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Biologically-inspired object recognition system for recognizing natural scene categories (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Alameer, A., Degenaar, P., & Nazarpour, K. (2016, October). Biologically-inspired object recognition system for recognizing natural scene categories. Presented at International Conference for Students on Applied Engineering (ISCAE), Newcastle upon Tyne

Visual processing has attracted a lot of attention in the last decade. Hierarchical approaches for object recognition are gradually becoming widely-accepted. Generally, they are inspired by the ventral stream of human visual cortex, which is in charg... Read More about Biologically-inspired object recognition system for recognizing natural scene categories.

Understanding our heritage : monitoring of energy and environmental performance of traditional terraced houses of Northern England (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Gonzalez, A., Roberts, B., Fitton, R., Swan, W., & Elkadi, H. (2016, October). Understanding our heritage : monitoring of energy and environmental performance of traditional terraced houses of Northern England. Presented at EECHB Energy Efficiency and Comfort of Historic Buildings, Brussels

Existing buildings play a key role in the achievement of the ambitious energy saving and greenhouse gas reduction targets that Europe has fixed for 2020 and 2050. Research has demonstrated that the impact in terms of decrease of energy use and CO2 wi... Read More about Understanding our heritage : monitoring of energy and environmental performance of traditional terraced houses of Northern England.

Behaviour of backfilled masonry arch bridges subjected to cyclic loading (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Augusthus Nelson, L., Swift, G., Smith, C., Gilbert, M., & Melbourne, C. (2016, October). Behaviour of backfilled masonry arch bridges subjected to cyclic loading. Presented at 8th International Conference on Arch Bridges, Wrocław, Poland

Experimental research has demonstrated that the interaction between soil fill surrounding the arch barrel of a masonry arch bridge structure has a significant influence on ultimate limit state behaviour. However, little work has been carried out to... Read More about Behaviour of backfilled masonry arch bridges subjected to cyclic loading.

Proposed permissible limit state assessment criteria for masonry arch bridges (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Gilbert, M., Melbourne, C., Smith, C., Augusthus Nelson, L., & Swift, G. (2016, October). Proposed permissible limit state assessment criteria for masonry arch bridges. Presented at ARCH '16. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Arch Bridges, Wroclaw, Poland

The Ultimate Limit State (ULS) is commonly used when assessing masonry arch bridges. Traditionally one or more, relatively large, partial factors are applied to the ULS to determine the level of service loading that can be safely applied to a given b... Read More about Proposed permissible limit state assessment criteria for masonry arch bridges.

Weight estimation of a conceptual wing for a high altitude, solar powered unmanned aerial vehicle (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Alsahlani, A., & Rahulan, T. (2016, October). Weight estimation of a conceptual wing for a high altitude, solar powered unmanned aerial vehicle. Presented at 5th Aircraft Structural Design Conference, Manchester, UK

In this paper, an in-house developed pre-conceptual design methodology and a composite structure module have been used to study the impact of aerodynamic performance, payload requirements and wing thickness to estimate the weight. In the first part... Read More about Weight estimation of a conceptual wing for a high altitude, solar powered unmanned aerial vehicle.

Measuring the embodied carbon content of concrete paving (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Nicholls, R., & Richardson, C. (2016, September). Measuring the embodied carbon content of concrete paving. Presented at International Sustainable Ecological Engineering Design for Society (SEEDS) Conference, Leeds, UK

This paper summarises the outcomes of a PhD research project by Richardson (2009) to measure the embodied carbon content of concrete paving and to reveal the barriers to its accurate measurement. This is a current area of research due to the concerns... Read More about Measuring the embodied carbon content of concrete paving.

Optimizing handover of as-built data using BIM for highways (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Bayar, M., Aziz, Z., Tezel, B., Arayici, Y., & Biscaya, S. (2016, September). Optimizing handover of as-built data using BIM for highways. Presented at 1st International (UK) BIM Academic Forum Conference, Glasgow UK

An efficient maintenance of the UK’s transportation network is of critical importance to the country’s economy and among the top priorities of the government and public agencies (e.g. Network Rail, Highways England). The public transportation agencie... Read More about Optimizing handover of as-built data using BIM for highways.

Bird detection in audio : a survey and a challenge (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Stowell, D., Wood, M., Stylianou, Y., & Glotin, H. (2016, September). Bird detection in audio : a survey and a challenge. Presented at 26th IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing, Salerno, Italy

Many biological monitoring projects rely on acoustic detection of birds. Despite increasingly large datasets, this detection is often manual or semi-automatic, requiring manual tuning/postprocessing. We review the state of the art in automatic bird s... Read More about Bird detection in audio : a survey and a challenge.