Browsing Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Scholarly Articles) by Author "Corcoran, Peter"
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An Active-Node Fault Diagnosis System for CEBus Networks
Corcoran, Peter; Nolan, Paul J.; Humborg, Kenn; Lusted, Karl (IEEE, 1995)The design and implementation of an active-node fault diagnosis system for CEBus networks is described. The system uses an IBM PC with a user-friendly GUI to provide statistical information on network traflic and ... -
Advances in the detection & repair of flash-eye defects in digital images - a review of recent patents
Corcoran, Peter; Bigioi`, Petronel (Bentham Science, 2012)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 ... -
Application of preconditioned alternating direction method of multipliers in depth from focal stack
Javidnia, Hossein; Corcoran, Peter (Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), 2018-04-06)Postcapture refocusing effect in smartphone cameras is achievable using focal stacks. However, the accuracy of this effect is totally dependent on the combination of the depth layers in the stack. The accuracy of the ... -
Architecture of a PVR appliance with 'Long Tail' internet-TV capabilities
Corcoran, Peter; Callaly, Frank (IEEE, 2006)The design and implementation of a networked PVR appliance incorporating support for Internet-TV is described. The appliance incorporates support for the bittorrent protocol and employs user tools for content location, ... -
Automated in-camera detection of flasheye defects
Corcoran, Peter; Bigioi, Petronel (IEEE, 2005)This paper examines the problem of performing automated real-time detection of flash eye defects (redeye) in the firmware of a digital camera. Several different algorithms are compared, timing and memory requirements ... -
Automated sorting of consumer image collections using face and peripheral region image classifiers
Corcoran, Peter; Costache, Gabriel (IEEE, 2005)An evaluation of techniques and recognition technologies for use in an automatic cataloging tool for consumer image collections is presented. A working implementation of an automatic cataloging tool and user search tools ... -
Biometric access control for digital media streams in home networks
Corcoran, Peter; Iancu, Claudia; Callaly, Frank; Cucos, Alexandru (IEEE, 2007)Methods for controlling access to digital media content in the home environment using biometric sensing techniques are described. A wireless rebroadcast system for IP-TV content was retrofitted with a combination of ... -
Biometric technology and smartphones: a consideration of the practicalities of a broad adoption of biometrics and the likely impacts
Corcoran, Peter; Costache, Claudia (IEEE, 2016-04)The Widespread Global Adoption of Smartphones across all demographics and the rapid commoditization of the technology to the point at which an entry-level device can be sold profitably for less than US$100 suggest that we ... -
Blockchain in energy efficiency: Potential applications and benefits
Khatoon, Asma; Verma, Piyush; Southernwood, Jo; Massey, Beth; Corcoran, Peter (MDPI, 2019-08-28)Blockchain technology is ready to disrupt nearly every industry and business model, and the energy sector is no exception. Energy businesses across the world have already started exploring the use of blockchain technology ... -
Broadening Our Horizons [Notes from the Editor]
Corcoran, Peter (IEEE, 2014-04)As many of you will be aware,IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine evolved from the quarterly newsletter of the IEEE Consumer Electronics (CE) Society. Jim Farmer edited the newsletter before I took over from him during 2010. ... -
Browser and applet interfaces to CEBUS networks
Corcoran, Peter; Desbonnet, Joe (IEEE, 1997-06-13)[no abstract available] -
Browser-style interfaces to a home automation network
Desbonnet, Joe; Corcoran, Peter (IEEE, 1997)The design and implementation of a browser-style interface to a home automation network is described. The interface supports browsing and navigation of network devices and context structures and the user can ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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 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 ... -
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 ...