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Diagnosis of multiple sclerosis by detecting asymmetry within the retina using a similarity-based neural network (2024)
Journal Article
Bolton, R. C., Kafieh, R., Ashtari, F., & Atapour-Abarghouei, A. (2024). Diagnosis of multiple sclerosis by detecting asymmetry within the retina using a similarity-based neural network. IEEE Access, 12, 62975-62985. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2024.3395995

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic neurological disorder that targets the central nervous system, causing demyelination and neural disruption, which can include retinal nerve damage leading to visual disturbances. The purpose of this study is to de... Read More about Diagnosis of multiple sclerosis by detecting asymmetry within the retina using a similarity-based neural network.

Disentangling Racial Phenotypes: Fine-Grained Control of Race-related Facial Phenotype Characteristics (2024)
Journal Article
Yucer, S., Atapour-Abarghouei, A., Al Moubayed, N., & Breckon, T. P. (2024). Disentangling Racial Phenotypes: Fine-Grained Control of Race-related Facial Phenotype Characteristics. arXiv,

Achieving an effective fine-grained appearance variation over 2D facial images, whilst preserving facial identity, is a challenging task due to the high complexity and entanglement of common 2D facial feature encoding spaces. Despite these challenges... Read More about Disentangling Racial Phenotypes: Fine-Grained Control of Race-related Facial Phenotype Characteristics.

HINT: High-quality INpainting Transformer with Mask-Aware Encoding and Enhanced Attention (2024)
Journal Article
Chen, S., Atapour-Abarghouei, A., & Shum, H. P. H. (2024). HINT: High-quality INpainting Transformer with Mask-Aware Encoding and Enhanced Attention. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 26, 7649-7660. https://doi.org/10.1109/TMM.2024.3369897

Existing image inpainting methods leverage convolution-based downsampling approaches to reduce spatial dimensions. This may result in information loss from corrupted images where the available information is inherently sparse, especially for the scen... Read More about HINT: High-quality INpainting Transformer with Mask-Aware Encoding and Enhanced Attention.

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.

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.

Multi-Task Regression-based Learning for Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Flight Control within Unstructured Outdoor Environments (2019)
Journal Article
Maciel-Pearson, B., Akcay, S., Atapour-Abarghouei, A., Holder, C., & Breckon, T. (2019). Multi-Task Regression-based Learning for Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Flight Control within Unstructured Outdoor Environments. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 4(4), 4116-4123. https://doi.org/10.1109/lra.2019.2930496

Increased growth in the global Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) (drone) industry has expanded possibilities for fully autonomous UAV applications. A particular application which has in part motivated this research is the use of UAV in wide area search... Read More about Multi-Task Regression-based Learning for Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Flight Control within Unstructured Outdoor Environments.

Generative Adversarial Framework for Depth Filling via Wasserstein Metric, Cosine Transform and Domain Transfer (2019)
Journal Article
Atapour-Abarghouei, A., Akcay, S., de La Garanderie, G. P., & Breckon, T. P. (2019). Generative Adversarial Framework for Depth Filling via Wasserstein Metric, Cosine Transform and Domain Transfer. Pattern Recognition, 91, 232-244. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2019.02.010

In this work, the issue of depth filling is addressed using a self-supervised feature learning model that predicts missing depth pixel values based on the context and structure of the scene. A fully-convolutional generative model is conditioned on th... Read More about Generative Adversarial Framework for Depth Filling via Wasserstein Metric, Cosine Transform and Domain Transfer.

A Comparative Review of Plausible Hole Filling Strategies in the Context of Scene Depth Image Completion (2018)
Journal Article
Atapour-Abarghouei, A., & Breckon, T. (2018). A Comparative Review of Plausible Hole Filling Strategies in the Context of Scene Depth Image Completion. Computers and Graphics, 72, 39-58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cag.2018.02.001

Despite significant research focus on 3D scene capture systems, numerous unresolved challenges remain in relation to achieving full coverage scene depth estimation which is the key part of any modern 3D sensing system. This has created an area of res... Read More about A Comparative Review of Plausible Hole Filling Strategies in the Context of Scene Depth Image Completion.

Iris Segmentation using an Edge Detector based on Fuzzy Sets Theory and Cellular Learning Automata (2011)
Journal Article
Ghanizadeh, A., Atapour-Abarghouei, A., Sinaie, S., Saad, P., & Shamsuddin, S. M. (2011). Iris Segmentation using an Edge Detector based on Fuzzy Sets Theory and Cellular Learning Automata. Applied Optics, 50(19), 3191-3200. https://doi.org/10.1364/ao.50.003191

Iris-based biometric systems identify individuals based on the characteristics of their iris, since they are proven to remain unique for a long time. An iris recognition system includes four phases, the most important of which is preprocessing in whi... Read More about Iris Segmentation using an Edge Detector based on Fuzzy Sets Theory and Cellular Learning Automata.

Advances of Soft Computing Methods in Edge Detection (2009)
Journal Article
Atapour-Abarghouei, A., Ghanizadeh, A., & Shamsuddin, S. M. (2009). Advances of Soft Computing Methods in Edge Detection. International journal of advances in soft computing and its applications, 1(2), 162-203

Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques are now commonly used to solve complex and ill-defined problems. AI a broad field and will bring different meanings for different people. John McCarthy would probably use AI as “computational intelligence”, whi... Read More about Advances of Soft Computing Methods in Edge Detection.