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D-Index
58
Citations
15311
World Ranking
3593
National Ranking
217

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK)
  • 2012 - AAAI Distinguished Service Award For his contributions to the discipline of artificial intelligence through sustained service in professional societies, conferences, journals, and funding agencies around the world.

Overview

Anthony G. Cohn is affiliated with the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. Their research spans a range of topics within computer science and engineering, with a notable focus on artificial intelligence and infrastructure monitoring.

They have contributed extensively to multiple fields of study, including:

  • Computer Science
  • Engineering

Their work delves into several subfields such as:

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Civil and Structural Engineering
  • Ocean Engineering
  • Geography, Planning and Development

Main topics explored in their research include:

  • Semantic Web and Ontologies
  • Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring
  • Geographic Information Systems Studies
  • Geophysical Methods and Applications
  • Topic Modeling
  • Robot Manipulation and Learning

Several recent papers illustrate the scope and diversity of their research:

  • "GPRInvNet: Deep Learning-Based Ground-Penetrating Radar Data Inversion for Tunnel Linings" (2021), published in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
  • "Machine learning-based classification of rock discontinuity trace: SMOTE oversampling integrated with GBT ensemble learning" (2021), International Journal of Mining Science and Technology
  • "Rethink reporting of evaluation results in AI" (2023), Science
  • "Semi-Supervised Multiview Feature Selection With Adaptive Graph Learning" (2022), IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
  • "Arbitrarily-oriented tunnel lining defects detection from Ground Penetrating Radar images using deep Convolutional Neural networks" (2021), Automation in Construction

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Mehmet R. Doğar
  • Emanuele La Malfa
  • Vania Dimitrova
  • Jiayao Chen
  • Fangjun Li

Their publications often appear in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Automation in Construction
  • Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
  • University of Leeds

In addition to journal and conference papers, they have authored books, including a publication with Springer Science+Business Media titled Artificial Intelligence and Its Applications, scheduled for 2025.

Anthony G. Cohn has received recognition through awards including being named a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) in 2015 and receiving the AAAI Distinguished Service Award in 2012 for sustained contributions to the field of artificial intelligence through professional service.

Best Publications

  • A Spatial Logic based on Regions and Connection.

    David A. Randell;Zhan Cui;Anthony G. Cohn

  • Qualitative Spatial Representation and Reasoning: An Overview

    A. G. Cohn;S. M. Hazarika

  • The ‘Egg-Yolk’ Representation of Regions with Indeterminate Boundaries

    A. G. Cohn;N. M. Gotts

  • Qualitative Spatial Representation and Reasoning with the Region Connection Calculus

    Anthony G. Cohn;Brandon Bennett;John Gooday;Nicholas Mark Gotts

  • Qualitative spatial representation and reasoning

    Anthony G. Cohn;Jochen Renz

  • Qualitative Spatial Representation and Reasoning Techniques

    Anthony G. Cohn

  • Representing and Reasoning with Qualitative Spatial Relations About Regions

    Anthony G. Cohn;Brandon Bennett;John Gooday;Nicholas M. Gotts

  • Qualitative and Topological Relationships in Spatial Databases

    Zhan Cui;Anthony G. Cohn;David A. Randell

  • Multi-Dimensional Modal Logic as a Framework for Spatio-Temporal Reasoning

    Brandon Bennett;Anthony G. Cohn;Frank Wolter;Michael Zakharyaschev

  • Real-Time Hyperbola Recognition and Fitting in GPR Data

    Qingxu Dou;Lijun Wei;Derek R. Magee;Anthony G. Cohn

  • The STRANDS Project: Long-Term Autonomy in Everyday Environments

    Nick Hawes;Christopher Burbridge;Ferdian Jovan;Lars Kunze

  • Condition assessment of the buried utility service infrastructure

    Tong Hao;Christopher Rogers;Nicole Metje;David Chapman

  • Modelling topological and metrical properties in physical processes

    D. A. Randell;A. G. Cohn

  • A more expressive formulation of many sorted logic

    Anthony G. Cohn

  • A connection based approach to common-sense topological description and reasoning

    N. M. Gotts;J. M. Gooday;A. G. Cohn

  • Computing Transivity Tables: A Challenge For Automated Theorem Provers

    David A. Randell;Anthony G. Cohn;Zhan Cui

  • Calculi for Qualitative Spatial Reasoning

    Anthony G. Cohn

  • Qualitative simulation based on a logical formalism of space and time

    Z. Cui;A. G. Cohn;D. A. Randell

  • Constructing qualitative event models automatically from video input

    Jonathan H. Fernyhough;Anthony G. Cohn;David C. Hogg

  • GPRInvNet: Deep Learning-Based Ground Penetrating Radar Data Inversion for Tunnel Lining

    Bin Liu;Yuxiao Ren;Hanchi Liu;Hui Xu

  • A survey of qualitative spatial representations

    Juan Chen;Anthony G. Cohn;Dayou Liu;Shengsheng Wang

  • A hierarchical representation of qualitative shape based on connection and convexity

    Anthony G. Cohn

Frequent Co-Authors

David C. Hogg
David C. Hogg University of Leeds
Christopher D. F. Rogers
Christopher D. F. Rogers University of Birmingham
Frank Witlox
Frank Witlox Ghent University
Paul Lewin
Paul Lewin University of Southampton
Loren M. Frank
Loren M. Frank University of California, San Francisco
Doreen S. Boyd
Doreen S. Boyd University of Nottingham
Alessandro Saffiotti
Alessandro Saffiotti Örebro University
Tijs Neutens
Tijs Neutens Ghent University
Michael F. Burrow
Michael F. Burrow University of Melbourne

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