Contact Information

John Mc Donald. Room 2.117 Callan Building, Computer Vision and Imaging Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland. E-Mail: johnmcd_at_cs.nuim.ie Phone: +353 1 7084589 Fax:+353 1 7083848 GnuPG public key

Lecturing (internal access only)

SE422/CS410: Computer Vision

SE201-1/CS320: Computer Networks

SE120: Discrete Structures II

Publications

Journal Papers:

J. Ghent and J. McDonald,  Photo-Realistic Facial Expression Synthesis, Image and Vision Computing. 2005. (To Appear).

T. J. Naughton, J. Mc Donald, and B. Javidi,  Efficient compression of Fresnel fields for Internet transmission of three-dimensional images, Applied Optics, vol. 42, no. 23, pp. 4758-4764, August 2003. Dowload pdf.(© OSA)

Peer reviewed conference publications:

T. J. Naughton, E. Tajahuerce, J. B. McDonald, B. Javidi, Three-dimensional image sensing, encryption, compression, and transmission using digital holography, Published in Proc. of SPIE #5611: Unmanned/Unattended Sensors and Sensor Networks. (Invited Paper).

J. Ghent and J. McDonald, Facial Expression Synthesis using a Statistical model of Appearance, Published in Proc. of the 4th IASTED International Conference on VISUALIZATION, IMAGING, AND IMAGE PROCESSING, 2004. Marbella, Spain. Download pdf.

J. Ghent and J. McDonald, Generating a Mapping Function from one Expression to Another Using a Statistical Model of Facial Texture, Published in Proc. of the Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference, 2004. Download pdf.

J. Ghent and J. McDonald, Generating a mapping function from one expression to another using a statistical model of facial shape, Published in Proc. of the Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference, 2003. P.J. Morrow and B.W. Scotney (Eds). Dowload pdf.

T. J. Naughton, J. Mc Donald, Y. Frauel, and B. Javidi,  Efficient compression of digital holograms for Internet transmission of three-dimensional images, 15th Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (IEEE LEOS), pp. 33-34, Glasgow, Scotland, November 2002. Dowload pdf.. (© IEEE)

J. McDonald. Detecting and tracking road markings using the Hough transform. Published in Proc. of the Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference, 2001. A. Winstanley (Ed). Dowload Postscript.

J. McDonald, J. Franz and R. Shorten. Application of the Hough Transform to Lane Detection in Motorway Driving Scenarios. Published in Proc. of the Irish Signals and Systems Conference, 2001. R Shorten, T. Ward, T. Lysaght (Eds). Dowload Postscript.

N.D. McMillan, S. Riedel, J. McDonald, M. O'Neill, N. Whyte, A.Augousti and J. Mason. A Hough Transform Inspired Technique for the Rapid Fingerprinting and Conceptual Archiving of Multianalyser Tensiotraces. Published in Proc. of the Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference, 1999. Paul F. Whelan (Ed.).

J. McDonald and D. Vernon. A New Hough Transform for the Detection of Arbitrary 3-Dimensional Objects. Published in Proc. of the Optical Engineers Society of Ireland and the Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Joint Conference, 1998. D. Vernon (Ed.).
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J. Ghent and J. McDonald, A Computational Model of Facial Expression, Tech. Rep. NUIM-CS-TR-2004-01, Department of Computer Science, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland. Jan 2004. Download pdf.

J. Ghent, J. McDonald, J Harper, "A Statistical Model for Expression Generation using the Facial Action Coding System", Tech. Rep. NUIM-CS-TR-2003-01, Department of Computer Science, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland. Jan 2003. Download pdf.

J. McDonald, C. Markham and S. McLoughlin. Selected Problems in Automated Vehicle Guidance. Tech. Rep. NUIM/SS/01/05 Signals & Systems Group, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland. March 2001. Download Postscript.

T.J. Naughton, J.B. Mc Donald, and B. Javidi, "Efficient compression of digital holograms for Internet transmission of three-dimensional images," IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS) Newsletter, Special issue on Hot Topics in Electro-Optical Sensors and Systems, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 9-10, February 2004. (Invited article.) (© IEEE.) HTML

"3D image transmission and the Internet," Optics & Photonics News, vol. 14, no. 8, p. 34, August 2003. (Invited article.)

URL:http://www.cs.may.ie/~johnmcd Revised: 29th August 2005 Contact: johnmcd_at_cs.nuim.ie Copyright ©2005National University of Ireland, Maynooth.