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Noel E. O'Connor

Noel E. O'Connor

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Computer Science
Ireland
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Computer Science

D-Index
57
Citations
13823
World Ranking
3815
National Ranking
8

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Computer Science in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Ireland Leader Award

Overview

Noel E. O'Connor is affiliated with Dublin City University in Ireland. Their research primarily spans the field of Computer Science with a significant focus on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Computer Networks and Communications.

The scientist's work covers a wide range of topics, including:

  • Machine Learning and Data Classification
  • Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications
  • Advanced Neural Network Applications
  • Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
  • Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques
  • Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging
  • Visual Attention and Saliency Detection

O'Connor has a substantial publication record with 166 publications categorized under Computer Science, among which 78 focus on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 64 on Artificial Intelligence, 21 on Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, 10 on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and 9 on Computer Networks and Communications.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Sensors
  • 2023 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)
  • Expert Systems
  • Preprints.org

Several notable recent papers authored or co-authored by O'Connor are:

  • "A comprehensive review of catchment water quality monitoring using a tiered framework of integrated sensing technologies" (2020), published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Movement competence: Association with physical self-efficacy and physical activity" (2020), published in Human Movement Science
  • "Exploring the relationships between fundamental movement skills and health related fitness components in children" (2020), published in European Journal of Sport Science
  • "Bio-inspired Surface Texture Modification as a Viable Feature of Future Aquatic Antifouling Strategies: A Review" (2020), published in International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • "A Quality of Experience assessment of haptic and augmented reality feedback modalities in a gait analysis system" (2020), published in PLoS ONE

O'Connor has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Kevin McGuinness
  • Mingming Liu
  • Eric Arazo
  • Alan F. Smeaton
  • Suzanne Little

Best Publications

  • Pseudo-Labeling and Confirmation Bias in Deep Semi-Supervised Learning

    Eric Arazo;Diego Ortego;Paul Albert;Noel E. O'Connor

  • Shallow and Deep Convolutional Networks for Saliency Prediction

    Junting Pan;Elisa Sayrol;Xavier Giro-I-Nieto;Kevin McGuinness

  • SalGAN: visual saliency prediction with generative adversarial networks

    Junting Pan;Cristian Canton-Ferrer;Kevin McGuinness;Noel E. O'Connor

  • Unsupervised Label Noise Modeling and Loss Correction

    Eric Arazo;Diego Ortego;Paul Albert;Noel E. O'Connor

  • A comparative evaluation of interactive segmentation algorithms

    Kevin McGuinness;Noel E. O'Connor

  • A multiscale representation method for nonrigid shapes with a single closed contour

    T. Adamek;N.E. O'Connor

  • Event detection in field sports video using audio-visual features and a support vector Machine

    D.A. Sadlier;N.E. O'Connor

  • Quantifying radiographic knee osteoarthritis severity using deep convolutional neural networks

    Joseph Antony;Kevin McGuinness;Noel E O'Connor;Kieran Moran

  • Evaluating a dancer's performance using kinect-based skeleton tracking

    Dimitrios S. Alexiadis;Philip Kelly;Petros Daras;Noel E. O'Connor

  • Shallow and Deep Convolutional Networks for Saliency Prediction

    Junting Pan;Kevin McGuinness;Elisa Sayrol;Noel O'Connor

  • Bags of Local Convolutional Features for Scalable Instance Search

    Eva Mohedano;Kevin McGuinness;Noel E. O'Connor;Amaia Salvador

  • Classification of Sporting Activities Using Smartphone Accelerometers

    Edmond Mitchell;David S. Monaghan;Noel E. O'Connor

  • Passively recognising human activities through lifelogging

    Aiden R. Doherty;Niamh Caprani;Ciarán í Conaire;Vaiva Kalnikaite

  • Automatic Detection of Knee Joints and Quantification of Knee Osteoarthritis Severity Using Convolutional Neural Networks

    Joseph Antony;Kevin McGuinness;Kieran Moran;Noel E. O’Connor

  • Touch Screens for the Older User

    Niamh Caprani;Noel E. O’Connor;Cathal Gurrin

  • Fully Convolutional Crowd Counting on Highly Congested Scenes

    Mark Marsden;Kevin McGuinness;Suzanne Little;Noel E. O’Connor

  • Automatic TV advertisement detection from MPEG bitstream

    David A. Sadlier;Seán Marlow;Noel E. O'Connor;Noel Murphy

  • The Convergence of Virtual Reality and Social Networks: Threats to Privacy and Autonomy.

    Fiachra O'Brolcháin;Tim Jacquemard;David S. Monaghan;Noel E. O'Connor

  • ResnetCrowd: A residual deep learning architecture for crowd counting, violent behaviour detection and crowd density level classification

    Mark Marsden;Kevin McGuinness;Suzanne Little;Noel E. O'Connor

  • Word matching using single closed contours for indexing handwritten historical documents

    Tomasz Adamek;Noel E. O’Connor;Alan F. Smeaton

  • Detector adaptation by maximising agreement between independent data sources

    C.O. Conaire;N.E. O'Connor;A.F. Smeaton

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan F. Smeaton
Alan F. Smeaton Dublin City University
Cathal Gurrin
Cathal Gurrin Dublin City University
Dermot Diamond
Dermot Diamond Dublin City University
Petros Daras
Petros Daras Information Technologies Institute, Greece
Aiden R. Doherty
Aiden R. Doherty University of Oxford
Yannis Avrithis
Yannis Avrithis Institute of Advanced Research on Artificial Intelligence (IARAI)
Steffen Staab
Steffen Staab University of Stuttgart
Matthijs Douze
Matthijs Douze Facebook (United States)
Zhenxing Zhang
Zhenxing Zhang Lanzhou University
Cordelia Schmid
Cordelia Schmid French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation - INRIA

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