Conferences

Peer-Reviewed Conferences

2025

 Muhammad Ali Farooq, Waseem Shariff, and Peter Corcoran. 2025. ThermVision: Exploring FLUX for Synthesizing Hyper-Realistic Thermal Face Data and Animations via Image to Video Translation. In Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 10161–10170. https://doi.org/10.1145/3746027.3755448 

A. T. A.Nken, S.Mckeever, P. Corcoran and I. Ullah, "Probabilistic Sampling with Frobenius Norm for Action Recognition," 2025 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Anchorage, AK, USA, 2025, pp. 2025-2030, doi:  10.1109/ICIP55913.2025.11084633 

Sowmya Vijayakumar, Tong Xue, Abdallah El Ali, Irene Viola, Ronan Flynn, Peter Corcoran, Pablo Cesar, and Niall Murray. 2025. RCQoEA-360VR: Real-time Continuous QoE Scores for HMD-based 360° VR Dataset. In Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 13082–13088. https://doi.org/10.1145/3746027.3758259  

Nken, A.T.A., McKeever, S., Corcoran, P., Ullah, I. (2026). Video-DPRP: A Differentially Private Approach for Visual Privacy-Preserving Video Human Activity Recognition. In: Ribeiro, R.P., et al. Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases. Research Track. ECML PKDD 2025. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 16017. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-06096-9_20 

I.Nosheen, M. A. Farooq, P. Corcoran, C.Ennisand M. G. Madden, "Enhancing Synthetic Image Realism with Controlled Diffusion Models," 2025 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Rome, Italy, 2025, pp. 1-8, doi: 10.1109/IJCNN64981.2025.11228158 

2024

 M.A. Farooq, W. Yao, M.Schukat, M. A. Little and P. Corcoran, "Derm-T2IM: Harnessing Synthetic Skin Lesion Data via Stable Diffusion Models for Enhanced Skin Disease Classification usingViT and CNN," 2024 46th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Orlando, FL, USA, 2024, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/EMBC53108.2024.10781852 

A. Abaid, M. Ali Farooq, N. Hynes, P.Corcoran and I. Ullah, "Synthesizing CTA Image Data for Type-B Aortic Dissection using Stable Diffusion Models," 2024 46th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Orlando, FL, USA, 2024, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/EMBC53108.2024.10782969    

Muhammad Ali Farooq, Ayman Abaid, Ihsan Ullah, Peter Corcoran; A Comparative Study on Diffusion Sampling Methods Across Diverse Medical Imaging Modalities Proceedings of the Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV) Workshops, 2024, pp. 193-206  https://link.springer.com/conference/accv 

Sefidgar Dilmaghani, M., Shariff, W., Ryan, C., Lemley, J., Corcoran, P. (2025). Autobiasing Event Cameras. In: Del Bue, A., Canton, C., Pont-Tuset, J., Tommasi, T. (eds) Computer Vision – ECCV 2024 Workshops. ECCV 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 15646. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-92460-6_20  

Shariff, W., Lemley, J., Corcoran, P. (2025). Event Stream Super-Resolution Using Sigma Delta Neural Network. In: Del Bue, A., Canton, C., Pont-Tuset, J., Tommasi, T. (eds) Computer Vision – ECCV 2024 Workshops. ECCV 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 15646. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-92460-6_8 

S. Vijayakumar, R. Flynn, P.Corcoranand N. Murray, "The Role of ECG and Respiration in Predicting Quality of Experience," 2024 16th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX), Karlshamn, Sweden, 2024, pp. 118-124, doi: 10.1109/QoMEX61742.2024.10598275  

Shariff Waseem Kielty Paul Lemley Joseph Corcoran Peter, Spiking-DD: neuromorphic event camera based driver distraction detection with spiking neural network  26th Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference (IMVIP 2024), IET Conference Proceedings Volume 2024, Issue 10 https://doi.org/10.1049/icp.2024.3285 

Khan, M.A., Power, A., Corcoran, P., Thorpe, C. (2025). An Evaluation of Features Extracted from Facial Images in the Context of Binary Age Classification. In: Lorenz, P. (eds) Frontiers of Computer Science and Information Technology. FCSIT 2024. Learning and Analytics in Intelligent Systems, vol 48. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-88649-2_11  

2023

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.