IMVIP 2026 Conference Programme

Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference • Maynooth University • August 26–28, 2026

Day 1: Wed, 26 Aug Day 2: Thu, 27 Aug Day 3: Fri, 28 Aug

Day 1: Wednesday, August 26, 2026

Keynote 1

14:00 – 15:00
Session Chair: Rozenn Dahyot
Prof. Binh-Son Hua
Prof. Binh-Son Hua
Trinity College Dublin
Talk Title: To be announced

Coffee / Tea

15:00 – 15:30

Oral Session 1: Medical Image Analysis

15:30 – 17:10
  1. Compact CNNs for Chest X-ray Screening: Accuracy, Explainability, and Containerised Deployment Christopher Anich (CCT College Dublin), Kislay Raj (Dublin City University)
  2. Motion-Based Detection and Tracking of Trypanosoma cruzi Parasites in Microscopy Videos 20m Senem Aktas (Maynooth University), Lavdie Rada (Bahcesehir University)
  3. Data-Efficient AI for Microstructure Characterisation in Pharmaceutical Microscopy 20m Hanieh Khosravi (Atlantic Technological University)
  4. Deep Learning-Enabled Intelligent Health Care System for Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease 20m Summaiya Mehmood (NED University of Engineering & Technology), Dr Muslim Jameel Syed (Atlantic Technological University, Galway)
  5. Robust Breast Ultrasound Classification Through Dataset Auditing, Preprocessing Standardization, and Ensemble Fusion Sana Siddique (Bahçeşehir University), Lavdie Rada (Bahcesehir University)

Day 2: Thursday, August 27, 2026

Oral Session 2: Machine Learning Techniques and Applications I

09:00 – 10:40
  1. SCULPT: Training Edge Vision Models for Post-Training Quantization Readiness Bharadwaj Kavuri (Valeo), Prasad Deshpande (Valeo Vision Systems)
  2. MicroBird: Embedded Bird-Audio Classification with Microjoule-Range CNN Inference on the MAX78002 Justyna Przyborska (University of Limerick), Salaheddin Alakkari (University of Limerick)
  3. Model Compression for Very Short-Term Solar Irradiance Forecasting Using Infrared Sky Images Ifran Rahman Nijhum (University College Dublin), David Lillis (University College Dublin), Soumyabrata Dev (Trinity College Dublin)
  4. Comparative Study of Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning on Low-Resource Vision-Language Modelling: Burmese-CLIP Htike Thu Kaung (University of Limerick), Salaheddin Alakkari (University of Limerick)

Coffee / Tea

10:40 – 11:10

Oral Session 3: Aerial and Geospatial Image Processing

11:10 – 12:50
  1. Automask: Promptable Concept Segmentation with SAM3 for Glacier 3D Reconstruction from UAV Imagery SiCheng Zhao (University College Dublin), Soumyabrata Dev (Trinity College Dublin)
  2. Low-Data RGB-to-NIR Translation with Augmentation and Pseudo-Label Learning Md Yearat Hossain (University College Dublin), Riju Das (University College Dublin), Gavin McArdle (University College Dublin), Soumyabrata Dev (Trinity College Dublin)
  3. Geo-referenced small object detection in oblique aerial imagery Paolo Moloney (Maynooth University), Tim McCarthy (Maynooth University), John McDonald (Maynooth University)
  4. Similarity-Augmented Roadside Object Triangulation from street level images Waqar Ahmad (Dublin City University), Vladimir Krylov (Dublin City University)
  5. Perspective-Aware Billboard Corner Detection with a Web-Based End-to-End System Sukriti Dhang (University College Dublin), Mimi Zhang (Trinity College Dublin), Soumyabrata Dev (Trinity College Dublin)

Lunch Break

12:50 – 14:00

Keynote 2

14:00 – 15:00
Session Chair: John McDonald
Prof. Ganesh Sistu
Prof. Ganesh Sistu
Principal AI Architect, Valeo Ireland • Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Limerick
Talk Title: To be announced

Coffee & Poster Session 1

15:00 – 15:45
  • Efficient automatic traffic light alteration for sparse traffic flow Steven Bondaruk (Trinity College), Kenneth Dawson-Howe (Trinity College)
  • Automatic Passing Vehicle to Cyclist Distance Estimation Steven Bondaruk (Trinity College), Kenneth Dawson-Howe (Trinity College)
  • A Computer Vision Tool to Aid Beginner Electric Bass Players with Fretboard Navigation Zemyna Kulikausk (Trinity College), Kenneth Dawson-Howe (Trinity College)
  • A Hybrid Deployment Framework for Industrial Quality Control Using GelSight Tactile Sensing Antonio Gambale (Ulster University), Dermot Kerr (Ulster University), Sonya Coleman (Ulster University)
  • Parameter-Efficient Dense Prediction for Cross-View Geo-Localisation in Dense Urban Environments Lucas Scott (Ulster University), Sonya Coleman (Ulster University), Dermot Kerr (Ulster University), Philip Vance (Ulster University), Yunzhou Zhang (Northeastern University)
  • Vehicle Damage Detection Using Computer Vision and Machine Learning Michael McKeogh (TUS), Shane Gilroy (Atlantic Technological University)
  • Transformers Cross-Attention Audio-Visual Fusion Lucas Hindes (Ulster University), Nazmul Siddique (Ulster University), Philip Vance (Ulster University), Sonya Coleman (Ulster University)
  • WeldNet: Vision-Based Weld Inspection for Intelligent Manufacturing Systems Sushil Sharma (University of Limerick), Reenu Mohandas (University of Limerick), Ciarán Eising (University of Limerick)
  • Enhancing an Emotion-Labelled Video Dataset with Pose Estimation Key-points for Face, Body and Hands Ciara Sempey (Ulster University), Bryan Scotney (Ulster University), Shuai Zhang (Ulster University), Matthew Burns (Ulster University), Jorge Martinez (Ulster University)

Oral Session 4: 3D Vision, Robotics, and Autonomous System I

15:45 – 17:25
  1. Bundled Feature Encoding: A Shift-Tolerant Image Representation for Hyperdimensional Computing Ceallach Levins (Ulster University), Dermot Kerr (Ulster University), Sonya Coleman (Ulster University)
  2. KeyJoint-STGCN: Keypoint-Based Spatio-Temporal Graph Learning for Monocular Trajectory Prediction Dr. Satyajit Nayak (Valeo India Pvt. Ltd.), Patitapaban Palo (University of Oxford), Kwanit Gupta (Valeo), Satarupa Uttarkabat (IIT, Kharagpur), Ganesh Sistu (Valeo Vision Systems), Mohamed Tarek (UL)
  3. Towards ISP-Free Fisheye Camera Perception: An Evaluation in Image and BEV Space Krishna Prasath Kizhpada Vasudevan (University of Limerick), Ganesh Sistu (Valeo Vision Systems), Ciarán Eising (University of Limerick)
  4. Multi-session Online Open-Vocabulary Object Mapping Frank Gallagher (Maynooth University), John McDonald (Maynooth University)

IPRCS AGM

17:40 – 18:20

Conference Dinner • Glenroyal Hotel

19:00

Day 3: Friday, August 28, 2026

Oral Session 5: 3D Vision, Robotics, and Autonomous System II

09:00 – 10:20
  1. Pix2Repair: Implicit Shape Restoration from Images 20m Sean Banerjee (Wright State University)
  2. A Domain and Sensor-Adaptive Metric Road Width Estimation from Dual Rear Cameras via Transfer Learning Zuha Hussain (University of Galway)
  3. ARAS-FCWNet: Low-cost and Light-weight Model for Forward Collision Warning (FCW) System in Unstructured ARAS Dr. Satyajit Nayak (Valeo India Pvt. Ltd.), Lakshman Prabhu (Valeo India Private Limited), Ganesh Sistu (Valeo Vision Systems)
  4. Training-Free Geometric Stabilization for Monocular 3D Detection in Advanced Rider-Assistance Systems Lakshman Prabhu (Valeo India Private Limited), Dr. Satyajit Nayak (Valeo India Pvt. Ltd.), Ganesh Sistu (Valeo Vision Systems)
  5. Vision-Based Robotic Hot-Water Weeding for Precision Agriculture Gregory Mantel (Maynooth University), Gerard Lacey (Maynooth University)

Coffee / Tea

10:30 – 11:00

Oral Session 6: Machine Learning Techniques and Applications II

11:00 – 12:40
  1. Towards Long-Term Pig Re-Identification: Investigating Human ReID Methods in Pigs Yiyuan Wang (Queen's University Belfast), Ilias Kyriazakis (Queen's University), Niall McLaughlin (Queen's University Belfast)
  2. Diffusion-Based Saliency Map Generation from RGB Images Mark Langtry (University of Limerick), Salaheddin Alakkari (University of Limerick)
  3. Thumbnail Guided Tissue Compaction (TGTC) - Whole Slide Image Preprocessing for Lossless Image Compression Christopher Smith (Queen's University Belfast), Richard Gault (Queen's University Belfast)
  4. Body Mass Index (BMI) estimation from a single frontal face image using a Bayesian-ViT architecture Claudia Arellano (Universidad Adolfo Ibañez)
  5. Parameter-Efficient Adaptation of V-JEPA 2 for Egocentric Action Anticipation Ayoub Sahlaoui (Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University), Salaheddin Alakkari (University of Limerick), Younes Dhassi (USMBA)
  6. Are Action Units Priors or Pathways? A Diagnostic Study of Temporal Valence-Arousal Estimation Riju Das (University College Dublin), Soumyabrata Dev (Trinity College Dublin)

Conference Closing and Awards

12:40 – 12:55
Session Chair: John McDonald