no code implementations • 25 Jul 2022 • Pedro Machado, T. M. McGinnity
We further demonstrate that, due to the high performance of the fingertips, a complex adaptive grasping algorithm is not required for grasping of everyday objects.
no code implementations • 12 Dec 2021 • Pedro Machado, Joao Filipe Ferreira, Andreas Oikonomou, T. M. McGinnity
Vertebrate retinas are highly-efficient in processing trivial visual tasks such as detecting moving objects, yet a complex challenges for modern computers.
no code implementations • 9 Sep 2021 • Pedro Machado, Andreas Oikonomou, Joao Filipe Ferreira, T. M. McGinnity
The detection of moving objects is a trivial task performed by vertebrate retinas, yet a complex computer vision task.
no code implementations • 9 Sep 2021 • Wolfgang Bottcher, Pedro Machado, Nikesh Lama, T. M. McGinnity
Robots need to exploit high-quality information on grasped objects to interact with the physical environment.
no code implementations • 9 May 2021 • Benjamin Wingfield, Sonya Coleman, T. M. McGinnity, Anthony J. Bjourson
Microbiota profiles measure the structure of microbial communities in a defined environment (known as microbiomes).
no code implementations • 7 Nov 2020 • Samuel Brandenburg, Pedro Machado, Nikesh Lama, T. M. McGinnity
Over the last few years, the number of precision farming projects has increased specifically in harvesting robots and many of which have made continued progress from identifying crops to grasping the desired fruit or vegetable.
1 code implementation • Neurocomputing 2020 • Aboozar Taherkhani, Georgina Cosma, T. M. McGinnity
AdaBoost-CNN is computationally efficient, as evidenced by the fact that the training simulation time of the proposed method is 47. 33 s, which is lower than the training simulation time required for a similar AdaBoost method without transfer learning, i. e. 225. 83 s on the imbalanced dataset.
no code implementations • 3 Apr 2020 • Kieran Woodward, Eiman Kanjo, David J. Brown, T. M. McGinnity
Stress is a growing concern in modern society adversely impacting the wider population more than ever before.
no code implementations • 18 Sep 2019 • Pedro Machado, Georgina Cosma, T. M. McGinnity
Biological image processing is performed by complex neural networks composed of thousands of neurons interconnected via thousands of synapses, some of which are excitatory and others inhibitory.