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most citedEvaluation of Thermal Imaging on Embedded GPU Platforms for Application in Vehicular Assistance Systems

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18 papers

cs.CY2026

From Review to Design: Ethical Multimodal Driver Monitoring Systems for Risk Mitigation, Incident Response, and Accountability in Automated Vehicles

Bilal Khana, Waseem Shariff, Rory Coyne +2

As vehicles transition toward higher levels of automation, Driver Monitoring Systems (DMS) have become essential for ensuring human oversight, safety, and regulatory compliance in…

cs.CV2026

SynSacc: A Blender-to-V2E Pipeline for Synthetic Neuromorphic Eye-Movement Data and Sim-to-Real Spiking Model Training

Khadija Iddrisu, Waseem Shariff, Suzanne Little +1

The study of eye movements, particularly saccades and fixations, are fundamental to understanding the mechanisms of human cognition and perception. Accurate classification of these…

cs.CV2025

Autobiasing Event Cameras for Flickering Mitigation

Mehdi Sefidgar Dilmaghani, Waseem Shariff, Cian Ryan +2

Understanding and mitigating flicker effects caused by rapid variations in light intensity is critical for enhancing the performance of event cameras in diverse environments. This…

cs.CV2025

Benchmarking Microsaccade Recognition with Event Cameras: A Novel Dataset and Evaluation

Waseem Shariff, Timothy Hanley, Maciej Stec +2

Microsaccades are small, involuntary eye movements vital for visual perception and neural processing. Traditional microsaccade studies typically use eye trackers or frame-based ana…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

Autobiasing Event Cameras

Mehdi Sefidgar Dilmaghani, Waseem Shariff, Cian Ryan +2

This paper presents an autonomous method to address challenges arising from severe lighting conditions in machine vision applications that use event cameras. To manage these condit…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

Evaluating Image-Based Face and Eye Tracking with Event Cameras

Khadija Iddrisu, Waseem Shariff, Noel E. OConnor +2

Event Cameras, also known as Neuromorphic sensors, capture changes in local light intensity at the pixel level, producing asynchronously generated data termed ``events''. This dist…

eess.IV2024

Event-Stream Super Resolution using Sigma-Delta Neural Network

Waseem Shariff, Joe Lemley, Peter Corcoran

This study introduces a novel approach to enhance the spatial-temporal resolution of time-event pixels based on luminance changes captured by event cameras. These cameras present u…

cs.CV2024

Spiking-DD: Neuromorphic Event Camera based Driver Distraction Detection with Spiking Neural Network

Waseem Shariff, Paul Kielty, Joseph Lemley +1

Event camera-based driver monitoring is emerging as a pivotal area of research, driven by its significant advantages such as rapid response, low latency, power efficiency, enhanced…

cs.CV2024

A Framework for Pupil Tracking with Event Cameras

Khadija Iddrisu, Waseem Shariff, Suzanne Little

Saccades are extremely rapid movements of both eyes that occur simultaneously, typically observed when an individual shifts their focus from one object to another. These movements…

eess.IV2023

Heart Rate Detection Using an Event Camera

Aniket Jagtap, RamaKrishna Venkatesh Saripalli, Joe Lemley +2

Event cameras, also known as neuromorphic cameras, are an emerging technology that offer advantages over traditional shutter and frame-based cameras, including high temporal resolu…

cs.CV2023

Neuromorphic Seatbelt State Detection for In-Cabin Monitoring with Event Cameras

Paul Kielty, Cian Ryan, Mehdi Sefidgar Dilmaghani +3

Neuromorphic vision sensors, or event cameras, differ from conventional cameras in that they do not capture images at a specified rate. Instead, they asynchronously log local brigh…

cs.NE2023

Decisive Data using Multi-Modality Optical Sensors for Advanced Vehicular Systems

Muhammad Ali Farooq, Waseem Shariff, Mehdi Sefidgar Dilmaghani +3

Optical sensors have played a pivotal role in acquiring real world data for critical applications. This data, when integrated with advanced machine learning algorithms provides mea…

cs.CV2023

Development, Optimization, and Deployment of Thermal Forward Vision Systems for Advance Vehicular Applications on Edge Devices

Muhammad Ali Farooq, Waseem Shariff, Faisal Khan +1

In this research work, we have proposed a thermal tiny-YOLO multi-class object detection (TTYMOD) system as a smart forward sensing system that should remain effective in all weath…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

Event-based YOLO Object Detection: Proof of Concept for Forward Perception System

Waseem Shariff, Muhammad Ali Farooq, Joe Lemley +1

Neuromorphic vision or event vision is an advanced vision technology, where in contrast to the visible camera that outputs pixels, the event vision generates neuromorphic events ev…

cs.CV2022

Control and Evaluation of Event Cameras Output Sharpness via Bias

Mehdi Sefidgar Dilmaghani, Waseem Shariff, Cian Ryan +2

Event cameras also known as neuromorphic sensors are relatively a new technology with some privilege over the RGB cameras. The most important one is their difference in capturing t…

cs.CV2022★ 1 cited

Recurrent Super-Resolution Method for Enhancing Low Quality Thermal Facial Data

David O'Callaghan, Cian Ryan, Waseem Shariff +3

The process of obtaining high-resolution images from single or multiple low-resolution images of the same scene is of great interest for real-world image and signal processing appl…

cs.CV2022★ 30 cited

Evaluation of Thermal Imaging on Embedded GPU Platforms for Application in Vehicular Assistance Systems

Muhammad Ali Farooq, Waseem Shariff, Peter Corcoran

This study is focused on evaluating the real-time performance of thermal object detection for smart and safe vehicular systems by deploying the trained networks on GPU & single-boa…

cs.CV2021

Object Detection in Thermal Spectrum for Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems (ADAS)

Muhammad Ali Farooq, Peter Corcoran, Cosmin Rotariu +1

Object detection in thermal infrared spectrum provides more reliable data source in low-lighting conditions and different weather conditions, as it is useful both in-cabin and outs…