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Measuring Hidden Bias within Face Recognition via Racial Phenotypes (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Yucer, S., Tekras, F., Al Moubayed, N., & Breckon, T. (2022). Measuring Hidden Bias within Face Recognition via Racial Phenotypes. . https://doi.org/10.1109/wacv51458.2022.00326

Recent work reports disparate performance for intersectional racial groups across face recognition tasks: face verification and identification. However, the definition of those racial groups has a significant impact on the underlying findings of such... Read More about Measuring Hidden Bias within Face Recognition via Racial Phenotypes.

Semi-Supervised Surface Anomaly Detection of Composite Wind Turbine Blades From Drone Imagery (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Barker, J., Bhowmik, N., & Breckon, T. (in press). Semi-Supervised Surface Anomaly Detection of Composite Wind Turbine Blades From Drone Imagery.

Within commercial wind energy generation, the monitoring and predictive maintenance of wind turbine blades in-situ is a crucial task, for which remote monitoring via aerial survey from an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is commonplace. Turbine blades a... Read More about Semi-Supervised Surface Anomaly Detection of Composite Wind Turbine Blades From Drone Imagery.

DurLAR: A High-Fidelity 128-Channel LiDAR Dataset with Panoramic Ambient and Reflectivity Imagery for Multi-Modal Autonomous Driving Applications (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Li, L., Ismail, K. N., Shum, H. P., & Breckon, T. P. (2021). DurLAR: A High-Fidelity 128-Channel LiDAR Dataset with Panoramic Ambient and Reflectivity Imagery for Multi-Modal Autonomous Driving Applications. . https://doi.org/10.1109/3dv53792.2021.00130

We present DurLAR, a high-fidelity 128-channel 3D LiDAR dataset with panoramic ambient (near infrared) and reflectivity imagery, as well as a sample benchmark task using depth estimation for autonomous driving applications. Our driving platform is eq... Read More about DurLAR: A High-Fidelity 128-Channel LiDAR Dataset with Panoramic Ambient and Reflectivity Imagery for Multi-Modal Autonomous Driving Applications.

Re-ID-AR: Improved Person Re-identification in Video via Joint Weakly Supervised Action Recognition (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Alsehaim, A., & Breckon, T. (2021). Re-ID-AR: Improved Person Re-identification in Video via Joint Weakly Supervised Action Recognition.

We uniquely consider the task of joint person re-identification (Re-ID) and action recognition in video as a multi-task problem. In addition to the broader potential of joint Re-ID and action recognition within the context of automated multi-camera s... Read More about Re-ID-AR: Improved Person Re-identification in Video via Joint Weakly Supervised Action Recognition.

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Visual Detection and Tracking using Deep Neural Networks: A Performance Benchmark (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Isaac-Medina, B. K., Poyser, M., Organisciak, D., Willcocks, C. G., Breckon, T. P., & Shum, H. P. (2021). Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Visual Detection and Tracking using Deep Neural Networks: A Performance Benchmark. . https://doi.org/10.1109/iccvw54120.2021.00142

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) can pose a major risk for aviation safety, due to both negligent and malicious use. For this reason, the automated detection and tracking of UAV is a fundamental task in aerial security systems. Common technologies for... Read More about Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Visual Detection and Tracking using Deep Neural Networks: A Performance Benchmark.

Cross-Domain Structure Preserving Projection for Heterogeneous Domain Adaptation (2021)
Journal Article
Wang, Q., & Breckon, T. (2022). Cross-Domain Structure Preserving Projection for Heterogeneous Domain Adaptation. Pattern Recognition, 123, Article 108362. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2021.108362

Heterogeneous Domain Adaptation (HDA) addresses the transfer learning problems where data from the source and target domains are of different modalities (e.g., texts and images) or feature dimensions (e.g., features extracted with different methods).... Read More about Cross-Domain Structure Preserving Projection for Heterogeneous Domain Adaptation.

PANDA: Perceptually Aware Neural Detection of Anomalies (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Barker, J., & Breckon, T. (2021). PANDA: Perceptually Aware Neural Detection of Anomalies. . https://doi.org/10.1109/ijcnn52387.2021.9534399

Semi-supervised methods of anomaly detection have seen substantial advancement in recent years. Of particular interest are applications of such methods to diverse, real-world anomaly detection problems where anomalous variations can vary from the vis... Read More about PANDA: Perceptually Aware Neural Detection of Anomalies.

On the Evaluation of Semi-Supervised 2D Segmentation for Volumetric 3D Computed Tomography Baggage Security Screening (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Wang, Q., & Breckon, T. (2021). On the Evaluation of Semi-Supervised 2D Segmentation for Volumetric 3D Computed Tomography Baggage Security Screening. In 2021 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.1109/ijcnn52387.2021.9533631

We address the automatic contraband material detection problem within volumetric 3D Computed Tomography (CT) data for baggage security screening. Distinct from the prohibited item detection using object detection techniques, contraband material detec... Read More about On the Evaluation of Semi-Supervised 2D Segmentation for Volumetric 3D Computed Tomography Baggage Security Screening.

Autoencoders Without Reconstruction for Textural Anomaly Detection (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Adey, P., Akcay, S., Bordewich, M., & Breckon, T. (2021). Autoencoders Without Reconstruction for Textural Anomaly Detection. . https://doi.org/10.1109/ijcnn52387.2021.9533804

Automatic anomaly detection in natural textures is a key component within quality control for a range of high-speed, high-yield manufacturing industries that rely on camera-based visual inspection techniques. Targeting anomaly detection through the u... Read More about Autoencoders Without Reconstruction for Textural Anomaly Detection.

On the Impact of Using X-Ray Energy Response Imagery for Object Detection via Convolutional Neural Networks (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Bhowmik, N., Gaus, Y., & Breckon, T. (2021). On the Impact of Using X-Ray Energy Response Imagery for Object Detection via Convolutional Neural Networks.

Automatic detection of prohibited items within complex and cluttered X-ray security imagery is essential to maintaining transport security, where prior work on automatic prohibited item detection focus primarily on pseudo-colour (rgb) X-ray imagery.... Read More about On the Impact of Using X-Ray Energy Response Imagery for Object Detection via Convolutional Neural Networks.

Towards Automatic Threat Detection: A Survey of Advances of Deep Learning within X-ray Security Imaging (2021)
Journal Article
Akcay, S., & Breckon, T. (2022). Towards Automatic Threat Detection: A Survey of Advances of Deep Learning within X-ray Security Imaging. Pattern Recognition, 122, Article 108245. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2021.108245

X-ray security screening is widely used to maintain aviation/transport security, and its significance poses a particular interest in automated screening systems. This paper aims to review computerised X-ray security imaging algorithms by taxonomising... Read More about Towards Automatic Threat Detection: A Survey of Advances of Deep Learning within X-ray Security Imaging.

Temporal and Non-Temporal Contextual Saliency Analysis for Generalized Wide-Area Search within Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Video (2021)
Journal Article
Gökstorp, S., & Breckon, T. (2022). Temporal and Non-Temporal Contextual Saliency Analysis for Generalized Wide-Area Search within Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Video. Visual Computer, 38(6), 2033-2040. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00371-021-02264-6

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) can be used to great effect for wide-area searches such as search and rescue operations. UAV enable search and rescue teams to cover large areas more efficiently and in less time. However, using UAV for this purpose inv... Read More about Temporal and Non-Temporal Contextual Saliency Analysis for Generalized Wide-Area Search within Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Video.

Source Class Selection with Label Propagation for Partial Domain Adaptation (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Wang, Q., & Breckon, T. (2021). Source Class Selection with Label Propagation for Partial Domain Adaptation.

In traditional unsupervised domain adaptation problems, the target domain is assumed to share the same set of classes as the source domain. In practice, there exist situations where target-domain data are from only a subset of source-domain classes a... Read More about Source Class Selection with Label Propagation for Partial Domain Adaptation.

Competitive Simplicity for Multi-Task Learning for Real-Time Foggy Scene Understanding via Domain Adaptation (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Alshammari, N., Akcay, S., & Breckon, T. (2021). Competitive Simplicity for Multi-Task Learning for Real-Time Foggy Scene Understanding via Domain Adaptation.

— Automotive scene understanding under adverse weather conditions raises a realistic and challenging problem attributable to poor outdoor scene visibility (e.g. foggy weather). However, because most contemporary scene understanding approaches are app... Read More about Competitive Simplicity for Multi-Task Learning for Real-Time Foggy Scene Understanding via Domain Adaptation.

Multi-Modal Learning for Real-Time Automotive Semantic Foggy Scene Understanding via Domain Adaptation (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Alshammari, N., Akcay, S., & Breckon, T. (2021). Multi-Modal Learning for Real-Time Automotive Semantic Foggy Scene Understanding via Domain Adaptation.

Robust semantic scene segmentation for automotive applications is a challenging problem in two key aspects: (1) labelling every individual scene pixel and (2) performing this task under unstable weather and illumination changes (e.g., foggy weather),... Read More about Multi-Modal Learning for Real-Time Automotive Semantic Foggy Scene Understanding via Domain Adaptation.

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.

Leveraging Synthetic Subject Invariant EEG Signals for Zero Calibration BCI (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Aznan, N., Atapour-Abarghouei, A., Bonner, S., Connolly, J., & Breckon, T. (2021). Leveraging Synthetic Subject Invariant EEG Signals for Zero Calibration BCI. . https://doi.org/10.1109/icpr48806.2021.9411994

Recently, substantial progress has been made in the area of Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) using modern machine learning techniques to decode and interpret brain signals. While Electroencephalography (EEG) has provided a non-invasive method of interf... Read More about Leveraging Synthetic Subject Invariant EEG Signals for Zero Calibration BCI.