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Heritage in the crossfire (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Mol, L., Brassey, C., Clarke, L., Gilbert, O., Campbell, O., & Blenkinsop, T. (2020). Heritage in the crossfire. In Monument Future - Decay and Conservation of Stone. Proceedings of the 14th International Congress on the Deterioration and Conservation of Stone (835-840)

The Heritage in the Crossfire project investigates the impact of ballistics on sedimentary stone, and their consequences for further deterioration. This is particularly important in light of the ever increasing power of arms and their ubiquitous use... Read More about Heritage in the crossfire.

Crowd-driven music: Interactive and generative approaches using machine vision and Manhattan (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Nash, C. (2020). Crowd-driven music: Interactive and generative approaches using machine vision and Manhattan. In F. Schroeder, & R. Michon (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (259-264)

This paper details technologies and artistic approaches to crowd-driven music, discussed in the context of a live public installation in which activity in a public space (e.g. a busy railway platform) is used to drive the automated composition and pe... Read More about Crowd-driven music: Interactive and generative approaches using machine vision and Manhattan.

Deep 3D face recognition using 3D data augmentation and transfer learning (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Smith, M., Smith, L., Huang, N., Hansen, M., & Smith, M. (2020). Deep 3D face recognition using 3D data augmentation and transfer learning

Abstract. Deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have achieved humancomparable performance on challenging 2D face databases, outperforming all previous shallow methods. However, current 3D face recognition research still focuses on non-deep-learn... Read More about Deep 3D face recognition using 3D data augmentation and transfer learning.

To allow, or deny? That is the question (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Andriotis, P., & Takasu, A. (2020). To allow, or deny? That is the question. In HCI for Cybersecurity, Privacy and Trust (287-304). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50309-3_20

The Android ecosystem is dynamic and diverse. Controls have been set in place to allow mobile device users to regulate exchanged data and restrict apps from accessing sensitive personal information and system resources. Modern versions of the operati... Read More about To allow, or deny? That is the question.

Compassionate Design: A methodology for advanced dementia (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Treadaway, C., Fennell, J., & Taylor, A. (2020). Compassionate Design: A methodology for advanced dementia. In Design 4 Health 2020 Conference Proceedings (667-673)

Predicted increases in the numbers of people living into the advanced stages of dementia pose a significant problem for health and care providers around the world. Finding ways to ameliorate the distressing dementia symptoms of anxiety and depression... Read More about Compassionate Design: A methodology for advanced dementia.

Usability study of a robot companion for monitoring industrial processes (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Sita, E., Thomessen, T., Pipe, A. G., Studley, M., & Dailami, F. (2020). Usability study of a robot companion for monitoring industrial processes. In 2020 5th Asia-Pacific Conference on Intelligent Robot Systems (ACIRS) (37-42). https://doi.org/10.1109/acirs49895.2020.9162607

In this paper we present the findings of a usability study for a monitoring robotic unit tele-operated via a virtual fixtures (VF) based control framework. The study aims at investigating the impact of VF on the robot navigation as well as the impact... Read More about Usability study of a robot companion for monitoring industrial processes.

Are construction professionals equipped with the knowledge and tools to address the sustainability dilemma? (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Mundy, P., & Booth, C. A. (2020). Are construction professionals equipped with the knowledge and tools to address the sustainability dilemma?. In L. Scott, M. Dastbaz, & C. Gorse (Eds.), Sustainable Ecological Engineering Design: Selected Proceedings from the International Conference of Sustainable Ecological Engineering Design for Society (SEEDS) 2019 (131-141). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44381-8_10

This study attempts to explore the depth of knowledge and understanding of sustainability issues across a range of construction professions and utilise this evidence to reveal if Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM... Read More about Are construction professionals equipped with the knowledge and tools to address the sustainability dilemma?.

3D face recognition using photometric stereo and deep learning (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Kneis, B., & Zhang, W. (2020). 3D face recognition using photometric stereo and deep learning. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics (255–261). https://doi.org/10.1145/3405962.3405995

Illumination variance is one of the largest real-world problems when deploying face recognition systems. Over the last few years much work has gone into the development of novel 3D face recognition methods to overcome this issue. Photometric stereo i... Read More about 3D face recognition using photometric stereo and deep learning.

Digital branding luxury student ‘hotels’ at UK universities (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Carless, T., & Troiani, I. (2020). Digital branding luxury student ‘hotels’ at UK universities. In H. Griffin, & G. Cairns (Eds.), Connections: Exploring Heritage, Architecture, Cities, Art, Media (136-144)

This essay builds on an on-going cinematic survey of the changing neoliberal landscape of UK university campuses, started in 2016 who have been filming the physical transformation that has been occurring in the lifecycle of many university campuses... Read More about Digital branding luxury student ‘hotels’ at UK universities.

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in Systems Engineering: Eliciting sustainability requirements (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Brooks, I. (2020). The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in Systems Engineering: Eliciting sustainability requirements. In ICT4S2020: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on ICT for Sustainability (196-199). https://doi.org/10.1145/3401335.3401359

This paper discusses a PhD research project testing the hypothesis that using the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) [18] as explicit inputs to drive the Software Requirements Engineering process will result in requirements with impro... Read More about The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in Systems Engineering: Eliciting sustainability requirements.

Towards an architecture for wellbeing (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Rice, L., & Sara, R. (2020). Towards an architecture for wellbeing. In 7th International Conference on Sustainable Architecture and Built Environment Proceedings. , (75-85)

Architectural design can have profound implications on human health and planetary wellbeing. The built environment is currently one of the most important determinants of health and wellbeing. As human health comprises of physical, mental and social a... Read More about Towards an architecture for wellbeing.

Demand forecasting of short life cycle products using data mining techniques (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Afifi, A. (2020). Demand forecasting of short life cycle products using data mining techniques. In Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations. AIAI 2020

Products with short life cycles are becoming increasingly common in many industries due to higher levels of competition, shorter product development time and increased product diversity. Accurate demand forecasting of such products is crucial as it p... Read More about Demand forecasting of short life cycle products using data mining techniques.

Automated screening of patients for dietician referral (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Soomro, K., & Pimenidis, E. (2020). Automated screening of patients for dietician referral. In L. Iliadis, P. Angelov, C. Jayne, & E. Pimenidis (Eds.), Proceedings of the 21st EANN (Engineering Applications of Neural Networks) 2020 Conference. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48791-1_24

Critical Care Units (CCU) in a hospital treat the severely sick patients that need constant monitoring and close medical attention. Feeding patients, enteral feeding in particular, is a critical and continuous process. Monitoring patients, managing t... Read More about Automated screening of patients for dietician referral.

Feature selection with artificial bee colony algorithms for classifying Parkinson’s diseases (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Durgut, R., Baydilli, Y. Y., & Aydin, M. E. (2020). Feature selection with artificial bee colony algorithms for classifying Parkinson’s diseases. In Proceedings of the 21st EANN (Engineering Applications of Neural Networks) 2020 Conference (338-351). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48791-1_26

Parkinson’s is a brain disease that affects the quality of human life significantly with very slow progresses. It is known that early diagnosis is of great importance to arrange relevant and efficient treatments. Data analytics and particularly predi... Read More about Feature selection with artificial bee colony algorithms for classifying Parkinson’s diseases.

Composing computer generated music, an observational study using IGME: the Interactive Generative Music Environment (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Hunt, S. J., Mitchell, T. J., & Nash, C. (2020). Composing computer generated music, an observational study using IGME: the Interactive Generative Music Environment.

Computer composed music remains a novel and challenging problem to solve. Despite an abundance of techniques and systems little research has explored how these might be useful for end-users looking to compose with generative and algorithmic music tec... Read More about Composing computer generated music, an observational study using IGME: the Interactive Generative Music Environment.

Enabling Predictive and Preventive Maintenance using IoT and Big Data in the Telecom Sector (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Mahmood, T., & Munir, K. (2020). Enabling Predictive and Preventive Maintenance using IoT and Big Data in the Telecom Sector. . https://doi.org/10.5220/0009325201690176

Telecom sector has always been working hard to improve network quality to satisfy end user services. Fixing telecom network errors (hardware and software) precisely and quickly is a main factor to improve quality of services. Telecom operators are sp... Read More about Enabling Predictive and Preventive Maintenance using IoT and Big Data in the Telecom Sector.

Social network influence ranking via embedding network interactions for user recommendation (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Bo, H., McConville, R., Hong, J., & Liu, W. (2020). Social network influence ranking via embedding network interactions for user recommendation. In WWW '20: Companion Proceedings of the Web Conference 2020 (379-384). https://doi.org/10.1145/3366424.3383299

Within social networks user influence may be modelled based on user interactions. Further, it is typical to recommend users to others. What is the role of user influence in user recommendation In this paper, we first propose to use a node embedding a... Read More about Social network influence ranking via embedding network interactions for user recommendation.

Spicing up your space education with CanSats rockets and hackathons... - the Space Universities Network Recipe Book (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Berthoud, L., Glester, A., Akram, S., Ardelean, I., Bannister, N., & Jones, M. (2020). Spicing up your space education with CanSats rockets and hackathons... - the Space Universities Network Recipe Book. In Proceedings of the 3rd Symposium on Space Educational Activities (246-250). https://doi.org/10.29311/2020.61

The UK-based “Space Universities Network” (SUN) was formed in 2016 with the aim of enhancing the quality of learning and teaching by providing support and resources to the space science and engineering higher education community. It now has 60 member... Read More about Spicing up your space education with CanSats rockets and hackathons... - the Space Universities Network Recipe Book.