controllable facial expressions, age variations, facial pose and even speech-driven animations with photo-realistic lip-synch. Learn more from our second closing keynote presented by Prof. Peter Corcoran and Muhammad Ali Farooq from the University of Galway.
Session 08: New Datasets and Misc. Applications #2
Session Chair: Hossein Javidnia (DCU)
Friday, September 1, 2023 at 2:00:00 PM – Friday, September 1, 2023 at 3:00:00 PM
Venue: Alice Perry Engineering Building
Do the Frankenstein, or how to achieve better out-of-distribution performance with manifold mixing model soups (20m)
Hannes Fassold (Joanneum Research)
Quantifying Temporal Entropy in Neuromorphic Memory Forgetting: Exploring Advanced Forgetting Models for Robust Long-term Information Storage (20m)
Shane P Harrigan (Ulster University)*; Sonya Coleman (School of Computing and Intelligent Systems, University of Ulster); Dermot Kerr (Ulster University); Justin Quinn (Ulster University); Leeanne Lindsay (Ulster University); Kyle Madden (Ulster University); Shammi Rahman (Ulster University); Benn Henderson (Ulster University); Shuo Liu (Ulster University)
Plant Disease Detection on Multispectral Images using Vision Transformers (20m)
Dane Brown (Rhodes University) Malithi De Silva (Rhodes University)
Prizes & Awards Ceremony
Session Chair: Michael Schukat & Peter Corcoran
Friday, September 1, 2023 at 3:00:00 PM – Friday, September 1, 2023 at 3:30:00 PM
Venue: Alice Perry Engineering Building