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Generalisation challenges in deep learning models for medical imagery: insights from external validation of COVID-19 classifiers. (2024)
Journal Article
HAYNES, S.C., JOHNSTON, P. and ELYAN, E. 2024. Generalisation challenges in deep learning models for medical imagery: insights from external validation of COVID-19 classifiers. Multimedia tools and applications [online], Latest Articles. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-024-18543-y

The generalisability of deep neural network classifiers is emerging as one of the most important challenges of our time. The recent COVID-19 pandemic led to a surge of deep learning publications that proposed novel models for the detection of COVID-1... Read More about Generalisation challenges in deep learning models for medical imagery: insights from external validation of COVID-19 classifiers..

Student interaction with a virtual learning environment: an empirical study of online engagement behaviours during and since the time of COVID-19. (2023)
Conference Proceeding
JOHNSTON, P., ZARB, M. and MORENO-GARCIA, C.F. 2023. Student interaction with a virtual learning environment: an empirical study of online engagement behaviours during and since the time of COVID-19. In Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Frontiers in education conference (FIE 2023),18-21 October 2023, College Station, TX, USA. Piscataway: IEEE [online], article number 10343048. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/fie58773.2023.10343048

This paper presents an experience report of online attendance and associated behavioural patterns during a module in the first complete semester undertaken fully online in the autumn of 2020, and the corresponding module deliveries in 2021 and 2022.... Read More about Student interaction with a virtual learning environment: an empirical study of online engagement behaviours during and since the time of COVID-19..

Exploring independent learning (IL) and its relationship to mindset, motivated strategies for learning and academic performance. (2023)
Journal Article
FORBES-MCKAY, K.E., BREMNER, P.A.M., JOHNSTON, P. and AIR, C. [2024]. Exploring independent learning (IL) and its relationship to mindset, motivated strategies for learning and academic performance. Journal of applied research in higher education [online], EarlyCite. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1108/jarhe-06-2023-0253

This study addresses gaps in the existing literature on students' understanding of Independent Learning (IL), whilst exploring the link between levels of IL, growth mindset, motivated strategies for learning and academic performance. Three hundred an... Read More about Exploring independent learning (IL) and its relationship to mindset, motivated strategies for learning and academic performance..

Unmasking the imposters: task-specific feature learning for face presentation attack detection. (2023)
Conference Proceeding
ABDULLAKUTTY, F., ELYAN, E. and JOHNSTON, P. 2023. Unmasking the imposters: task-specific feature learning for face presentation attack detection. In Proceedings of the 2023 International joint conference on neural networks (IJCNN2023), 18-23 June 2023, Gold Coast, Australia. Piscataway: IEEE [online], 10191953. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/IJCNN54540.2023.10191953

Presentation attacks pose a threat to the reliability of face recognition systems. A photograph, a video, or a mask representing an authorised user can be used to circumvent the face recognition system. Recent research has demonstrated high accuracy... Read More about Unmasking the imposters: task-specific feature learning for face presentation attack detection..

Exploring students' independent learning and its relationship to mindset and academic performance. (2023)
Presentation / Conference
FORBES-MCKAY, K.E., BREMNER, P. and JOHNSTON, P. 2023. Exploring students' independent learning and its relationship to mindset and academic performance. Presented at the 2023 International higher education teaching and learning annual conference (HETL 2023): re-imagining education: collaboration and compassion, 12-14 June 2023, Aberdeen, UK.

There is increasing interest in the role of independent learning (IL) in higher education (Thomas, 2015). Indeed, several studies demonstrate the impact of IL on students' academic achievement (Difrancesca et al. 2016). Research also suggests that mo... Read More about Exploring students' independent learning and its relationship to mindset and academic performance..

Enhancing our understanding of independent learning amongst RGU students. (2022)
Presentation / Conference
FORBES-MCKAY, K. BREMNER, P. and JOHNSTON, P. 2022. Enhancing our understanding of independent learning amongst RGU students. Presented at the 2022 RGU annual learning and teaching conference (RGU LTC 2022): enhancing for impact, 21 October 2022, Aberdeen, UK.

There is increasing interest in the role of independent learning (IL) in higher education (Thomas, 2015). Indeed, several studies demonstrate the significant impact of IL on students' academic achievement (Difrancesca et al. 2016) and retention in hi... Read More about Enhancing our understanding of independent learning amongst RGU students..

Fusion methods for face presentation attack detection. (2022)
Journal Article
ABDULLAKUTTY, F., JOHNSTON, P. and ELYAN, E. 2022. Fusion methods for face presentation attack detection. Sensors [online], 22(14): soft sensors 2021-2022, article 5196. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/s22145196

Face presentation attacks (PA) are a serious threat to face recognition (FR) applications. These attacks are easy to execute and difficult to detect. An attack can be carried out simply by presenting a video, photo, or mask to the camera. The literat... Read More about Fusion methods for face presentation attack detection..

Deep transfer learning on the aggregated dataset for face presentation attack detection. (2022)
Journal Article
ABDULLAKUTTY, F., ELYAN, E., JOHNSTON, P. and ALI-GOMBE, A. 2022. Deep transfer learning on the aggregated dataset for face presentation attack detection. Cognitive computation [online], 14(6), pages 2223-2233. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-022-10037-z

Presentation attacks are becoming a serious threat to one of the most common biometric applications, namely face recognition (FR). In recent years, numerous methods have been presented to detect and identify these attacks using publicly available dat... Read More about Deep transfer learning on the aggregated dataset for face presentation attack detection..

Computer vision and machine learning for medical image analysis: recent advances, challenges, and way forward. (2022)
Journal Article
ELYAN, E., VUTTIPITTAYAMONGKOL, P., JOHNSTON, P., MARTIN, K., MCPHERSON, K., MORENO-GARCIA, C.F., JAYNE, C. and SARKER, M.M.K. 2022. Computer vision and machine learning for medical image analysis: recent advances, challenges, and way forward. Artificial intelligence surgery [online], 2, pages 24-25. Available from: https://doi.org/10.20517/ais.2021.15

The recent development in the areas of deep learning and deep convolutional neural networks has significantly progressed and advanced the field of computer vision (CV) and image analysis and understanding. Complex tasks such as classifying and segmen... Read More about Computer vision and machine learning for medical image analysis: recent advances, challenges, and way forward..

A review of state-of-the-art in face presentation attack detection: from early development to advanced deep learning and multi-modal fusion methods. (2021)
Journal Article
ABDULLAKUTTY, F., ELYAN, E. and JOHNSTON, P. 2021. A review of state-of-the-art in face presentation attack detection: from early development to advanced deep learning and multi-modal fusion methods. Information fusion [online], 75, pages 55-69. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2021.04.015

Face Recognition is considered one of the most common biometric solutions these days and is widely used across a range of devices for various security purposes. The performance of FR systems has improved by orders of magnitude over the past decade. T... Read More about A review of state-of-the-art in face presentation attack detection: from early development to advanced deep learning and multi-modal fusion methods..

Detection of morphological changes caused by chemical stress in the cyanobacterium Planktothrix agardhii using convolutional neural networks. [Dataset] (2021)
Dataset
CARLOTO, I., JOHNSTON, P., PESTANA, C.J. and LAWTON, L.A. 2021. Detection of morphological changes caused by chemical stress in the cyanobacterium Planktothrix agardhii using convolutional neural networks. [Dataset]. Science of the total environment [online], 784, article 146956. Available from: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004896972102026X#s0105

The presence of harmful algal bloom in many reservoirs around the world, alongside the lack of sanitation law/ordinance regarding cyanotoxin monitoring (particularly in developing countries), create a scenario in which the local population could pote... Read More about Detection of morphological changes caused by chemical stress in the cyanobacterium Planktothrix agardhii using convolutional neural networks. [Dataset].

Detection of morphological changes caused by chemical stress in the cyanobacterium Planktothrix agardhii using convolutional neural networks. (2021)
Journal Article
CARLOTO, I., JOHNSTON, P., PESTANA, C.J. and LAWTON, L.A. 2021. Detection of morphological changes caused by chemical stress in the cyanobacterium Planktothrix agardhii using convolutional neural networks. Science of the total environment [online], 784, article 146956. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146956

The presence of harmful algal bloom in many reservoirs around the world, alongside the lack of sanitation law/ordinance regarding cyanotoxin monitoring (particularly in developing countries), create a scenario in which the local population could pote... Read More about Detection of morphological changes caused by chemical stress in the cyanobacterium Planktothrix agardhii using convolutional neural networks..

Pixel-based layer segmentation of complex engineering drawings using convolutional neural networks. (2020)
Conference Proceeding
MORENO-GARCÍA, C.F., JOHNSTON, P. and GARKUWA, B. 2020. Pixel-based layer segmentation of complex engineering drawings using convolutional neural networks. In Proceedings of the 2020 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International joint conference on neural networks (IEEE IJCNN 2020), part of the 2020 IEEE World congress on computational intelligence (IEEE WCCI 2020) and co-located with the 2020 IEEE congress on evolutionary computation (IEEE CEC 2020) and the 2020 IEEE International fuzzy systems conference (FUZZ-IEEE 2020), 19-24 July 2020, [virtual conference]. Piscataway: IEEE [online], article ID 9207479. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/IJCNN48605.2020.9207479

One of the key features of most document image digitisation systems is the capability of discerning between the main components of the printed representation at hand. In the case of engineering drawings, such as circuit diagrams, telephone exchanges... Read More about Pixel-based layer segmentation of complex engineering drawings using convolutional neural networks..

Symbols in engineering drawings (SiED): an imbalanced dataset benchmarked by convolutional neural networks. (2020)
Conference Proceeding
ELYAN, E., MORENO-GARCÍA, C.F. and JOHNSTON, P. 2020. Symbols in engineering drawings (SiED): an imbalanced dataset benchmarked by convolutional neural networks. In Iliadis, L., Angelov, P.P., Jayne, C. and Pimenidis, E. (eds.) Proceedings of the 21st Engineering applications of neural networks conference 2020 (EANN 2020); proceedings of the EANN 2020, 5-7 June 2020, Halkidiki, Greece. Proceedings of the International Neural Networks Society, 2. Cham: Springer [online], pages 215-224. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48791-1_16

Engineering drawings are common across different domains such as Oil & Gas, construction, mechanical and other domains. Automatic processing and analysis of these drawings is a challenging task. This is partly due to the complexity of these documents... Read More about Symbols in engineering drawings (SiED): an imbalanced dataset benchmarked by convolutional neural networks..

Beyond the pixels: learning and utilising video compression features for localisation of digital tampering. (2019)
Thesis
JOHNSTON, P. 2019. Beyond the pixels: learning and utilising video compression features for localisation of digital tampering. Robert Gordon University [online], PhD thesis. Available from: https://openair.rgu.ac.uk

Video compression is pervasive in digital society. With rising usage of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in the fields of computer vision, video analysis and video tampering detection, it is important to investigate how patterns invisible to... Read More about Beyond the pixels: learning and utilising video compression features for localisation of digital tampering..

Video tampering localisation using features learned from authentic content. (2019)
Journal Article
JOHNSTON, P., ELYAN, E. and JAYNE, C. 2020. Video tampering localisation using features learned from authentic content. Neural computing and applications [online], 32(16): special issue on Real-world optimization problems and meta-heuristics and selected papers from the 19th Engineering applications of neural networks conference 2018 (EANN 2018), 3-5 September 2018, Bristol UK , pages 12243-12257. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-019-04272-z

Video tampering detection remains an open problem in the field of digital media forensics. As video manipulation techniques advance, it becomes easier for tamperers to create convincing forgeries that can fool human eyes. Deep learning methods have a... Read More about Video tampering localisation using features learned from authentic content..

A review of digital video tampering: from simple editing to full synthesis. (2019)
Journal Article
JOHNSTON, P. and ELYAN, E. 2019. A review of digital video tampering: from simple editing to full synthesis. Digital investigation [online], 29, pages 67-81. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diin.2019.03.006

Video tampering methods have witnessed considerable progress in recent years. This is partly due to the rapid development of advanced deep learning methods, and also due to the large volume of video footage that is now in the public domain. Historica... Read More about A review of digital video tampering: from simple editing to full synthesis..

Toward video tampering exposure: inferring compression parameters from pixels. (2018)
Conference Proceeding
JOHNSTON, P., ELYAN, E. and JAYNE, C. 2018. Toward video tampering exposure: inferring compression parameters from pixels. In Pimenidis, E. and Jayne, C. (eds.) Proceedings of the 19th International conference on engineering applications of neural networks (EANN 2018), 3-5 September 2018, Bristol, UK. Communications in computer and information science, 893. Cham: Springer [online], pages 44-57, Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98204-5_4

Video tampering detection remains an open problem in the field of digital media forensics. Some existing methods focus on recompression detection because any changes made to the pixels of a video will require recompression of the complete stream. Rec... Read More about Toward video tampering exposure: inferring compression parameters from pixels..

Spatial effects of video compression on classification in convolutional neural networks. (2018)
Conference Proceeding
JOHNSTON, P., ELYAN, E. and JAYNE, C. 2018. Spatial effects of video compression on classification in convolutional neural networks. In Proceedings of the 2018 International joint conference on neural networks (IJCNN 2018), 8-13 July 2018, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE [online], article number 8489370. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/IJCNN.2018.8489370

A collection of Computer Vision application reuse pre-learned features to analyse video frame-by-frame. Those features are classically learned by Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) trained on high quality images. However, available video content is... Read More about Spatial effects of video compression on classification in convolutional neural networks..