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Lightweight interpolation-based surrogate modelling for multi-objective continuous optimisation. (2022)
Conference Proceeding
ZAVOIANU, A.-C., LACROIX, B. and MCCALL, J. 2022. Lightweight Interpolation-based surrogate modelling for multiobjective continuous optimisation. In Moreno-Díaz, R., Pichler, F. and Quesada-Arencibia, A. (eds.) Computer aided systems theory: Eurocast 2022; revised selected papers from the 18th International conference on computer aided systems theory (Eurocast 2022), 20-25 February 2022, Las Palmas, Spain. Lecture notes in computer science, 13789. Cham: Springer [online], pages 53-60. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25312-6_6

We propose two surrogate-based strategies for increasing the convergence speed of multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) by stimulating the creation of high-quality individuals early in the run. Both offspring generation strategies are desig... Read More about Lightweight interpolation-based surrogate modelling for multi-objective continuous optimisation..

Efficient breast cancer classification network with dual squeeze and excitation in histopathological images. (2022)
Journal Article
SARKER, M.M.K., AKRAM, F., ALSHARID, M., SINGH, V.K., YASRAB, R. and ELYAN, E. 2023. Efficient breast cancer classification network with dual squeeze and excitation in histopathological images. Diagnostics [online], 13(1), article 103. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13010103

Medical image analysis methods for mammograms, ultrasound, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) cannot provide the underline features on the cellular level to understand the cancer microenvironment which makes them unsuitable for breast cancer subtyp... Read More about Efficient breast cancer classification network with dual squeeze and excitation in histopathological images..

An unsupervised domain adaptation method towards multi-level features and decision boundaries for cross-scene hyperspectral image classification. (2022)
Journal Article
ZHAO, C., QIN, B., FENG, S., ZHU, W., ZHANG, L. and REN, J. 2022. An unsupervised domain adaptation method towards multi-level features and decision boundaries for cross-scene hyperspectral image classification. IEEE transactions on geoscience and remote sensing [online], 60, article 5546216. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2022.3230378

Despite success in the same-scene hyperspectral image classification (HSIC), for the cross-scene classification, samples between source and target scenes are not drawn from the independent and identical distribution, resulting in significant performa... Read More about An unsupervised domain adaptation method towards multi-level features and decision boundaries for cross-scene hyperspectral image classification..

Mobile Platform for livestock monitoring and inspection. (2022)
Conference Proceeding
FABIYI, S.D., REN, J., HAN, Y., ZHU, Q. and BARCLAY, D. 2022. Mobile platform for livestock monitoring and inspection. In Proceedings of the 3rd International informatics and software engineering conference 2022 (IISEC 2022), 15-16 December 2022, Ankara, Turkey. Piscataway: IEEE [online], article 9998279. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/iisec56263.2022.9998297

Livestock keepers acquire and manage information (e.g. identification numbers, images, etc.) about livestock to identify and keep track of livestock using systems with capabilities to extract such information. Examples of such systems are Radio Frequ... Read More about Mobile Platform for livestock monitoring and inspection..

Ensemble learning based on classifier prediction confidence and comprehensive learning particle swarm optimisation for medical image segmentation. (2022)
Conference Proceeding
DANG, T., NGUYEN, T.T., MCCALL, J. and LIEW, A.W.-C. 2022. Ensemble learning based on classifier prediction confidence and comprehensive learning particle swarm optimisation for medical image segmentation. In Ishibuchi, H., Kwoh, C.-K., Tan, A.-H., Srinivasan, D., Miao, C., Trivedi, A. and Crockett, K. (eds.) Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE Symposium series on computational intelligence (SSCI 2022), 4-7 December 2022, Singapore. Piscataway: IEEE [online], pages 269-276. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/SSCI51031.2022.10022114

Segmentation, a process of partitioning an image into multiple segments to locate objects and boundaries, is considered one of the most essential medical imaging process. In recent years, Deep Neural Networks (DNN) have achieved many notable successe... Read More about Ensemble learning based on classifier prediction confidence and comprehensive learning particle swarm optimisation for medical image segmentation..

Job assignment problem and traveling salesman problem: a linked optimisation problem. (2022)
Conference Proceeding
OGUNSEMI, A., MCCALL, J., KERN, M., LACROIX, B., CORSAR, D. and OWUSU, G. 2022. Job assignment problem and traveling salesman problem: a linked optimisation problem. In Bramer, M. and Stahl, F (eds.) Artificial intelligence XXXIX: proceedings of the 42nd SGAI (Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence) Artificial intelligence international conference 2022 (AI 2022), 13-15 December 2022, Cambridge, UK. Lecture notes in computer science (LNCS), 13652. Cham: Springer [online], pages 19-33. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21441-7_2

Linked decision-making in service management systems has attracted strong adoption of optimisation algorithms. However, most of these algorithms do not incorporate the complexity associated with interacting decision-making systems. This paper, theref... Read More about Job assignment problem and traveling salesman problem: a linked optimisation problem..

Object-based attention mechanism for color calibration of UAV remote sensing images in precision agriculture. (2022)
Journal Article
HUANG, H., TANG, Y., TAN, Z., ZHUANG, J., HOU, C., CHEN, W. and REN, J. 2022. Object-based attention mechanism for color calibration of UAV remote sensing images in precision agriculture. IEEE transactions on geoscience and remote sensing [online], 60, article number 4416013. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2022.3224580

Color calibration is a critical step for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) remote sensing, especially in precision agriculture, which relies mainly on correlating color changes to specific quality attributes, e.g. plant health, disease, and pest stresses... Read More about Object-based attention mechanism for color calibration of UAV remote sensing images in precision agriculture..

Hyperspectral imaging based detection of PVC during Sellafield repackaging procedures. (2022)
Journal Article
ZABALZA, J., MURRAY, P., MARSHALL, S., REN, J., BERNARD, R. and HEPWORTH, S. 2023. Hyperspectral imaging based detection of PVC during Sellafield repackaging procedures. IEEE sensors journal [online], 23(1), pages 452-459. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2022.3221680

Traditionally, Special Nuclear Material (SNM) at Sellafield has been stored in multi-layered packages, consisting of metallic cans and an over-layer of plasticized Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) as an intermediate layer when transitioning between areas of... Read More about Hyperspectral imaging based detection of PVC during Sellafield repackaging procedures..

Deep scattering spectrum germaneness for fault detection and diagnosis for component-level prognostics and health management (PHM). (2022)
Journal Article
ROHAN, A. 2022. Deep scattering spectrum germaneness for fault detection and diagnosis for component-level prognostics and health management (PHM). Sensors [online], 22(23), article 9064. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/s22239064

Most methodologies for fault detection and diagnosis in prognostics and health management (PHM) systems use machine learning (ML) or deep learning (DL), in which either some features are extracted beforehand (in the case of typical ML approaches) or... Read More about Deep scattering spectrum germaneness for fault detection and diagnosis for component-level prognostics and health management (PHM)..

Digital condition monitoring for wider blue economy. (2022)
Presentation / Conference
HASAN, M.J., YAN, Y. and REN, J. 2022. Digital condition monitoring for wider blue economy. Presented at the 12th Annual science meeting of the Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland (MASTS ASM 2022), 8-10 November 2022, Glasgow, UK.

In the process of decommissioning energy systems, condition monitoring is crucial. It can make the health status of offshore oil and gas installations, pipelines, wind farms etc. transparent to policymakers and stakeholders, and aid them in creating... Read More about Digital condition monitoring for wider blue economy..

A novel gradient-guided post-processing method for adaptive image steganography. (2022)
Journal Article
XIE, G., REN, J., MARSHALL, S., ZHAO, H. and LI, R. 2023. A novel gradient-guided post-processing method for adaptive image steganography. Signal processing [online], 203, article 108813. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sigpro.2022.108813

Designing an effective cost function has always been the key in image steganography after the development of the near-optimal encoders. To learn the cost maps automatically, the Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) are often trained from the given c... Read More about A novel gradient-guided post-processing method for adaptive image steganography..

Automated analysis of sleep study parameters using signal processing and artificial intelligence. (2022)
Journal Article
SOHAIB, M., GHAFFAR, A., SHIN, J., HASAN. M.J. and SULEMAN, M.T. 2022. Automated analysis of sleep study parameters using signal processing and artificial intelligence. International journal of environmental research and public health [online], 19(20), article number 13256. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192013256

An automated sleep stage categorization can readily face noise-contaminated EEG recordings, just as other signal processing applications. Therefore, the denoising of the contaminated signals is inevitable to ensure a reliable analysis of the EEG sign... Read More about Automated analysis of sleep study parameters using signal processing and artificial intelligence..

Crowdsourced quality assessment of enhanced underwater images: a pilot study. (2022)
Conference Proceeding
LIN, H., MEN, H., YAN, Y., REN, J. and SAUPE, D. 2022. Crowdsourced quality assessment of enhanced underwater images: a pilot study. In Proceedings of 14th International conference on quality of multimedia experience 2022 (QoMEX 2022), 5-7 September 2022, Lippstadt, Germany. Piscataway: IEEE [online], article 9900904. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/QoMEX55416.2022.9900904

Underwater image enhancement (UIE) is essential for a high-quality underwater optical imaging system. While a number of UIE algorithms have been proposed in recent years, there is little study on image quality assessment (IQA) of enhanced underwater... Read More about Crowdsourced quality assessment of enhanced underwater images: a pilot study..

Printed texture guided color feature fusion for impressionism style rendering of oil paintings. (2022)
Journal Article
GENG, J., MA, L., LI, X., ZHANG, X. and YAN, Y. 2022. Printed texture guided color feature fusion for impressionism style rendering of oil paintings. Mathematics [online], 10(19): advances in computer vision and machine learning, article 3700. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/math10193700

As a major branch of Non-Photorealistic Rendering (NPR), image stylization mainly uses computer algorithms to render a photo into an artistic painting. Recent work has shown that the ex-traction of style information such as stroke texture and color o... Read More about Printed texture guided color feature fusion for impressionism style rendering of oil paintings..

A holistic power systems asset engineering and decision management framework for railway asset managers. (2022)
Working Paper
BRUINERS, J., NJUGUNA, J. and AGARWAL, A. 2022. A holistic power systems asset engineering and decision management framework for railway asset managers. Hosted on OpenAIR [online]. Available from: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1777336

Defining, designing and implementing an asset management system capable of effectively managing assets throughout their life in terms of engineering, financial, digital and stakeholder needs is challenging. Furthermore, governance frameworks of the p... Read More about A holistic power systems asset engineering and decision management framework for railway asset managers..

Multiscale voting mechanism for rice leaf disease recognition under natural field conditions. (2022)
Journal Article
TANG, Y., ZHAO, J., HUANG, H., ZHUANG, J., TAN, Z., HOU, C., CHEN, W. and REN, J. 2022. Multiscale voting mechanism for rice leaf disease recognition under natural field conditions. International journal of intelligent systems [online], 37(12), pages 12169-12191. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/int.23081

Rice leaf disease (RLD) is one of the major factors that cause the decline in production, and the automatic recognition of such diseases under natural field conditions is of great significance for timely targeted rice management. Although many machin... Read More about Multiscale voting mechanism for rice leaf disease recognition under natural field conditions..

Bayesian gravitation-based classification for hyperspectral images. (2022)
Journal Article
ZHANG, A., SUN, G., PAN, Z., REN, J., JIA, X., ZHANG, C., FU, H. and YAO, Y. 2022. Bayesian gravitation-based classification for hyperspectral images. IEEE transactions on geoscience and remote sensing [online], 60, article 5542714. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2022.3203488

Integration of spectral and spatial information is extremely important for the classification of high-resolution hyperspectral images (HSIs). Gravitation describes interaction among celestial bodies which can be applied to measure similarity between... Read More about Bayesian gravitation-based classification for hyperspectral images..

Case study: multi-billion pound infrastructure decision making: a regulatory infrastructure asset management assessment. (2022)
Working Paper
BRUINERS, J., NJUGUNA, J. and AGARWAL, A. 2022. Case study: multi-billion pound infrastructure decision making: a regulatory infrastructure asset management assessment. Hosted on OpenAIR [online]. Available from: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1777830

This paper evaluates the effectiveness of a hypothesised asset management decision framework implemented with a High-Speed Railway Infrastructure Asset in the U.K over a three-year period. The physical infrastructure asset(s) consists of a complex as... Read More about Case study: multi-billion pound infrastructure decision making: a regulatory infrastructure asset management assessment..

Labelled Vulnerability Dataset on Android source code (LVDAndro) to develop AI-based code vulnerability detection models. [Dataset] (2022)
Dataset
SENANAYAKE, J., KALUTARAGE, H., AL-KADRI, M.O., PIRAS, L. and PETROVSKI, A. 2023. Labelled Vulnerability Dataset on Android source code (LVDAndro) to develop AI-based code vulnerability detection models [Dataset]. Hosted on GitHub (online). Available from: https://github.com/softwaresec-labs/LVDAndro

Many of the Android apps get published without appropriate security considerations, possibly due to not verifying code or not identifying vulnerabilities at the early stages of development. This can be overcome by using an AI based model trained on a... Read More about Labelled Vulnerability Dataset on Android source code (LVDAndro) to develop AI-based code vulnerability detection models. [Dataset].

DRL-RNP: deep reinforcement learning-based optimized RNP flight procedure execution. (2022)
Journal Article
ZHU, L., WANG, J., WANG, Y., JI, Y. and REN, J. 2022. DRL-RNP: deep reinforcement learning-based optimized RNP flight procedure execution. Sensors [online], 22(17), article 6475. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/s22176475

The required navigation performance (RNP) procedure is one of the two basic navigation specifications for the performance-based navigation (PBN) procedure as proposed by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) through an integration of t... Read More about DRL-RNP: deep reinforcement learning-based optimized RNP flight procedure execution..