All Outputs (3794)

Particle size distribution induced fabric effects on the onset and post liquefaction behaviours of soils (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Leak, J., & Barreto, D. (in press). Particle size distribution induced fabric effects on the onset and post liquefaction behaviours of soils. In Proceedings of the XVIII ECSMGE 2024

Liquefaction in soils is a detrimental phenomenon. Microscale behaviours and their influence on the macroscale response during and after the onset of liquefaction are not well understood. In particular, how contact behaviours effect macroscale proper... Read More about Particle size distribution induced fabric effects on the onset and post liquefaction behaviours of soils.

Real-time Facial Animation for 3D Stylized Character with Emotion Dynamics (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Pan, Y., Zhang, R., Wang, J., Ding, Y., & Mitchell, K. (2023). Real-time Facial Animation for 3D Stylized Character with Emotion Dynamics. In MM '23: Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Multimedia (6851-6859). https://doi.org/10.1145/3581783.3613803

Our aim is to improve animation production techniques' efficiency and effectiveness. We present two real-time solutions which drive character expressions in a geometrically consistent and perceptually valid way. Our first solution combines keyframe a... Read More about Real-time Facial Animation for 3D Stylized Character with Emotion Dynamics.

Investigation into Stress Triggers in Autistic Adults for the Development of Technological Self-Interventions (2023)
Conference Proceeding
McGowan, J. J., & Mcgregor, I. P. (2023). Investigation into Stress Triggers in Autistic Adults for the Development of Technological Self-Interventions. In Proceedings of the 25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '23). https://doi.org/10.1145/3597638.3608392

Adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) face daily challenges dealing with stress, for example, at work, or in public spaces, which can be overwhelming in terms of coping with sensory overload. Technological interventions have been created in orde... Read More about Investigation into Stress Triggers in Autistic Adults for the Development of Technological Self-Interventions.

Non-Linear Model Predictive Speed Control of Six Phase Squirrel Cage Generator in Wind Energy System (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Abdulwahab, I., Musa, U., Sarip, S., Mas'ud, A. A., Muhammad-Sukki, F., Faskari, S. A., & Mahmud, A. T. (2023). Non-Linear Model Predictive Speed Control of Six Phase Squirrel Cage Generator in Wind Energy System. In 2023 IEEE 6th International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and System Engineering (ICEESE) (50-54). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEESE56169.2023.10278166

Due to the intermittent nature of wind, varying wind speed causes imbalance in the current of the six phase squirrel cage induction generator (SCIG). These changes in the input signal create inbalance in the current and therefore causes deviations in... Read More about Non-Linear Model Predictive Speed Control of Six Phase Squirrel Cage Generator in Wind Energy System.

FASS: Firefighter Audio Safety Systems (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Elliot, A., & McGregor, I. (2023). FASS: Firefighter Audio Safety Systems. In AM '23: Proceedings of the 18th International Audio Mostly Conference. https://doi.org/10.1145/3616195.3616220

A series of auditory cues were designed to assist firefighters with navigation and general safety in a fire emergency. Firefighters must maintain situational awareness at all times and this can be lost with disorientation, which is one of the main ca... Read More about FASS: Firefighter Audio Safety Systems.

Towards a Framework of Aesthetics in Sonic Interaction (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Cunningham, S., McGregor, I., Weinel, J., Darby, J., & Stockman, T. (2023). Towards a Framework of Aesthetics in Sonic Interaction. In AM '23: Proceedings of the 18th International Audio Mostly Conference (109-115). https://doi.org/10.1145/3616195.3616219

As interaction design has advanced, increased attention has been directed to the role that aesthetics play in shaping factors of user experience. Historically stemming from philosophy and the arts, aesthetics in interaction design has gravitated towa... Read More about Towards a Framework of Aesthetics in Sonic Interaction.

UbiFix: Tackling Repairability Challenges in Smart Devices (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Sailaja, N., Castle-Green, T., Coulton, P., Stead, M., Lindley, J. G., Urquhart, L. D., & Darzentas, D. (2023). UbiFix: Tackling Repairability Challenges in Smart Devices. In M. Tentori, N. Weibel, K. Van Laerhoven, & Z. Zhou (Eds.), UbiComp/ISWC '23 Adjunct: Adjunct Proceedings of the 2023 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing & the 2023 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computing (802-806). https://doi.org/10.1145/3594739.3605113

IoT products are increasingly becoming the default, with non-IoT versions of common hardware (e.g., TVs and printers) harder to find. Alongside this adoption surge, lack of support, outdated security, and planned obsolescence present concerning susta... Read More about UbiFix: Tackling Repairability Challenges in Smart Devices.

Scalable Multi-domain Trust Infrastructures for Segmented Networks (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Grierson, S., Ghaleb, B., Buchanan, W. J., Thomson, C., Maglaras, L., & Eckl, C. (in press). Scalable Multi-domain Trust Infrastructures for Segmented Networks.

Within a trust infrastructure, a private key is often used to digitally sign a transaction, which can be verified with an associated public key. Using PKI (Public Key Infrastructure), a trusted entity can produce a digital signature, verifying the au... Read More about Scalable Multi-domain Trust Infrastructures for Segmented Networks.

Enhancing Mac OS Malware Detection through Machine Learning and Mach-O File Analysis (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Thaeler, A., Yigit, Y., Maglaras, L. A., Buchanan, B., Moradpoor, N., & Russell, G. (in press). Enhancing Mac OS Malware Detection through Machine Learning and Mach-O File Analysis. In 2023 IEEE 28th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD)

Establishing A Timber-Focused Competency Framework To Up- And Re-Skill Built Environment Professionals To Meet Sustainability Goals Sustainability Goals (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Hitt, S. J., Hairstans, R., & Connell-Skinner, K. (2023). Establishing A Timber-Focused Competency Framework To Up- And Re-Skill Built Environment Professionals To Meet Sustainability Goals Sustainability Goals. In 51st Annual Conference of the European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI) 2023. https://doi.org/10.21427/ZRXR-PT93

Engineers equipped with skills for a sustainable built environment have never been more critical, as government and industry sustainability goals such as the 2050 net zero target have significant implications for the construction sector. Concurrently... Read More about Establishing A Timber-Focused Competency Framework To Up- And Re-Skill Built Environment Professionals To Meet Sustainability Goals Sustainability Goals.

Challenges and Considerations in Data Recovery from Solid State Media: A Comparative Analysis with Traditional Devices (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Spalding, A., Tan, Z., & Babaagba, K. O. (in press). Challenges and Considerations in Data Recovery from Solid State Media: A Comparative Analysis with Traditional Devices. In Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom-2023)

Data recovery for forensic analysis of both hard drives and solid state media presents its own unique set of challenges. Hard drives face mechanical failures and data fragmentation , but their sequential storage and higher success rates make recovery... Read More about Challenges and Considerations in Data Recovery from Solid State Media: A Comparative Analysis with Traditional Devices.

Effect of COVID-19 on Photovoltaic Demand and Installation (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Zulfiqar, F., Muhammad-Sukki, F., Hawa Abu-Bakar, S., Bani, N. A., & Mas'ud, A. A. (2023). Effect of COVID-19 on Photovoltaic Demand and Installation. In International Conference on Green Energy, Computing and Intelligent Technology (GEn-CITy 2023) (174). https://doi.org/10.1049/icp.2023.1778

The research investigates the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the photovoltaic (PV) sector. This research examines the alterations in PV demand and installation amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and identifies the underlying factors that have influenc... Read More about Effect of COVID-19 on Photovoltaic Demand and Installation.

Resolving the Decreased Rank Attack in RPL’s IoT Networks (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Ghaleb, B., Al-Duba, A., Hussain, A., Romdhani, I., & Jaroucheh, Z. (2023). Resolving the Decreased Rank Attack in RPL’s IoT Networks. In 2023 19th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things (DCOSS-IoT) (65-68). https://doi.org/10.1109/DCOSS-IoT58021.2023.00018

The Routing Protocol for Low power and Lossy networks (RPL) has been developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standardization body to serve as a part of the 6LoWPAN (IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Networks) standard, a core... Read More about Resolving the Decreased Rank Attack in RPL’s IoT Networks.

The Threat of Adversarial Attacks Against Machine Learning-based Anomaly Detection Approach in a Clean Water Treatment System (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Moradpoor, N., Maglaras, L., Abah, E., & Robles-Durazno, A. (2023). The Threat of Adversarial Attacks Against Machine Learning-based Anomaly Detection Approach in a Clean Water Treatment System. In 2023 19th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things (DCOSS-IoT) (453-460). https://doi.org/10.1109/DCOSS-IoT58021.2023.00077

The protection of Critical National Infrastructure is extremely important due to nations being dependent on their operation and steadiness. Any disturbance to this infrastructure could have a devastating consequence on physical security, economic wel... Read More about The Threat of Adversarial Attacks Against Machine Learning-based Anomaly Detection Approach in a Clean Water Treatment System.

Design for Additive Manufacturing and Finite Element Analysis of Fe-Mn Biodegradable Fracture Fixation Plate with Varying Porosity Levels (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Shaikh, M., Kahwash, F., Lu, Z., Alkhreisat, M., & Shyha, I. (2024). Design for Additive Manufacturing and Finite Element Analysis of Fe-Mn Biodegradable Fracture Fixation Plate with Varying Porosity Levels. In Industrializing Additive Manufacturing: Proceedings of AMPA2023 (239-254). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42983-5_17

Fracture fixation plates are osteosynthesis implants used to fix fractured bones in a human body. They are either left in the body or required to be removed after a bone healing period of 3–6 months. Recent trends focus on developing iron (Fe) based... Read More about Design for Additive Manufacturing and Finite Element Analysis of Fe-Mn Biodegradable Fracture Fixation Plate with Varying Porosity Levels.

Edge NLP for Efficient Machine Translation in Low Connectivity Areas (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Watt, T., Chrysoulas, C., & Gkatzia, D. (in press). Edge NLP for Efficient Machine Translation in Low Connectivity Areas.

Machine translation (MT) usually requires connectivity and access to the cloud which is often limited in many parts of the world, including hard to reach rural areas. Edge natural language processing (NLP) aims to solve this problem by processing lan... Read More about Edge NLP for Efficient Machine Translation in Low Connectivity Areas.

LOWRECORP: the Low-Resource NLG Corpus Building Challenge (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Chandu, K. R., Howcroft, D., Gkatzia, D., Chung, Y., Hou, Y., Emezue, C., …Adewumi, T. (2023). LOWRECORP: the Low-Resource NLG Corpus Building Challenge. In The 16th International Natural Language Generation Conference: Generation Challenges (1-9)

Most languages in the world do not have sufficient data available to develop neural-network-based natural language generation (NLG) systems. To alleviate this resource scarcity, we propose a novel challenge for the NLG community: low-resource languag... Read More about LOWRECORP: the Low-Resource NLG Corpus Building Challenge.

enunlg: a Python library for reproducible neural data-to-text experimentation (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Howcroft, D. M., & Gkatzia, D. (2023). enunlg: a Python library for reproducible neural data-to-text experimentation. In Proceedings of the 16th International Natural Language Generation Conference: System Demonstrations (4-5)

Over the past decade, a variety of neural ar-chitectures for data-to-text generation (NLG) have been proposed. However, each system typically has its own approach to pre-and post-processing and other implementation details. Diversity in implementatio... Read More about enunlg: a Python library for reproducible neural data-to-text experimentation.

Building a dual dataset of text-and image-grounded conversations and summarisation in Gàidhlig (Scottish Gaelic) (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Howcroft, D. M., Lamb, W., Groundwater, A., & Gkatzia, D. (2023). Building a dual dataset of text-and image-grounded conversations and summarisation in Gàidhlig (Scottish Gaelic). In Proceedings of the 16th International Natural Language Generation Conference (443-448)

Gàidhlig (Scottish Gaelic; gd) is spoken by about 57k people in Scotland, but remains an under-resourced language with respect to natural language processing in general and natural language generation (NLG) in particular. To address this gap, we deve... Read More about Building a dual dataset of text-and image-grounded conversations and summarisation in Gàidhlig (Scottish Gaelic).

Self-attention is What You Need to Fool a Speaker Recognition System (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Wang, F., Song, R., Tan, Z., Li, Q., Wang, C., & Yang, Y. (in press). Self-attention is What You Need to Fool a Speaker Recognition System.

Speaker Recognition Systems (SRSs) are becoming increasingly popular in various aspects of life due to advances in technology. However, these systems are vulnerable to cyber threats, particularly adversarial attacks. Traditional adversarial attack me... Read More about Self-attention is What You Need to Fool a Speaker Recognition System.