Browsing Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Scholarly Articles) by Author "Corcoran, Peter M."
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Biometrics and Consumer Electronics: A Brave New World or the Road to Dystopia?[Soapbox]
Corcoran, Peter M. (IEEE, 2013-04)Biometric systems confirm a person's identity by extracting and comparing patterns in their physical characteristics against computer records of those patterns. Examples include scans of the face, iris, or retina; measurements ... -
Cloud computing and consumer electronics: a perfect match or a hidden storm? [Soapbox]
Corcoran, Peter M. (IEEE, 2012-04)Cloud computing has emerged strongly into the consumer domain. As industry competes to gain market share from the rapidly growing multitudes of cloud-IT users, both network and data center infrastructures will grow more ... -
Connectivity solutions to link a bluetooth camera to the internet
Ionas, Adrian; Corcoran, Peter M. (IEEE, 2001)Digital photography is gaining day by day more and more credibility over conventional photography due to a number of factors easy to guess. Bluetooth connectivity in the digital camera provides cordless communication with ... -
Digital camera connectivity solutions using the picture transfer protocol (PTP)
Bigioi, Petronel; Corcoran, Peter M. (IEEE, 2002)Interconnectivity of digital camera with other devices is one of the main concerns of consumers and digital camera manufacturers. Interconnectivity features in digital cameras allow more consumer-friendly ... -
Home network infrastructure for handheld/wearable appliances
Corcoran, Peter M.; Bigioi, Petronel; Lupu, loan (IEEE, 2002)A server infrastructure allows wireless wearable appliances or portable handsets to access consumer services offered via the server. Services are accessed via a Universal Home Services Interface (UHSI) which is ... -
Internet connectivity solutions for digital photography
Corcoran, Peter M. (IEEE, 2000)The exposure of consumers to the Internet is opening up broad new markets for data-centric services and products. One of these new markets is that of digital photography. A key to growing this emerging ... -
Internet Enabled Digital Photography
Corcoran, Peter M.; Bigioi, Petronel; Steinberg, Eran (IEEE, 1999)The principles and concepts of Internet Enabled Digital Photography are outlined. The design and implementation of an interface appliance to connect digital cameras to the Internet is described. In ... -
Mapping home-network appliances to TCP/IP sockets using a three-tiered home gateway architecture
Corcoran, Peter M. (IEEE, 1998)A three-tier gateway architecture for internetworking between home automation networks and a TCP/IP based wide area network, such as the internet, is described. The architecture abstracts the ... -
A Matter of Timing: Consumer Electronics & Network Time
Corcoran, Peter M. (IEEE, 2013-10)Network time protocol (NTP) has become widely used across the Internet to synchronize clocks on computers and, more recently, on a wide variety of handheld devices. You are using NTP on a daily basis without even knowing ... -
On color texture normalization for active appearance models
Ionita, Mircea C.; Corcoran, Peter M.; Buzuloiu, Vasile (IEEE, 2009-05-12)The extension of the standard grayscale active appearance model (AAM) techniques to color images is investigated. Prior work in this field has mainly focused on RGB color models which did not demonstrate noticeable benefits ... -
Practical aspects of video data transfer to network storage using 802.11 WLAN technology for low-end consumer digital cameras
Corcoran, Peter M.; Raducan, Ilariu (IEEE, 2003)The latest models of low-end consumer digital cameras have begun to support A/V streaming directly to memory card. This greatly enhances the utility of the camera to an end user. In this paper we investigate techniques ... -
PTP-IP a new transport specification for wireless photography
Corcoran, Peter M. (IEEE, 2005)PTP (Picture Transfer Protocol ISO-15740) is an International Standard for connectivity and interface of digital photography devices. In this paper we describe how PTP can be extended to work over generic TCP/IP ... -
PTP/IP adapter design and connectivity techniques for legacy imaging appliances
Corcoran, Peter M. (IEEE, 2007)PTP/IP is an emerging connectivity standard for networked imaging appliances. It combines the ease of use and seamless connectivity of Picture Transfer Protocol (PTP) with the ubiquity of TCP/IP networks. In this paper we ... -
Real time ATM for remote access to home automation and digital home AN networks
Corcoran, Peter M.; Cucos, Alexandru (IEEE, 1998)Remote access to a home automation network via an Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) network is described. Real-time access to such networks is important in applications where the inherent latency of TCPlIP ... -
A remote electronic object emulation system for home bus applications
Lusted, Karl; Corcoran, Peter M. (IEEE, 1994)The design and implementation of a hardware emulation system for CEBus Objects is described. The emulator is accessed remotely @om a PC-based GUI. It may be easily programmed to combine several CAL Objects ... -
Smart cameras: 2D affine models for determining subject facial expressions
Bacivarov, Ioana; Corcoran, Peter M.; Ionita, Mircea (IEEE, 2010-07-15)In this paper we consider how next generation of smart cameras will move beyond face detection and tracking to develop more useful analysis tools for determining the expressions and emotions of the subjects in images. An ... -
System Architecture and Implementation of a CEBus/internet Gateway
Desbonnet, Joe; Corcoran, Peter M. (IEEE, 1997)Class structures and an object-oriented software framework to facilitate Internet access to CEBus networks are described. The Internet/CEBus Gateway consists of a server application and dynamic data structures which ... -
Techniques for securing multimedia content in consumer electronic appliances using biometric signatures
Corcoran, Peter M.; Cucos, Alex (IEEE, 2005)A system is described for CE appliances which employs a biometrically auditable public key infrastructure for securing multimedia content (BAPTISM). It is based on biometrically generated key-pairs and is designed to ... -
Transparent and dynamically configurable RF network suitable for home automation applications
Corcoran, Peter M.; Cucos, Alexandru; Bigioi, Petronel (IEEE, 1999)The design and implementation of a mobile low power RF network appliance to connect mobile intelligent nodes in one communication system. Its applicability can be found in a wide range of domains such as ... -
User Interface Technologies for Home Appliances and Networks
Zoldi, Arpad; Papai, Ferenc; Corcoran, Peter M. (IEEE, 1998)The design and implementation of portable, light- weight user-interfaces to provide access to remote embedded home-systems and home-networks is described. This paper is focused on emerging standards in ...