• Stanislav Katina, Brendan D. Kelly, Mario A. Rojas, Federico M. Sukno, Aoibhinn McDermott, Robin J. Hennessy, Abbie Lane, Paul F. Whelan, Adrian W. Bowman, John L. Waddington (2020), "Refining the resolution of craniofacial dysmorphology in bipolar disorder as an index of brain dysmorphogenesis", Psychiatry Research
• Paul F Whelan (2020) "Computer Vision for [AI] Based Medical Diagnosis", Irish Association of Medical Physics (IAPM) 11th Annual Scientific Meeting (AI Workshop), 27-28th March 2020 [Online Event] [Keynote]
• Elias Giacoumidis, Yi Lin, Mutsam Jarajreh, Sean O’Duill, Kevin McGuiness, Paul F. Whelan, and Liam P. Barry (2019) "A Blind Nonlinearity Compensator Using DBSCAN Clustering for Coherent Optical Transmission Systems", Applied Sciences (Special Issue "Optics for AI and AI for Optics"), MDPI, 2019 [PrePrint]
• Sean Mullery and Paul F Whelan (2019) "Spatial Coherency in Colourisation", Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference 2019 (IMVIP 2019), Technological University Dublin (TU Dublin), Grangegorman, Aug 2019
• Paul F Whelan (2019) "Computer Vision for Biomedical Applications: From Surface to Sub-Cell" Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference 2019 (IMVIP 2019), Technological University Dublin (TU Dublin), Grangegorman, Aug 2019 [Plenary]
• Paul F Whelan (2019) "Computer Vision for AI Based Medical Diagnosis" Irish Association of Medical Physics, Special Interest Group Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Radiology, National University of Ireland Galway, Aug 2019 [Keynote]
• Paul F. Whelan (2019), "Computer Vision (Incorporating Deep Learning) - EE544", Vision Systems Group, Dublin City University, 2019. [Module EE544]
• Paul F. Whelan (2019), "Image Processing & Analysis (Plus) - EE453", Vision Systems Group, Dublin City University, 2019. [Module EE453]
• Paul F. Whelan (2019), "Image Processing & Analysis - EE425", Vision Systems Group, Dublin City University, 2019.[Module EE425]
• Paul F Whelan (2018) "Computer Vision for Biomedical Applications" School of Computer Science and Informatics, Cardiff University, UK. April 2018 [Invited Talk]
• Sean Mullery and Paul F. Whelan (2018), “Batch Normalization in the final layer of generative networks,” Proceedings of the Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference [IMVIP 2018], Ulster University, Belfast, Ireland, Aug. 2018 pp. 170-177
• Vincent Andrearczyk and Paul F. Whelan (2018), "Convolutional Neural Network on Three Orthogonal Planes for Dynamic Texture Classification", Pattern Recognition 76 36–49. [PrePrint]
• Vincent Andrearczyk and Paul F. Whelan (2017), "Deep Learning in Texture Analysis and its Application to Tissue Image Classification", in Biomedical Texture Analysis (BTA), Editors: Adrien Depeursinge, Omar S. Al-Kadi and J. Ross Mitchell. [Invited Book Chapter]
• Vincent Andrearczyk and Paul F. Whelan (2017), "Convolutional Neural Network on Three Orthogonal Planes for Dynamic Texture Classification", arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.05530.
• Vincent Andrearczyk and Paul F. Whelan (2017), "Texture segmentation with Fully Convolutional Networks", arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.05230.
• Vincent Andrearczyk and Paul F. Whelan (2016), "Using Filter Banks in Convolutional Neural Networks for Texture Classification", Pattern Recognition Letters, 84 pp. 63-69. Also arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.02919.
• Vincent Andrearczyk and Paul F. Whelan (2016), "Deep Learning for Biomedical Texture Image Analysis", Proceedings of the Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference [IMVIP 2016], August 25th to 26th 2016, NUIG, Galway. [Short Paper - PDF]. Best Paper Award
• Ram P. Krish and Paul F. Whelan (2016), "Visual Speech Encoding based on Facial Landmark Registration", Proceedings of the Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference [IMVIP 2016], August 25th to 26th 2016, NUIG, Galway. [Full Paper - PDF].
• Tony Marrero Barroso (2016) Colour Local Feature Fusion for Image Matching and Recognition. PhD thesis, Dublin City University, Supervisor: Prof. Paul F Whelan. [eThesis - PDF]
• Stanislav Katina, Kathryn McNeil, Ashraf Ayoub, Brendan Guilfoyle, Balvinder Khambay, Paul Siebert, Federico Sukno, Mario Rojas, Liberty Vittert, John Waddington, Paul F. Whelan and Adrian W. Bowman (2015) "The definitions of three-dimensional landmarks on the human face: an interdisciplinary view", Journal of Anatomy 228: 355–365. doi:10.1111/joa.12407 [Full Paper - PDF]
• F.M. Sukno, J.L. Waddington and Paul F. Whelan (2015). "3D Facial Landmark Localization with Asymmetry Patterns and Shape Regression from Incomplete Local Features", IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics VOL. 45, NO. 9, pp:1717-1730. SEPTEMBER 2015. DOI:10.1109/TCYB.2014.2359056 [Full Paper - PDF] [Demo Software (SRILF_v1.0_Demo.7z)]
• Julia Dietlmeier, Ovidiu Ghita and Paul F. Whelan (2015), "On the Projection Similarity in Line Grouping", Pattern Recognition Letters , Volume 51 Issue C, January 2015 : 50-56. [Full Paper - External Link]
• Jacob L. Skytte, Ovidiu Ghita, Paul F. Whelan, Ulf Andersen, Flemming Moller, Anders B. Dahl, Rasmus Larsen (2015). "Evaluation of Yogurt Microstructure Using Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy and Image Analysis", Journal of Food Science Volume 80, Issue 6, pages E1218 - E1228, June 2015. DOI: 10.1111/1750-3841.12885 [Full Paper - External Link]
• V. Andrearczyk and Paul F. Whelan (2015), "Dynamic Texture Classification using Combined Co-Occurrence Matrices of Optical Flow", Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference [IMVIP 2015], August 26th to 28th 2015, Trinity College Dublin. [Full Paper - PDF] [Best Overall Paper Award]
• F.M. Sukno, J.L. Waddington and Paul F. Whelan (2015), "3-D Facial Landmark Localization With Asymmetry Patterns and Shape Regression from Incomplete Local Features", Eleventh IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2015) - Special Session on Journal Papers, Ljubljana, Slovenia. [Poster]
• F.M. Sukno, M. Rojas, J.L. Waddington and Paul F. Whelan (2015), "On the Quantitative Analysis of Craniofacial Asymmetry in 3D", Eleventh IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2015), Ljubljana, Slovenia. [Accepted] [Full Paper]
• Andrew McPhee and Paul F. Whelan (2015), "Internal Hazard Awareness System for the Intellectually Disabled", 4th international DOCTRID Conference (DOCTRID IV), Queens University Belfast, 27th, 28th April, 2015. [Abstract/Poster]
• Ovidiu Ghita, Julia Dietlmeier and Paul F. Whelan (2014), "Automatic segmentation of mitochondria in EM data using pairwise affinity factorization and graph-based contour searching", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing 23(10): 4576-4586. Oct 2014 [Full Paper - PDF]
• F.M. Sukno, J.L. Waddington and Paul F. Whelan (2014). "Asymmetry Patterns Shape Contexts to Describe of the 3D Geometry of Craniofacial Landmarks", In Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics -- Theory and Applications, Communications in Computer and Information Science, Volume 458, 2014, Springer-Verlag. [Book Chapter]. [Additional Material - PDF], [Data (Manual annotations for 100 scans from FRGC Database) - zip]
• Moore P., Molloy D. (2014), "Efficient Energy Evaluations for Active B-Spline/NURBS Surfaces, Computer-Aided Design (CAD)", Volume 47, February 2014, Pages 12-31 [Full Paper]
• Luke Gahan, Federico Sukno and Paul F Whelan (2014), "Comparison of geometric- and texture-based features for facial landmark localization in 3D", Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference 2014 (IMVIP 2014), Derry-Londonderry, 27-29 Aug 2014 [Full Paper - PDF]
• Tony Marrero Barroso, Ovidiu Ghita and Paul F. Whelan (2014), "Evaluating the Performance and Correlation of Colour Invariant Local Image Feature Detectors", ICIP 14 - IEEE International Conference on Image Processing 2014, Paris, France. [Full Paper - PDF]
• M. Rojas, F. Sukno, J. Waddington and P.F. Whelan (2014), "Quantitative Comparison of Hole Filling Methods for 3D Object Search", The Seventh Eurographics Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval, Strasbourg, April 6th 2014 [Full Paper - PDF]
• Antoine Pattin (2014). Automatic Anger Expression Detection from Facial Video Sequence. MEng(Taught) Project Portfolio Paper, Dublin City University, Supervisor: Prof Paul F Whelan. [eProject - PDF]
• Etienne Rochette (2014). Irish Road sign detection and recognition based on CIE-Lab colour segmentation and HOG feature extraction. MEng(Taught) Project Portfolio Paper, Dublin City University, Supervisor: Prof Paul F Whelan. [eProject - PDF]
• Michele Peporte (2014) White Matter Volume Assessment in Premature Infants on MRI at Term - Computer Aided Volume Analysis. PhD thesis, Dublin City University, Supervisor: Prof. Paul F Whelan. [eThesis - PDF]
• Julia Dietlmeier, Ovidiu Ghita, Heiko Duessmann, Jochen H. M. Prehn and Paul F. Whelan (2013), "Unsupervised Mitochondria Segmentation using Recursive Spectral Clustering and Adaptive Similarity Models", Journal of Structural Biology, Volume 184, Issue 3, December 2013, pp: 401-408. [Full Paper - PDF]
• Ovidiu Ghita, Dana E. Ilea and Paul F. Whelan (2013), "Texture Enhanced Histogram Equalisation Using TV-L1 Image Decomposition", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, VOL. 22, NO. 8, AUGUST 2013, pp 3133-3144 [Full Paper - PDF]
• Ketheesan Thirusittmapalam, M. Julius Hossain, Ovidiu Ghita, and Paul F. Whelan (2013), "A Novel Framework for Cellular Tracking and Mitosis Detection in Dense Phase Contrast Microscopy Images", IEEE Transactions on Biomedical and Health Informatics, VOL. 17, NO. 3, MAY 2013, pp 642-653. [Full Paper - PDF] [Video - AVI]
• Dana Ilea Ghita, Caoimhe Duffy, Liam Kavanagh, Alice Stanton and Paul F Whelan (2013), "Fully Automated Segmentation and Tracking of the Intima Media Thickness in Ultrasound Video Sequences of the Common Carotid Artery", IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control vol. 60, no. 1, 158-177, January 2013. [Full Paper - PDF] [Also - Highly Cited Articles in IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control - January 2014 edition]
• F.M. Sukno, J.L. Waddington and Paul F. Whelan (2013), "Live 3D facial scanning and landmark detection using Shape Regression with Incomplete Local Features", FG Workshop on 3D Face Biometrics, 10'th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, Shanghai, China - April 22-25, 2013 [Full demo description - PDF], [Video (Laser scanning and landmark detection) - AVI], [Video (Zoomed laser scanning view landmark localization) - AVI], [Video (Stereo acquisition and landmark detection) - AVI], [Video (SRILF Demo) - AVI]
• Federico M. Sukno, John L. Waddington and Paul F. Whelan (2013) "Automated 3D Facial Landmarking- Demo: Acquisition and landmarking" [Video (Laser scanning and landmark detection) - AVI] [Video (Zoomed laser scanning view landmark localization) - AVI], [Video (Stereo acquisition and landmark detection) - AVI], [Video (SRILF Demo) - AVI]
• F.M. Sukno, J.L. Waddington and Paul F. Whelan (2013), "Compensating inaccurate annotations to train 3D facial landmark localization models", FG Workshop on 3D Face Biometrics, 10'th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, Shanghai, China - April 22-25, 2013 pp 1-8, [Full Paper - PDF], [Additional Material (Details about the datasets used) - PDF], [Data (Manual annotations for 100 scans from FRGC Database) - zip]
• F.M. Sukno, J.L. Waddington and Paul F. Whelan (2013). "Rotationally Invariant 3D Shape Contexts Using Asymmetry Patterns", GRAPP - International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (part of VISIGRAPP - the 8th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications). 21-24 February, 2013, Barcelona, Spain. Best Paper Award . [Full Paper - PDF], [Additional Material - PDF], [Presentation - PDF], [Software to compute APSC (coming soon)]
• Julia Dietlmeier, Ovidiu Ghita and Paul F. Whelan (2013), "Unsupervised segmentation of mitochondria using model-based spectral clustering", BioPIC 2013 BioPhotonics and Imaging Conference 25th-27th March 2013,Castleknock Country Club, Dublin, Ireland [Abstract - PDF], [Poster - PDF] [Video - AVI]
• Federico M. Sukno, John L. Waddington and Paul F. Whelan (2013), "Craniofacial Landmark Localization with Asymmetry Patterns Shape Contexts", BioPIC 2013 BioPhotonics and Imaging Conference 25th-27th March 2013,Castleknock Country Club, Dublin, Ireland [Abstract - PDF], [Poster - PDF]
• Michele Peporte, Dana E. Ilea, Eilish Twomey and Paul F. Whelan (2013), "White Matter Segmentation of Brain MRI During Infancy" BioPIC 2013 BioPhotonics and Imaging Conference 25th-27th March 2013,Castleknock Country Club, Dublin, Ireland [Abstract - PDF], [Poster - PDF]
• Paul F. Whelan (2013), "Automated Facial Landmarking for Craniofacial Dysmorphology with a Specific Focus on Intellectual Disabilities", Global Challenges, Global Collaboration In Assistive Technologies, EU Science: Global Challenges, Global Collaboration (ESGC2), 4-8 March 2013, EU Parliament, Brussels [Invited Presentation]
• Jiao Tian, D. Molloy (2013), "3D Corner Detection and Matching for Manmade Scene/Object Structure Cognition", 8th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications, VISAPP 2013, Barcelona, Spain, Feb 21-24, 2013.
• Paul F Whelan and Tarik Chowdhury (2013) "Automated computer aided detection of the reproductive cycle and pregnancy of Bovines from ultrasound images - Automated early pregnancy staging" [Video - AVI]
• Paul F Whelan and Tarik Chowdhury (2013) "Automated computer aided detection of the reproductive cycle and pregnancy of Bovines from ultrasound images - Automated late pregnancy staging" [Video - AVI]
• Paul F. Whelan (2013). "Automated 3D Facial Landmarking", DOCTRID III Conference (Daughters Of Charity- Technology, Research Into Disability), Castleknock Hotel - Tuesday 15th October, 2013. [Invited Presentation - PDF]
• Jiao Tian, D. Molloy (2013), "3D Corner Detection and Matching for Manmade Scene/Object Structure Cognition", 8th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications, VISAPP 2013, Barcelona, Spain, Feb 21-24, 2013.
• Luke Gahan (2013). 3D Landmark Localisation. MEng(Taught) Project Portfolio Paper, Dublin City University, Supervisor: Prof Paul F Whelan. [eProject - PDF]
• Vincent Andrearczyk (2013). Cellular tracking in time-lapse image data. MEng(Taught) Project Portfolio Paper, Dublin City University, Supervisor: Prof Paul F Whelan. [eProject - PDF]
• Hazim Hamza (2013). Night Time Car Recognition Using MATLAB. MEng(Taught) Project Portfolio Paper, Dublin City University, Supervisor: Prof Paul F Whelan. [eProject - PDF]
• Patricia Moore (2013) A Generalised Computationally Efficient Mathematical Framework with an Active B-Spline/NURBS Surface Model for Seamless and Intuitive 3D Virtual Sculpting. PhD thesis, Dublin City University, Supervisor: Dr. Derek Molloy. [eThesis]
• Ovidiu Ghita, Dana E. Ilea and Paul F. Whelan (2012), "An Adaptive Noise Removal Approach for Restoration of Digital Images Corrupted by Multimodal Noise", IET Image Processing. Volume: 6, Issue: 8 Page(s): 1148-1160 November 2012. [Full Paper - PDF]
• Anastasiia Aleksandrova, Andras Czirok, Andras Szabo, Michael B. Filla, M. Julius Hossain, Paul F. Whelan, Rusty D. Lansford and Brenda J. Rongish (2012), "Convective tissue movements play a major role in avian endocardial morphogenesis", Developmental Biology 363 (2012) 348-361. [Full Paper - PDF]
• Artzai Picon, Ovidiu Ghita, Aranzazu Bereciartua, Jone Echazarra, Paul F. Whelan and Pedro Iriondo (2012), "Real-time hyperspectral processing for automatic nonferrous material sorting", Journal Of Electronic Imaging 21, 013018 (Apr 04, 2012). [Full Paper - PDF]
• Ovidiu Ghita, Dana Ilea, Antonio Fernandez and Paul F. Whelan (2012), "Local binary patterns versus signal processing texture analysis: a study from a performance evaluation perspective", Sensor Review, Volume 32 issue 2, 149-162. [Full Paper - PDF]
• Dahai Yu, Ovidiu Ghita, Alistair Sutherland, Paul F Whelan (2012), "A New Visual Speech Modelling Approach for Visual Speech Recognition", Journal of Computing and Information Technology 01/2012, 1(1). [Full Paper - PDF]
• F.M. Sukno, J.L. Waddington and Paul F. Whelan. "Comparing 3D Descriptors for Local Search of Craniofacial Landmarks". In Proc. Int. Symp. on Vision Computing, Rethymnon, Crete, Greece., pp 92-103, 2012 (G. Bebis et al. (Eds.): ISVC 2012, Part II, LNCS 7432, pp. 92--103. Springer, Heidelberg (2012)). [Full Paper - PDF], [Additional Material - PDF], [Presentation - pptx]
• F.M. Sukno, J.L. Waddington and Paul F. Whelan. "3D Facial Landmark Localization using Combinatorial Search and Shape Regression". Fifth Workshop on Non-Rigid Shape Analysis and Deformable Image Alignment (NORDIA'12), European Conference on Computer Vision 2012 (ECCV'12) Florence, Italy, 7-13 October. (to be published by Springer, in the LNCS series (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)). [Full Paper - PDF], [Presentation - PDF], [Video (SRILF algorithm adaptation Demo) - AVI]
• Thanh Bui, Ovidiu Ghita, Paul F. Whelan, Hoang Trang, "A Robust Algorithm for Detection and Classification of Traffic Signs in Video Data", in International Conference on Control, Automation and Information Sciences (ICCAIS 2012), Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, 26-29 Nov 2012, IEEE Press. [Full Paper - PDF]
• Thanh Bui, Ovidiu Ghita, Paul F. Whelan, Hoang Trang, Vinh Quang Truong, "Two Algorithms for Detection of Mutually Occluding Traffic Signs", in International Conference on Control, Automation and Information Sciences (ICCAIS 2012), Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, 26-29 Nov 2012, IEEE Press. [Full Paper - PDF]
• Moore, P., Molloy D., (2012) "Active B-Spline Surface Models for Intuitive 3D Virtual Sculpting". Proceedings of the 28th Spring Conference on Computer Graphics 2012, Smolenice, Slovakia, March 20, 2012.
• Paul F. Whelan (2012), "Computer Vision and Chemometrics. Do We Have Common Issues?", Irish Chemometrics Group December 6th, 2012, Teagasc Food Research Centre, Ashtown. [Invited Presentation]
• M. Julius Hossain and Paul F Whelan (2012) "Automated Tracking of Cells (In Vivo 3D, 4D)" [Video - AVI]
• Alexandre Gadiou (2012) Person Identification by Gait Analysis. MEng(Taught) Project Portfolio Paper, Dublin City University, Supervisor: Prof Paul F Whelan. [eProject - PDF]
• Ketheesan Thirusittampalam (2012) Cellular tracking and mitosis detection in dense in-vitro cellular data. PhD thesis, Dublin City University, Supervisor: Prof Paul F Whelan. [eThesis - PDF]
• Brendan P. Byrne (2012) Generalising the ideal pinhole model to multi-pupil imaging for depth recovery. PhD thesis, Dublin City University, Supervisor: Prof Paul F Whelan. [eThesis - PDF]
• Dana E. Ilea and Paul F. Whelan (2011), "Image Segmentation based on the Integration of Colour-Texture Descriptors - A Review", Pattern Recognition Volume 44, Issues 10-11, October-November 2011, Pages 2479-2501. [Full Paper - PDF]
• Artzai Picon, Ovidiu Ghita, Sergio Rodriguez-Vaamonde, Pedro Iriondo and Paul F. Whelan (2011), "Biologically-inspired data decorrelation for hyper-spectral imaging", EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, 2011:66, doi:10.1186/1687-6180-2011-66. [Full Paper - PDF]
• Stephen O'Brien, Ovidiu Ghita and Paul F. Whelan (2011), "A Novel Model-Based 3D+time Left Ventricular Segmentation Technique", IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging Vol.30, no.2, pp.461-474, Feb. 2011. doi: 10.1109/TMI.2010.2086465. [Full Paper - PDF] [Video - AVI]
• Antonio Fernandez, Ovidiu Ghita, Elena Gonzalez, Francesco Bianconi and Paul F. Whelan (2011), "Evaluation of robustness against rotation of LBP, CCR and ILBP features in granite texture classification", Machine Vision and Applications Volume 22, Issue 6 (2011), pp 913-926, doi: 10.1007/s00138-010-0253-4. [Full Paper - PDF]
• Paul F. Whelan and B.G. Batchelor (2011), "Basic Image Processing Techniques", in Machine Vision Handbook, Ed. B.G. Batchelor, Springer-Verlag London Limited, ISBN: 978-1-84996-169-1 [Invited Book Chapter]
• Paul F. Whelan, R. Sadleir and O Ghita (2011), "NeatVision: A Development Environment for Machine Vision Engineers", in Machine Vision Handbook, Ed. B.G. Batchelor, Springer-Verlag London Limited, ISBN: 978-1-84996-169-1 [Invited Book Chapter] [Full Chapter - PDF]
• B.G. Batchelor and Paul F. Whelan (2011), "Proverbs", in Machine Vision Handbook, Ed. B.G. Batchelor, Springer-Verlag London Limited, ISBN: 978-1-84996-169-1 [Invited Book Chapter]
• O Ghita, T Carew and Paul F. Whelan (2011), "A machine vision system for quality grading of painted slates", in Machine Vision Handbook, Ed. B.G. Batchelor, Springer-Verlag London Limited, ISBN: 978-1-84996-169-1 [Invited Book Chapter] [Full Chapter - PDF]
• Paul F Whelan (2011) "VSG Image Processing and Analysis (VSG IPA) Toolbox", Technical Report, Centre for Image Processing and Analysis, Dublin City University, May 2013. [Technical Report - PDF] [Software]
• Julia Dietlmeier, Ovidiu Ghita, Paul F. Whelan (2011), "A New Anticorrelation-based Spectral Clustering Formulation", Acivs 2011- Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems, Aug. 22-25 2011, Het Pand, Ghent, Belgium [Full Paper]. [Full Paper - PDF]
• J. Dietlmeier, O. Ghita, Paul F. Whelan (2011), "Towards Unsupervised Segmentation in High-Resolution Medical Nano-Imaging", Bioengineering...in Ireland 17, 17th Annual Conference of the Bioengineering Section of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland, Galway 28-29 January, 2011. [Abstract - PDF]
• J.M. Hossain, Paul F. Whelan (2011), "Automated Analysis of Cell Migration in Time-lapse Microscopy Image", Bioengineering...in Ireland 17, 17th Annual Conference of the Bioengineering Section of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland, Galway 28-29 January, 2011. [Abstract - PDF]
• Michele Peporte, Dana E. Ilea Ghita and Paul F. Whelan (2011),"A Hybrid Approach to Brain Extraction from Premature Infant MRI", SCIA 2011, Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, Ystad Saltsjobad, Sweden 23-27 May 2011 [Paper/Poster]. [Full Paper - PDF]
• M. Julius Hossain, Paul F. Whelan, Andras Czirok and Ovidiu Ghita (2011), "An Active Particle-based Tracking Framework for 2D + 3D Timelapse Microscopy Images", 33rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC'11), pp 6613-6618. Boston Aug 30-Sep 3 2011. (DOI 10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6091631) [Full Paper - PDF]
• F.M. Sukno, T.A. Chowdhury, J.L. Waddington and Paul F. Whelan (2011), "A quantitative assessment of 3D facial key point localization", Proceedings of the Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing (IMVIP) Conference 8-9th Sept. 2011, IEEE Computer Society. [Full Paper - PDF], [Presentation - PDF] [Video (IOFASM in the texture image) - AVI], [Video (IOFASM in the curvature image) - AVI]
• B.P. Byrne, J. Mallon and Paul F. Whelan (2011), "Capturing Optimal Image Networks for Planar Camera Calibration", Proceedings of the Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing (IMVIP) Conference 8-9th Sept. 2011, IEEE Computer Society. (IPRCS Jonathan G. Campbell best student paper award). [Full Paper - PDF]
• T.A. Chowdhury and Paul F. Whelan (2011), "A Fast and Accurate Method for Automatic Segmentation of Colons at CT Colonography based on Colon Geometrical Features", Proceedings of the Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing (IMVIP) Conference 8-9th Sept. 2011, IEEE Computer Society. [Full Paper - PDF]
• Tony Marrero Barroso and Paul F. Whelan (2011), "Enhancing SURF Feature Matching Using Colour Histograms" Proceedings of the Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing (IMVIP) Conference 8-9th Sept. 2011, IEEE Computer Society. [Short Paper - PDF]
• Ketheesan Thirusittampalam, M. Julius Hossain, Ovidiu Ghita, and Paul F. Whelan (2011), "Cell Segmentation in Time-lapse Phase Contrast Data" Proceedings of the Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing (IMVIP) Conference 8-9th Sept. 2011, IEEE Computer Society. [Short Paper - PDF]
• Michele Peporte, Dana E. Ilea, Eilish Twomey and Paul F. Whelan (2011), "A morphological approach for infant brain segmentation in MRI data" Proceedings of the Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing (IMVIP) Conference 8-9th Sept. 2011, IEEE Computer Society. [Short Paper - PDF]
• Sha Yu, Molloy Derek (2011), "Optic flow providing external force for active contours in visually tracking dense cell population", Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference 2011, Dublin City University, Sept. 8th and 9th, 2011
• D. Molloy, O. Ghita and R. Sadleir (Eds.) Proceedings of the Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference, 2011, Dublin City University, Sept. 8th and 9th, 2011. Published by the IEEE Computer Society [Link] [Book: Edited]
• Molloy D. Google Tools: Enabling Independent Learning Experiments, Poster at the President's Award for Excellence in Teaching & Learning, May 2011 Poster
• Molloy D. Google Tools: Enabling Independent Learning Experiments, Realizing Bologna Conference, June 7th and 8th, Dublin City University 2011 Poster
• Molloy D. Google Tools: Enabling Independent Learning Experiments, DCU Staff Student Engagement Conference, September 2011 Poster
• Xiong Ye, Molloy D. R.J.T.Sadleir A Web-based Training System for Remote Access Mammography Screening, Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference 2011, Dublin City University, Sept. 8th and 9th, 2011 pp 126.127. 2011 Poster
• Paul F. Whelan (2011), "Medical Image Analysis: Computer Aided Detection and Diagnosis", First Joint Workshop on Nano and Biomedical Applications, IISC Bangalore, India, September 19-20th, 2011. [Invited Presentation]
• Paul F. Whelan (2011), "Medical Image Analysis: Computer Aided Detection and Diagnosis", IITM Chennai, India, September 22-23rd, 2011. [Invited Presentation]
• Paul F. Whelan (2011), "Computer Aided Detection For Biomedical (Cellular) Applications", Observing the invisible – Novel Imaging Horizons. Collaboration and strategic workshop: National Biophotonics Imaging Program Ireland Including CNRS and Nordic Imaging Network - Northwestern University Cell Imaging-Turku BioImaging-Biocenter Finland National Imaging Infrastructure - EuroBioimaging. Turku Finland August 10-11 2011. [Invited Presentation]
• Paul F. Whelan (2011), "Cellular Computer Vision: Computer Aided Detection and Diagnosis for Biomedical Applications", Conway Lecture & Seminar Series (CLASS) UCD, Conway Institute UCD, Jan 2011 [Invited Presentation]
• Paul F. Whelan (2011), "Cellular Computer Vision", BinI/IMDA Commercialisation Workshop, 17th Annual Conference of the Bioengineering Section of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland, Galway, Jan 2011 [Invited Presentation]
• Stephen O'Brien (2011) Integrating Contour-Coupling with Spatio-Temporal Models in Multi-Dimensional Cardiac Image Segmentation. PhD thesis, Dublin City University, Supervisor: Prof Paul F Whelan. [eThesis - PDF]
• Ovidiu Ghita, Paul F. Whelan (2010), "A new GVF-based image enhancement formulation for use in the presence of mixed noise", Pattern Recognition 2010 August 43 (8) pp 2646-2658. [Full Paper - PDF]
• Aubrey K Dunne, John Mallon and Paul F Whelan (2010), "Efficient generic calibration method for general cameras with single centre of projection", Computer Vision and Image Understanding Volume 114, Issue 2, February 2010, Pages 220-233 [Special issue on Omnidirectional Vision, Camera Networks and Non-conventional Cameras]. [Full Paper - PDF]
• Padmapriya Nammalwar, Ovidiu Ghita, Paul F. Whelan (2010), "A Generic Framework for Colour Texture Segmentation", Sensor Review Volume: 30 Issue: 1 Page: 69 - 79. Outstanding Paper Award Winner at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2011. [Full Paper - PDF]
• Dahai Yu, Ovidiu Ghita, Alistair Sutherland, Paul F. Whelan (2010), "A Novel Visual Speech Representation and HMM Classification for Visual Speech Recognition", IPSJ Transactions on Computer Vision and Applications, Vol. 2 (2010) No. 0 pp.25-38. [Full Paper - PDF]
• Padmapriya Nammalwar, Ovidiu Ghita, Paul F. Whelan (2009), "Integration of Colour and Texture Distributions for Skin Cancer Image Segmentation", International Journal of Imaging (IJI) 2010 Autumn, Volume 4, Number A10. [Full Paper - PDF]
• Artzai Picon, Ovidiu Ghita, Pedro M Iriondo, Aranzazu Bereciartua and Paul F. Whelan (2010), "Automation of waste recycling using hyperspectral image analysis", 15th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2010), 13-16 Sept 2010, Bilbao, Spain. [Full Paper - PDF]
• Ketheesan Thirusittampalam, M. Julius Hossain, Ovidiu Ghita, Paul F. Whelan (2010), "A Novel Framework for Tracking In-vitro Cells in Time-lapse Phase Contrast Data", British Machine Vision Conference 2010 Aberystwyth (Wales, UK), 30 August - 2 September 2010 [Poster]. [Full Paper - PDF] [Poster - PDF]
• Dana E. Ilea Ghita, Paul F. Whelan and Ovidiu Ghita (2010), "Unsupervised Image Segmentation Based On The Multi-Resolution Integration Of Adaptive Local Texture Descriptors", 5th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP 2010), 17-21 May 2010, Angers France. [Full Paper - PDF]
• Tarik A. Chowdhury and Paul F. Whelan (2010), "Automatic Lung Nodule Detection from Chest CT Data Using Geometrical Features: Initial Results", 14th Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing conference (IMVIP 2010), September 8th-10th, 2010, University of Limerick, Ireland. [Full Paper - PDF]
• Dana E. Ilea, Paul F. Whelan, Catherine Brown and Alice Stanton (2010), "Automatic detection and measurement of the IMT in longitudinal sections of ultrasound images of the CCA, The European Congress of Radiology (ECR) 2010, 4-8 March, Vienna, Austria [Abstract - PDF]
• Tony Marrero, John Mallon and Paul F Whelan (2010), "Towards Real-Time Stereoscopic Image Rectification for 3D Visualization", ACCV 2010 Workshop on Application of Computer Vision for Mixed and Augmented Reality (ACVMAR), Queenstown, New Zealand, Nov. 9th, 2010. [Full Paper - PDF] [Poster - PDF]
• Julia Dietlmeier and Paul F. Whelan (2010), "Structural Methods in Subcellular Image Analysis", 5th European Molecular Imaging Meeting, Warsaw 26-29 May 2010 [Poster - PDF]
• M. Julius Hossain and Paul F. Whelan (2010), "Automated Tracking of Embryonic Cells in Time-lapse Images", The 3rd Annual Conference of the Nordic Network on Imaging in Biology and Medicine 2010, Gothenburg, Sweden, May 22-23, 2010 [Abstract/Presentation]
• Tony Marrero, John Mallon and Paul F Whelan (2010), "Towards Real-Time Stereoscopic Image Rectification for 3D Visualization", ACCV 2010 Workshop on Application of Computer Vision for Mixed and Augmented Reality (ACVMAR), Queenstown, New Zealand, Nov. 9th, 2010 [Poster]
• Yu Sha and Derek Molloy (2010), "Automated Image-based Cell Tracking in Dense Cell Datasets", IMVIP 2010 International Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference, 8-10th September 2010, University of Limerick. Best Paper Award
• Jiao Tian and Derek Molloy, "3D Reconstruction and Texturing using Affine SIFT on Uncalibrated Sparse Image Sets", China-Ireland International Conference on Information and Communications Technologies, Wuhan, China, October 10-12, 2010.
• Ayodeji Adesina and Derek Molloy, "Capturing and monitoring of learning process through a Business Process Management (BPM) framework", 3rd International Symposium for Engineering Education, 2010, University College Cork, Ireland.
• Qiusha Min, Robert J.T. Sadleir, "A real-time software-based volume rendering technique for virtual endoscopy" China-Ireland International Conference on Information and Communications Technologies, Wuhan, China, October 10-12, 2010.
• Sha Yu, Molloy Derek "Automated Vision-based Tracking of Cell Movement and Deformation in Image Sequences", 2010 China-Ireland International Conference on Information and Communications Technologies (CIICT2010), Oct. 10-11, Wuhan, China.
• Qiusha Min, Robert J.T. Sadleir, "A Hybrid Lossless Compression Scheme for Efficient Delivery of Medical Image Data over the Internet," Computer Modeling and Simulation, International Conference on, pp. 319-323, 2010 Second International Conference on Computer Modeling and Simulation, 2010
• Paul F Whelan (2010), "Computer Aided Detection for Biomedical (Cellular) Applications", BioPhotonics and Imaging Conference (BioPIC) 2010, Dunboyne Castle Hotel, Meath, 18th October - 20th October 2010 [Invited Presentation]
• Paul F. Whelan (2010), "Image Processing & Analysis For Biomedical Applications” Innovation, Marketing And New Technology Foresight Lecture Series, DCU, Monday 6th Dec, 2010 [Invited Presentation]
• Paul F. Whelan (2010), "Computer Vision for Biomedical Applications”, Department of Imaging Science & Technology Seminar, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, March 2010 [Invited Presentation]
• Paul F. Whelan (2010), "Computer Vision for Biomedical Applications” IET Ireland Network Senior Members Programme 2009/2010, TCD, Jan 19 2010 [Invited Presentation]
• Artzai Picon, Ovidiu Ghita, Paul F. Whelan and Pedro M Iriondo (2009), "Fuzzy Spectral and Spatial Feature Integration for Classification of Non-ferrous Materials in Hyper-spectral Data", IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Volume: 5 Issue: 4, Pages: 483-494, Published: NOV 2009. [Full Paper - PDF]
• Ovidiu Ghita, Dana E Ilea and Paul F Whelan (2009), "Image feature enhancement based on the time-controlled total variation flow formulation", Pattern Recognition Letters Volume 30, Issue 3, 1 February 2009, pp. 314-320. [Full Paper - PDF]
• C.M. Brown, C. Duffy, D. Ilea, Paul F. Whelan, A.V. Stanton (2009), "Carotid artery stiffness is only one tenth that of aortic artery stiffness as assessed by pulse wave velocity", Journal of Human Hypertension , Volume: 23 Issue: 10, Pages: 698-699 Published: OCT 2009
• Julia Dietimeier, John Mallon and Paul F Whelan (2009), "Correction of Optical lateral Chromatic Aberration in Digitial Imaging Systems", WO 2009141403 A1, [Patent]
• Tarik Ahmed Chowdhury, Kevin Peter Robinson, Mark Brendan Sugrue, Paul F. Whelan (2009), "Electronic Cleansing of Digital Data Sets", EP 2297693 A1 / WO 2009144290 A1 [Patent]
• Dana E. Ilea, Paul F. Whelan, Catherine Brown, and Alice Stanton (2009), "An Automatic 2D CAD Algorithm for the Segmentation of the IMT in Ultrasound Carotid Artery Images", 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC'09), September, 2-6, 2009 Minnesota, USA. [Full Paper - PDF] [Poster - PDF]
• Brendan P. Byrne, John Mallon, Paul F. Whelan (2009), "Efficient Planar Camera Calibration via Automatic Image Selection", 4th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications, FEB 05-08, 2009 Lisbon, PORTUGAL. VISAPP 2009: PROCEEDINGS OF THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER VISION THEORY AND APPLICATIONS, VOL 1 Pages: 90-94 Published: 2009. [Full Paper - PDF]
• Dahai Yu, Ovidiu Ghita, Alistair Sutherland, Paul F. Whelan (2009), "A Novel Visual Speech Representation and HMM Classification for Visual Speech Recognition", The 3rd Pacific-Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology (PSIVT2009), Tokyo, Japan, January 13th-16th, 2009. ADVANCES IN IMAGE AND VIDEO TECHNOLOGY, PROCEEDINGS Book Series: LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE Volume: 5414 Pages: 398-409 Published: 2009 [Best Paper Award] [Full Paper - PDF]
• Padmapriya Nammalwar, Ovidiu Ghita, Paul F. Whelan (2009), "Segmentation of Skin Cancer Images", ISSSIS 2009, Coimbatore, India, 8-10 Jan, 2009. [Full Paper - PDF]
• K. Thirusittampalam, M.J. Hossain, O. Ghita, and Paul F. Whelan (2009), "Cellular Tracking in Time-lapse Phase Contrast Images ", 13th Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing conference (IMVIP 2009) September 2nd-4th, 2009, Dublin, Ireland [Full Paper - PDF]
• Stephen O'Brien, Ovidiu Ghita, and Paul F. Whelan, "Segmenting the Left Ventricle in 3D Using a Coupled ASM and a Learned Non-Rigid Spatial Model", 3D Segmentation in the Clinic: A Grand Challenge III [Workshop], MICCAI 2009, the 12th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, 20th to 24th September 2009, London, UK. [Full Paper - PDF]
• K. Thirusittampalam, M.J. Hossain, O. Ghita and Paul F. Whelan (2009), "Automatic Cellular Segmentation in Time-lapse Phase Contrast Images", Bioengineering09, Oxford 24-25 September 2009 [Abstract - PDF] [Poster - PDF]
• Julia Dietlmeier and Paul F. Whelan (2009), "Computer-Guided Recognition of Mitochondria in Densely Cluttered Subcellular Environments", Bioengineering09, Oxford 24-25 September 2009 [Abstract - PDF] [Poster - PDF]
• Stephen O'Brien, Ovidiu Ghita and Paul F. Whelan (2009), "Morphological-Based 3D Segmentation Method of Cardiac MRI Data", Swiss Society for Biomedical Engineering (SSBE) Annual Meeting, University of Bern August 27th/28th 2009 [Abstract - PDF]
• Dana E. Ilea and Paul F. Whelan (2009), "Colour Saliency-Based Parameter Optimisation For Adaptive Colour Segmentation", 2009 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing [ICIP 2009], Cairo, Egypt November 7-11, 2009
• C.M. Brown, C. Duffy, D. Ilea, Paul F. Whelan, A.V. Stanton (2009), "Carotid artery stiffness is only one tenth that of aortic artery stiffness as assessed by pulse wave velocity", British Hypertension Society / Nurses Hypertension Association Annual Scientific Meetings, St. Johns College, Cambridge, 14-16 September 2009 [Abstract/Poster]
• Paul F Whelan (2009), "How active is machine vision research in Ireland? An overview of the academic state of play in 2009", 7th European Machine Vision Business Conference May 15th and May 16th 2009. [Invited Keynote Presentation]
• Paul F Whelan (2009), "ITC1: Cellular Computer Vision". National Biophotonics and Imaging Platform (NBIP) Ireland Inaugural Conference March 27, 2009, RCSI, Dublin, Ireland [Invited Presentation]
• Paul F. Whelan (2009), "Image Processing & Analysis For Biomedical Applications: Surface – Organ – Cell - Subcell (Nano)” Innovation, Marketing And New Technology Foresight Lecture Series, DCU, Monday 16th Nov, 2009 [Invited Presentation]
• Paul F. Whelan (2009), "Computer Vision: Medical, Industrial & Consumer", DCU & ISA Supporting "Industry-University" Collaboration, IBEC Offices, Monday, 8th June, 2009 [Invited Presentation]
• Paul F. Whelan (2009), "Image Processing and Analysis for Biomedical Applications", Dundalk Institute of Technology, 21 April 2009. [Invited Presentation]
• Denis Canty (2009) Machine Vision System Development, MEng(Taught) Project, Dublin City University, Supervisor: Prof Paul F Whelan. [eProject - PDF]
• Petru-Stefan Manescu (2009) Implementation of anisotropic diffusion for removal of noise from Chest CT data, MEng(Taught) Project, Dublin City University, Supervisor: Prof Paul F Whelan. [eProject - PDF]
• Sean Begley (2009) Content based image pose manipulation. Master of Engineering thesis, Dublin City University, Supervisor: Prof Paul F Whelan. [eThesis - PDF]
• Aubrey K. Dunne (2009) Calibration of non-conventional imaging systems. PhD thesis, Dublin City University, Supervisor: Prof Paul F Whelan. [eThesis - PDF]
• Dana. E. Ilea and Paul F. Whelan(2008), "CTex - An adaptive unsupervised segmentation algorithm based on colour-texture coherence", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing 17(10), pp. 1926-1939, OCTOBER 2008. [Full Paper - PDF]
• Tarik A. Chowdhury, Paul F. Whelan and Ovidiu Ghita (2008), "A Fully Automatic CAD-CTC System Based on Curvature Analysis for Standard and Low Dose CT Data", IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 55(3), pp. 888-901, March 2008. [Full Paper - PDF]
• Michael Lynch, Ovidiu Ghita and Paul F. Whelan (2008), "Segmentation of the Left Ventricle in 3D+t MRI Data Using an Optimised Non-Rigid Temporal Model", IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 27(2), pp. 195-203, Feb 2008. [Full Paper - PDF]
• Paul F. Whelan and O Ghita (2008), "Chapter 5: Color Texture Analysis" in Handbook of Texture Recognition, edited by Majid Mirmehdi, Xianghua Xie and Jasjit Suri, ISBN 978-1-84816-115-3 / 1-84816-115-8, Imperial College Press, Nov 2008. [Full Chapter - PDF]
• O Ghita and Paul F. Whelan (2008), "A Systems Engineering Approach to Robotic Bin Picking" in Stereo Vision, edited by Asim Bhatti, ISBN 978-953-7619-22-0, 372 pages, InTech, November, 2008. [Full Chapter - PDF]
• John Mallon and Paul F Whelan (2008), "Correction of Optical lateral Chromatic Aberration in Digitial Imaging Systems", GB0809154.8, [Patent]
• Artzai Picon, Ovidiu Ghita, Paul F. Whelan, Pedro M Iriondo (2008), "Methodology for modeling electromagnetic spectra", EP 2187341 A1, [Patent]
• Artzai Picon, Ovidiu Ghita, Paul F. Whelan, Pedro M Iriondo (2008), "Methodology for integration of spectral and spatial features for material classification", EP 2187339 A1 [Patent]
• Mark Sugrue, Paul F. Whelan, Kevin Robinson (2008), "Electronic Cleansing of Digital Data Sets", GB0809616.6, [Patent]
• Sean Begley and Paul F. Whelan (2008), "Removing Pose from Face Images", 4th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC08), December 1-3, 2008 Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. ADVANCES IN VISUAL COMPUTING, PT II, PROCEEDINGS Book Series: LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE Volume: 5359 Pages: 692-702 Published: 2008. [Full Paper - PDF]
• Julia Dietlmeier, Sean Begley and Paul F. Whelan (2008), "Cost-Effective HPC Clustering For Computer Vision Applications", Proceedings of the International Machine Vision & Image Processing Conference 2008 (IMVIP08), IEEE Computer Society Press. 2008 INTERNATIONAL MACHINE VISION AND IMAGE PROCESSING CONFERENCE, PROCEEDINGS Pages: 97-102 Published: 2008. [Full Paper - PDF]
• Ovidiu Ghita, Paul F. Whelan, Dana E. Ilea (2008), "Multi-resolution texture classification based on local image orientation", ICIAR 2008 The International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, Portugal. IMAGE ANALYSIS AND RECOGNITION, PROCEEDINGS Book Series: LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE Volume: 5112 Pages: 688-696 Published: 2008
• Dana Elena Ilea and Paul F. Whelan (2008), "Evaluation Of Local Orientation For Texture Classification" VISAPP 2008 - 3rd International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications, 22 - 25 January, 2008 Funchal, Madeira - Portugal. VISAPP 2008: PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER VISION THEORY AND APPLICATIONS, VOL 1 Pages: 357-364
• Aubrey K Dunne, John Mallon, Paul F Whelan (2008), "Towards Dynamic Camera Calibration for Constrained Flexible Mirror Imaging", Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Omnidirectional Vision, Camera Networks and Non-Classical Cameras, Marseille, France, 2008
• Moore, P., Molloy D.: “Active Contour Models For Computer Graphics Shape Modelling and Deformation”. In Proc. Vision, Graphics, And Visualisation 2008, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
• Paul F Whelan and Tarik Chowdhury (2008) "NeatCTC: A Fully Automatic CAD-CTC System Based on Curvature Analysis for Standard and Low Dose CT Data" [Video - AVI]
• Dahai Yu (2008) The application of manifold based visual speech units for visual speech recognition. PhD thesis, Dublin City University, Supervisor: Prof Paul F Whelan. [eThesis - PDF]
• Dana E. Ilea (2008) Unsupervised segmentation of natural images based on the adaptive integration of colour-texture descriptors. PhD thesis, Dublin City University, Supervisor: Prof Paul F Whelan. [eThesis - PDF]
• Felicia Brisc (2008) Accelerated volumetric reconstruction from uncalibrated camera views. PhD thesis, Dublin City University, Supervisor: Prof Paul F Whelan. [eThesis - PDF]
• John Mallon and Paul F. Whelan (2007), "Calibration and removal of lateral chromatic aberration in images" Pattern Recognition Letters 28(1):125-135, Jan 2007. [Full Paper - PDF]
• Tarik A. Chowdhury, Paul F. Whelan, Ovidiu Ghita, Nicolas Sezille and Shane Foley (2007), "Development of a synthetic phantom for the selection of optimal scanning parameters in CAD-CT colonography", Medical Engineering & Physics 29(8):858-867, Oct 2007. [Full Paper - PDF]
• John Mallon and Paul F. Whelan (2007), "Which Pattern? Biasing Aspects of Planar Calibration Patterns and Detection Methods", Pattern Recognition Letters, 28(8):921-930, June 2007. [Full Paper - PDF]
• Michael Lynch, D. Ilea, K. Robinson, O. Ghita and Paul F. Whelan (2007), "Automatic seed initialisation for the expectation-maximisation algorithm and its application in 3D medical imaging", Journal of Medical Engineering & Technology, 31:5, 332 - 340. [Full Paper - PDF]
• O. Ghita, Paul F. Whelan, D. Vernon and J. Mallon (2007) "Pose estimation for objects with planar surfaces using eigenimage and range data analysis", Machine Vision and Applications, 18(6):355-365, December 2007. [Full Paper - PDF]
• Darren D. Brennan, Paul F. Whelan, Kevin Robinson, Ovidiu Ghita, Julie M. O'Brien, Robert Sadleir and Stephen J. Eustace, "Letters (Reply - Mantatzis M, Prassopoulos P. Total body fat, visceral fat, bone marrow fat? What is important to measure? (letter). AJR 2007; 189)", American Journal of Roentgenology, 2007;189: W385-W385.
• Ovidiu Ghita and Paul F Whelan (2007), "Ultra-Compact Aperture Controlled Depth From Defocus Range Sensor", WO 2009016256 A1 / US 20100194870 A1 [Patent]
• John Mallon and Paul F Whelan (2007), "A Method For High Precision Lens Distortion Calibration And Removal", WO 2009000906 A1 / US 20120057053 A1 [Patent]
• Nicolas Sezille, Paul F. Whelan, Kevin Robinson (2007), "A method for detecting flat polyps in the colon", EP 2068281 A1 / EP 2220616 A1 [Patent]
• Aubrey K. Dunne, John Mallon, Paul F. Whelan (2007), "Efficient Generic Calibration Method for General Cameras with Single Centre of Projection", Eleventh IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2007, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 14-20, 2007. [Full Paper - PDF]
• Dana Elena Ilea and Paul F. Whelan (2007), "Adaptive Pre-Filtering Techniques for Colour Image Analysis", Proceedings of the International Machine Vision & Image Processing Conference 2007 (IMVIP 2007), 5th-7th September, National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUIM), IEEE Computer Society Press. [Full Paper - PDF]
• Dahai Yu, Ovidiu Ghita, Alistair Sutherland, Paul F. Whelan (2007), "A New Manifold Representation for Visual Speech Recognition", 12th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP 2007), Vienna, Austria. August 27th - 29th, 2007. [Full Paper - PDF]
• Dahai Yu, Ovidiu Ghita, Alistair Sutherland, Paul F. Whelan (2007), "A PCA based Manifold Representation for Visual Speech Recognition", China-Ireland International Conference on Information and Communications Technologies (CIICT2007), August 28th - 29th, 2007 [Microsoft Best Paper Award] [Full Paper - PDF]
• Aubrey K. Dunne, John Mallon, Paul F. Whelan (2007), "A comparison of new generic camera calibration with the standard parametric approach", MVA2007 IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications, 3-22:114-117, May 16-18, 2007, Tokyo, JAPAN. [Full Paper - PDF]
• Kevin Robinson, Paul F. Whelan, Padraic Mac Mathuna and Helen Fenlon (2007), "Integrated approach to CTC review and report with assistive CAD", The 8th International Symposium on Virtual Colonoscopy, October 15 - 17, 2007 Westin Copley Place, Boston, MA [Poster - PDF]
• Dahai Yu, Ovidiu Ghita, Alistair Sutherland, Paul F. Whelan (2007), "A New Manifold Representation for Visual Speech Recognition", Proceedings of the International Machine Vision & Image Processing Conference 2007 (IMVIP 2007), 5th-7th September, National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUIM), IEEE Computer Society Press. [Best Poster Award]
• Moore, P., Molloy D.: "Virtual Sculpting: Active Contour Models for Computer Graphics Shape Modelling and Deformation". In Proc. EuroGraphics Ireland 2007, University College Dublin, Ireland. pp. 53-59.
• Barry D., Donnellan A. , Molloy D., A review of non-parametric and semi-parametric skin colour models, Proc. Irish Signals and Systems Conf., 2007, pp. 163-168.
• Moore P., Molloy D.: "A Survey of Computer-Based Deformable Models". In Proc. International Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference, 2007, NUI Maynooth, Ireland. pp. 55-66.
• Kelly W., Donnellan A., Molloy D., "A review of skin detection techniques for objectionable images", Proc. Information Technology and Telecommunications Conf., 2007, pp. 40- 49.
• Ovidiu Ghita, Michael Lynch, Paul F. Whelan (2007), "Analysis of Cardiac Function in Multi-Dimensional MRI Data", "Hands-on Image Processing" Seminar, ROBOTIKER-Tecnalia, Zamudio-Bizkaia (Spain), 27th-28th November 2007. [Invited Presentation]
• Paul F. Whelan (2007), "Automated computer analysis of Computed Tomography (CT) Colonography image data sets for the detection of colorectal cancer using standard and low-dose radiation CT acquisition [CAD-CTC]", SFI Science Summit 2007, 26-27 November [Invited Poster]
• Vincent Luaute (2007) A remote access CT colonography training system. Master of Engineering thesis, Dublin City University. Supervisor: Dr. Dr Robert Sadleir. [eThesis - PDF]
• Tarik A. Chowdhury, Paul F. Whelan and Ovidiu Ghita (2006), "The use of 3D surface fitting for robust polyp detection and classification in CT colonography", Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, 30 (2006) 427-436. [Full Paper - PDF]
• O. Ghita, Paul F. Whelan and T. Carew (2006), "A vision-based system for inspecting painted slates", Sensor Review, 26(2): 108-115. [Full Paper - PDF]
• Michael Lynch, Ovidiu Ghita, Paul F. Whelan (2006), "Left-Ventricle myocardium segmentation using a Coupled Level-Set with A-Priori knowledge", Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, 30:255-262, 2006 [Full Paper - PDF]
• Lynch M, Ghita O, Whelan PF "Automatic segmentation of the left ventricle cavity and myocardium in MRI data", Computers in Biology and Medicine 36 (4): 389-407 APR 2006 [Full Paper - PDF]
• V. Luaute, R.J.T. Sadleir and Paul F. Whelan (2006) "A Remote Access Training System for the Detection of Colorectal Polyps at Computed Tomography Colonography" ECR 2006 - European Congress of Radiology, Vienna, Austria, March 3rd - 7th. [Full Paper - PDF]
• R.J.T. Sadleir and Paul F. Whelan (2006) "A Novel Technique for Reducing False Positive Detections in CAD-CTC" China-Ireland International Conference on Information and Communications Technologies (CIICT06): 352-355, October 18th-19th, 2006, Hangzhou, China. [Full Paper - PDF]
• Dana Elena Ilea and Paul F. Whelan (2006), "Automatic Segmentation of Skin Cancer Images using Adaptive Color Clustering", China-Ireland International Conference on Information and Communications Technologies (CIICT06): 348-351, October 18th-19th, 2006, Hangzhou, China. [Full Paper - PDF]
• Dahai Yu, Ovidiu Ghita, Alistair Sutherland, Paul F Whelan (2006), "Dictionary Based Lip Reading Classification", China-Ireland International Conference on Information and Communications Technologies (CIICT06): 226-229, October 18th-19th, 2006, Hangzhou, China. [Full Paper - PDF]
• Dana Elena Ilea and Paul F. Whelan (2006), "Color Image Segmentation using a Self-initializing EM Algorithm", International Conference on Visualization, Imaging and Image Processing (VIIP 2006), 28-30 August, Spain. [Full Paper - PDF]
• Tarik A. Chowdhury, Ovidiu Ghita, Paul F. Whelan and Abhilash Miranda, "A Note on Feature Selection for Polyp Detection in CT Colonography", The 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 06): 1017-1021, Hong Kong, 20-24 August, 2006. [Full Paper - PDF]
• Dana Elena Ilea and Paul F. Whelan (2006), "Color Image Segmentation Using a Spatial K-Means Clustering Algorithm", Proceedings of the Irish Machine Vision & Image Processing Conference 2006 (IMVIP 2006): 146-153, 30th August - 1st September 2006, Dublin City University. [Full Paper - PDF]
• Tarik A. Chowdhury, Ovidiu Ghita and Paul F. Whelan (2006), "Evaluation of 3D gradient filters for estimation of the surface orientation in CTC", Proceedings of the Irish Machine Vision & Image Processing Conference 2006 (IMVIP 2006): 34-41, 30th August - 1st September 2006, Dublin City University [Best Student Paper Award] [Full Paper - PDF]
• Abhilash A. Miranda, Tarik A. Chowdhury, Ovidiu Ghita, Paul F. Whelan (2006), "Shape Classification of Colorectal Polyps at CT Colonography using Support Vector Machines", Proceedings of the Irish Machine Vision & Image Processing Conference 2006 (IMVIP 2006): 34-41, 30th August - 1st September 2006, Dublin City University [Poster - PDF]
• Abhilash Miranda, Tarik Chowdhury, Ovidiu Ghita, Paul F. Whelan (2006), "Shape Filtering for False Positive Reduction at Computed Tomography Colonography", MICCAI 2006 - 9th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE 4191: 84-92 2006, Copenhagen, Denmark. [Full Paper - PDF] [Poster - PDF]
• Dana Elena Ilea, Paul F. Whelan, Ovidiu Ghita (2006), "Performance Characterization of Clustering Algorithms for Colour Image Segmentation", Optimization of Electrical and Electronic Equipments OPTIM'06, May 18-19, 2006, Brasov, Romania [Full Paper - PDF]
• V. Luaute, R.J.T. Sadleir, H.M. Fenlon and Paul F. Whelan (2006) "A reader training system for CTC" Irish Machine Vision & Image Processing Conference 2006 (IMVIP 2006), Dublin, Ireland, August 30th - September 1st.
• Julie O'Brien, Darren Brennan, Paul F. Whelan, Kevin Robinson, Ovidu Ghita, Stephen Eustace (2006), "The use of Whole Body MRI for Body Fat Assessment and Comparison With Serum Leptin Concentration", European Society of Skeletal Radiology (ESSR 2006), Bruges, Belgium, 9-10 June 2006. Abstract printed in Skeletal Radiology, 35(6), 461, 2006
• V. Luaute, R.J.T. Sadleir and Paul F. Whelan (2006) "A remote access web based tutor system for reader training at CT colonography" RSNA 2006 - 92nd Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, McCormick Place, Chicago, USA, November 26th - December 1st (inforad exhibit) to be published in: Radiology 241 (Suppl)
• V. Luaute, R.J.T. Sadleir and Paul F. Whelan (2006) "An automatic evaluation strategy for a remote access CT colonogaphy training system", BIOSIGNAL 2006 - The 18th International EURASIP (The European Association for Signal, Speech and Image Processing) Conference, Brno, Czech Republic, 23th-25th of June - Conference technically co-sponsored by IEEE EMBS
• J. Le Colloec, R.J.T. Sadleir and Paul F. Whelan (2006), "Remote Access CT Colonography using a Java Enabled Mobile Device", Proceedings of the Irish Machine Vision & Image Processing Conference 2006 (IMVIP 2006), 30th August - 1st September 2006, Dublin City University [Poster]
• Paul F. Whelan (2006), "Computer Aided Detection of Polyps: A Medical Application of Image Processing & Analysis", IET Irish Signals and Systems Conference, Dublin, June 28-30, 2006 [Invited Plenary Presentation]
• Paul F. Whelan (2006), "Application of Image Processing & Analysis to the Computer Aided Detection of Polyps", China-Ireland International Conference on Information and Communications Technologies (CIICT06), October 18th-19th, 2006, Hangzhou, China [Invited Plenary Presentation]
• Paul F. Whelan, Helen M. Fenlon and Padraic Mac Mathuna, "A Virtual ID of possible bowel cancers - A fully automatic (Computer aided detection at CT colonography) CAD-CTC system based on curvature analysis for standard and low dose CT data", HRB Conference - Todays Health Research is Tomorrows Health Care, June 2006 [Invited Poster]
• D. Molloy, O. Ghita and R. Sadleir (Eds.) (2006) IMVIP 2006 - Proceedings of the Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conferences 2006, Dublin City University, 216 pages, ISBN-10: 0-9553885-0-3, ISBN-13: 978-0-9553885-0-7 [Full Proceedings - PDF] [Book: Edited]
• Paul F. Whelan (2006), "Securing Funding For Research", Improving The Quality of PhD Supervision and PhD Project Management Workshop 2006, Regency Hotel, Dublin [Invited Presentation]
• Ovidiu Ghita, Tim Carew and Paul F Whelan (2006) "SlateScan: A Vision System For Detecting Surface Faults On Painted Slates" [Video - AVI]
• Eamonn Boyle (2006) Active modelling of virtual humans. PhD thesis, Dublin City University., Supervisor: Dr Derek Molloy. [eThesis - PDF]
• Tarik Ahmed Chowdhury (2006) Automatic colonic polyp detection using curvature analysis for standard and low dose CT data. PhD thesis, Dublin City University, Supervisor: Prof Paul F Whelan. [eThesis - PDF]
• Michael Lynch (2006) Multidimensional image analysis of cardiac function in MRI. PhD thesis, Dublin City University, Supervisor: Prof Paul F Whelan. [eThesis - PDF]
• Robert Sadleir (2006) Enhanced Computer Assisted Detection of Polyps in CT Colonography. PhD thesis, Dublin City University, Supervisor: Prof Paul F Whelan. [eThesis - PDF]
• O. Ghita, Paul F. Whelan, T. Carew and P. Nammalwar (2005) "Quality grading of painted slates using texture analysis", Computers in Industry (Special Issue on Machine Vision); 56(8-9):802-815. [Full Paper - PDF]
• D Brennan, Paul F. Whelan, K Robinson, O Ghita, R Sadleir J O Brien and S Eustace (2005), "Rapid Automated Measurement of Body Fat Tissue Distribution from Whole Body MRI", American Journal of Roentgenology; 185(2):418-423 (Aug). [Full Paper - PDF]
• Robert J. T. Sadleir, Paul F. Whelan (2005), "Fast Colon Centreline Calculation using Optimised 3D Topological Thinning", Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics; 29(4):251-258 (June) [Full Paper - PDF]
• J. Mallon and Paul F. Whelan (2005), "Projective rectification from the fundamental matrix", Image and Vision Computing, Volume 23, Issue 7 , 1 July 2005, Pages 643-650 [Full Paper - PDF]
• O Ghita, K Robinson, M Lynch and Paul F. Whelan (2005), "MRI diffusion-based filtering: A note on performance characterisation", Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics; 29(4):267-277 [Full Paper - PDF]
• Ovidiu Ghita, Paul F. Whelan and John Mallon (2005), "Computational approach for depth from focus", Journal of Electronic Imaging 14(2), April 2005, 023021 (1-8) [as featured on the cover of the journal] [Full Paper - PDF]
• Michael Lynch, Tarik Chowdhury, Ovidiu Ghita and Paul F. Whelan (2005), "Determining Candidate Polyp Morphology from CT Colonography using a Level-Set Method", 3rd European Medical and Biological Engineering Conference EMBEC 2005, November 2005, Prague, Czech Republic. [Full Paper - PDF]
• Tarik A. Chowdhury, Ovidiu Ghita and Paul F. Whelan (2005), "A statistical approach for robust polyp detection in CT colonography", 27th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1-4 September 2005, Shanghai, China. [Full Paper - PDF]
• Abhilash A. Miranda and Paul F. Whelan (2005), "Fukunaga-Koontz Transform for Small Sample Size Problems", Irish Signals and Systems Conference (ISSC 2005), 1-2 September 2005 [Full Paper - PDF]
• Tarik A. Chowdhury, Paul F. Whelan and Ovidiu Ghita (2005), "A Method for Automatic Segmentation of Collapsed Colons at CT Colonography", Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (December) IICAI-05:3517-3532 [Full Paper - PDF]
• Ovidiu Ghita, Rene Gapert, Laura Monks, Jason Last and Paul F. Whelan (2005), "A machine vision system for forensic analysis", Proceedings of the Irish Machine Vision & Image Processing Conference 2005 (IMVIP 2005), 30th - 31st Aug 2005, Queen's University Belfast (QUB) Northern Ireland [Full Paper - PDF]
• K Robinson, Paul F. Whelan (2005), "Analysis of the Pancreato-biliary System from MRCP", IEEE CMBS 2005 - The 18th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems: 253-258 (June) [SFI Best Student Paper Award] [Full Paper - PDF]
• K Robinson, O Ghita, Paul F. Whelan (2005) "Intensity non-uniformity correction in multi-section whole body MRI", OPTO-Ireland 2005: Imaging and Vision, Proceedings of SPIE; 5823:164-174 (April 2005) [Full Paper - PDF]
• D. Ilea, O. Ghita, K. Robinson, M. Lynch, Paul F. Whelan (2005) "A 3D CAD tool for body fat identification", Proceedings of 17th European Congress of Radiology, ECR 2005, March 4-8 2005, Vienna, Austria.[Abstract - PDF]
• Michael Lynch, Ovidiu Ghita and Paul F. Whelan (2005), "Automatic Seed Picking Algorithm for Region-Based Segmentation of Cardiac MRI Images", European Society for Cardiac Radiology - ESCR 2005, Zurich
• T.A. Chowdhury, Paul F. Whelan, H. Fenlon, P. MacMathuna, "Evaluation of radiation dose on automatic polyp detection at CT colonography: Experiments with a synthetic phantom", Association of Physical Scientists in Medicine, 2005 Annual Scientific Meeting, Galway, Ireland, 2005. [Poster Presentation]
• Eamonn Boyle, D. Molloy, "Adaptive Active Human Model Reconstruction", Journal of Advanced Technology on Imaging and Graphics, Volume 1, Number 1, September 2005, pp. 16-18, ISSN 1885-6411.
• P. Moore, E. Boyle, D. Molloy (2005), "Automatic Construction of 3D Human Models from Only Two Orthographic Projections", In Proc. Eurographics Workshop (Ireland), Institute of Technology Blanchardstown (ITB), Dublin, pp. 33-40, 3rd June 2005.
• O. Bompis, M. Sorin, E. Boyle, D. Molloy (2005), "Flexible Extraction of Human Shape in Real-Time Using Motion-Tuned Active-Contour Based Segmentation", In Proc. IMVIP2005 - Irish Machine Vision & Image Processing Conference, pp. 243-244, 30-31 August 2005.
• E. Boyle and D. Molloy (2005), "Flexible Silhouette Based Creation of Virtual Humans", In Proc. IMVIP2005 - Irish Machine Vision & Image Processing Conference, pp. 143-150, 30-31 August 2005.
• E. Boyle and D. Molloy, "A Review of Techniques for the Extraction of Shape Information for the Creation of Virtual Humans", In Proc. Eurographics Workshop (Ireland), Institute of Technology Blanchardstown (ITB), pp. 25-32, Dublin, 3rd June 2005.
• E. Boyle, D. Molloy (2005), "Definition of B-Spline Templates for the Automatic Extraction of Human Shape Information", IADAT-micv2005, Madrid, Spain, March 30 - April 1 2005.
• E. Boyle,B. Uscilowski, D. Molloy and N. Murphy (2005), "Using Facial Feature Extraction to Enhance the Creation of 3D Human Models", WIAMIS 2005 - 6th International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services, Montreux, Switzerland, 13-15 April 2005.
• Paul F. Whelan (2005), "NeatVision - Visual Programming for Computer Aided Diagnostic Applications", Medical Visionday, IMM - Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU), Denmark, June 2005 [Invited Plenary Presentation]
• Paul F. Whelan (2005), "Quality Grading of Painted Slates Using Texture Analysis", Industrial Visionday, IMM - Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU), Denmark, June 2005 [Invited Plenary Presentation]
• T.A. Chowdhury, Paul F. Whelan, H. Fenlon, P. MacMathuna (2005), "Evaluation of radiation dose on automatic polyp detection at CT colonography: Experiments with a synthetic phantom", Association of Physical Scientists in Medicine, 2005 Annual Scientific Meeting, Galway, Ireland, 2005. [Invited Plenary Presentation]
• Raphael Walger (2005) Automated measurement of the increase in size of the chick area vasculosa over time, MEng(Taught) Project, Dublin City University, Supervisor: Prof Paul F Whelan. [eProject - PDF]
• Michael Carmody (2005) Generating 3D perspectives of textured volumetric scenes, MEng(Taught) Project, Dublin City University, Supervisor: Prof Paul F Whelan. [eProject - PDF]
• Faivre Matthieu (2005) Skin Lesion Detection, MEng(Taught) Project, Dublin City University, Supervisor: Prof Paul F Whelan. [eProject - PDF]
• John Mallon (2005) Modelling and removal of distortions in images. PhD thesis, Dublin City University, Supervisor: Prof Paul F Whelan. [eThesis - PDF]
• Kevin Robinson (2005): Efficient Pre- segmentation Filtering In MRCP. PhD thesis, Dublin City University, Supervisor: Prof Paul F Whelan. [eThesis - PDF]
• Paul F. Whelan, Ovidiu Ghita and Kevin Robinson (2004), "Computer Assisted Diagnosis (CAD) For The Rapid Automated Measurement of Body Fat Tissue From Whole Body MRI" in Imaging Beyond the Pin-hole Camera. 12th Seminar on Theoretical Foundations of Computer Vision (04251), Eds. Konstantinos Daniilidis and Reinhard Klette and Ales Leonardis, Internationales Begegnungs- und Forschungszentrum (IBFI), Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany [Full Paper - PDF]
• Paul F. Whelan, Robert J. T. Sadleir, and Ovidiu Ghita, (2004) "Informatics in Radiology (infoRAD): NeatVision: Visual Programming for Computer-aided Diagnostic Applications", Radiographics; 24(6):1779-1789 [Full Paper - PDF]
• K. Robinson and Paul F. Whelan (2004), "Efficient Morphological Reconstruction: A Downhill Filter", Pattern Recognition Letters, 25(15):1759-1767 (November) [Full Paper - PDF]
• G. Murphy, Paul F. Whelan, P.J. McNally, T. Tuomi and R. Simon (2004), "The Use Of Neighbourhood Intensity Comparisons, Morphological Gradients And Fourier Analysis For Automated Precipitate Counting & Pendellosung Fringe Analysis In X-Ray Topography, Eur. Phys. J. Appl. Phys, 27(1-3):443-446 [Full Paper - PDF]
• Robert J. T. Sadleir, Paul F. Whelan, Padraic MacMathuna, and Helen M. Fenlon (2004) "Informatics in Radiology (infoRAD): A Portable Toolkit for Providing Straightforward Access to Medical Image Data" Radiographics. 2004 Jul-Aug:24(4):1193-1202 [Full Paper - PDF]
• Paul F. Whelan and R.J.T. Sadleir (2004), "A Visual Programming Environment for Machine Vision Engineers", Sensor Review, 24(3):265-270. [Full Paper - PDF]
• D. Ilea, O. Ghita, K. Robinson, R. Sadleir, M. Lynch, D. Brennan and P. F. Whelan (2004), "Identification of Body Fat Tissues in MRI Data", 9th International Conference On Optimization of Electrical and Electronic Equipment (OPTIM 2004): 227-232, May 20-21, 2004, Brasov, Romania. [Full Paper - PDF]
• Michael Lynch, Ovidiu Ghita and Paul F. Whelan (2004), "Extraction of Epi-Cardial Contours from Unseen Images Using a Shape Database", MIC 2004 - IEEE Medical Imaging Conference:3685-3688 (October 2004) [Full Paper - PDF]
• Michael Lynch, Kevin Robinson, Ovidiu Ghita, Paul F. Whelan (2004), "A Performance Characterisation in Advanced Data Smoothing Techniques", Proceedings of the Irish Machine Vision & Image Processing Conference 2004 (IMVIP 2004): 123-128, Trinity College Dublin, September 1st-3rd, 2004. [Full Paper - PDF]
• Padmapriya Nammalwar, Ovidiu Ghita, Paul F. Whelan (2004), "Integration of Feature Distributions for Colour Texture Segmentation and its Applications", Proceedings of the Irish Machine Vision & Image Processing Conference 2004 (IMVIP 2004), Trinity College Dublin, September 1st-3rd, 2004.[Full Paper - PDF]
• Kevin Robinson and Paul F. Whelan (2004), "Narrow Branch Preservation in Morphological Reconstruction", Proceedings of the Irish Machine Vision & Image Processing Conference 2004 (IMVIP 2004): 42-49, Trinity College Dublin, September 1st-3rd, 2004. [Full Paper - PDF]
• O. Ghita and Paul F. Whelan (2004), "The application of image processing algorithms to the analysis of SPI images", Sediment Profile Imagery Colloquium of Experts (SPICE), NUI, Galway, 5-7 April 2004. [Full Paper - PDF]
• J. Mallon and Paul F. Whelan (2004), "Precise Radial Un-distortion of Images", ICPR2004 - 17th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Cambridge, UK, 23rd - 26th August 2004, pp 18-21. [Full Paper - PDF]
• N. Padmapriya, O. Ghita and Paul F. Whelan (2004), "Integration of Feature Distributions for Colour Texture Segmentation", ICPR2004 - 17th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Cambridge, UK, 23rd - 26th August 2004, pp 716-719. [Full Paper - PDF]
• T.A. Chowdhury, R.J.T. Sadleir, Paul F. Whelan, N. Sezille, A. Moss, A. O Hare, S. Foley, H. Fenlon, P. MacMathuna (2004), "Automatic Detection of Colon at CT Colonography", Irish Society of Gastroenterology, Winter Meeting 2004 [Abstract / Presentation]
• Felicia Brisc, Paul F. Whelan (2004) "Creating Virtual Models from Uncalibrated Camera Views", Proceedings of the Irish EuroGraphics Workshop 2004, University College Cork [Best Presentation Award]
• R.J.T. Sadleir Paul F. Whelan, N. Sezille, T.A. Chowdhury,J. Bruzzi, A. Moss, P. McMathuna, H. Fenlon (2004), "Automatic detection of colorectal polyps at CT colonography using shape information" Association of Physical Scientists in Medicine, 2004 Annual Scientific Meeting, Dublin,11th June 2004, [Presentation - Best Presentation Award]
• T.A. Chowdhury, R.J.T. Sadleir, Paul F. Whelan, A. Moss, J. Varden, M. Short, H. Fenlon, P. MacMathuna (2004), "The impact of radiation dose on imaged polyp characteristics at CT colonography:Experiments with a synthetic phantom", Association of Physical Scientists in Medicine, 2004 Annual Scientific Meeting, Dublin,11th June 2004, [Presentation]
• Michael Lynch, Ovidiu Ghita, Paul F. Whelan (2004), "Comparison of 2D and 3D clustering on Short Axis Magnetic Resonance Images of the left ventricle", CARS 2004 Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery: 1371 (June) Chicago, USA. [Poster - PDF]
• Kevin Robinson, Ovidiu Ghita, Paul F. Whelan (2004), "Volumetric Reconstruction: Matching and Merging in DICOM Data", CARS 2004 Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery: 1236 (June) Chicago, USA. [Poster - PDF]
• E.Boyle, F. Brisc, S. Cooray, B. Uscilowski, A. Brosnan, R. Sadleir, C. O'Sullivan "Framework and Applications for Mobile Networks Using Synthetic Multimedia, 3G2004, London, UK, pp 644 -648, October 2004.
• Paul F. Whelan (2004), Neatvision 2.1 Users Guide. [Technicial Report - PDF]
• Paul F. Whelan (2004), Neatvision 2.1 Developers Guide. [Technicial Report - PDF]
• Paul F Whelan (2004) "NeatVision: An Image Analysis and Software Development Environment" [Video - AVI]
• Paul F. Whelan , O. Ghita, K. Robinson (2004), "Computer Assisted Diagnosis (CAD) for the Rapid Automated Measurement of Body Fat Tissue from Whole Body MRI",12th Seminar on Theoretical Foundations of Computer Vision (Seminar No. 04251: Imaging Beyond the Pin-hole Camera), Dagsthul, Germany, June 13-18th, 2004 [Invited Presentation]
• Paul F. Whelan (2004), "Computer Aided Detection and Diagnostics for Medical Imaging", BIOMEDICAL IMAGING: From molecular to whole body imaging, Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience & The Dublin Molecular Medicine Centre, Wednesday 9th June 2004 [Invited Presentation]
• Paul F. Whelan (2004), Short course: Medical Image Analysis for Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference, 2004: IMVIP 2004, Trinity College Dublin. 1-3 September 2004. [Invited Short Course]
• Federico A. Buratti (2004) LOCALIZATION IN A 3D INDOOR ENVIROMENT, MEng(Taught) Project, Dublin City University, Supervisor: Prof Paul F Whelan. [eProject - PDF]
• Laura Monks (2004) Forensic Image Analysis of the Foramen Magnum, MEng(Taught) Project, Dublin City University, Supervisor: Prof Paul F Whelan. [eProject - PDF]
• Mathieu Albenque (2004) Skin feature analysis and classification, MEng(Taught) Project, Dublin City University, Supervisor: Prof Paul F Whelan. [eProject - PDF]
• Nammalwar PadmaPriya (2004) A Generic Framework for Colour Texture Segmentation, PhD thesis, Dublin City University, Supervisor: Prof Paul F Whelan. [eThesis - PDF]
• O. Ghita and Paul F. Whelan (2003), "A bin picking system based on depth from defocus", Machine Vision and Applications; 13(4):234-244. [Full Paper - PDF]
• Paul F. Whelan (2003), "Automated cutting of natural products: A practical packing strategy", Chapter 11 in Machine Vision for the Inspection of Natural Products. Mark Graves and Bruce Batchelor (Eds.), Springer (London). , ISBN: 1-85233-525-4, pp 307-329 [Invited Book Chapter] [Full Chapter - PDF]
• G. Murphy, Paul F. Whelan, P.J. McNally and T. Tuomi (2003) "The Use of Neighbourhood Intensity Comparisons, Morphological Gradients and Fourier Analysis for Automated Precipitate Counting & Pendellosung Fringe Analysis in X-Ray Topography", DRIP X, 10th International Conference on Defects - Recognition, Imaging and Physics in Semiconductors 29 September - 2 October 2003 Batz sur mer (France) [Full Paper - PDF]
• Michael Lynch, Ovidiu Ghita, Paul F. Whelan (2003), "Calculation of the Ejection Fraction (EF) from MR Cardio-Images", Proc. Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference 2003, University of Ulster / Portrush (Coleraine). [Full Paper - PDF]
• N.Padmapriya, O. Ghita and Paul F. Whelan, "Investigation on the Discrete Cosine Transform and Chromaticity Features in Colour Texture Analysis", Irish Signals and Systems Conference 2003 (ISSC'03), University of Limerick, 1-2 July 2003 [Full Paper - PDF]
• N.Padmapriya, Ovidiu Ghita, and Paul.F.Whelan (2003), "Experimentation on the use of Chromaticity Features, Local Binary Pattern and Discrete Cosine Transform in Colour Texture Analysis", SCIA-2003 - The 13'th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis: 186-192 (June), Goteborg, Sweden [Full Paper - PDF]
• N. Sezille, R.J.T. Sadleir and Paul F. Whelan (2003), "Fast Extraction Of Planes Normal To The Centreline From CT Colonography Datasets", VIE 2003 - IEE Visual Information Engineering Conference:161-164 (Guildford, UK). [Full Paper - PDF]
• Ovidiu Ghita, Paul F Whelan and Robert Kennedy (2003), "A practical approach for analysing SPI images", SCI 2003 - Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics: 141-146 (July), Florida, USA [Full Paper - PDF]
• T. Carew, O. Ghita and Paul F. Whelan (2003), "Exploring the Effects of a Factory-Type Test-Bed on a Painted Slate Detection System", ICOM 2003 - International Conference on Mechatronics 2003: 365-370 (Loughborough, UK) [Full Paper - PDF]
• D. Molloy, J. Stack, D. Conroy, M. Egan, D. Murphy, R. Sadleir, P. Whelan, A. Saykin, H. Wishart and K. Malone (2003) "A Functional Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) Study of Strategic Thinking / Problem-Solving and Hope in Healthy Volunteers" Winter meeting of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland, University College Dublin, Ireland, January 10th
• R.J.T. Sadleir, Paul F. Whelan, N. Sezile, T.A. Chowdhury, A. Moss, J.Bruzzi, H. Fenlon, P. MacMathuna (2003) "Computer-Aided Detection of Colorectal Polyps at CT Colonography", ISG 2003 - Winter meeting of the Irish Society of Gastroenterology, Dublin, Ireland, November 28th - 29th [Poster Presentation]
• K.M. Malone, D. Molloy, J. Stack, D. Conroy, M. Egan, D. Murphy, R. Sadleir, P. Whelan, A. Saykin, H. Wishart (2003) "Functional Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) Study of Problem-Solving and Hope in Healthy Volunteers", 43rd Annual New Clinical Drug Evaluation Unit (NCDEU) Meeting, Boca Raton, FL, USA, May 26th - 28th [Poster Presentation]
• D.Molloy (2003), "Single-Source Interactive and Printed Content Publishing using the DocBook XML Standard", Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Multimedia and Information & Communication Technologies in Education (m-ICTE2003), Advances in Technology-Based Education: Toward a Knowledge-Based Society. Badajoz, Spain, December 3-6th, pp. 1800-1804
• J.Higgins, D. Molloy (2003), "Model Based Approach to Non-Intrusive Human Motion Capture", ISSC 2003, Limerick, July 1-2.
• Andrew Shearer, Fionn D. Murtagh, James Mahon and Paul F. Whelan (Chairs/Eds) (2002), Opto-Ireland 2002: Optical Metrology, Imaging, and Machine Vision, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 4877. ISBN 0-8194-4658-0. [Link] [Book: Edited]
• O. Ghita and Paul F. Whelan (2002), "Computational approach for edge linking", Journal of Electronic Imaging, 11(4), Oct. 2002, pp 479-485. [Full Paper - PDF]
• R.J.T. Sadleir, Paul F. Whelan, J.F. Bruzzi, A.C. Moss, H.M. Fenlon, P MacMathuna (2002) "A Novel Technique for Identifying the Individual Regions of the Human Colon at CT Colonography" IEE - Medical Applications of Signal Processing, London, UK, October 7th [Full Paper - PDF]
• R.J.T Sadleir, Paul F. Whelan, N. Sezille, J.F. Bruzzi, H.M. Fenlon, A.C. Moss and P. MacMathuna (2002), "Automated Detection and Flagging of Potential Colorectal Neoplasia at CT Colonography", 3rd International Workshop on Multislice CT 3D Imaging Virtual Endoscopy, Rome, Italy June 6-8 [Full Paper - PDF]
• P. P. Pradeep, P. F. Whelan (2002), "Tracking of facial features using deformable triangles", OPTO-Ireland: SPIE's Regional Meeting on Optoelectronics, Photonics and Imaging: 138-143, Galway (September) [Full Paper - PDF]
• K. Robinson, Paul F. Whelan and J. Stack (2002), "Segmentation of the Biliary Tree in MRCP Data", OPTO-Ireland: SPIE's Regional Meeting on Optoelectronics, Photonics and Imaging: 192-200, Galway (September) [Full Paper - PDF]
• N. Sezille, R.J.T. Sadleir and Paul F. Whelan, "Automated Synthesis, Insertion and Detection of Polyps for CT Colonography", OPTO-Ireland: SPIE's Regional Meeting on Optoelectronics, Photonics and Imaging: 183-191, Galway (September) [Full Paper - PDF]
• J. Mallon, O. Ghita and Paul F. Whelan (2002), "Robust 3-D Landmark Tracking using Trinocular Vision", OPTO-Ireland: SPIE's Regional Meeting on Optoelectronics, Photonics and Imaging: 221-229, Galway (September) [Full Paper - PDF]
• N. Padmapriya, P.P. Pradeep and Paul F. Whelan (2002), "A new data structure for the implementation of unsupervised texture segmentation", ISSC 2002 - Irish Signals and Systems Conference 2002, Cork Institute of Technology & University College Cork June 25-26, 2002. [Full Paper - PDF]
• O. Ghita and Paul F. Whelan (2002), "A computationally efficient method for edge thinning and linking using endpoints", ISSC 2002 - Irish Signals and Systems Conference 2002, Cork Institute of Technology & University College Cork June 25-26, 2002. [Full Paper - PDF]
• R.J.T. Sadleir and Paul F. Whelan (2002), "Colon Centerline Calculation for CT Colonography using Optimised 3D Topological Thinning", 3DPVT 2002 - First International Symposium on 3D Data Processing Visualization and Transmission: 800-803, June (Padova, Italy) [Full Paper - PDF]
• J. Mallon, O. Ghita, P. F. Whelan (2002), "An Integrated Design Towards the Implementation of an Autonomous Mobile Robot", OPTIM 2002 - 8th International Conference On Optimization of Electrical and Electronic Equipment, May 16-17, 2002, Brasov, Romania. [Full Paper - PDF]
• R.J.T. Sadleir, A. Moss, Paul F. Whelan, J. Bruzzi, H.M. Fenlon and P. MacMathuna (2002), "Rapid Automated Neoplasia Detection in CT Colonography using a Novel Technique", Gastroenterology, 122 (4): M1689 Suppl. 1 APR 2002. Presented at DDW 2002 - Annual Meeting at Digestive Disease Week, San Francisco, CA, May 19-22 [Poster - PDF]
• R.J.T Sadleir, A.C Moss, Paul F. Whelan, H.M. Fenlon and P. MacMathuna (introduced by J.R. Lennon) (2002), "Use Of A Novel Technique For Automated Polyp Detection In CT Colonography", GUT - International Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 50: 325 Suppl. 2 APR 2002. Presented at British Society Of Gastroenterology Annual Meeting, 17-20 March International Convention Centre, Birmingham. [Poster - PDF]
• R.J. Sadleir, Paul F. Whelan, J.F. Bruzzi, A.C. Moss, P. MacMathuna, H.M. Fenlon (2002), "A Portable Toolkit for Providing Straightforward Access to Medical Image Data", Radiology 225 (Suppl). Presented at RSNA 2002 - 88th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, McCormick Place, Chicago, USA, December 1st - 6th [infoRad exhibit]
• Andrew Shearer, Fionn D. Murtagh, James Mahon and Paul F. Whelan (Chairs/Eds) (2002), Opto-Ireland 2002: Optical Metrology, Imaging, and Machine Vision, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 4877. ISBN 0-8194-4658-0. [Book: Edited]
• T. Carew, O. Ghita and Paul F. Whelan (2002), A Vision System For Detecting Surface Faults On Painted Slates, Mechatronics 2002, The 8th Mechatronics Forum International Conference, 24th - 26th June 2002, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands
• Kevin Robinson, Paul F. Whelan and John Stack (2002), "Non-linear Diffusion Filtering for the Enhancement of MRCP Data", Volumetric Analysis of MR Images, Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM): 16-17, 20th November 2002, Royal Marsden Conference Centre, London
• Paul F. Whelan, Robert J.T. Sadleir, Kevin Robinson, Helen Fenlon, John Stack and Padraic Mac Mathuna (2002), "Computer Aided Diagnosis of Medical Image Data in Gastrointestinal Procedures", 7th Annual Conference of the Healthcare Informatics Society of Ireland, 14th November 2002. [Abstract - PDF]
• Moss A, Bruzzi J, Sadleir R, Whelan PF, Fenlon H, Mac Mathuna P. (2002) "CT colonography for routine surveillance of patients at high-risk of colorectal carcinoma" UEGW 2002 - 10th United European Gastroenterology Week, Geneva, Switzerland, October 19th - 24th
• R.J.T. Sadleir, J. Bruzzi, A. Moss, H.M. Fenlon, P. MacMathuna, Paul F. Whelan (2002), "Colon Lumen Sub-Segmentation: A New Technique For CT Colonography" Third International Symposium for Virtual Colonoscopy, Boston, MA, USA, April 8 - 10, 2002
• Tim Carew (2002) Automation of painted slate inspection. Master of Engineering thesis, Dublin City University, Supervisor: Prof Paul F Whelan. [eThesis - PDF]
• A. Drimbarean and Paul F. Whelan (2001), "Experiments in colour texture analysis", Pattern Recognition Letters, 22(10), pp 1161-1167 [Full Paper - PDF]
• O. Ghita and Paul F. Whelan (2001), "A video-rate sensor based on depth from defocus", Optics & Laser Technology, 33(3), pp 167-176 [Full Paper - PDF]
• Paul F. Whelan, P. Soille and A. Drimbarean (2001), "Real-time registration of paper watermarks", Real-Time Imaging, 7(4), pp 367-380 [Full Paper - PDF]
• Paul F. Whelan (2001), "Visual programming for machine vision", Chapter 8 in Intelligent Machine Vision: Techniques, Implementation & Interfacing B.G. Batchelor and F. Waltz, Springer-Verlag UK, 448 pages, ISBN: 3-540-762248, pp 229-320 [Invited Book Chapter] [Full Chapter - PDF]
• Paul F. Whelan and Bruce G. Batchelor (2001), "Basic machine vision techniques", Chapter 2 in Intelligent Machine Vision: Techniques, Implementation & Interfacing, B.G. Batchelor and F. Waltz, Springer-Verlag UK, 448 pages, ISBN: 3-540-762248, pp 31-64 [Invited Book Chapter]
• O. Ghita, J. Mallon and Paul F. Whelan (2001), "Epipolar line extraction using feature matching", Proc. Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference 2001, NUI Maynooth, pp 87-95. [Full Paper - PDF]
• T. Carew, O. Ghita and Paul F. Whelan (2001), "A Vision System for Detecting Paint Faults on Painted Slates", Proc. ICCAS2001, ICASE International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems, October 17-21, Korea [Full Paper - PDF]
• R.J.T. Sadleir, Paul F. Whelan, P. MacMathuna and H.M. Fenlon (2001), "Automated Detection and Flagging Of Colorectal Polyps For Virtual Colonoscopy: A Preliminary Study", European Radiology, 11(6): Suppl: C6. [Abstract]. resented at ESGAR 2001 - 12th Annual Meeting of the European Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology, June 20 - 23, Dublin, Ireland.
• Paul F. Whelan (2001), "Colorectal cancer research" in Healthy outlook for biomedicine, M. Smith (Ed.), The Engineers Journal, Journal of the Institution of Engineers of Ireland, March.
• T. Carew, O. Ghita and Paul F. Whelan (2001), "Detecting visual faults on painted slates", Proc. Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference 2001, NUI Maynooth, pp 260.
• R.J.T. Sadleir, A.Moss, P.F.Whelan, J.Bruzzi, H.Fenlon and P.MacMathuna (2001), "Automated detection of colorectal polyps at CT (virtual) colonoscopy", ISG 2001 - Irish Society of Gastroenterology, UCC, June 8th-9th
• Paul F. Whelan (2001), "Medical Image Analysis and Visualization", Medical Physics Workshop, School of Physical Sciences Seminar Series, Dublin City University [Invited Presentation]
• Paul F. Whelan (2001), "Machine Vision: A Systems Engineering Approach", Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Western Ontario (Canada) [Invited Presentation]
• Paul F. Whelan (2001), "Machine Vision: A Systems Engineering Approach", Universities of Heidelberg and Mannheim: Interdisciplinary Image Processing Colloquium, University of Heidelberg (Germany). [Invited Presentation]
• Ovidiu Ghita (2001) A Real-time Low-cost Vision Sensor for Robotic Bin Picking, PhD thesis, Dublin City University, Supervisor: Prof Paul F Whelan. [eThesis - PDF]
• Paul F. Whelan and D. Molloy (2000), Machine Vision Algorithms in Java: Techniques and Implementation, Springer (London), 298 Pages. ISBN 1-85233-218-2. [Reprinted Aug. 2001] [Summary - Google Books] [Book: Authored]
• D. Molloy and Paul F. Whelan (2000), "Active-Meshes", Pattern Recognition Letters, 21(12), pp 1071-1080. [Full Paper - PDF] [Video - AVI]
• O. Ghita and Paul F. Whelan (2000), "Real time 3D estimation using depth from defocus", Vision, MVA (SME), 16(3), pp 1-6. [Invited Paper] [Full Paper - PDF]
• A. Drimbarean and Paul F. Whelan (2000), "Colour texture analysis: A comparative study paper", Proc. Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference 2000, The Queens University (Belfast), pp 125-132. [Full Paper - PDF]
• Paul F. Whelan and R. Sadleir (2000), "3D Virtual Colonoscopy for the Detection of Colorectal Cancer", Proc. Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference 2000, The Queens University (Belfast), pp 245.
• Paul F. Whelan and R. Sadleir (2000), Neatvision: A Java based image analysis and software development environment. Adopted by researchers and educators nationally and internationally.
• Paul F. Whelan (2000), "There is more to machine vision than meets the eye!", The Seminar Series of the School of Physical Sciences, Dublin City University. [Invited Presentation]
• Paul F. Whelan (2000), "Taking it further" Distance learning about image processing on the Internet – work at your own pace, or participate in a Master’s degree – it’s your choice, UK Industrial Vision Association (UKIVA) Tutorials: IPOT 2000. [Invited Presentation]
• Paul F. Whelan (2000), "Image processing and analysis: A whirlwind tour of basic techniques", The National Centre for Sensor Research (NCSR), Dublin City University. [Invited Presentation]
• Derek Molloy (2000) Active meshes For Motion Tracking, PhD thesis, Dublin City University, Supervisor: Prof Paul F Whelan. [eThesis - PDF]
• Bruce G. Batchelor, Paul F. Whelan and Ralf Hack (1999), "Machine vision for inspection and robotic control", Wiley Encyclopaedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, J. Webster (Ed.), John Wiley and Sons Inc., 24 Volume Set, ISBN 0-471-13946-7, (11):659-673. [Full Chapter - PDF] DOI: 10.1002/047134608X.W6508
• Paul F. Whelan (Ed.) (1999), IMVIP99 - Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference 1999, DCU, September, 340 pages, ISBN 1 872 327 22 2. [Outline - PDF] [Book: Edited]
• A. Drimbarean, P Soille and Paul F. Whelan (1999), "Online registration of watermarks from continuous web paper", Proc. Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference 1999, Dublin City University (Ireland), pp 267-279. [Full Paper - PDF]
• D. Molloy and Paul F. Whelan (1999), "Active-mesh self-initialisation", Proc. Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference 1999, Dublin City University (Ireland), pp 116-130. [Full Paper - PDF]
• O. Ghita and Paul F. Whelan (1999), "Real time 3-D estimation using depth from defocus", Proc. Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference 1999, Dublin City University (Ireland), pp 167-181. [Full Paper - PDF]
• O. Ghita and Paul F. Whelan (1999), "A bifocal range sensor based on depth from defocus", Proc Image and Vision Computing '99 New Zealand, The University of Canterbury, Christchurch (New Zealand), pp 55-60.
• Paul F. Whelan (1999) - 1-day onsite course to senior technical staff of an international machine vision company. Topic: "Machine vision: Techniques and Systems" (Dublin). [Invited Short Course]
• D. Molloy and Paul F. Whelan (1999), "Tracking using self-initialising active meshes", Seventh International Conference on Image Processing and its Applications, IEE 465, Volume 2, University of Manchester (UK), pp 701-705. [Full Paper - PDF]
• Paul F. Whelan, B.G. Batchelor, M.R.F. Lewis and R. Hack (1998), "Machine vision design and training aids on the World Wide Web", Vision, MVA (SME), 14(2), pp 1-6.
• O. Ghita and Paul F. Whelan (1998), "Eigenimage analysis for object recognition", Proc. Optical Engineering Society of Ireland & Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Joint Conference 1998, National University of Ireland, Maynooth (Ireland), pp 217-229. [Full Paper - PDF]
• Paul F. Whelan and P. Soille (1998), "Automated extraction of paper watermarks", Proc. Optical Engineering Society of Ireland & Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Joint Conference 1998, National University of Ireland, Maynooth (Ireland), pp 287-299. [Full Paper - PDF]
• O. Ghita and Paul F. Whelan (1998), "Robust robotic manipulation", Proceedings of the SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, Vol. 3522 - Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XVII: Algorithms, Techniques, and Active Vision, Boston (USA), pp 244-254. [Full Paper - PDF]
• Paul F. Whelan (1998), "Remote access education via the Internet", Workshop on IT Applications in Learning and Assessment, School of Physical Sciences, Dublin City University. [Invited Presentation]
• B.G. Batchelor and Paul F. Whelan (1997), Intelligent Vision Systems for Industry, Springer-Verlag (London), 457 pages, ISBN 3-540-19969-1. [Full Book - PDF] [Book: Authored]
• Paul F. Whelan (1997), "Remote access to continuing engineering education - RACeE", IEE Engineering Science and Education Journal, 6(5), pp 205-211. Also published in the IEE Computer Forum. [Full Paper - PDF]
• B.G. Batchelor and Paul F. Whelan (1997), "Real-time colour recognition for machine vision systems", John Dalton's Colour Vision Legacy, Editors C. Dickinson, I. Murray & D. Carden, Taylor & Francis (London), ISBN 0-7484-0310-8, Chap. 10.5, pp 687-693. [Full Chapter - PDF]
• Paul F. Whelan (1997), "Remote access education of machine vision engineers via the Internet", Proc. Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference 1997, University of Ulster (Northern Ireland), pp 226-233. [Full Paper - PDF]
• G. McMorrow and Paul F. Whelan (1997), "A handheld colour-to-speech device for the visually impaired", Proc. Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference 1997, University of Ulster (Northern Ireland), pp 44-51. [Full Paper - PDF]
• O. Ghita and Paul F. Whelan (1997), "Object recognition using eigenvectors", Proceedings of the SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, Vol. 3208 - Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XVI: Algorithms, Techniques, Active Vision, Materials Handling, Pittsburgh (USA), pp 85-91. [Full Paper - PDF]
• Paul F. Whelan, B.G. Batchelor, M.R.F. Lewis and R. Hack (1997), "Machine vision and the World Wide Web: Design and training aids", Proceedings of the SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, Vol. 3205 - Machine Vision Applications, Architectures, and Systems Integration VI, Pittsburgh (USA), pp 284-294. [Full Paper - PDF]
• G. McMorrow, X. Wang and Paul F. Whelan (1997), "A colour-to-speech sensory substitution device for the visually impaired", Proceedings of the SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, Vol. 3205 - Machine Vision Applications, Architectures, and Systems Integration VI, Pittsburgh (USA), pp 272-281. [Full Paper - PDF]
• D. Molloy and Paul F. Whelan (1997), "Navigation using self-initialising active contours", Proceedings of the SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, Vol. 3208 - Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XVI: Algorithms, Techniques, Active Vision, Materials Handling, Pittsburgh (USA), pp 56-64. [Full Paper - PDF]
• Paul F. Whelan (1997), "System engineering issues in industrial inspection", IEE Colloquium on Industrial Inspection (Ref. No.1997/041), IEE, London (UK), pp 1/1-1/6. [Full Paper - PDF]
• D. Molloy and Paul F. Whelan (1997), "Self-initialising active contours for motion discrimination", Proc. Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference 1997, University of Ulster (Northern Ireland), pp 139-146.
• Paul F. Whelan (1997), "Machine Vision Resources. Online central resource for machine vision engineers". School of Electronic Engineering. [Technicial Report]
• Paul F. Whelan (1997), "Machine vision systems engineering" (1-day course). Ecole des Mines d'Ales, EERIE, Nimes (France). [Invited Short Course]
• Tommy McGowan (1997) Object Recognition for the Visually Impaired. Master of Engineering thesis, Dublin City University, Supervisor: Prof Paul F Whelan. [eThesis - PDF]
• Paul F. Whelan and B.G. Batchelor (1996), "Automated packing systems - A systems engineering approach", IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man and Cybernetics - Part A [Systems and Humans]; 26(5):533-544. [Full Paper - PDF]
• Paul F. Whelan (1996), "A practical packing strategy for the automated handling of irregular shapes", IEE Colloquium on Mechatronics in Automated Handling (Digest No.1996/153), IEE, Royal Mail Technology Centre, Swindon (UK), pp 3/1-3/5. [Full Paper - PDF]
• B.G. Batchelor and Paul F. Whelan (1996), "Machine vision systems: Proverbs, principles, prejudices and priorities", Proc. Applied Machine Vision '96, Machine Vision Association (Society of Manufacturing Engineers), Cincinnati (USA), pp. 7-19. Reprinted in part by SRC VISION (USA) and Integral Vision, Inc. (USA).
• Paul F. Whelan (1996) "A preliminary investigation into the use of the WWW for remote access teaching”, School of Electronic Engineering staff seminar. [Invited Presentation]
• B.G. Batchelor and Paul F. Whelan (1995), "Real-time colour recognition in symbolic programming for machine vision systems", Machine Vision and Applications; 8(6):385-398.[Full Paper - PDF]
• Paul F. Whelan (1995), "Tonal description of colours for the visually impaired", Electronic Imaging, SPIE/IS&T's International Technical Working Group Newsletter, 5(1). Reprinted in OE Reports, No. 138, pp 11. [Full Paper - PDF]
• T. McGowan, Paul F. Whelan and C. McCorkell (1995), "Automated recognition and classification for the visually impaired", 3rd European Conf. on the Advancement of Rehabilitation Technology (ECART 3), Lisbon (Portugal), pp. 41-43.
• B.G. Batchelor and Paul F. Whelan (1995), "Ethical, environmental and social issues for machine vision in manufacturing industry", Proceedings of the SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, Vol. 2597 - Machine Vision Applications, Architectures, and Systems Integration IV, Pittsburgh (USA), pp 2-15. [Keynote address]
• J. M. Howard and Paul F. Whelan (1995), "The application of three-dimensional vision to industrial inspection", Proc. IMC-12: Competitive Manufacturing, UCC (Ireland), pp 839-846.
• K.M. McClannon, Paul F. Whelan and C. McCorkell (1994), "The role of machine vision in process control", Proc. IMC-11 - Lean Production: From Concept to Product 1994, The Queens University of Belfast (Northern Ireland), pp 439-450.
• Paul F. Whelan (1995), "Online Postgraduate Course (EE544): Computer & Machine Vision", School of Electronic Engineering. [Technicial Report]
• Paul F. Whelan (1995), "Preliminary investigation into the use of the WWW for remote access teaching", School of Electronic Engineering working paper. [Technicial Report]
• B.G. Batchelor and Paul F. Whelan (Eds) (1994), Selected Papers on Industrial Machine Vision Systems, SPIE Milestone Series MS 97, SPIE Optical Engineering Press, 629 pages. ISBN 0-8194-1580-4 (hardbound); ISBN 0-8194-1579-0 (softbound). [Summary - PDF] [Book: Edited]
• B.G. Batchelor and Paul F. Whelan (1994), "Inspecting and sorting colored articles at high speed", Electronic Imaging - Special Issue on Real-Time Image Processing (Editor P. Laplante), SPIE/IS&T's International Technical Working Group Newsletter, 2(4), pp 9. Reprinted in OE Reports, No. 132, pp 13.
• D. Molloy, T. McGowan, K. Clarke, C. McCorkell and Paul F. Whelan (1994), "Application of machine vision technology to the development of aids for the visually impaired", Proceedings of the SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, Vol. 2347 - Machine Vision Applications, Architectures, and Systems Integration III, Boston (USA), pp 59-69.[Full Paper - PDF]
• B.G. Batchelor and Paul F. Whelan (1994), "Machine vision systems: Proverbs, principles, prejudices and priorities", [Evening Workshop] Proceedings of the SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, Vol. 2347 - Machine Vision Applications, Architectures, and Systems Integration III, Boston (USA), pp 374-383. [Full Paper - PDF] (pre-print of this popular paper which highlights the myths associated with machine vision systems engineering.)
• B.G. Batchelor and Paul F. Whelan (1994), "Introduction to industrial machine vision systems", Introduction to Selected Papers on Industrial Machine Vision Systems, SPIE Milestone Series MS 97, SPIE Optical Engineering Press, pp xi-xxiv.
• B.G. Batchelor and Paul F. Whelan (1994), "Fast color recognition technique for inspection and robotics", Proceedings of the SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, Vol. 2298 - Applications of Digital Image Processing XVII, San Diego (USA), pp 581-592.
• B.G. Batchelor, A.C. Jones and Paul F. Whelan (1994), "Networks of intelligent multi-camera systems for industrial applications", Proceedings of the SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, Vol. 2347 - Machine Vision Applications, Architectures, and Systems Integration III, Boston (USA), pp 115-126.
• B.G. Batchelor, M.W. Daley, E.C. Griffiths, A.C. Jones and Paul F. Whelan (1994), "Intelligent multi-camera inspection cell", Proceedings of the SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, Vol. 2347 - Machine Vision Applications, Architectures, and Systems Integration III, Boston (USA), pp 198-206.
• B.G. Batchelor and Paul F. Whelan (1994), "Reasoning about colour in Prolog", Proceedings of the SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, Vol. 2347 - Machine Vision Applications, Architectures, and Systems Integration III, Boston (USA), pp 220-233.
• K.M. McClannon, C. McCorkell and Paul F. Whelan (1994), "Qualitative model-based diagnosis driven by visual inspection defect data", Proceedings of the SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, Vol. 2347 - Machine Vision Applications, Architectures, and Systems Integration III, Boston (USA), pp 256-267.
• Paul F. Whelan (1994) - A seminar entitled "Oranges to Escher: Automated packing strategies", for the Department of Computing Mathematics, Cardiff University, Wales. [Invited Presentation]
• Paul F. Whelan and B.G. Batchelor (1993), "Flexible packing of arbitrary two-dimensional shapes", Optical Engineering, 32(12), pp 3278-3287. [Full Paper - PDF]
• Paul F. Whelan and B.G. Batchelor (1993), "Automated packing systems: Review of industrial implementations", Proceedings of the SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, Vol. 2064 - Machine Vision Applications, Architectures, and Systems Integration II, Boston (USA), pp 358-369. [Full Paper - PDF]
• K.M. McClannon, Paul F. Whelan and C. McCorkell (1993), "Integrating machine vision into process control", Proceedings of FAIM'93, University of Limerick (Ireland), CRC Press, pp 703-714.
• B.G. Batchelor and Paul F. Whelan (1993), "Generalization procedures for colour recognition", Proceedings of the SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, Vol. 2064 - Machine Vision Applications, Architectures, and Systems Integration II, Boston (USA), pp 36-46.
• Paul F. Whelan and B.G. Batchelor (1993), "Machine vision - Analysis and manipulation of complex 2D images", Report of EOLAS/British Council Scheme - Ireland/UK Exchange of Research Personnel 1992, EOLAS, Section B. [Technicial Report]
• Paul F. Whelan and B.G. Batchelor (1992), "Development of a vision system for the flexible packing of random shapes", Proceedings of the SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, Vol. 1823 - Machine Vision Applications, Architectures, and Systems Integration, Boston (USA), pp 223-232. [Full Paper - PDF]
• K.M. McClannon, Paul F. Whelan and C. McCorkell (1992), "Machine vision in process control, 'closing the loop'", Technology in Manufacturing for Europe 1992 - Proceedings of the Ninth Conference of the Irish Manufacturing Committee, University College Dublin (Ireland), pp 637-646.
• Paul F. Whelan and B.G. Batchelor (1992), "Machine vision - Analysis and manipulation of complex 2D images", Report of EOLAS/British Council Scheme - Ireland/UK Exchange of Research Personnel 1991, EOLAS, ISBN 0-86282-089-8, pp 25-39. [Technicial Report]
• Paul F. Whelan (1992) presented a series of industrial in-house courses, entitled "Machine vision - A basic introduction to industrial vision systems", Amdahl (Dublin). [Invited Short Course]
• Paul F. Whelan (1991), "Quality vision", Technology Ireland, 23(2), pp 48-50.
• Paul F. Whelan (1991), "Automatic product classification using texture analysis techniques", Advances in Manufacture - Proceedings of the Eight Conference of the Irish Manufacturing Committee (Ed. D.M.J. Harris), University of Ulster, Jordanstown (Northern Ireland), pp 687-699.
• Paul F. Whelan and B.G. Batchelor (1991), "Automated packing of arbitrary shapes", Proceedings of the SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, Vol. 1615 - Machine Vision Systems: Integration and Applications, Boston (USA), pp 77-86.

Reprints available on request. [PDF] Preprints - Strictly internal use only.

• Paul F. Whelan and D. Molloy (2000), Machine Vision Algorithms in Java: Techniques and Implementation, Springer (London), 298 Pages. ISBN 1-85233-218-2. [Reprinted Aug. 2001] [Summary - Google Books] [Book: Authored]
• B.G. Batchelor and Paul F. Whelan (1997), Intelligent Vision Systems for Industry, Springer-Verlag (London), 457 pages, ISBN 3-540-19969-1. [Full Book - PDF] [Book: Authored]

• D. Molloy, O. Ghita and R. Sadleir (Eds.) Proceedings of the Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference, 2011, Dublin City University, Sept. 8th and 9th, 2011. Published by the IEEE Computer Society [Link] [Book: Edited]
• D. Molloy, O. Ghita and R. Sadleir (Eds.) (2006) IMVIP 2006 - Proceedings of the Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conferences 2006, Dublin City University, 216 pages, ISBN-10: 0-9553885-0-3, ISBN-13: 978-0-9553885-0-7 [Full Proceedings - PDF] [Book: Edited]
• Andrew Shearer, Fionn D. Murtagh, James Mahon and Paul F. Whelan (Chairs/Eds) (2002), Opto-Ireland 2002: Optical Metrology, Imaging, and Machine Vision, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 4877. ISBN 0-8194-4658-0. [Link] [Book: Edited]
• Paul F. Whelan (Ed.) (1999), IMVIP99 - Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference 1999, DCU, September, 340 pages, ISBN 1 872 327 22 2. [Outline - PDF] [Book: Edited]
• B.G. Batchelor and Paul F. Whelan (Eds.) (1994), Selected Papers on Industrial Machine Vision Systems, SPIE Milestone Series MS 97, SPIE Optical Engineering Press, 629 pages. ISBN 0-8194-1580-4 (hard bound); ISBN 0-8194-1579-0 (soft bound). [Summary - PDF] [Book: Edited]