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Publications (9)

cs.LG2017

Neural Photo Editing with Introspective Adversarial Networks

Andrew Brock, Theodore Lim, J. M. Ritchie +1

The increasingly photorealistic sample quality of generative image models suggests their feasibility in applications beyond image generation. We present the Neural Photo Editor, an…

cs.RO2021

Symbiotic System of Systems Design for Safe and Resilient Autonomous Robotics in Offshore Wind Farms

Daniel Mitchell, Jamie Blanche, Osama Zaki +6

To reduce Operation and Maintenance (O&M) costs on offshore wind farms, wherein 80% of the O&M cost relates to deploying personnel, the offshore wind sector looks to Robotics and A…

cs.RO2021

A Review: Challenges and Opportunities for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics in the Offshore Wind Sector

Daniel Mitchell, Jamie Blanche, Sam Harper +7

A global trend in increasing wind turbine size and distances from shore is emerging within the rapidly growing offshore wind farm market. In the UK, the offshore wind sector produc…

cs.CV2016

Generative and Discriminative Voxel Modeling with Convolutional Neural Networks

Andrew Brock, Theodore Lim, J. M. Ritchie +1

When working with three-dimensional data, choice of representation is key. We explore voxel-based models, and present evidence for the viability of voxellated representations in ap…

cs.RO2022

Addressing Non-Intervention Challenges via Resilient Robotics utilizing a Digital Twin

Sam Harper, Shivoh Nandakumar, Daniel Mitchell +3

Multi-robot systems face challenges in reducing human interventions as they are often deployed in dangerous environments. It is therefore necessary to include a methodology to asse…

cs.RO2022

Bio-inspired Multi-robot Autonomy

Shivoh Chirayil Nandakumar, Samuel Harper, Daniel Mitchell +4

Increasingly, high value industrial markets are driving trends for improved functionality and resilience from resident autonomous systems. This led to an increase in multi-robot fl…

cs.RO2022

Millimeter-wave Foresight Sensing for Safety and Resilience in Autonomous Operations

Daniel Mitchell, Jamie Blanche, Sam T. Harper +4

Robotic platforms are highly programmable, scalable and versatile to complete several tasks including Inspection, Maintenance and Repair (IMR). Mobile robotics offer reduced restri…

stat.ML2017

FreezeOut: Accelerate Training by Progressively Freezing Layers

Andrew Brock, Theodore Lim, J. M. Ritchie +1

The early layers of a deep neural net have the fewest parameters, but take up the most computation. In this extended abstract, we propose to only train the hidden layers for a set…

cs.LG2017

SMASH: One-Shot Model Architecture Search through HyperNetworks

Andrew Brock, Theodore Lim, J. M. Ritchie +1

Designing architectures for deep neural networks requires expert knowledge and substantial computation time. We propose a technique to accelerate architecture selection by learning…