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Achieving goals using reward shaping and curriculum learning (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Real-time control for robotics is a popular research area in the reinforcement learning community. Through the use of techniques such as reward shaping, researchers have managed to train online agents across a multitude of domains. Despite these adva... Read More about Achieving goals using reward shaping and curriculum learning.

Embedding citizens within airborne microplastic and microfibre research (2023)
Journal Article

Microplastics are ubiquitous in our environment but their presence in air is less well understood. Homes are likely a key source of airborne microplastics and microfibres to the environment owing to the frequent use and storage of plastics and textil... Read More about Embedding citizens within airborne microplastic and microfibre research.

Transformers and human-robot interaction for delirium detection (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

An estimated 20% of patients admitted to hospital wards are affected by delirium. Early detection is recommended to treat underlying causes of delirium, however workforce strain in general wards often causes it to remain undetected. This work propose... Read More about Transformers and human-robot interaction for delirium detection.

A procedure for monitoring the phenological status of peach flowers with artificial vision (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Tree flowering is a major event in crop production as it anticipates season yield. However a number of issues may occur during the campaign such as frost, and/or irregular mineral nutrition, among other, that strongly affect this process. On the othe... Read More about A procedure for monitoring the phenological status of peach flowers with artificial vision.

Rapid identification of foodborne pathogens in limited resources settings using a handheld Raman spectroscopy device (2022)
Journal Article

Featured Application: Here, we report a practical and precise method for the identification of foodborne pathogenic bacteria using a Raman handheld device equipped with an orbital raster scan (ORS) technology that enables the system to generate a dis... Read More about Rapid identification of foodborne pathogens in limited resources settings using a handheld Raman spectroscopy device.

Improvements in learning to control perched landings (2022)
Journal Article

Reinforcement learning has previously been applied to the problem of controlling a perched landing manoeuvre for a custom sweep-wing aircraft. Previous work showed that the use of domain randomisation to train with atmospheric disturbances improved t... Read More about Improvements in learning to control perched landings.

Towards machine vision for insect welfare monitoring and behavioural insights (2022)
Journal Article

Machine vision has demonstrated its usefulness in the livestock industry in terms of improving welfare in such areas as lameness detection and body condition scoring in dairy cattle. In this article, we present some promising results of applying stat... Read More about Towards machine vision for insect welfare monitoring and behavioural insights.

Vision based semantic runway segmentation from simulation with deep convolutional neural networks (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Manned flight crew rely upon optical imagery to make sense of the world and carry out high level guidance, navigation & control tasks. To advance autonomous aircraft’s capabilities and safety, programmes need to be developed that aim to achieve pilot... Read More about Vision based semantic runway segmentation from simulation with deep convolutional neural networks.

Towards facial expression recognition for on-farm welfare assessment in pigs (2021)
Journal Article

Animal welfare is not only an ethically important consideration in good animal husbandry but can also have a significant effect on an animal’s productivity. The aim of this paper was to show that a reduction in animal welfare, in the form of increase... Read More about Towards facial expression recognition for on-farm welfare assessment in pigs.

Contactless robust 3D palm-print identification using photometric stereo (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Palmprints are of considerable interest as a reliable biometric, since they offer significant advantages, such as greater user acceptance than fingerprint or iris recognition. 2D systems can be spoofed by a photograph of a hand; however, 3D avoids th... Read More about Contactless robust 3D palm-print identification using photometric stereo.