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A Survey of Modern Deep Learning based Object Detection Models (2022)
Journal Article
Zaidi, S., Ansari, M., Aslam, A., Kanwal, N., Asghar, M., & Lee, B. (2022). A Survey of Modern Deep Learning based Object Detection Models. Digital Signal Processing, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsp.2022.103514

Object Detection is the task of classification and
localization of objects in an image or video. It has gained
prominence in recent years due to its widespread applications.
This article surveys recent developments in deep learning based
object d... Read More about A Survey of Modern Deep Learning based Object Detection Models.

Museums of the Future: Heritage Experiences in the Reality-Virtuality Continuum (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Woolley, S., Collins, T., Rhodes, R., & Polack, F. (2021). Museums of the Future: Heritage Experiences in the Reality-Virtuality Continuum. . https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/HCI2021-W1.2

In this paper we reflect on the interplay and the disconnects between real and virtual heritage experiences, and the fragmented nature of digital experiences. We consider the important engagement potential that virtual interactions bring to small les... Read More about Museums of the Future: Heritage Experiences in the Reality-Virtuality Continuum.

A Review of Privacy-preserving Federated Learning for the Internet-of-Things (2021)
Book Chapter
Fan. (2021). A Review of Privacy-preserving Federated Learning for the Internet-of-Things. In Federated Learning Systems: Towards Next Generation AI (21-50). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70604-3_2

The Internet-of-Things (IoT) generates vast quantities of data, much of it attributable to individuals' activity and behaviour. Gathering personal data and performing machine learning tasks on this data in a central location presents a significant pr... Read More about A Review of Privacy-preserving Federated Learning for the Internet-of-Things.

Virtual Museum ‘Takeouts’ and DIY Exhibitions –Augmented Reality Apps for Scholarship, Citizen Science and Public Engagement (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Woolley, S., Mitchell, J., Collins, T., Rhodes, R., Rukasha, T., Gehlken, E., …Cooke, A. (2021). Virtual Museum ‘Takeouts’ and DIY Exhibitions –Augmented Reality Apps for Scholarship, Citizen Science and Public Engagement. In Digital Heritage. Progress in Cultural Heritage: Documentation, Preservation, and Protection

This paper presents an Augmented Reality (AR) project for the curation of virtual museum ‘takeouts’ and DIY exhibitions. The project’s outputs include novel AR app technology demonstrators, to support co-design with museum users and stakeholders - th... Read More about Virtual Museum ‘Takeouts’ and DIY Exhibitions –Augmented Reality Apps for Scholarship, Citizen Science and Public Engagement.

Distributed ledger technology as a catalyst for open innovation adoption among small and medium-sized enterprises (2021)
Journal Article
Jain, G., Hashimy, L., & Treiblmaier, H. (2021). Distributed ledger technology as a catalyst for open innovation adoption among small and medium-sized enterprises. Journal of High Technology Management Research, 32(1), 100405 - 100405. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hitech.2021.100405

Open innovation and distributed ledger technology (DLT) are both based on the underlying principles of distribution and sharing. While open innovation is about sharing knowledge to improve innovation processes and performance, DLT is a distributed da... Read More about Distributed ledger technology as a catalyst for open innovation adoption among small and medium-sized enterprises.

OECD Recommendation's draft concerning access to research data from public funding: A review (2021)
Journal Article
Madeyski, L., Lewowski, T., & Kitchenham, B. (2021). OECD Recommendation's draft concerning access to research data from public funding: A review. Bulletin of the Polish Academy of Sciences Technical Sciences, 69(1), Article e135401. https://doi.org/10.24425/bpasts.2020.135401

Sharing research data from public funding is an important topic, especially now, during times of global emergencies like the COVID-19 pandemic, when we need policies that enable rapid sharing of research data. Our aim is to discuss and review the rev... Read More about OECD Recommendation's draft concerning access to research data from public funding: A review.

Survey of young people in one region of the UK on accessing COVID-19 information (SOCIAL) (2021)
Journal Article
Lawton, O. G., Lawton, S. A., Dikomitis, L., Protheroe, J., Smith, J., & Mallen, C. (2021). Survey of young people in one region of the UK on accessing COVID-19 information (SOCIAL). BMJ Paediatrics Open, e000942 - e000942. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjpo-2020-000942

COVID-19 has significantly impacted young people’s lives yet little is known about the COVID-19 related sources of information they access. We performed a cross-sectional survey of pupils (11–16 years) in North Staffordshire, UK. 408 (23%) pupils res... Read More about Survey of young people in one region of the UK on accessing COVID-19 information (SOCIAL).

Interactive Clinical Avatar Use in Pharmacist Preregistration Training: Design and Review (Preprint) (2020)
Journal Article
Thompson, J., White, S., & Chapman, S. (2020). Interactive Clinical Avatar Use in Pharmacist Preregistration Training: Design and Review (Preprint). Journal of Medical Internet Research, 22(11), 1-46. https://doi.org/10.2196/17146

Background:
Virtual patients are interactive computer-based simulations that are being increasingly used in modern health care education. They have been identified as tools that can provide experiential learning and assessment in a standardized and... Read More about Interactive Clinical Avatar Use in Pharmacist Preregistration Training: Design and Review (Preprint).

MuLViS: Multi-Level Encryption Based Security System for Surveillance Videos (2020)
Journal Article
Qiao, Y., Ansari, M., Lee, B., Shifa, A., Asghar, M., Fleury, M., …Herbst, M. (2020). MuLViS: Multi-Level Encryption Based Security System for Surveillance Videos. IEEE Access, 177131 - 177155. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3024926

Video Surveillance (VS) systems are commonly deployed for real-time abnormal event detection and autonomous video analytics. Video captured by surveillance cameras in real-time often contains identifiable personal information, which must be privacy p... Read More about MuLViS: Multi-Level Encryption Based Security System for Surveillance Videos.

Preserving Chain-of-Evidence in Surveillance Videos for Authentication and Trust-Enabled Sharing (2020)
Journal Article
Kanwal, N., Asghar, M., Ansari, M., Fleury, M., Lee, B., Herbst, M., & Qiao, Y. (2020). Preserving Chain-of-Evidence in Surveillance Videos for Authentication and Trust-Enabled Sharing. IEEE Access, 153413 - 153424. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2020.3016211

Surveillance video recording is a powerful method of deterring unlawful activities. A robust data protection-by-design solution can be helpful in terms of making a captured video immutable, as such recordings cannot become a piece of evidence until p... Read More about Preserving Chain-of-Evidence in Surveillance Videos for Authentication and Trust-Enabled Sharing.

A Coherent Framework for Predicting Emerging Market Credit Spreads with Support Vector Regression (2019)
Journal Article
Anderson, G., & Audzeyeva, A. (2019). A Coherent Framework for Predicting Emerging Market Credit Spreads with Support Vector Regression. https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2019.074

We propose a coherent framework using support vector regression (SRV) for generating and ranking a set of high quality models for predicting emerging market sovereign credit spreads. Our framework adapts a global optimization algorithm employing an h... Read More about A Coherent Framework for Predicting Emerging Market Credit Spreads with Support Vector Regression.

What Comes After Entanglement: Activism, anthropocentrism, and an ethics of exclusion (2019)
Book
(2019). What Comes After Entanglement: Activism, anthropocentrism, and an ethics of exclusion

By foregrounding the ways that human existence is bound together with the lives of other entities, contemporary cultural theorists have sought to move beyond an anthropocentric worldview. Yet as Eva Haifa Giraud contends in What Comes after Entanglem... Read More about What Comes After Entanglement: Activism, anthropocentrism, and an ethics of exclusion.

Contesting #stopIslam: Tensions around hate speech on social media (2018)
Journal Article
De Quincey, E., Poole, E., & Giraud, E. (2018). Contesting #stopIslam: Tensions around hate speech on social media. British Academy Review, 33,

Elizabeth Poole, Ed de Quincey and Eva Giraud explore the dynamics of a racist hashtag following the Brussels terrorist attack