Browsing Electrical and Electronic Engineering by Author "Corcoran, Peter"
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CEBus network access via the world-wide-web
Corcoran, Peter; Desbonnet, Joe (IEEE, 1996)Several methods of providing access to CEBus networks using the World Wide Web are described. Details of a working demonstration system are given. The system software incorporates CGI-Bin scripts and Java applets ... -
Champions in our midst: the Apple doesn't fall far from the tree
Corcoran, Peter; Coughlin, Tom; Wozniak, Steve (IEEE, 2016-01)In this issue, we are very proud to introduce you to one of the best-known early pioneers of the computer industry. His work on the early Apple computers catalyzed today's home computer industry, and he participated directly ... -
Champions in our midst: the father of digital video broadcasting
Corcoran, Peter (IEEE, 2015)One of the benefits of joining the IEEE Consumer Electronics (CE) Society is that you get access to senior engineers and researchers from our industry. They are often at our conferences, workshops, and local Chapter meetings ... -
A combined approach to feature extraction for mouth characterization and tracking
Bacivarov, Ioana; Ionita, Mircea C.; Corcoran, Peter (IEEE, 2009-02-10)A statistical Active Appearance Model (AAM) is developed to model and track the lips. A major challenge in modelling the mouth area, considered the most deformable facial feature, is the weak contrast between lips and skin ... -
Conference program and online proceedings of the Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference 2023
Corcoran, Peter; Schukat, Michael; Murray, Niall; Farooq, Muhammad Ali; Javidnia, Hosein (University of Galway, 2023-08-30)The Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference (IMVIP) Conference is the annual research conference of the Irish Pattern Recognition and Classification Society. The chief objective of the society is the advancement ... -
Convolutional neural network implementation for eye-gaze estimation on low-quality consumer imaging systems
Lemley, Joseph; Kar, Anuradha; Drimbarean, Alexandru; Corcoran, Peter (IEEE, 2019-02-15)Accurate and efficient eye gaze estimation is important for emerging consumer electronic systems, such as driver monitoring systems and novel user interfaces. Such systems are required to operate reliably in difficult, ... -
A crash course on patents for engineers
Corcoran, Peter (2013)Most engineers are aware of the existence of patents. Indeed the preparation of patent disclosures is an important aspect of most research engineering job functions. Yet for many engineers the world of patents remains ... -
A crash course on patents for engineers
Corcoran, Peter (IEEE, 2013-01-12)Most engineers are aware of the existence of patents. Indeed the preparation of patent disclosures is an important aspect of most research engineering job functions. Yet for many engineers the world of patents remains ... -
Deep learning for consumer devices and services 2-AI gets embedded at the edge
Corcoran, Peter; Lemley, Joseph; Costache, Claudia; Varkarakis, Viktor (IEEE, 2019-09-02)The recent explosive growth of deep learning is enabling a new generation of intelligent consumer devices. Specialized deep learning inference now provides data analysis capabilities that once required an active cloud ... -
Deep learning for consumer devices and services: Pushing the limits for machine learning, artificial intelligence, and computer vision
Lemley, Joseph; Bazrafkan, Shabab; Corcoran, Peter (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2017-04)In the last few years, we have witnessed an exponential growth in research activity into the advanced training of convolutional neural networks (CNNs), a field that has become known as deep learning. This has been triggered ... -
Deep learning for consumer devices and services: Pushing the limits for machine learning, artificial intelligence, and computer vision (Errata for acknowledgments)
Lemley, Joseph; Bazrafkan, Shabab; Corcoran, Peter (IEEE, 2017-06-14)Presents corrections for acknowledgments in the paper: Lemley, J., Bazrafkan, S., & Corcoran, P. (2017). Deep Learning for Consumer Devices and Services: Pushing the limits for machine learning, artificial intelligence, ... -
Deep learning for facial expression recognition: A step closer to a smartphone that knows your moods
Bazrafkan, Shabab; Nedelcu, Tudor; Filipczuk, Pawel; Corcoran, Peter (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2017-01-08)By growing the capacity and processing power of the handheld devices nowadays, a wide range of capabilities can be implemented in these devices to make them more intelligent and user friendly. Determining the mood of the ... -
Deep learning for hand segmentation in complex backgrounds
Ungureanu, Adrian-Stefan; Bazrafkan, Shabab; Corcoran, Peter (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2018-01-02)This paper presents a Deep Learning segmentation approach for hand segmentation in gray level images with cluttered backgrounds where standard techniques cannot be used. Two networks were trained with a database of hand ... -
Deep neural network and data augmentation methodology for off-axis iris segmentation in wearable headsets
Varkarakis, Viktor; Bazrafkan, Shabab; Corcoran, Peter (Elsevier, 2019-08-01)A data augmentation methodology is presented and applied to generate a large dataset of off-axis iris regions and train a low-complexity deep neural network. Although of low complexity the resulting network achieves a high ... -
Detection and repair of flash-eye in handheld devices
Corcoran, Peter; Bigioi, Petronel; Nanu, Florin (IEEE, 2014)Red-eye and flash-eye defects in still photography continue to cause problems for digital imaging devices. New variants of flash-eye defects have appeared as cameras and cameras sub-systems get smaller in size. This paper ... -
Determining Unique Fingerprint Features for Biometric Encoding of Data
Cucu, Catalin; Cucos, Alex; Corcoran, Peter (2008)A novel approach to determining unique fingerprint features with high repeatibility is described. The techniques described are particularly suitable for CE applications and devices employing inexpensive capacitative ... -
Digital imaging services using PTP (picture transfer protocol)
Corcoran, Peter (IEEE, 2002-06-20)Interconnectivity of digital cameras with other devices seems to be one of the main concerns of consumers and digital camera manufacturers. Interconnectivity features in digital cameras provide better usage of digital ... -
A dual image processing pipeline camera with CE applications
Andorko, Istvan; Corcoran, Peter; Bigioi, Petronel (2011)The implementation of a dual image processing pipeline camera on a state-of-art FPGA system is described. This camera can simultaneously acquire dual images of a scene and process, analyze and merge both images to enable ... -
Edge-AI: Rise of the neural accelerators
Corcoran, Peter (EMAI 2019 Emerging Memory and Artificial Intelligence Workshop, 2019-08-29)We are at the cusp of a new era in AI. Recently deep learning has revolutionised the field of Computer Vision, disrupting more traditional algorithmic approaches to object recognition, scene analysis and image understanding. ... -
Effect of modeling approach on climate change focused life cycle assessments for a contemporary smartphone device
Corcoran, Peter; Andrae, Anders S.G.; Samuli Vaija, Mikko; Garcia, Catherine; Dechenaux, Elisabeth (2014)Life cycle assessments (LCA) of consumer electronics and beyond are usually performed and reported very differently. As a result it is often difficult to assess the robustness, variability and transparency of reported LCA ...