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JR James Rainey
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Projects

Research from my postdoc and PhD.

INFORM

An edge AI system that tracks what patients eat and what goes to waste, plate by plate.

  • Edge AI
  • Food recognition
  • Patent

ALGAE-watch

Combining radar and optical satellite imagery to track harmful algal blooms in Lough Neagh, whatever the weather.

  • Remote sensing
  • Multimodal fusion
  • SAR

Retinal Vessel Segmentation

Segmenting blood vessels in OCTA scans to support treatment of diabetic macular ischaemia and oedema.

  • Medical imaging
  • OCTA
  • Segmentation

NEVIS

Brain-inspired vision systems that see, and think, more like we do.

  • Spiking neural networks
  • FPGA
  • Neuromorphic

TRAIT

Building trust in digital media with blockchain provenance and AI tamper detection.

  • Media forensics
  • Blockchain
  • Deepfakes

Markerless Motion Capture

Recognising people by how they walk, not how they look.

  • Biometrics
  • 3D pose
  • Motion capture

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