Article

Konrad, Anna, McDonald, John and Villing, Rudi (2023) GP-net: Flexible Viewpoint Grasp Proposal. 21st International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR).

Konrad, Anna, McDonald, John and Villing, Rudi (2022) VGQ-CNN: Moving Beyond Fixed Cameras and Top-Grasps for Grasp Quality Prediction. International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) 2022. ISSN 978-1-7281-8671-9

Buosi, Samuele, Sonarghare, Shubham, McDonald, John and Mc Carthy, Timothy (2021) More efficient Geospatial ML modelling techniques for identifying man-made features in Aerial Ortho-imagery. Proceedings of the 23rd Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing conference IMVIP 2021. pp. 25-32. ISSN 978-0-9934207-6-4

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 and Davis, Brian (2021) CASIE – Computing affect and social intelligence for healthcare in an ethical and trustworthy manner. Paladyn, Journal of Behavioral Robotics, 12 (1). pp. 437-453. ISSN 2081-4836

Whelan, Thomas, Ma, L., Bondarev, Egor, de With, Peter H.N. and McDonald, John (2015) Incremental and batch planar simplification of dense point cloud maps. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 69. pp. 3-14. ISSN 0921-8890

Whelan, Thomas, Kaess, Michael, Johannsson, Hordur, Fallon, Maurice, Leonard, John J. and McDonald, John (2015) Real-time large-scale dense RGB-D SLAM with volumetric fusion. International Journal of Robotics Research, 34 (4-5). pp. 598-626. ISSN 278-3649

Maycock, Jonathan, Hennelly, Bryan M. and McDonald, John (2015) Single-shot speckle reduction in numerical reconstruction of digitally recorded holograms : Comment. Optics Letters, 40 (17). p. 3953. ISSN 0146-9592

Hammoudi, Karim and McDonald, John (2013) Design, Implementation and Simulation of an Experimental Multi-Camera Imaging System for Terrestrial and Multi-Purpose Mobile Mapping Platforms: A Case Study. Applied Mechanics and Materials, 332. pp. 139-144. ISSN 1660-9336

McDonald, John, Kaess, Michael, Cadena, Cesar, Neira, Jose and Leonard, John J. (2013) Real-time 6-DOF multi-session visual SLAM over large-scale environments. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 61 (10). pp. 1145-1158. ISSN 0921-8890

Maycock, Jonathan, McDonald, John and Hennelly, Bryan M. (2013) Speckle reduction of reconstructions of digital holograms using three dimensional filtering. Optics Communications, 300. pp. 142-155. ISSN 0030-4018

Hammoudi, Karim, Dornaika, Fadi, Soheilian, Bahman, Vallet, Bruno, McDonald, John and Paparoditis, Nicolas (2013) A Synergistic Approach for Recovering Occlusion-Free Textured 3D Maps of Urban Facades from Heterogeneous Cartographic Data. International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 10 (316). ISSN 1729-8806

Cao, Yanpeng and McDonald, John (2012) Improved feature extraction and matching in urban environments based on 3D viewpoint normalization. Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 116 (1). pp. 86-101. ISSN 1077-3142

Hammoudi, Karim, Dornaika, Fadi, Soheilian, Bahman, Vallet, Bruno, McDonald, John and Paparoditis, Nicolas (2012) Recovering occlusion-free textured 3D maps of urban facades by a synergistic use of terrestrial images, 3D point clouds and area-based information. Procedia Engineering, 41. pp. 971-980. ISSN 1877-7058

Yang, Michael Ying, Cao, Yanpeng and McDonald, John (2011) Fusion of camera images and laser scans for wide baseline 3D scene alignment in urban environments. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 66 (6 Supp). S52-S61. ISSN 0924-2716

Cadena, Cesar, McDonald, John, Leonard, John J. and Neira, Jose (2011) Place Recognition using Near and Far Visual Information. IFAC Proceedings, 44 (1). pp. 6822-6828.

Kelly, Daniel, McDonald, John and Markham, Charles (2011) Weakly Supervised Training of a Sign Language Recognition System Using Multiple Instance Learning Density Matrices. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B (Cybernetics), 41 (2). pp. 526-541. ISSN 1083-4419

Kelly, Daniel, McDonald, John and Markham, Charles (2010) A person independent system for recognition of hand postures used in sign language. Pattern Recognition Letters, 31 (11). pp. 1359-1368. ISSN 0167-8655

Cao, Yanpeng and McDonald, John (2009) Viewpoint Invariant Features from Single Images Using 3D Geometry. Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2009 Workshop on. pp. 1-6. ISSN 1550-5790

Cao, Yanpeng and McDonald, John (2009) Robust Feature Correspondences from a Large Set of Unsorted Wide Baseline Images. Image Processing (ICIP), 2009 16th IEEE International Conference on . 4277 -4280. ISSN 1522-4880

Kelly, Daniel, Reilly Delannoy, Jane, McDonald, John and Markham, Charles (2009) Automatic Recognition of Head Movement Gestures in Sign Language Sentences. Proceedings of the 4th China-Ireland Information and Communications Technologies Conference. pp. 142-145. ISSN 978 0 901519 67 2

Cao, Yanpeng and McDonald, John (2009) Self-organization for images from a moving camera. Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services, 2009. WIAMIS '09. 10th Workshop on . ISBN: 978-1-4244-3609-5. pp. 177-180.

Ahrenberg, Lukas, Page, Andrew J., Hennelly, Bryan M. and McDonald, John (2009) Using Commodity Graphics Hardware for Real-Time Digital Hologram View-Reconstruction. Journal of Display Technology, 5 (4). pp. 111-119. ISSN 1551-319X

Gopinathan, Unnikrishnan, Monaghan, David S., Hennelly, Bryan M., McElhinney, Conor P., Kelly, Damien P., McDonald, John, Naughton, Thomas J. and Sheridan, John T. (2008) A Projection System for Real World Three-Dimensional Objects Using Spatial Light Modulators. Journal of Display Technology, 4 (2). pp. 254-261. ISSN 1551-319X

Reilly, J. and McDonald, John (2008) Modelling the Manifold of Facial Expression Using Texture. Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference, 2008. IMVIP '08. International. pp. 63-68. ISSN 978-0-7695-3332-2

McElhinney, Conor P., McDonald, John, Castro, Albertina, Frauel, Yann, Javidi, Bahram and Naughton, Thomas J. (2007) Depth-independent segmentation of macroscopic three-dimensional objects encoded in single perspectives of digital holograms. Optics Letters, 32 (10). pp. 1229-1231. ISSN 0146-9592

Maycock, Jonathan, Hennelly, Bryan M., McDonald, John, Frauel, Yann, Castro, Albertina, Javidi, Bahram and Naughton, Thomas J. (2007) Reduction of speckle in digital holography by discrete Fourier filtering. Journal of the Optical Society of America, 24 (6). pp. 1617-1622. ISSN 1084-7529

Hennelly, Bryan M., Naughton, Thomas J., McDonald, John, Sheridan, J. T., Unnikrishnan, G., Kelly, D.P. and Javidi, B. (2007) Spread-space spread-spectrum technique for secure multiplexing. Optics Letters, 32 (9). pp. 1060-1062. ISSN 0146-9592

Maycock, Jonathan, McElhinney, Conor P., Hennelly, Bryan M., Naughton, Thomas J., McDonald, John and Javidi, Bahram (2006) Reconstruction of partially occluded objects encoded in three-dimensional scenes by using digital holograms. Applied Optics, 45 (13). pp. 2975-2985. ISSN 0003-6935

Ghent, John and McDonald, John (2005) Photo-Realistic Facial Expression Synthesis. Image and Vision Computing, 23 (12). pp. 1041-1050. ISSN 0262-8856

Naughton, Thomas J., McDonald, John and Javidi, Bahram (2004) Efficient Compression of Digital Holograms for Internet Transmission of Three-Dimensional Images. LEOS Newsletter: special issue on hot topics in electro-optical sensors and systems, 18 (1). pp. 9-10.

Naughton, Thomas J., Tajahuerce, Enrique, McDonald, John and Javidi, Bahram (2004) Three-dimensional image sensing, encryption, compression, and transmission using digital holography. SPIE Proceedings, 5611. pp. 24-32.

Naughton, Thomas J., McDonald, John and Javidi, Bahram (2003) Efficient compression of Fresnel fields for Internet transmission of three-dimensional images. Applied Optics, 42 (23). pp. 4758-4764.

McLoughlin, S.D., O'Rourke, Ciaran, McDonald, John and Markham, Charles (2003) Integration of a Stereo Vision System and GPS Data for Recording the Position of Feature Points in a Fixed World Coordinate System. ITB Journal, 7. pp. 69-74.

Book Section

Konrad, Anna, Eising, Ciarán, Sistu, Ganesh, McDonald, John, Villing, Rudi and Yogamani, Senthil (2022) FisheyeSuperPoint: Keypoint Detection and Description Network for Fisheye Images. In: Proceedings of the 17th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications. SciTePress: Science and Technology Publications, Lda, pp. 340-347. ISBN 9789897585555

Karpiński, Przemysław and McDonald, John (2017) An Embedded Domain Specific Language for General Purpose Vectorization. In: High Performance Computing : Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (10524). Springer, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 515-537. ISBN 978-3-319-67629-6

Gallagher, Louis and McDonald, John (2017) Towards Dense Collaborative Mapping using RGBD Sensors. In: Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference Proceedings 2017. Irish Pattern Recognition & Classification Society, pp. 225-228. ISBN 978-0-9934207-2-6

Karpiński, Przemysław and McDonald, John (2017) A high-performance portable abstract interface for explicit SIMD vectorization. In: Proceedings of the Eighth International Workshop on Programming Models and Applications for Multicores and Manycores. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, New York, pp. 21-28. ISBN 978-1-4503-4883-6

Marion, Pat, Fallon, Maurice, Deits, Robin, Whelan, Thomas, Antone, Matthew, McDonald, John and Tedrake, Russ (2015) Continuous Humanoid Locomotion over Uneven Terrain using Stereo Fusion. In: IEEE-RAS, 15th International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), 2015. IEEE. ISBN 9781479968848

Handa, Ankur, Whelan, Thomas, McDonald, John and Davison, Andrew J. (2014) A Benchmark for RGB-D Visual Odometry, 3D Reconstruction and SLAM. In: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2014. IEEE, pp. 1524-1531. ISBN 9781479936854

Whelan, Thomas, Kaess, Michael, Leonard, John J. and McDonald, John (2013) Deformation-based Loop Closure for Large Scale Dense RGB-D SLAM. In: IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2013. IEEE, pp. 548-555.

Ma, Lingni, Whelan, Thomas, Bondarev, Egor, de With, Peter H.N. and McDonald, John (2013) Planar Simplification and Texturing of Dense Point Cloud Maps. In: European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR), 2013. IEEE, pp. 164-171.

Whelan, Thomas, Studli, Sonja, McDonald, John and Middleton, Richard H. (2012) Efficient localization for robot soccer using pattern matching. In: Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification, and Validation. Communications in Computer and Information Science book series (CCIS) (336). Springer, pp. 16-30. ISBN 9783642347801

Whelan, Thomas, Studli, Sonja, McDonald, John and Middleton, Richard H. (2012) Line point registration: A technique for enhancing robot localization in a soccer environment. In: RoboCup 2011: Robot Soccer World Cup XV pp 258-269. Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS) (7416). Springer, pp. 258-269. ISBN 9783642320590

Hammoudi, Karim, Dornaika, Fadi, Soheilian, Bahman, Vallet, Bruno, McDonald, John and Paparoditis, Nicolas (2012) Recovering quasi-real occlusion-free textures for facade models by exploiting fusion of image and laser street data and image inpainting. In: 13th International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS), 2012. IEEE, pp. 1-4. ISBN 9781467307918

Gales, Guillaume, Chambon, Sylvie, Crouzil, Alain and McDonald, John (2012) Reliability measure for propagation-based stereo matching. In: 13th International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS), 2012. IEEE, pp. 1-4. ISBN 9781467307918

Cao, Yanpeng, Yang, Michael Ying and McDonald, John (2011) Robust Alignment of wide Baseline Terrestrial Laser Scans via 3D Viewpoint Normalization. In: IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2011. IEEE, pp. 455-462. ISBN 9781424494965

Whelan, Thomas, Johannsson, Hordur, Kaess, Michael, Leonard, John J. and McDonald, John (2011) Robust Real-Time Visual Odometry for Dense {RGB-D} Mapping. In: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2013. IEEE, pp. 5724-5731. ISBN 9781467356411

McClean, Eric, Cao, Yanpeng and McDonald, John (2011) Single Image Augmented Reality Using Planar Structures in Urban Environments. In: Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference (IMVIP), 2011. IEEE, pp. 1-6. ISBN 9781467302302

Yang, Michael Ying, Cao, Yanpeng, Förstner, Wolfgang and McDonald, John (2010) Robust Wide Baseline Scene Alignment Based on 3D Viewpoint Normalization. In: ISVC 2010: Advances in Visual Computing. Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS) (6543). Springer, pp. 654-665. ISBN 9783642172885

Kelly, Daniel, McDonald, John and Markham, Charles (2009) Continuous recognition of motion based gestures in sign language. In: IEEE 12th International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ICCV Workshops), 2009. IEEE, pp. 1073-1080. ISBN 9781424444427

Delannoy, Jane Reilly and McDonald, John (2009) Estimation of the Temporal Dynamics of Posed and Spontaneous Facial Expression Formation Using LLE. In: 13th International Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference, 2009. IMVIP '09. IEEE, pp. 139-144. ISBN 9781424448753

Kelly, Daniel, McDonald, John and Markham, Charles (2009) Evaluation of Threshold Model HMMs and Conditional Random Fields for Recognition of Spatiotemporal Gestures in Sign Language. In: IEEE 12th International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ICCV Workshops), 2009. IEEE, pp. 490-497. ISBN 9781424444427

Kelly, Daniel, Delannoy, Jane Reilly, McDonald, John and Markham, Charles (2009) A Framework for Continuous Multimodal Sign Language Recognition. In: ICMI-MLMI '09 Proceedings of the 2009 international conference on Multimodal interfaces. ACM, pp. 351-358. ISBN 9781605587721

Kelly, Daniel, Delannoy, Jane Reilly, McDonald, John and Markham, Charles (2009) Incorporating Facial Features into a Multi-Channel Gesture Recognition System for the Interpretation of Irish Sign Language Sequences. In: IEEE 12th International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ICCV Workshops), 2009. IEEE, pp. 1977-1984. ISBN 9781424444427

Kelly, Daniel, McDonald, John and Markham, Charles (2009) Recognizing Spatiotemporal Gestures and Movement Epenthesis in Sign Language. In: 13th International Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference, 2009. IMVIP '09. IEEE, pp. 145-150. ISBN 781424448753

Kelly, Daniel, McDonald, John, Lysaght, Thomas and Markham, Charles (2008) Analysis of Sign Language Gestures Using Size Functions and Principal Component Analysis. In: IMVIP '08. International Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference, 2008. IEEE, pp. 31-36. ISBN 9780769533322

Delannoy, Jane Reilly and McDonald, John (2008) Automatic estimation of the dynamics of facial expression using a three-level model of intensity. In: FG '08. 8th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face & Gesture Recognition, 2008. IEEE, pp. 1-6. ISBN 9781424421534

Reilly, Jane, Ghent, John and McDonald, John (2008) Modelling, classification and synthesis of facial expressions. In: Affective Computing. InTechOpen, pp. 107-132. ISBN 9783902613233

Kelly, Daniel, McDonald, John and Markham, Charles (2008) A system for teaching sign language using live gesture feedback. In: FG '08. 8th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face & Gesture Recognition, 2008. IEEE, pp. 1-2. ISBN 9781424421541

Kelly, Dan, Olivo, Paolo, Markham, Charles, McDonald, John, Caulfield, Brian and Fitzgerald, Diarmuid (2007) Classification of Human Poses using a Vision based Technique. In: IMVIP 2007. International Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference, 2007. IEEE, p. 209. ISBN 0769528872

Hennelly, Bryan M., Naughton, Thomas J. and McDonald, John (2007) Digital Holographic Superresolution by Rotating the Object Wavefield. In: B. M. Hennelly, T. J. Naughton, and J. McAdaptive Optics: Analysis and Methods/Computational Optical Sensing and Imaging/Information Photonics/Signal Recovery and Synthesis Topical Meetings on CD-ROM. Optical Society of America, DTuD5. ISBN 1557528381

Reilly, Jane, Ghent, John and McDonald, John (2007) Non-Linear Approaches for the Classification of Facial Expressions at Varying Degrees of Intensity. In: IMVIP 2007. International Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference, 2007. IEEE, pp. 125-132. ISBN 0769528872

McElhinney, Conor P., McDonald, John, Castro, Albertina, Frauel, Yann, Javidi, Bahram and Naughton, Thomas J. (2007) Segmentation of three-dimensional objects from background in digital holograms. In: IMVIP 2007. International Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference, 2007. IEEE, pp. 41-46. ISBN 0769528872

Maycock, Jonathan, Hennelly, Bryan M., McDonald, John, Frauel, Yann, Castro, Albertina, Javidi, Bahram and Naughton, Thomas J. (2007) Speckle Reduction Using the Discrete Fourier Filtering Technique. In: IMVIP 2007. International Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference, 2007. IEEE, p. 201. ISBN 0769528872

McElhinney, Conor P., Maycock, Jonathan, Hennelly, Bryan M., Naughton, Thomas J., McDonald, John and Javidi, Bahram (2006) Extraction and reconstruction of shape information from a digital hologram of three-dimensional objects. In: IMVIP 2006 : Proceedings of the Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference 2006. Vision System Group, DCU, pp. 76-83. ISBN 9780955388507

Ghent, John, Reilly, J. and McDonald, John (2006) Facial Expression Classification using Kernel Principal Component Analysis and Support Vector Machines. In: IMVIP 2006 : Proceedings of the Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference 2006. Vision System Group, DCU, pp. 60-67. ISBN 9780955388507

Reilly, Jane, Ghent, John and McDonald, John (2006) Investigating the Dynamics of Facial Expression. In: ISVC 2006: Advances in Visual Computing. Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS) (4292). Springer, pp. 334-343. ISBN 9783540486268

Maycock, Jonathan, McElhinney, Conor P., Shortt, Alison, Naughton, Thomas J., McDonald, John, Hennelly, Bryan M., Gopinathan, Unnikrishnan, Monaghan, David S., Sheridan, John T. and Javidi, Bahram (2005) Holographic image processing of three-dimensional objects. In: Three-Dimensional TV, Video, and Display IV, Proceedings of SPIE 6016. SPIE Press.

McDonald, John and Vernon, David (1998) A New Hough Transform for the Detection of Arbitrary 3-Dimensional Objects. In: Proceedings of the Optical Engineers Society of Ireland and the Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Joint Conference 1998. National University of Ireland Maynooth, pp. 243-255.

Monograph

Gallagher, Louis and McDonald, John (2018) Collaborative Dense SLAM. Working Paper. arXiv.

Whelan, Thomas, Johannsson, Hordur, Kaess, Michael, Leonard, John J. and McDonald, John (2012) Robust Tracking for Real-Time Dense RGB-D Mapping with Kintinuous : Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Technical Report MIT-CSAIL-TR-2012-031. Technical Report. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Conference or Workshop Item

Burns, Tobias, Pearlmutter, Barak A. and McDonald, John (2019) MouldingNet: Deep-Learning for 3D Object Reconstruction. In: Irish Machine Vision & Image Processing Conference 2019, 28-30 August 2019, Technological University Dublin. (In Press)

Ramachandran, Saravanabalagi and McDonald, John (2019) Place Recognition in Challenging Conditions. In: Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference, 28-30 August 2019, Technological University Dublin. (In Press)

Gallagher, Louis and McDonald, John (2019) Efficient Surfel Fusion Using Normalised Information Distance. In: CVPR Workshops (CVPRW 2019): 3D Scene Understanding for Vision, Graphics, and Robotics., June 2019.

Whelan, Thomas, Kaess, Michael, Finman, R., Fallon, M.F., Johannsson, Hordur, Leonard, John J. and McDonald, John (2014) 3D Mapping, Localisation and Object Retrieval using Low Cost Robotic Platforms: A Robotic Search Engine for the Real-World. In: RSS Workshop on RGB-D: Advanced Reasoning with Depth Cameras, July 12, 2014, Berkeley, CA.

Whelan, Thomas, Kaess, Michael, Fallon, Maurice, Johannsson, Hordur, Leonard, John J. and McDonald, John (2012) Kintinuous: Spatially Extended KinectFusion. In: RSS Workshop on RGB-D: Advanced Reasoning with Depth Cameras, July 9-13, 2012, Sydney.

McDonald, John, Kaess, Michael, Cadena, Cesar, Neira, Jose and Leonard, John J. (2011) 6-DOF Multi-session Visual SLAM using Anchor Nodes. In: European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR), 7-9 November 2011, Orebro, Sweden.

Fitzgerald, Diarmaid, Foody, John, Kelly, Dan, Ward, Tomas E., Markham, Charles, McDonald, John and Caulfield, Brian (2007) Development of a wearable motion capture suit and virtual reality biofeedback system for the instruction and analysis of sports rehabilitation exercises. In: Proceedings of the 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE EMBS, 2007, Lyon, France.

Ghent, John and McDonald, John (2004) Facial expression synthesis using a statistical model of appearance. In: The IASTED International Conference on Visualization, Imaging, and Image Processing (VIIP 2004), September 6-8, 2004, Marbella, Spain.

Ghent, John and McDonald, John (2003) Generating a Mapping Function from One Expression to Another Using a Statistical Model of Facial Texture. In: Irish Machine Vision & Image Processing Conference 2003, September 3-5, 2003, School of Computing and Information Engineering, University of Ulster, Coleraine.

Thesis

McDonald, John (2013) Multi-session Visual Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.