Peer-Reviewed Conferences

2024

 Yang Y, Zhang Q, Li C, Marta DS, Batool N, Folkesson J. Human-centric autonomous systems with llms for user command reasoning. InProceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision 2024 (pp. 988-994). doi: 10.1109/WACVW60836.2024.00108 

2023

G. Cosache, F. Salgado, R. Jain, C. Rotariu, G. Sterpu and P. Corcoran, "Data Center Audio/Video Intelligence on Device (DAVID) - An Edge-AI Platform for Smart-Toys," 2023 International Conference on Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue (SpeD), Bucharest, Romania, 2023, pp. 66-71,  doi: 10.1109/SpeD59241.2023.10314915

M. Ali Farooq, D. Bigioi, R. Jain, W. Yao, M. Yiwere and P. Corcoran, "Synthetic Speaking Children – Why We Need Them and How to Make Them," 2023 International Conference on Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue (SpeD), Bucharest, Romania, 2023, pp. 36-41, doi: 10.1109/SpeD59241.2023.10314943.

A. Barcovschi, R. Jain and P. Corcoran, "A comparative analysis between Conformer-Transducer, Whisper, and wav2vec2 for improving the child speech recognition," 2023 International Conference on Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue (SpeD), Bucharest, Romania, 2023, pp. 42-47, doi: 10.1109/SpeD59241.2023.10314867.

R. Jain and P. Corcoran, "Improved Child Text-to-Speech Synthesis through Fastpitch-based Transfer Learning," 2023 International Conference on Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue (SpeD), Bucharest, Romania, 2023, pp. 54-59, doi: 10.1109/SpeD59241.2023.10314899.

Peter Corcoran, Muhammad Ali Farooq, & Michael Schukat. (2023). Conference Program and Online Proceedings of the Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference 2023. Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference (IMVIP 2023), Galway, Ireland. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8326679 

Peter Corcoran. (2023, August 26). Data Privacy and Machine Vision - Exploring the Cameras Everywhere Challenge. Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference (IMVIP 2023), Galway, Ireland. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8286191 

Gabriel Costache, & Peter Corcoran. (2023, August 26). DAVID – A Privacy by Design Edge-AI Smart-Toy Platform. Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference (IMVIP 2023), Galway, Ireland. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8286232 

Peter Corcoran, Muhammad Ali Farooq, & Waseem Shariff. (2023, August 26). Thermal Vision – Privacy Challenges & Solutions. Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference (IMVIP 2023), Galway, Ireland. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8113273 

Vijayakumar, S., Flynn, R., Corcoran, P., & Murray, N. (2023, August 22). Quality of Multimedia Experience Prediction using Peripheral Physiological Signals. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8273638 

Yao, W., Farooq, M. A., Lemley, J., & Corcoran, P. (2023, August 2). Will your Doorbell Camera still recognize you as you grow old?. Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference 2023 (IMVIP2023), University of Galway, Ireland. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8208368 

Yao, W., Farooq, M. A., Lemley, J., & Corcoran, P. (2023, August 2). A Comparative Study of Image-to-Image Translation Using GANs for Synthetic Child Race Data. Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference 2023 (IMVIP2023), University of Galway, Ireland. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8208491 

Mohamed Moustafa, Joseph Lemley, & Peter Corcoran. (2023, August 29). Facial Camera-Based Heart Rate Estimation Using r-PPG Convolutional Neural Networks. Irish Mahine Vision and Image Processing Conference 2023 (IMVIP2023), University of Galway, Ireland. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8309793 

Waseem Shariff, Mehdi SefidgarDilmaghani, Paul Kielty, & Peter Corcoran. (2023, September 2). Sensing Without Seeing - Event Camera Privacy. Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference 2023 (IMVIP2023), University of Galway, Ireland. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8310913 

Paul Kielty, Cian Ryan, Mehdi SefidgarDilmaghani, Waseem Shariff, Joe Lemley, & Peter Corcoran. (2023, August 8). Neuromorphic Seatbelt State Detection for In-Cabin Monitoring with Event Cameras. Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference 2023 (IMVIP2023), University of Galway, Ireland. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8223905 

Muhammad Ali Farooq, Waseem Shariff, Mehdi SefidgarDilmaghani, Wang Yao, Moazam Soomro, & Peter Corcoran. (2023, July 18). Decisive Data using Multi-Modality Optical Sensors for Advanced Vehicular Systems. Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference 2023 (IMVIP2023), University of Galway, Ireland. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8160053 

Shariff W, Farooq MA, Lemley J, Corcoran P. Event-based YOLO object detection: proof of concept for forward perception system.InFifteenth International Conference on Machine Vision (ICMV 2022) 2023 Jun 7 (Vol. 12701, pp. 74-80). SPIE. 

Dilmaghani MS, Shariff W, Ryan C, Lemley J, Corcoran P. Control and evaluation of event cameras output sharpness via bias.InFifteenth International Conference on Machine Vision (ICMV 2022) 2023 Jun 7 (Vol. 12701, pp. 455-462). SPIE. 

Farooq MA, Shariff W, Khan F, Corcoran P. Development, optimization, and deployment of thermal forward vision systems for advance vehicular applications on edge devices.InFifteenth International Conference on Machine Vision (ICMV 2022) 2023 Jun 7 (Vol. 12701, p. 1270102). SPIE. 

Moustafa M, Elrasad A, Lemley J, Corcoran P. Dataset creation pipeline for camera-based heart rate estimation.InFifteenth International Conference on Machine Vision (ICMV 2022) 2023 Jun 7 (Vol. 12701, pp. 568-575). SPIE. 

Kielty P, Dilmaghani MS, Ryan C, Lemley J, Corcoran P. Neuromorphic sensing for yawn detection in driver drowsiness.InFifteenth International Conference on Machine Vision (ICMV 2022) 2023 Jun 7 (Vol. 12701, pp. 287-294). SPIE. 

Gonzales MG, Corcoran P, Harte N, Schukat M. Joint Speech-Text Embeddings with Disentangled Speaker Features. In2023 34th Irish Signals and Systems Conference (ISSC) 2023 Jun 13 (pp. 1-5). IEEE. 

2022

Vijayakumar S, Corcoran P, Flynn R, Murray N. AI-derived quality of experience prediction based on physiological signals for immersive multimedia experiences: research proposal. InProceedings of the 13th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference 2022 Jun 14 (pp. 403-407) DOI: 10.1145/3524273.3533935

Sudharsan B, Breslin JG, Ali MI, Corcoran P, Ranjan R. ElastiQuant: elastic quantization strategy for communication efficient distributed machine learning in IoT. InProceedings of the 37th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing 2022 Apr 25 (pp. 246-254). DOI: 10.1145/3477314.3507135

2020

V. Varkarakis and P. Corcoran, Dataset Cleaning — A Cross Validation Methodology for Large Facial Datasets using Face Recognition, 2020 Twelfth International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX), Athlone, Ireland, 2020, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/QoMEX48832.2020.9123123.

M. A. Farooq and P. Corcoran, Generating Thermal Image Data Samples using 3D Facial Modelling Techniques and Deep Learning Methodologies, 2020 Twelfth International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX), Athlone, Ireland, 2020, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/QoMEX48832.2020.9123079.

F. Khan, S. Basak, H. Javidnia, M. Schukat and P. Corcoran, High-Accuracy Facial Depth Models derived from 3D Synthetic Data, 2020 31st Irish Signals and Systems Conference (ISSC), Letterkenny, Ireland, 2020, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/ISSC49989.2020.9180166.

V. Varkarakis, S. Bazrafkan and P. Corcoran, Re-Training StyleGAN - A First Step Towards Building Large, Scalable Synthetic Facial Datasets, 2020 31st Irish Signals and Systems Conference (ISSC), Letterkenny, Ireland, 2020, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ISSC49989.2020.9180189..

Farooq MA, Corcoran P. Infrared Imaging for Human Thermography and Breast Tumor Classification using Thermal Images. In2020 31st Irish Signals and Systems Conference (ISSC) 2020 Jun 11 (pp. 1-6). IEEE.

Corcoran P, Javidnia H, Lemley JE, Varkarakis V. Generative Augmented Dataset and Annotation Frameworks for Artificial Intelligence (GADAFAI). In2020 31st Irish Signals and Systems Conference (ISSC) 2020 Jun 11 (pp. 1-6). IEEE.

2019

Sudharsan B, Corcoran P, Ali MI. Smart speaker design and implementation with biometric authentication and advanced voice interaction capability. 27th Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS) conference 2019, Dec 2019, Galway

http://aics2019.datascienceinstitute.ie/papers/aics_29.pdf

Farooq MA, Khatoon A, Varkarakis V, Corcoran P. Advanced Deep Learning Methodologies for Skin Cancer Classification in Prodromal Stages. 27th Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS) conference 2019, Dec 2019, Galway

http://aics2019.datascienceinstitute.ie/papers/aics_6.pdf

2018

McDonagh A, Lemley J, Cassidy R, Corcoran P. Synthesizing Game Audio Using Deep Neural Networks. In2018 IEEE Games, Entertainment, Media Conference (GEM) 2018 Aug 15 (pp. 1-9). IEEE.

Kar A, Corcoran P. Gaze Visual-A Graphical Software Tool for Performance Evaluation of Eye Gaze Estimation Systems. In 2018 IEEE Games, Entertainment, Media Conference (GEM) 2018 Aug 15 (pp. 1-9). IEEE.

Cognard TE, Goncharov A, Devaney N, Dainty C, Corcoran P. A Review of Resolution Losses for AR/VR Foveated Imaging Applications. In 2018 IEEE Games, Entertainment, Media Conference (GEM) 2018 Aug 15 (pp. 1-9). IEEE.

Lemley J, Kar A, Corcoran P. Eye tracking in augmented spaces: A deep learning approach. In 2018 IEEE Games, Entertainment, Media Conference (GEM) 2018 Aug 15 (pp. 1-6). IEEE.

Varkarakis V, Bazrafkan S, Corcoran P. A Deep Learning Approach to Segmentation of Distorted Iris Regions in Head-Mounted Displays. In 2018 IEEE Games, Entertainment, Media Conference (GEM) 2018 Aug 15 (pp. 1-9). IEEE.

Corcoran PM, Costache C. A Privacy Framework for Games & Interactive Media. In 2018 IEEE Games, Entertainment, Media Conference (GEM) 2018 Aug 15 (pp. 1-9). IEEE.

Lemley J, Bazrafkan S, Corcoran P. Learning data augmentation for consumer devices and services. In 2018 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE) 2018 Jan 12 (pp. 1-3). IEEE.

Bazrafkan S, Corcoran P. Enhancing iris authentication on handheld devices using deep learning derived segmentation techniques. In 2018 IEEE international conference on consumer electronics (ICCE) 2018 Jan 12 (pp. 1-2). IEEE.

Ungureanu AS, Bazrafkan S, Corcoran P. Deep learning for hand segmentation in complex backgrounds. In 2018 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE) 2018 Jan 12 (pp. 1-2). IEEE.

2017

Khatoon A, Corcoran P. Android permission system and user privacy—A review of concept and approaches. In 2017 IEEE 7th International Conference on Consumer Electronics-Berlin (ICCE-Berlin) 2017 Sep 3 (pp. 153-158). IEEE.

Javidnia H, Corcoran P. Accurate depth map estimation from small motions. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision 2017 (pp. 2453-2461).

Nedelcu T, Thavalengal S, Costache C, Corcoran P. Pupil Light Reflex Mitigation Using Non-linear Image Warping. InIberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis 2017 Jun 20 (pp. 304-312). Springer, Cham.

Lemley J, Bazrafkan S, Corcoran P. Transfer Learning of Temporal Information for Driver Action Classification. InMAICS 2017 Mar (pp. 123-128).

Bazrafkan S, Nedelcu T, Filipczuk P, Corcoran P. Deep learning for facial expression recognition: A step closer to a smartphone that knows your moods. In 2017 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE) 2017 Jan 8 (pp. 217-220). IEEE.

(24 Citations)

Khatoon A, Corcoran P.  Privacy concerns on Android devices. In 2017 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE) 2017 Jan 8 (pp. 149-152). IEEE.

Javidnia H, Corcoran P. Real-time automotive street-scene mapping through fusion of improved stereo depth and fast feature detection algorithms. In 2017 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE) 2017 Jan 8 (pp. 225-228). IEEE.

Thavalengal S, Corcoran P. Iris recognition on consumer devices—Challenges and progress. In2015 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS) 2015 Nov 11 (pp. 1-4). IEEE.

Javidnia H, Ungureanu A, Corcoran P. Palm-print recognition for authentication on smartphones. In2015 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS) 2015 Nov 11 (pp. 1-5). IEEE.

Thavalengal S, Bigioi P, Corcoran P. Evaluation of combined visible/NIR camera for iris authentication on smartphones. In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops 2015 (pp. 42-49).

(21 Citations)

Thavalengal S, Corcoran P. A practical challenge for iris authentication on handheld imaging devices. In2015 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE) 2015 Jan 9 (pp. 606-607). IEEE.

 

Plenary/Invited Talks

(Available via NUIG ARAN open-access repository)

2019

Corcoran P. Privacy challenges for smart-cities: The challenge of IoT. IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things, April 2019, Limerick, Ireland. 

Corcoran P. Edge-AI: Rise of the neural accelerators. EMAI 2019 Emerging Memory and Artificial Intelligence Workshop, Stanford University, August 2019.

 

2018

Corcoran P, Bazrafkkan S, Lemley J. Getting more from your datasets: Data augmentation, annotation and generative techniques. Embedded Vision Summit 2018. 2018 May 18.

Corcoran P, Bazrafkkan S. Hybrid Semi-Parallel Deep Neural Networks (SPDNN)–example methodologies and use cases. Embedded Vision Summit 2018. 2018 May 23.

Corcoran P. Fake data-the future of advanced computer vision systems. Presented at , Kunshan China, Nov 2018

 

Pre-Prints (Arxiv)

2020

Varkarakis V, Bazrafkan S, Corcoran P. Re-Training StyleGAN--A First Step Towards Building Large, Scalable Synthetic Facial Datasets. arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.10847. 2020 Mar 24.

Farooq MA, Khatoon A, Varkarakis V, Corcoran P. Advanced Deep Learning Methodologies for Skin Cancer Classification in Prodromal Stages. arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.06356. 2020 Mar 13.

Farooq MA, Corcoran P. Generating Thermal Image Data Samples using 3D Facial Modelling Techniques and Deep Learning Methodologies. arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.01923. 2020 May 5.

Khan F, Basak S, Javidnia H, Schukat M, Corcoran P. High-Accuracy Facial Depth Models derived from 3D Synthetic Data. arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.06211. 2020 Mar 13.

2018

Lemley J, Kar A, Drimbarean A, Corcoran P. Efficient CNN Implementation for Eye-Gaze Estimation on Low-Power/Low-Quality Consumer Imaging Systems. arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.10890. 2018 Jun 28.

Bazrafkan S, Corcoran P. Versatile Auxiliary Classifier with Generative Adversarial Network (VAC+ GAN), Multi Class Scenarios. arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.07751. 2018 Jun 19.

Bazrafkan S, Corcoran P. Versatile Auxiliary Regressor with Generative Adversarial network (VAR+ GAN). arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.10864. 2018 May 28.

Bazrafkan S, Javidnia H, Corcoran P. Face synthesis with landmark points from generative adversarial networks and inverse latent space mapping. arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.00390. 2018 Feb 1.

2017

Bazrafkan S, Corcoran P. Semi-parallel deep neural networks (SPDNN), convergence and generalization. arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.01963. 2017 Nov 6.

Bazrafkan S, Javidnia H, Lemley J, Corcoran P. Depth from monocular images using a semi-parallel deep neural network (SPDNN) hybrid architecture. arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.03867. 2017 Mar 10.

Corcoran PM. Third time is the charm-why the world just might be ready for the internet of things this time around. arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.00384. 2017 Apr 2.