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Prof Peter Corcoran

Peter is a 2021 SFI ADAPT-2 PI specializing in Edge-AI & Computer Vision. Other recent research activity includes : 2015-2019, SFI industry/academic partnership with Xperi generated more than 50 academic publications, 15 patent filings, and graduated 8 PhDs for public investment of 730k; 2019, successful participation in ECSEL Heliuas project, lead PI an NUIG on SFI Center for Research Training (www.d-real.ie); 2020 successful participation in DTIF DAVID project to develop low-power smart-toy platform.
He is recognized by Guide2Research as #1 researcher in the ICT/Electronic Engineering field in Ireland (2020) and is an IEEE Fellow (2010); more than 500 technical publications, 100+ peer-reviewed journal papers, 150+ International peer-reviewed conference papers; co-inventor on 400+ granted US patents, 100+ granted European.
University Professor & Lecturer for 30+ years; member IEEE Consumer Electronics Society 25+ years.

Research Domains

Artificial Intelligence
Audio
Behavioural Analysis
Data Analytics
Data Management
Data Representation
Deep Learning
Image and Video processing
Machine Learning
Predictive Analytics
Privacy & Ethics
Speech
VR and AR

Publications

Data Center Audio/Video Intelligence on Device (DAVID) - An Edge-AI Platform for Smart-Toys

PUBLICATION:	SpeD 2023 - 18th International Conference on Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue
AUTHOR(S):	Gabriel Cosache, Francisco Salgado, Rishabh Jain, Cosmin Rotariu, George Sterpu, Peter Corcoran
DATE:	15 November 2023
TYPE:	Conf papers

A comparative analysis between Conformer-Transducer, Whisper, and wav2vec2 for improving the child speech recognition

PUBLICATION:	SpeD 2023 - 18th International Conference on Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue
AUTHOR(S):	Andrei Barcovschi, Rishabh Jain, Peter Corcoran
DATE:	15 November 2023
TYPE:	Conf papers

Synthetic Speaking Children - Why We Need Them and How to Make Them

PUBLICATION:	SpeD 2023 - 18th International Conference on Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue
AUTHOR(S):	Mohammed Ali Farooq, Dan Bigioi, Rishabh Jain, Wang Yao, Mariam Yiwere, Peter Corcoran
DATE:	05 November 2023
TYPE:	Conf papers

Neuromorphic Driver Monitoring Systems: A Computationally Efficient Proof-of-Concept for Driver Distraction Detection

PUBLICATION:	IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology
AUTHOR(S):	Waseem Shariff, Mehdi Sefidga Dilmaghani, Paul Kielty, Joe Lemley, Muhammad Ali Farooq, Faisal Khan, Peter Corcoran
DATE:	18 October 2023
TYPE:	Journal Articles

Augmentation Techniques for Adult-Speech to Generate Child-Like Speech Data Samples at Scale

PUBLICATION:	IEEE Access
AUTHOR(S):	Mariam Y. Yiwere, Andrei Barcovschi, Rishabh Jain, Horia Cucu, Peter Corcoran
DATE:	20 September 2023
TYPE:	Journal Articles

A Study on the Effect of Ageing in Facial Authentication and the Utility of Data Augmentation to Reduce Performance Bias across Age Groups

PUBLICATION:	IEEE Access
AUTHOR(S):	Wang Yao, Muhammad Ali Farooq, Joseph Lemley, Peter Corcoran
DATE:	06 September 2023
TYPE:	Journal Articles

Neuromorphic Driver Monitoring Systems: A Proof-of-Concept for Yawn Detection and Seatbelt State Detection using an Event Camera

PUBLICATION:	IEEE Access
AUTHOR(S):	Paul Kielty, Mehdi Sefidgar Dilmaghani, Waseem Shariff, Cian Ryan, Joe Lemley, Peter Corcoran
DATE:	05 September 2023
TYPE:	Journal Articles

Assessing the physiological effect of non-driving-related task performance and task modality in conditionally automated driving systems: A systematic review and meta-analysis

PUBLICATION:	Accident Analysis & Prevention
AUTHOR(S):	Rory Coyne, Leona Ryan, Mohamed Moustafa, Alan F. Smeaton, Peter Corcoran, Jane C. Walsh
DATE:	29 August 2023
TYPE:	Journal Articles

Sign2Speech: A Novel Sign Language to Speech Synthesis Pipeline

PUBLICATION:	IMVIP 2022 - 24th Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference
AUTHOR(S):	Dan Bigioi, Theo Morales, Ayushi Pandey, Frank Fowley, Peter Corcoran, Julie Carson-Berndsen
DATE:	31 August 2022
TYPE:	Conf papers

Pose-Aware Speech Driven Facial Landmark Animation Pipeline for Automated Dubbing

PUBLICATION:	IEEE Access
AUTHOR(S):	Dan Bigioi, Hugh Jordan, Rishabh Jain, Rachel McDonnell, Peter Corcoran
DATE:	20 December 2022
TYPE:	Journal Articles

Real-Time Multi-Task Facial Analytics with Event Cameras

PUBLICATION:	IEEE Access
AUTHOR(S):	Cian Ryan, Amr Elrasad, Waseem Shariff, Joe Lemley, Paul Kielty, Patrick Hurney, Peter Corcoran
DATE:	20 July 2023
TYPE:	Journal Articles

Joint Speech-Text Embeddings with Disentangled Speaker Features

PUBLICATION:	ISSC 2023 - 34th Irish Signals and Systems Conference
AUTHOR(S):	Michael Gian Gonzales, Peter Corcoran, Naomi Harte, Michael Schukat
DATE:	13 June 2023
TYPE:	Conf papers

A Robust Light-Weight Fused-Feature Encoder-Decoder Model for Monocular Facial Depth Estimation From Single Images Trained on Synthetic Data

PUBLICATION:	IEEE Access
AUTHOR(S):	Faisal Khan, Waseem Shariff, Mohammad Ali Farooq, Shubhajit Basak, Peter Corcoran
DATE:	17 April 2023
TYPE:	Journal Articles

ChildGAN: Large Scale Synthetic Child Facial Data Using Domain Adaptation in StyleGAN

PUBLICATION:	IEEE Access
AUTHOR(S):	Muhammad Ali Frooq, Wang Yao, Gabriel Costache, Peter Corcoran
DATE:	02 January 2023
TYPE:	Journal Articles

On the Role of Thermal Imaging in Automotive Applications: A Critical Review

PUBLICATION:	IEEE Access
AUTHOR(S):	Muhammad Ali Farooq, Waseem Shariff, David O'Callaghan, Arcangelo Merla, Peter Corcoran
DATE:	01 January 2023
TYPE:	Journal Articles

Automatic Inspection of Seal Integrity in Sterile Barrier Packaging: a Deep Learning Approach

PUBLICATION:	IEEE Access
AUTHOR(S):	Julio Zanon Diaz, Muhammad Ali Farooq, Peter Corcoran
DATE:	01 January 2023
TYPE:	Journal Articles

A WAV2VEC2-Based Experimental Study on Self-Supervised Learning Methods to Improve Child Speech Recognition

PUBLICATION:	IEEE Access
AUTHOR(S):	Rishabh Jain, Andrei Barcovschi, Mariam Yahayah Yiwere, Dan Bigioi, Peter Corcoran, Horia Cucu
DATE:	01 January 2023
TYPE:	Journal Articles

Improved Child Text-to-Speech Synthesis through Fastpitch-based Transfer Learning

PUBLICATION:	SpeD 2023 - 18th International Conference on Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue
AUTHOR(S):	Rishabh Jain, Peter Corcoran
DATE:	01 January 2023
TYPE:	Conf papers

Towards Monocular Neural Facial Depth Estimation: Past, Present, and Future

PUBLICATION:	IEEE Access
AUTHOR(S):	Faisal Khan, Muhammad Ali Farooq, Waseem Shariff, Shubhajit Basak, Peter Corcoran
DATE:	11 March 2022
TYPE:	Journal Articles

Evaluation of Thermal Imaging on Embedded GPU Platforms for Application in Vehicular Assistance Systems

PUBLICATION:	IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles
AUTHOR(S):	Muhammad Ali Farooq, Waseem Shariff, Peter Corcoran
DATE:	09 March 2022
TYPE:	Journal Articles

AI-derived quality of experience prediction based on physiological signals for immersive multimedia experiences: research proposal

PUBLICATION:	MMSys 2022 - 13th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference
AUTHOR(S):	Sowmya Vijayakumar, Peter Corcoran, Ronan Flynn, Niall Murray
DATE:	05 August 2022
TYPE:	Conf papers

BiLSTM-based Quality of Experience Prediction using Physiological Signals

PUBLICATION:	QoMEX 2022 - 14th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience
AUTHOR(S):	Sowmya Vijayakumar, Ronan Flynn, Peter Corcoran, Niall Murray
DATE:	04 October 2022
TYPE:	Conf papers

3D face-model reconstruction from a single image: A feature aggregation approach using hierarchical transformer with weak supervision

PUBLICATION:	Neural Networks
AUTHOR(S):	Shubhajit Basak, Peter Corcoran, Rachel McDonnell, Michael Schukata
DATE:	01 December 2022
TYPE:	Journal Articles

IFace 1.1: A Proof-of-Concept of a Facial Authentication Based Digital ID for Smart Cities

PUBLICATION:	IEEE Access
AUTHOR(S):	Alakananda Mitra, Dan Bigioi, Saraju P. Mohanty, Peter Corcoran, Elias Kougianos
DATE:	01 July 2022
TYPE:	Journal Articles

A Text-to-Speech Pipeline, Evaluation Methodology, and Initial Fine-Tuning Results for Child Speech Synthesis

PUBLICATION:	IEEE Access
AUTHOR(S):	Rishabh Jain, Mariam Yahayah Yiwere, Dan Bigioi, Peter Corcoran, Horia Cucu
DATE:	01 January 2022
TYPE:	Journal Articles

An efficient encoder–decoder model for portrait depth estimation from single images trained on pixel-accurate synthetic data

PUBLICATION:	Neural Networks
AUTHOR(S):	Faisal Khan, Shahid Hussain, Shubhajit Basak, Joseph Lemley, Peter Corcoran
DATE:	02 August 2021
TYPE:	Journal Articles

Learning 3D Head Pose From Synthetic Data: A Semi-Supervised Approach

PUBLICATION:	IEEE Access
AUTHOR(S):	Shubhajit Basak, Peter Corcoran, Faisal Khan, Rachel McDonnell, Michael Schukat
DATE:	04 March 2021
TYPE:	Journal Articles

Versatile Auxiliary Classification and Regression With Generative Adversarial Networks

PUBLICATION:	IEEE Access
AUTHOR(S):	Shabab Bazrafkan, Viktor Varkarakis, Joseph Lemley, Hossein Javidnia, Peter Corcoran
DATE:	04 March 2021
TYPE:	Journal Articles

High-Accuracy Facial Depth Models derived from 3D Synthetic Data

PUBLICATION:	ISSC 2020 - 31st Irish Signals and Systems Conference
AUTHOR(S):	Faisal Khan, Shubhajit Basak, Hossein Javidnia, Michael Schukat, Peter Corcoran
DATE:	11 June 2020
TYPE:	Conf papers

Generative Augmented Dataset and Annotation Frameworks for Artificial Intelligence (GADAFAI)

PUBLICATION:	ISSC 2020 - 31st Irish Signals and Systems Conference
AUTHOR(S):	Peter Corcoran, Hossein Javidnia, Joseph E. Lemley, Viktor Varkarakis
DATE:	11 June 2020
TYPE:	Conf papers

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