Search Results - "Villing, Rudi"

BeatWalk: Personalized Music-Based Gait Rehabilitation in Parkinson's Disease by Cochen De Cock, Valérie, Dotov, Dobromir, Damm, Loic, Lacombe, Sandy, Ihalainen, Petra, Picot, Marie Christine, Galtier, Florence, Lebrun, Cindy, Giordano, Aurélie, Driss, Valérie, Geny, Christian, Garzo, Ainara, Hernandez, Erik, Van Dyck, Edith, Leman, Marc, Villing, Rudi, Bardy, Benoit G, Dalla Bella, Simone

“…Taking regular walks when living with Parkinson's disease (PD) has beneficial effects on movement and quality of life. Yet, patients usually show reduced…”
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Design and development of a gait training system for Parkinson's disease by Garzo, Ainara, Silva, Paula Alexandra, Garay-Vitoria, Nestor, Hernandez, Erik, Cullen, Stephen, Cochen De Cock, Valérie, Ihalainen, Petra, Villing, Rudi

“…Rhythmic Auditory Stimulation (RAS) is an effective technique to improve gait and reduce freezing episodes for Persons with Parkinson's Disease (PwPD). The…”
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CASIE – Computing affect and social intelligence for healthcare in an ethical and trustworthy manner by Vasiliu, Laurentiu, Cortis, Keith, McDermott, Ross, Kerr, Aphra, Peters, Arne, Hesse, Marc, Hagemeyer, Jens, Belpaeme, Tony, McDonald, John, Villing, Rudi, Mileo, Alessandra, Caputo, Annalina, Scriney, Michael, Griffiths, Sascha, Koumpis, Adamantios, Davis, Brian

“…This article explores the rapidly advancing innovation to endow robots with social intelligence capabilities in the form of multilingual and multimodal emotion…”
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Measuring perceptual centers using the phase correction response by Villing, Rudi C., Repp, Bruno H., Ward, Tomas E., Timoney, Joseph M.

“…The perceptual center (P-center) is fundamental to the timing of heterogeneous event sequences, including music and speech. Unfortunately, there is currently…”
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Assistive Robotics Needs for Older Care: Using Authentic Citations to Bridge the Gap between Understanding Older Persons’ Needs and Defining Solutions by Veling, Louise, Villing, Rudi

“…Developing an authentic understanding of potential users’ needs and translating these into usable categories as an input to research and development is an open…”
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An automated platform for measuring infant formula powder rehydration quality using a collaborative robot integrated with computer vision by Mozafari, Behrad, O'Shea, Norah, Fenelon, Mark, Li, Runjing, Daly, David F.M., Villing, Rudi

“…Current methods used for testing the rehydration quality of infant formula (IF) are mainly subjective. For a better understanding of rehydration, objective…”
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A resource management tool for implementing strategic direction in an academic department by Ringwood, John V., Devitt, Frank, Doherty, Seán, Farrell, Ronan, Lawlor, Bob, McLoone, Seán C., McLoone, Seamus F., Rogers, Alan, Villing, Rudi, Ward, Tomás

“…This paper reports on a load balancing system for an academic department, which can be used as an implementation mechanism for strategic planning. In essence,…”
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Evaluating Distributed Computation Offloading Scalability for Multiple Robots by Ayoub, Fatima, Villing, Rudi

“…Perception in robotics using modern deep learning approaches is often computationally expensive. Cloud robotics and edge robotics provide possible solutions to…”
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Evaluating pruned object detection networks for real-time robot vision by O'Keeffe, Simon, Villing, Rudi

“…Convolutional Neural Networks are the state of the art for computer vision problems such as classification and detection. Networks like YOLO and SSD have…”
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VGQ-CNN: Moving Beyond Fixed Cameras and Top-Grasps for Grasp Quality Prediction by Konrad, Anna, McDonald, John, Villing, Rudi

“…We present the Versatile Grasp Quality Convolutional Neural Network (VGQ-CNN), a grasp quality prediction network for 6-DOF grasps. VGQ-CNN can be used when…”
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GP-net: Flexible Viewpoint Grasp Proposal by Konrad, Anna, McDonald, John, Villing, Rudi

“…We present the Grasp Proposal Network (GP-net), a Convolutional Neural Network model which can generate 6-DoF grasps from flexible viewpoints, e.g. as…”
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Evaluating Extended Pruning on Object Detection Neural Networks by O'Keeffe, Simon, Villing, Rudi

“…CNNs are the state-of-the-art for many computer vision problems, including object detection. However, reducing the computational complexity of a CNN is a key…”
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A Lightweight Region Proposal Network for Task Specific Applications by O'Keeffe, Simon, Villing, Rudi

“…Quickly and cheaply finding areas of interest within an image can save computationally intensive image processing in a vision pipeline. Existing region…”
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Towards Image Processing-based Quantification of White Particles in Reconstituted Infant Formula by Mozafari, Behrad, O'Shea, Norah, Fenelon, Mark, Villing, Rudi

“…When dissolving dairy-based powder in water, some particles do not 'instantly' dissolve and remain unreconstituted. Current tests for inspecting these…”
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FisheyeSuperPoint: Keypoint Detection and Description Network for Fisheye Images by Konrad, Anna, Eising, Ciarán, Sistu, Ganesh, McDonald, John, Villing, Rudi, Yogamani, Senthil

“…Keypoint detection and description is a commonly used building block in computer vision systems particularly for robotics and autonomous driving. However, the…”
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Improving Task Performance through High Level Shared Control of Multiple Robots with a Context Aware Human-Robot Interface by O'Keeffe, Simon, Ward, Tomas E., Villing, Rudi

“…In multi-robot control, robots need the ability to perform well in the absence of valid human input. This paper describes a shared control scheme for multiple…”
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Non-uniform channelization methods for next generation SDR PMR base stations by Navarro, A. P., Keenan, T., Villing, R., Farrell, R.

“…Channelization in multi-standard Software-Defined Radio base stations presents a significant challenge. In this paper, two different channelization structures…”
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FPGA based FRM GDFT filter banks by Fangzhou Wu, Villing, Rudi

“…Efficient channelization in flexible, reconfigurable communications systems is an ongoing challenge. Previous work in our lab has shown that designs based on…”
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FPGA realization of GDFT-FB based channelizers by Fangzhou Wu, Palomo-Navarro, Alvaro, Villing, Rudi

“…Efficient channelization in flexible, reconfigurable communications systems is an ongoing challenge. Our previous work has shown that designs based on the DFT…”
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Evaluation of a Smartphone-based Student Response System for Providing High Quality Real-time Responses in a Distributed Classroom by McLoone, S, O'Keeffe, S, Villing, R, Brennan, C

“…Student response systems (SRSs) have increased in popularity over the past decade, with their use in the classroom steadily increasing. They offer several…”
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