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20142023
most citedSalGAN: Visual Saliency Prediction with Generative Adversarial Networks

334 citations · 1.3k across the 54 of their papers we have counts for

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63 papers

physics.soc-ph2023★ 5 cited

Breathing Green: Maximising Health and Environmental Benefits for Active Transportation Users Leveraging Large Scale Air Quality Data

Sen Yan, Shaoshu Zhu, Jaime B. Fernandez +5

Pollution in urban areas can have significant adverse effects on the health and well-being of citizens, with traffic-related air pollution being a major concern in many cities. Pol…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

Fashion CUT: Unsupervised domain adaptation for visual pattern classification in clothes using synthetic data and pseudo-labels

Enric Moreu, Alex Martinelli, Martina Naughton +2

Accurate product information is critical for e-commerce stores to allow customers to browse, filter, and search for products. Product data quality is affected by missing or incorre…

physics.soc-ph2023★ 15 cited

U-Park: A User-Centric Smart Parking Recommendation System for Electric Shared Micromobility Services

Sen Yan, Noel E. O'Connor, Mingming Liu

Electric Shared Micromobility Services (ESMS) has become a vital element within the Mobility as a Service framework, contributing to sustainable transportation systems. However, ex…

cs.CV2022

Embedding contrastive unsupervised features to cluster in- and out-of-distribution noise in corrupted image datasets

Paul Albert, Eric Arazo, Noel E. O'Connor +1

Using search engines for web image retrieval is a tempting alternative to manual curation when creating an image dataset, but their main drawback remains the proportion of incorrec…

cs.CV2022★ 1 cited

Dynamic Channel Selection in Self-Supervised Learning

Tarun Krishna, Ayush K. Rai, Yasser A. D. Djilali +3

Whilst computer vision models built using self-supervised approaches are now commonplace, some important questions remain. Do self-supervised models learn highly redundant channel…

cs.CV2022

Utilizing unsupervised learning to improve sward content prediction and herbage mass estimation

Paul Albert, Mohamed Saadeldin, Badri Narayanan +5

Sward species composition estimation is a tedious one. Herbage must be collected in the field, manually separated into components, dried and weighed to estimate species composition…

cs.CV2022

Unsupervised domain adaptation and super resolution on drone images for autonomous dry herbage biomass estimation

Paul Albert, Mohamed Saadeldin, Badri Narayanan +5

Herbage mass yield and composition estimation is an important tool for dairy farmers to ensure an adequate supply of high quality herbage for grazing and subsequently milk producti…

physics.soc-ph2022★ 7 cited

Parking Behaviour Analysis of Shared E-Bike Users Based on a Real-World Dataset -- A Case Study in Dublin, Ireland

Sen Yan, Mingming Liu, Noel E. O'Connor

In recent years, an increasing number of shared E-bikes have been rolling out rapidly in our cities. It therefore becomes important to understand new behaviour patterns of the cycl…

eess.IV2022★ 4 cited

Synthetic data for unsupervised polyp segmentation

Enric Moreu, Kevin McGuinness, Noel E. O'Connor

Deep learning has shown excellent performance in analysing medical images. However, datasets are difficult to obtain due privacy issues, standardization problems, and lack of annot…

cs.CV2022★ 2 cited

Domain Randomization for Object Counting

Enric Moreu, Kevin McGuinness, Diego Ortego +1

Recently, the use of synthetic datasets based on game engines has been shown to improve the performance of several tasks in computer vision. However, these datasets are typically o…

cs.CV2022

BERTHA: Video Captioning Evaluation Via Transfer-Learned Human Assessment

Luis Lebron, Yvette Graham, Kevin McGuinness +2

Evaluating video captioning systems is a challenging task as there are multiple factors to consider; for instance: the fluency of the caption, multiple actions happening in a singl…

cs.CV2021

Improving Person Re-Identification with Temporal Constraints

Julia Dietlmeier, Feiyan Hu, Frances Ryan +2

In this paper we introduce an image-based person re-identification dataset collected across five non-overlapping camera views in the large and busy airport in Dublin, Ireland. Unli…

cs.CV2021

How Important is Importance Sampling for Deep Budgeted Training?

Eric Arazo, Diego Ortego, Paul Albert +2

Long iterative training processes for Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are commonly required to achieve state-of-the-art performance in many computer vision tasks. Importance sampling a…

cs.CV2021

Semi-supervised dry herbage mass estimation using automatic data and synthetic images

Paul Albert, Mohamed Saadeldin, Badri Narayanan +5

Monitoring species-specific dry herbage biomass is an important aspect of pasture-based milk production systems. Being aware of the herbage biomass in the field enables farmers to…

cs.CV2021

Addressing out-of-distribution label noise in webly-labelled data

Paul Albert, Diego Ortego, Eric Arazo +2

A recurring focus of the deep learning community is towards reducing the labeling effort. Data gathering and annotation using a search engine is a simple alternative to generating…

cs.RO2021

Solving the Real Robot Challenge using Deep Reinforcement Learning

Robert McCarthy, Francisco Roldan Sanchez, Qiang Wang +4

This paper details our winning submission to Phase 1 of the 2021 Real Robot Challenge; a challenge in which a three-fingered robot must carry a cube along specified goal trajectori…

cs.RO2021★ 2 cited

Real Robot Challenge: A Robotics Competition in the Cloud

Stefan Bauer, Felix Widmaier, Manuel Wüthrich +39

Dexterous manipulation remains an open problem in robotics. To coordinate efforts of the research community towards tackling this problem, we propose a shared benchmark. We designe…

cs.CV2021★ 2 cited

Discerning Generic Event Boundaries in Long-Form Wild Videos

Ayush K Rai, Tarun Krishna, Julia Dietlmeier +3

Detecting generic, taxonomy-free event boundaries invideos represents a major stride forward towards holisticvideo understanding. In this paper we present a technique forgeneric ev…

eess.IV2021

Attention-based Stylisation for Exemplar Image Colourisation

Marc Gorriz Blanch, Issa Khalifeh, Alan Smeaton +2

Exemplar-based colourisation aims to add plausible colours to a grayscale image using the guidance of a colour reference image. Most of the existing methods tackle the task as a st…

cs.NI2021

Optimal Distributed Bandwidth Allocation in NB-IoT Networks

Hongde Wu, Zhengyong Chen, Noel E. O'Connor +1

In this paper, we investigate a key problem of Narrowband-Internet of Things (NB-IoT) in the context of 5G with Mobile Edge Computing (MEC). We address the challenge that IoT devic…

cs.CV2021★ 24 cited

Evaluating Contrastive Models for Instance-based Image Retrieval

Tarun Krishna, Kevin McGuinness, Noel O'Connor

In this work, we evaluate contrastive models for the task of image retrieval. We hypothesise that models that are learned to encode semantic similarity among instances via discrimi…

eess.SY2021

An ADMM-based Optimal Transmission Frequency Management System for IoT Edge Intelligence

Hongde Wu, Noel E. O'Connor, Jennifer Bruton +1

In this paper, we investigate a key problem of Internet of Things (IoT) applications in practice. Our research objective is to optimize the transmission frequencies for a group of…

cs.LG2021★ 2 cited

A Comparative Study of Using Spatial-Temporal Graph Convolutional Networks for Predicting Availability in Bike Sharing Schemes

Zhengyong Chen, Hongde Wu, Noel E. O'Connor +1

Accurately forecasting transportation demand is crucial for efficient urban traffic guidance, control and management. One solution to enhance the level of prediction accuracy is to…

eess.SY2021

An Intelligent Multi-Speed Advisory System using Improved Whale Optimisation Algorithm

Beiran Chen, Mingming Liu, Yi Zhang +3

An intelligent speed advisory system can be used to recommend speed for vehicles travelling in a given road network in cities. In this paper, we extend our previous work where a di…