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Wang Yao

Biography & Research Interests

Wang Yao is a second year PhD student in C3Imaging at NUIG, funded by IRC and Xperi.  She is currently I'm focusing on research topics in facial recognition models, including security, robustness, dataset augmentation and novel architectures. Wang has a BSc in Computer Science from Southwest University and Master on Engineering from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and her  previous research work largely concentrated on computer vision, in particular image quality assessment. 

Research Activities

Exploring novel architectures and techniques regarding face recognition models.
Investigating urgent security problems for face recognition models, including adversarial attacking, adversarial training and dataset augmentation.
Solving challenges of face recognition tasks on hard complex scenarios by employing the cutting-edge Generative Adversarial Network (GAN).

Publications

Journals

 Farooq MA, Yao W, Costache G, Corcoran P. ChildGAN: Large Scale Synthetic Child Facial Data Using Domain Adaptation in StyleGAN. IEEE Access. 2023 Oct 2. 

Yao W, Farooq MA, Lemley J, Corcoran P. A Study on the Effect of Ageing in Facial Authentication and the Utility of Data Augmentation to Reduce Performance Bias across Age Groups. IEEE Access. 2023 Sep 6. 

Wang Yao, Viktor Varkarakis, Gabriel Costache, Joseph Lemley, Peter Corcoran; Towards Robust Facial Authentication for Low-Power Edge-AI Consumer Devices. IEEE Access. 2022 Nov. 24; DOI:  10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3224437

Conferences

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.

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 

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 

 

IEEE UK & Ireland YP Postgraduate STEM Research Symposium