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Region-based Appearance and Flow Characteristics for Anomaly Detection in Infrared Surveillance Imagery (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Gaus, Y., Bhowmik, N., Issac-Medina, B., Atapour-Abarghouei, A., Shum, H., & Breckon, T. (2023). Region-based Appearance and Flow Characteristics for Anomaly Detection in Infrared Surveillance Imagery. In 2023 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW). https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPRW59228.2023.00301

Anomaly detection is a classical problem within automated visual surveillance, namely the determination of the normal from the abnormal when operational data availability is highly biased towards one class (normal) due to both insufficient sample siz... Read More about Region-based Appearance and Flow Characteristics for Anomaly Detection in Infrared Surveillance Imagery.

INCLG: Inpainting for Non-Cleft Lip Generation with a Multi-Task Image Processing Network (2023)
Journal Article
Chen, S., Atapour-Abarghouei, A., Ho, E. S., & Shum, H. P. (2023). INCLG: Inpainting for Non-Cleft Lip Generation with a Multi-Task Image Processing Network. Software impacts, 17, Article 100517. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.simpa.2023.100517

We present a software that predicts non-cleft facial images for patients with cleft lip, thereby facilitating the understanding, awareness and discussion of cleft lip surgeries. To protect patients’ privacy, we design a software framework using image... Read More about INCLG: Inpainting for Non-Cleft Lip Generation with a Multi-Task Image Processing Network.

Predicting the Performance of a Computing System with Deep Networks (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Cengiz, M., Forshaw, M., Atapour-Abarghouei, A., & McGough, A. S. (2023). Predicting the Performance of a Computing System with Deep Networks. In ICPE '23: Proceedings of the 2023 ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (91-98). https://doi.org/10.1145/3578244.3583731

Predicting the performance and energy consumption of computing hardware is critical for many modern applications. This will inform procurement decisions, deployment decisions, and autonomic scaling. Existing approaches to understanding the performanc... Read More about Predicting the Performance of a Computing System with Deep Networks.

Differentiating Glaucomatous Optic Neuropathy from Non-Glaucomatous Optic Neuropathies Using Deep Learning Algorithms (2023)
Journal Article
Vali, M., Mohammadi, M., Zarei, N., Samadi, M., Atapour-Abarghouei, A., Supakontanasan, W., …Fard, M. A. (2023). Differentiating Glaucomatous Optic Neuropathy from Non-Glaucomatous Optic Neuropathies Using Deep Learning Algorithms. American Journal of Ophthalmology, 252, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajo.2023.02.016

Purpose : A deep learning framework to differentiate glaucomatous optic disc changes (GON) from non-glaucomatous optic neuropathy-related disc changes (NGON). Design : Cross-sectional study. Method : A deep-learning system was trained, validated, and... Read More about Differentiating Glaucomatous Optic Neuropathy from Non-Glaucomatous Optic Neuropathies Using Deep Learning Algorithms.

Skin Deep Unlearning: Artefact and Instrument Debiasing in the Context of Melanoma Classification (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Bevan, P., & Atapour-Abarghouei, A. (2022). Skin Deep Unlearning: Artefact and Instrument Debiasing in the Context of Melanoma Classification. In K. Chaudhuri, S. Jegelka, L. Song, C. Szepesvari, G. Niu, & S. Sabato (Eds.), Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (1874-1892)

Convolutional Neural Networks have demonstrated dermatologist-level performance in the classification of melanoma and other skin lesions, but prediction irregularities due to biases seen within the training data are an issue that should be addressed... Read More about Skin Deep Unlearning: Artefact and Instrument Debiasing in the Context of Melanoma Classification.

A Feasibility Study on Image Inpainting for Non-cleft Lip Generation from Patients with Cleft Lip (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Chen, S., Atapour-Abarghouei, A., Kerby, J., Ho, E. S., Sainsbury, D. C., Butterworth, S., & Shum, H. P. (2022). A Feasibility Study on Image Inpainting for Non-cleft Lip Generation from Patients with Cleft Lip. . https://doi.org/10.1109/bhi56158.2022.9926917

A Cleft lip is a congenital abnormality requiring surgical repair by a specialist. The surgeon must have extensive experience and theoretical knowledge to perform surgery, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) method has been proposed to guide surgeons in... Read More about A Feasibility Study on Image Inpainting for Non-cleft Lip Generation from Patients with Cleft Lip.

Detecting Melanoma Fairly: Skin Tone Detection and Debiasing for Skin Lesion Classification (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Bevan, P. J., & Atapour-Abarghouei, A. (2022). Detecting Melanoma Fairly: Skin Tone Detection and Debiasing for Skin Lesion Classification. In K. Kamnitsas, L. Koch, M. Islam, Z. Xu, J. Cardoso, Q. Doi, …S. Tsaftaris (Eds.), DART 2022: Domain Adaptation and Representation Transfer (1-11). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16852-9_1

Convolutional Neural Networks have demonstrated human-level performance in the classification of melanoma and other skin lesions, but evident performance disparities between differing skin tones should be addressed before widespread deployment. In th... Read More about Detecting Melanoma Fairly: Skin Tone Detection and Debiasing for Skin Lesion Classification.

“Just Drive”: Colour Bias Mitigation for Semantic Segmentation in the Context of Urban Driving (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Stelling, J., & Atapour-Abarghouei, A. (2021). “Just Drive”: Colour Bias Mitigation for Semantic Segmentation in the Context of Urban Driving. . https://doi.org/10.1109/bigdata52589.2021.9672033

Biases can filter into AI technology without our knowledge. Oftentimes, seminal deep learning networks champion increased accuracy above all else. In this paper, we attempt to alleviate biases encountered by semantic segmentation models in urban driv... Read More about “Just Drive”: Colour Bias Mitigation for Semantic Segmentation in the Context of Urban Driving.

Transforming Fake News: Robust Generalisable News Classification Using Transformers (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Blackledge, C., & Atapour-Abarghouei, A. (2021). Transforming Fake News: Robust Generalisable News Classification Using Transformers. . https://doi.org/10.1109/bigdata52589.2021.9671970

As online news has become increasingly popular and fake news increasingly prevalent, the ability to audit the veracity of online news content has become more important than ever. Such a task represents a binary classification challenge, for which tra... Read More about Transforming Fake News: Robust Generalisable News Classification Using Transformers.

Rank over Class: The Untapped Potential of Ranking in Natural Language Processing (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Atapour-Abarghouei, A., Bonner, S., & McGough, A. S. (2021). Rank over Class: The Untapped Potential of Ranking in Natural Language Processing. . https://doi.org/10.1109/bigdata52589.2021.9671386

Text classification has long been a staple within Natural Language Processing (NLP) with applications spanning across diverse areas such as sentiment analysis, recommender systems and spam detection. With such a powerful solution, it is often temptin... Read More about Rank over Class: The Untapped Potential of Ranking in Natural Language Processing.

Identification of Driver Phone Usage Violations via State-of-the-Art Object Detection with Tracking (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Carrell, S., & Atapour-Abarghouei, A. (2021). Identification of Driver Phone Usage Violations via State-of-the-Art Object Detection with Tracking. . https://doi.org/10.1109/bigdata52589.2021.9671378

The use of mobiles phones when driving has been a major factor when it comes to road traffic incidents and the process of capturing such violations can be a laborious task. Advancements in both modern object detection frameworks and high-performance... Read More about Identification of Driver Phone Usage Violations via State-of-the-Art Object Detection with Tracking.

On the Impact of Lossy Image and Video Compression on the Performance of Deep Convolutional Neural Network Architectures (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Poyser, M., Atapour-Abarghouei, A., & Breckon, T. (2021). On the Impact of Lossy Image and Video Compression on the Performance of Deep Convolutional Neural Network Architectures. . https://doi.org/10.1109/icpr48806.2021.9412455

Recent advances in generalized image understanding have seen a surge in the use of deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) across a broad range of image-based detection, classification and prediction tasks. Whilst the reported performance of these a... Read More about On the Impact of Lossy Image and Video Compression on the Performance of Deep Convolutional Neural Network Architectures.

Temporal neighbourhood aggregation: predicting future links in temporal graphs via recurrent variational graph convolutions (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Bonner, S., Atapour-Abarghouei, A., Jackson, P., Brennan, J., Kureshi, I., Theodoropoulos, G., …Obara, B. (2019). Temporal neighbourhood aggregation: predicting future links in temporal graphs via recurrent variational graph convolutions. In 2019 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data) (5336-5345). https://doi.org/10.1109/bigdata47090.2019.9005545

Graphs have become a crucial way to represent large, complex and often temporal datasets across a wide range of scientific disciplines. However, when graphs are used as input to machine learning models, this rich temporal information is frequently di... Read More about Temporal neighbourhood aggregation: predicting future links in temporal graphs via recurrent variational graph convolutions.

Volenti non fit injuria: Ransomware and its Victims (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Atapour-Abarghouei, A., Bonner, S., & McGough, A. S. (2019). Volenti non fit injuria: Ransomware and its Victims. . https://doi.org/10.1109/bigdata47090.2019.9006298

With the recent growth in the number of malicious activities on the internet, cybersecurity research has seen a boost in the past few years. However, as certain variants of malware can provide highly lucrative opportunities for bad actors, significan... Read More about Volenti non fit injuria: Ransomware and its Victims.

Dealing with Missing Depth: Recent Advances in Depth Image Completion and Estimation (2019)
Book Chapter
Atapour-Abarghouei, A., & Breckon, T. (2019). Dealing with Missing Depth: Recent Advances in Depth Image Completion and Estimation. In P. L. Rosin, Y. Lai, L. Shao, & Y. Liu (Eds.), RGB-D image analysis and processing (15-50). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28603-3_2

Even though obtaining 3D information has received significant attention in scene capture systems in recent years, there are currently numerous challenges within scene depth estimation which is one of the fundamental parts of any 3D vision system focu... Read More about Dealing with Missing Depth: Recent Advances in Depth Image Completion and Estimation.

Skip-GANomaly: Skip Connected and Adversarially Trained Encoder-Decoder Anomaly Detection (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Akcay, A., Atapour-Abarghouei, A., & Breckon, T. P. (2019). Skip-GANomaly: Skip Connected and Adversarially Trained Encoder-Decoder Anomaly Detection. In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks. https://doi.org/10.1109/ijcnn.2019.8851808

Despite inherent ill-definition, anomaly detection is a research endeavour of great interest within machine learning and visual scene understanding alike. Most commonly, anomaly detection is considered as the detection of outliers within a given data... Read More about Skip-GANomaly: Skip Connected and Adversarially Trained Encoder-Decoder Anomaly Detection.