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    • Iris liveness detection for next generation smartphones 

      Thavalengal, Shejin; Nedelcu, Tudor; Bigioi, Petronel; Corcoran, Peter (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2016-07-19)
      This paper presents a novel liveness detection method that exploits the acquisition workflow for iris biometrics on smartphones using a hybrid visible (RGB)/near infra-red (NIR) sensor. These devices are able to capture ...
    • Just another year in the consumer electronics industry? [notes from the editor] 

      Corcoran, Peter (IEEE, 2016-01-01)
      Welcome to another CES show issue of IEEE Conumer Electronics Magazine. This issue is aligned with the International CES held in Las Vegas, a global meeting for the consumer electronics (CE) industry where you can view the ...
    • Kickstarting Collaboration [Notes from the Editor] 

      Corcoran, Peter (IEEE, 2014-07)
      [no abstract available]
    • Latent space mapping for generation of object elements with corresponding data annotation 

      Bazrafkan, Shabab; Javidnia, Hossein; Corcoran, Peter (Elsevier, 2018-10-25)
      Deep neural generative models such as Variational Auto-Encoders (VAE) and Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) give promising results in estimating the data distribution across a range of machine learning fields of ...
    • A Lexicon of Patent Jargon [IP Corner] 

      Corcoran, Peter (2014)
      Often when I am doing work related to patents and IP, I find myself talking a different language. It is a strange legal dialect that patent lawyers have developed over many years. Now while its original purpose was ...
    • Managing Resources for Better Behaved Robots 

      Kennelly, Ronan; Morgan, Fearghal; Galvin, Martin (2006)
      This paper presents an architecture based on features of the QNX real-time operating system (RTOS) that translate directly into aspects of a behaviour-based robotic model.Significant research effort has been expended on ...
    • 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 ...
    • Microwave bone imaging: A preliminary investigation on numerical bone phantoms for bone health monitoring 

      Amin, Bilal; Shahzad, Atif; O'Halloran, Martin; Elahi, Muhammad Adnan (MDPI, 2020-11-05)
      Microwave tomography (MWT) can be used as an alternative modality for monitoring human bone health. Studies have found a significant dielectric contrast between healthy and diseased human trabecular bones. A set of diverse ...
    • Minimum information for dielectric measurements of biological tissues (MINDER): A framework for repeatable and reusable data 

      Porter, Emily; La Gioia, Alessandra; Salahuddin, Saqib; Decker, Stefan; Shahzad, Atif; Elahi, M. Adnan; O'Halloran, Martin; Beyan, Oya (Wiley, 2017-11-13)
      The dielectric properties of biological tissues characterise the interaction of human tissues with electromagnetic (EM) fields. Accurate knowledge of the dielectric properties of tissues are vital in EM‐based therapeutic ...
    • Modeling of the dielectric properties of biological tissues within the histology region 

      Porter, Emily; La Gioia, Alessandra; Santorelli, Adam; O'Halloran, Martin (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2017-11-27)
      The dielectric properties of biological tissues characterize the interaction of electromagnetic fields with the human body. As such, accurate knowledge of these properties is vital to the design and development of ...
    • Modelling the sensing radius of a coaxial probe for dielectric characterisation of biological tissues 

      La Gioia, Alessandra; O'Halloran, Martin; Porter, Emily (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2018-08-22)
      The open-ended coaxial probe is the most common measurement tool used to dielectrically characterize biological tissues. Most healthy and malignant biological tissues are macroscopically heterogeneous, with the exception ...
    • Multi-nodal short-term energy forecasting using smart meter data 

      Hayes, Barry P.; Gruber, Jorn K.; Prodanovic, Milan (Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), 2018-06-10)
      This paper deals with the short-term forecasting of electrical energy demands at the local level, incorporating advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), or ‘smart meter’ data. It provides a study of the effects of aggregation ...
    • A multistage selective weighting method for improved microwave breast tomography 

      Shahzad, Atif; O'Halloran, Martin; Jones, Edward; Glavin, Martin (Elsevier, 2016-08-24)
      Microwave tomography has shown potential to successfully reconstruct the dielectric properties of the human breast, thereby providing an alternative to other imaging modalities used in breast imaging applications. Considering ...
    • 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 ...
    • On the role of thermal imaging in automotive applications: A critical review 

      Farooq, Muhammad Ali; Shariff, Waseem; O’Callaghan, David; Merla, Arcangelo; Corcoran, Peter (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2023-03-09)
      For decades, the number of automobiles in urban areas around the world has been increasing. It causes serious challenges such as traffic congestion, accidents, and pollution, which have a social, economic, and environmental ...
    • Online influence and sentiment of fitness tweets: Analysis of two million fitness tweets 

      Vickey, Theodore; Breslin, John G. (JMIR Publications, 2017)
      Objective: The goal of this experimental approach using the fitness Twitter dataset is two-fold: (1) to determine if there is a correlation between the type of activity tweet (either workout or workout+, which contains the ...
    • An optimal day-ahead load scheduling approach based on the flexibility of aggregate demands 

      Ayón, X.; Gruber, Jorn K.; Hayes, Barry P.; Usaola, J.; Prodanović, M. (Elsevier, 2017-04-26)
      The increasing trends of energy demand and renewable integration call for new and advanced approaches to energy management and energy balancing in power networks. Utilities and network system operators require more assistance ...
    • Optimised analytical models of the dielectric properties of biological tissue 

      Salahuddin, Saqib; Porter, Emily; Krewer, Finn; O’Halloran, Martin (Elsevier, 2017-02-09)
      The interaction of electromagnetic fields with the human body is quantified by the dielectric properties of biological tissues. These properties are incorporated into complex numerical simulations using parametric models ...
    • The Patent Prosecution Process [IP Corner] 

      Corcoran, Peter (IEEE, 2014-01)
      Patents are legal documents, but they capture and preserve rights to important engineering ideas. For this reason, they are very important to the corporations and research institutions that employ engineers. And as a ...