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DSCF: Dual-Source Counterfactual Fusion for High-Dimensional Combinatorial Interventions

2025 - Accepted/In press

Dou, J., Luo, L., Zhu, B., Luo, H., Zhong, M., Cheng, Y.

Contributions to Conferences: Papers

Food Standards Agency Science Council Report of Project ‘Artificial Intelligence Applications in Food Safety and Authenticity’

2025

Pearson, S., Gregory, P., Nicholson, C., O'Brien, J. T., Borriello, P., Burton, E., Cummins, S., Healing, J., Oliver, T., Smith, R., Tildesley, M., Wastling, J., Leontidis, G.

Commissioned by Science Council of the Food Standards Agency. Food Standards Agency. 64 pages

Books and Reports: Commissioned Reports

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.46756/sci.fsa.yne470
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EquiCaps: Predictor-Free Pose-Aware Pre-Trained Capsule Networks

2025

Konstantinou, A., Leontidis, G., Thota, M., Durrant, A.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Online: https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/ICCV2025/papers/Konstantinou_EquiCaps_Predictor-Free_Pose-Aware_Pre-Trained_Capsule_Networks_ICCV_2025_paper.pdf
Open Access: https://pure.abdn.ac.uk/ws/files/309993602/Konstantinou_EquiCaps_Predictor-Free_Pose-Aware_Pre-Trained_Capsule_Networks_ICCV_2025_paper.pdf

SwinMas: Shifted Windows and Mask Unit Attention with Auxiliary Supervision for Medical Image Segmentation

2026

Lawal, M., Yi, D.

Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, vol. 113, no. A, 108858

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bspc.2025.108858
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/dbeab86d-092c-4229-8bda-2827bb43e6a6/download

Capsule Network Projectors are Equivariant and Invariant Learners

2025

Everett, M., Durrant, A., Zhong, M., Leontidis, G.

Transactions on Machine Learning Research, pp. 1-18

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Online: https://openreview.net/forum?id=7owCO3qskH
Open Access: https://pure.abdn.ac.uk/ws/files/309499851/4991_Capsule_Network_Projector.pdf

VisionTreeS: A Hybrid Tree-Based Visual Masked Autoencoder Approach for Strawberry Yield Forecasting From Low-Resolution Data

2025

Beddows, M. A., Durrant, A., Leontidis, G.

IEEE Transactions on AgriFood Electronics, pp. 1-9

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1109/TAFE.2025.3613081
Open Access: https://pure.abdn.ac.uk/ws/files/309499773/TAFE3613081.pdf

COPP-Net: No-Reference Point Cloud Quality Assessment via Weighted Patch Quality Prediction

2025 - E-pub ahead of print

Zhu, L., Cheng, J., Wang, X., Su, H., Yuan, H., Song, J., Korhonen, J.

IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1109/TBC.2025.3597096
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Near-infrared vascular image segmentation using multi-stage enhancement and TAU-Net

2025

Tian, Z., Liu, H., Ji, Q., Wang, S., Li, Q., Yi, D., Liu, X.

Infrared physics & technology, vol. 148, 105875

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Online: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1350449525001689
Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infrared.2025.105875
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An End-to-End System for Culturally-Attuned Driving Feedback using a Dual-Component NLG Engine

2025 - Accepted/In press

Thompson, I. P., Yi, D., Reiter, E.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Can Image Quality Assessment Help Medical Image Segmentation?

2025 - Accepted/In press

Lawal, M., Sharma, P., Murchie, P., Yi, D.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Mobile Phone Sensor-based Nigerian Driving Dataset to Detect Alcohol-influenced Behaviours

2025 - Accepted/In press

Thompson, I. P., Yi, D., Reiter, E.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/60e373a7-17ba-43a9-8063-80e438c79f1e/download

Fish Detection and Size Estimation Using Curved Ellipse Modeling and Voting-Based Matching

2025 - Accepted/In press

Moorhead, C., Hua, Y., Yi, D., Li, Y., Fernandes, P. G.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

NERO: Explainable Out-of-Distribution Detection with Neuron-level Relevance in Gastrointestinal Imaging

2025 - Accepted/In press

Chhetri, A., Korhonen, J., Gyawali, P. K., Bhattarai, B.

Contributions to Conferences: Papers

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2506.15404
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OmniNet: An Expandable Causal Inference Network for Multiple Modalities

2025

Zhou, Y., Leontidis, G., Zhong, M.

Neural Computing and Applications, vol. 37, no. 19, pp. 13749–13763

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-025-11202-9
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Multisource Domain Adaptation for Nonintrusive Load Monitoring Through Data Distillation

2025

Luan, W., Zhang, R., Liu, B., Zhong, M., Li, K.

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 74, 2521611

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1109/TIM.2025.3551567
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Managing class imbalance in the training of a large language model to predict patient selection for total knee arthroplasty: Results from the Artificial intelligence to Revolutionise the patient Care pathway in Hip and knEe aRthroplastY (ARCHERY) project

2025

Farrow, L., Anderson, L., Zhong, M.

Knee, vol. 54, pp. 1-8

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Online: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0968016025000213
Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knee.2025.02.007
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Label-free Medical Image Quality Evaluation by Semantics-aware Contrastive Learning in IoMT

2025

Yi, D., Hua, Y., Murchie, P., Sharma, P.

IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 2335-2344

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1109/JBHI.2023.3340201
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/44bef647-55d9-4576-9330-5f25b452ed91/download
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Stereotypical Bias Amplification, and Reversal, in an Experimental Model of Human Interaction with Generative AI

2025

Allan, K., Azcona, J., Sripada, S., Leontidis, G., Sutherland, C., Phillips, L., Martin, D.

Royal Society Open Science, 241472

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/7ZD3S
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A systematic review of natural language processing applications in Trauma & Orthopaedics

2025

Farrow, L., Raja, A., Zhong, M., Anderson, L.

Bone and Joint Open, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 264-274

Contributions to Journals: Review articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1302/2633-1462.63.BJO-2024-0081.R1
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Enhanced Multi-Branch Learning for Long-Tailed Image Recognition

2025

Wang, J., Guo, Z., Yi, D., Hua, Y., Meng, Q.

Multimedia Systems, vol. 31, 16

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00530-024-01542-2

Masked Capsule Autoencoders

2025

Everett, M., Zhong, M., Leontidis, G.

Transactions on Machine Learning Research, pp. 1-15

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Online: https://openreview.net/pdf?id=JHxrh00W1j
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Control and Applications of Intelligent Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

2025

Yan, Y., Yi, D., Lu, H., Gao, L.

Electronics (Switzerland), vol. 14, no. 2, 375

Contributions to Journals: Editorials

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics14020375
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Exploring the use of biphasic quantitative thoracic computed tomography to evaluate halo-pelvic traction in managing severe adolescent idiopathic scoliosis

2024

Zhou, J., Zhao, Z., Cai, Q., Zhong, M.

Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery, vol. 14, no. 12, pp. 8429-8442

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.21037/qims-24-568
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/6649f238-0896-4284-84a9-27ed30879cf2/download
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NCDD: Nearest Centroid Distance Deficit for Out-Of-Distribution Detection in Gastrointestinal Vision

2024

Pokhrel, S., Bhandari, S., Ali, S., Lambrou, T., Nguyen, A., Shrestha, Y. R., Watson, A., Stoyanov, D., Gyawali, P., Bhattarai, B.

Working Papers and Discussion Papers

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2412.01590
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Personalised Multi-Task Federated Learning for Diabetic Retinopathy Medical Image Classification

2024 - Accepted/In press

Li, Y., Sharma, P., Leontidis, G., Yi, D.

Contributions to Journals: Conference Articles

Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/00ea8995-60d4-4777-810d-f805dd2cb002/download

Embedding AI-Enabled Data Infrastructures for Sustainability in Agri-Food: Soft-Fruit and Brewery Use Case Perspectives

2024

Markovic, M., Li, A. H., Ayall, T. A., Watson, N. J., Bowler, A. L., Woods, M., Edwards, P., Ramsey, R., Beddows, M. A., Kuhnert, M., Leontidis, G.

Sensors, vol. 24, no. 2024, 7327

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.3390/s24227327
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/56c28a6a-f00e-40ac-bba6-09604d02fea9/download

3DTA: No-Reference 3D Point Cloud Quality Assessment with Twin Attention

2024

Zhu, L., Cheng, J., Wang, X., Su, H., Yang, H., Yuan, H., Korhonen, J.

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 26, pp. 10489 - 10502

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1109/TMM.2024.3407698
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Farm Explorer: A Tool for Calculating Transparent Greenhouse Gas Emissions

2024

Markovic, M., Germano, S., Garijo, D., Edwards, P., Li, A., Ayall, T. A., Ramsey, R., Leontidis, G.

Contributions to Journals: Conference Articles

Online: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3828/paper31.pdf
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/8933a31f-de0d-4382-8d8d-c6d04b6473a2/download

LeOCLR: Leveraging Original Images for Contrastive Learning of Visual Representations

2024

Alkhalefi, M. A. M. A. A., Leontidis, G., Zhong, M.

Transactions on Machine Learning Research, pp. 1-16

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Online: https://openreview.net/forum?id=y8qGOvUn1r
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Active Label Refinement for Robust Training of Imbalanced Medical Image Classification Tasks in the Presence of High Label Noise

2024

Khanal, B., Dai, T., Bhattarai, B., Linte, C. A.

Contributions to Conferences: Papers

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-72120-5_4
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/9adba5b0-2cdb-4f9b-a279-10ad16dd83c8/download

Polar Contrast Attention and Skip Cross-channel Aggregation for Efficient Learning in U-Net

2024

Lawal, M., Yi, D.

Computers in Biology and Medicine, vol. 181, 109047

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2024.109047
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Emo-LSTM: An Emotion Recognition Model of ECG Data Based on Long Short-Term Memory

2024

Tian, Z., Liu, H., Mi, D., Yi, D., Li, Q.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-7139-4_77
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Extraction of Forearm Near-Infrared Vascular Skeleton Based on Zhang-Suen Refinement Algorithm

2024

Ji, Q., Liu, H., Tian, Z., Wang, S., Li, Q., Yi, D.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-7139-4_64
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Real-time Semantic Segmentation of Solar Photovoltaic Arrays for Autonomous UAV Flights

2024

Li, N., Chen, H., Sun, Z., Gao, J., Yi, D., Liu, C., Su, J.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.23919/CCC63176.2024.10662016
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PSDPM: Prototype-based Secondary Discriminative Pixels Mining for Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation

2024

Zhao, X., Yang, Z., Dai, T., Zhang, B., Xiao, J.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Online: https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2024/html/Zhao_PSDPM_Prototype-based_Secondary_Discriminative_Pixels_Mining_for_Weakly_Supervised_Semantic_CVPR_2024_paper.html
Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPR52733.2024.00330

Gated Transformer Representing Region Importance for Image Quality Assessment

2024

You, J., Lin, Y., Korhonen, J.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1109/IJCNN60899.2024.10650165
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Evolutionary Multi/Many-Objective Optimisation via Bilevel Decomposition

2024

Jiang, S., Guo, J., Wang, Y., Yang, S.

IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, vol. 11, no. 9, pp. 1973-1986

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1109/JAS.2024.124515
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Cross Domain Policy Transfer with Effect Cycle-Consistency

2024

Zhu, R., Dai, T., Celiktutan, O.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA57147.2024.10611110

Near-Infrared Forearm Vascular Width Calculation Using Radius Estimation of Tangent Circle

2024

Ji, Q., Liu, H., Tian, Z., Wang, S., Li, Q., Yi, D.

Bioengineering, vol. 11, no. 8, 801

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering11080801
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Bottom-up formulations for the multi-criteria decision analysis of oil and gas pipeline decommissioning in the North Sea: Brent field case study

2024

Jalili Dargalusani, S., Leontidis, G., Cauvin, S., Gormley, K., Stone, M., Neilson, R.

Journal of Environmental Management, vol. 365, 121491

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.121491
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Robust distance measurement using illumination map estimation and MAHNet in underground coal mines

2024

Zhang, J., Li, J., Liu, H., Wang, H., Yi, D., Liu, X., Li, Q.

Measurement Science and Technology, vol. 35, no. 8, 086013

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6501/ad25e0

Object-Centric Learning with Capsule Networks: A Survey

2024

De Sousa Ribeiro, F., Duarte, K., Everett, M. A., Leontidis, G., Shah, M.

ACM Computing Surveys, vol. 56, no. 11, 291

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1145/3674500
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Weakly supervised pre-training for brain tumor segmentation using principal axis measurements of tumor burden

2024

Mckone, J. E., Lambrou, T., Ye, X., Brown, J. M.

Frontiers in Computer Science, vol. 6, 1386514

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomp.2024.1386514
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A Multi-Farm Global-to-Local Expert-Informed Machine Learning System for Strawberry Yield Forecasting

2024

Beddows, M. A., Leontidis, G.

Agriculture, vol. 14, no. 6, 883

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture14060883
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Coordinate-Aware Mask R-CNN with Group Normalization: A Underwater Marine Animal Instance Segmentation Framework

2024

Yi, D., Ahmedov, H. B., Jiang, S., Li, Y., Flinn, S. J., Fernandes, P. G.

Neurocomputing, vol. 583, 127488

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2024.127488
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Enhanced Affinity Propagation Clustering on Heterogeneous Information Network

2024

Rajan, D., Jiang, S., Yi, D., Pang, W., Coghill, G.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-55568-8_28
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Model pruning enables localized and efficient federated learning for yield forecasting and data sharing

2024

Li, A. H., Markovic, M., Edwards, P., Leontidis, G.

Expert Systems with Applications, vol. 242, pp. 1-12

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2023.122847
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Specialist Advisory Group (SAG) on Applications of Artificial Intelligence to Environment Natural Resources & Agriculture Policy, Scottish Government - Workshop Report

2024

Brewer, M., Leontidis, G.

Scottish Environment, Food and Agriculture Research Institutes (SEFARI). 4 pages

Books and Reports: Commissioned Reports

Online: https://sefari.scot/document/specialist-advisory-group-on-applications-of-artificial-intelligence-initial-findings
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FishIR: Identifying Pufferfish Individual based on Deep Learning and Face Recognition

2024

Lin, Y., Xie, S., Ghose, D., Liu, X., You, J., Korhonen, J., Liu, J., Dash, S. P.

IEEE Access, vol. 12, pp. 59807 - 59817

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3390412
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Semantic Positive Pairs for Enhancing Visual Representation Learning of Instance Discrimination methods

2024

Alkhalefi, M. A. M. A. A., Leontidis, G., Zhong, M.

Transactions on Machine Learning Research, vol. 2024, no. 4, pp. 1-17

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Online: https://openreview.net/forum?id=z5AXLMBWdU&nesting=2&sort=date-desc
Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2306.16122
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