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Affective computing using speech and eye gaze: a review and bimodal system proposal for continuous affect prediction.
O'Dwyer, Jonny; Murray, Niall; Flynn, Ronan (2018)Speech has been a widely used modality in the field of affective computing. Recently however, there has been a growing interest in the use of multi-modal affective computing systems. These multi-modal systems incorporate ... -
B-ICP: Backpressure Interest Control Protocol for Multipath Communication in NDN.
Ye, Yuhang; Flynn, Ronan; Murray, Niall; Qiao, Yuansong (IEEE, 2018-01)Named Data Networking (NDN) is a promising communication paradigm to support content distribution for the Future Internet. The objective of this paper is to maximize the consumer downloading rate by retrieving content via ... -
A comparative study of machine learning techniques for emotion recognition from peripheral physiological signals.
Vijayakumar, Sowmya; Flynn, Ronan; Murray, Niall (IEEE, 2020-06)Recent developments in wearable technology have led to increased research interest in using peripheral physiological signals for emotion recognition. The non-invasive nature of peripheral physiological signal measurement ... -
A comparative study of machine learning techniques for emotion recognition using peripheral physiological signals
Vijayakumar, Sowmya; Flynn, Ronan; Murray, Niall (Athlone Institute of Technology, 2020-06)Emotions in human produce physical and physiological changes. Recent developments in wearable technology have led to increased research interest in using peripheral physiological signals for emotion recognition Peripheral ... -
Comparing user QoE via physiological and interaction measurements of immersive AR and VR speech and language therapy applications
Keighrey, Conor; Flynn, Ronan; Brennan, Sean; Murray, Siobhan; Murray, Niall (Athlone Institute of Technology, 2018-04-24)Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) applications are gaining significant attention in industry and academia as potential avenues to support truly immersive and interactive multimedia experiences. Understanding ... -
Comparing user QoE via physiological and interaction measurements of immersive AR and VR speech and language therapy applications.
Keighery, Conor; Flynn, Ronan; Murray, Siobhan; Brennan, Sean; Murray, Niall (ACM, 2017)Virtual reality (VR)1and augmented reality (AR) applications are gaining significant attention in industry and academia as potential avenues to support truly immersive and interactive multimedia experiences. Understanding ... -
Continuous affect prediction using eye gaze and speech.
O'Dwyer, Jonny; Flynn, Ronan; Murray, Niall (IEEE, 2017-12)Affective computing research traditionally focused on labeling a person's emotion as one of a discrete number of classes e.g. happy or sad. In recent times, more attention has been given to continuous affect prediction ... -
A crowdsourcing-based QoE evaluation of an immersive VR autonomous driving experience
Gomes, Guilherme Daniel; Flynn, Ronan; Murray, Niall (IEEE, 2021-06-30)Due to COVID-19, crowdsourcing has gained momentum as an alternative methodology for continuing research and for Quality of Experience (QoE) assessment. Employing this approach, we remotely evaluated the user perceived QoE ... -
Delay-based network utility maximization modelling for congestion control in name data networking
Ye, Yuhang; Flynn, Ronan; Xu, Jin; Guiming, Fang; Yuansong, Qiao (IEEE, 2021-10-05)Content replication and name-based routing lead to a natural multi-source and multipath transmission paradigm in NDN. Due to the unique connectionless characteristic of NDN, current end-to-end multipath congestion control ... -
The effect of cybersickness of an immersive wheelchair simulator.
Salgado, Débora P.; Rodrigues, Thiago Braga; Martins, Felipe R.; Naves, Eduardo L.M.; Flynn, Ronan; Murray, Naill (Elsevier, 2019-11-07)A key challenge that Immersive applications have to overcome is cybersickness. Cybersickness is particularly prevalent in dynamic applications such as vehicles simulators. The work presented here aims to understand the ... -
Evaluating performance of commercial automatic speech recognition systems for speakers with dysarthria
Fahim, Sirajuim; Murray, Niall; Flynn, Ronan (Technological University of the Shannon Midlands Midwest, 2022)Dysarthria refers to motor neuron speech disorders that limit the ability to control muscle groups used for speech production. Dysarthric speech has reduced intelligibility due to being slurry, breathy and slow compared ... -
Evaluating the impact of network delay on user quality of experience of an interactive virtual reality industry 4.0 application
Concannon, David (Athlone Institute of Technology, 2020-09)The fourth industrial revolution is the name given to the paradigm shift towards further integrating the relationship between industrial technologies and the world of computing. The Industry 4.0 ecosystem includes a range ... -
Evaluating the user in a sound localisation task in a virtual reality application.
Moraes, Adrielle Nazar; Flynn, Ronan; Hines, Andrew; Murray, Niall (IEEE, 2020-05)Virtual reality (VR) has proven to be a powerful tool enabling the development of immersive multimedia experiences. Initially focused on entertainment, industry and academia have begun to adapt and develop immersive ... -
Evaluating the user in a sound localisation task in a virtual reality application. [Poster]
Moraes, Adrielle Nazar; Flynn, Ronan; Murray, Niall (Athlone Institute of Technology, 2020-06)Virtual reality technology is fast becoming the accepted platform for delivering high quality immersive audio-visual experiences [1]. It has the potential to enable truly personalised experiences due to its adaptability ... -
An Evaluation of Lower Facial Micro Expressions as an Implicit QoE Metric for an Augmented Reality Procedure Assistance Application.
Hynes, Eoghan; Flynn, Ronan; Lee, Brian; Murray, Niall (2020)Augmented reality (AR) has been identified as a key technology to enhance worker utility in the context of increasing automation of repeatable procedures. AR can achieve this by assisting the user in performing complex and ... -
Eye-based continuous affect prediction.
O'Dwyer, Jonny; Murray, Niall; Flynn, Ronan (IEEE Xplore, 2019-12)Eye-based information channels include the pupils, gaze, saccades, fixational movements, and numerous forms of eye opening and closure. Pupil size variation indicates cognitive load and emotion, while a person's gaze ... -
A framework for the dynamic generation of workflows for network management
Jasinski, Andrzej; Qiao, Yuangsong; Fallon, Enda; Flynn, Ronan (IEEE, 2021-06-30)A demonstration of the application of dynamically generated workflows to the management of a network environment is presented. A proposed workflow management framework (WMF) uses dynamically generated workflows to control ... -
Head- and eye-based features for continuous core affect prediction
O'Dwyer, Jonathan (Jonny) (Athlone Institute of Technology, 2020-07)Feelings, or affect, are a fundamental part of human experience. Arousal and valencemake up core affect and have received intense study in affective computing. Speechand facial features have been extensively studied as ... -
HLAF: heterogeneous-latency adaptive forwarding strategy for peer-assisted video streaming in NDN.
Ye, Yuhang; Qiao, Yuansong; Flynn, Ronan; Murray, Niall (IEEE, 2017-09)Named Data Networking (NDN) is a promising Future Internet architecture to support efficient content distribution. Specifically, P2P may gain benefits from NDN, as NDN inherently provides a flexible forwarding plane for ... -
Multi-resolution pre-processing for pattern recognition in images and audio signals
Mansor, Noha (Athlone Institute of Technology, 2020-10-05)With the rapid growth of technology and the proliferation of data in this “digital age”, most current data (imaging and audio) applications require higher data resolution, higher data transmission rates, and better ...