Electronic Engineering

Biographical Details:

Dr. Derek Molloy is a Lecturer in the School of Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Computing at Dublin City University. He lectures in Object-oriented Programming, 3D Computer Graphics and Digital Electronics at postgraduate and undergraduate levels. His research interests are in the fields of Computer & Machine Vision, 3D Graphics & Visualisation and e-Learning. He is a key academic member of the Centre for Image Processing and Analysis (CIPA) at DCU. Derek Molloy studied for his B.Eng. (Hons) degree at Dublin City University with the aid of a scholarship from Amdahl Corporation. During his degree he began an 'Accelerated Masters' programme in the research field of Computer and Machine Vision, dealing with motion analysis and description. This work was awarded the I.E.E. young paper award for 1994 and was a finalist in the I.E.I. student paper competition of the same year. In 1996 he became a full-time Assistant Lecturer in the School of Electronic Engineering and was promoted to full-time Lecturer in 1999. In 2000 he completed a Ph.D. thesis dealing with motion information in computer vision, entitled "Motion Analysis using Active-Meshes". During this period he was a founding member of: the Innovative Teaching Group, which evolved into the Virtual Community Project; and, the Postgraduate Research Records Committee. His current key roles are: Supervising 8 Ph.D./M.Eng. research students (3 in association with I.T. Tallaght), Key Faculty Member of the Centre for Image Processing & Analysis (CIPA) and investigator on the National Biophotonics & Imaging Platform Ireland (NBIPI) Academic Framework for Innovation (AFI) School Fellow Member of the University Budget Committee, Lecturer in Object-oriented Programming and 3D Computer Graphics at postgraduate level, and Digital Electronics at Undergraduate level, Technical Assessor for IDA (RD&I) and Enterprise Ireland (R&D Fund) applications.

Research Interests:

Active Contours (Snakes) and Active Models Motion Analysis and Tracking. Structure From Motion, Motion Description and Path Analysis, Moving Camera Analysis. Vision algorithms in Java. Virtual Reality Applications - 3D data manipulation, visualisation. Use of Java/Servlets/Databases/XML in teaching Automated interactive learning, feedback, examination and statistics.

Selected Peer Reviewed Journals

• E.Boyle and D.Molloy. 2005. Adaptive Active Human Model Reconstruction, IADAT Journal of Advanced Technology on Imaging and Graphics.. 1, 1, pp16-18.
• D. Molloy P.F.Whelan. 2000. Active-meshes. Pattern Recognition Letters, 21, , pp1071-1080.

Selected Books

• Molloy D., Ghita O., Sadleir R. IMVIP 2006 - Proceedings of the Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conferences 2006, Dublin City University, 2006.
• Whelan P.F, Molloy D. Machine Vision Algorithms in Java: Techniques and Implementation, Springer-Verlag, 2000.

Selected Non-peer Reviewed Journals

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• Adesina A. and Molloy D., Capturing and monitoring of learning process through a Business Process Management (BPM) framework, 3rd International Symposium for Engineering Education, 2010, - , University College Cork, Ireland
• Sha Yu, Molloy D., Automated Cell Tracking using a Model-based Approach in Phase Contrast Dense Cell Datasets, BioPhotonics and Imaging Conference (BioPIC) 2010, 18-OCT-10 - 20-OCT-10, Meath Ireland, 18-20 Oct.
• Jiao Tian, D. Molloy, 3D Reconstruction and Texturing using Affine SIFT on Uncalibrated Image Sets, China-Ireland International Conference on Information and Communications Technologies (CIICT2010),, 10-OCT-10 - 11-OCT-10, Wuhan, China.
• Sha Y., Molloy D., Automated Vision-based Tracking of Cell Movement and Deformation in Image Sequences, 2010 China-Ireland International Conference on Information and Communications Technologies (CIICT2010), 10-OCT-10 - 11-OCT-10, Wuhan, China.
• Sha Yu, Molloy D., Automated Image-based Cell Tracking in Dense Cell Datasets, Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference, 08-SEP-10 - 10-SEP-10, University of Limerick
• Leahy M, O'Connell M-L, O'Brien A., , Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference 2010, 08-SEP-10 - 10-SEP-10, University of Limerick
• Dr. William Lesso, , The 2nd International Symposium on Optical Engineering and Photonic Technology: OEPT 2010, 29-JUN-10 - 02-JUL-10, Orlando, Florida, USA
• Kenneth Dawson-Howe, Rozenn Dahyot, Anil Kokaram, Gerard Lacey , , International Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference, 02-SEP-09 - 04-SEP-09, Trinity College Dublin
• , , China-Ireland International Conference on Information and Communications Technologies, 19-AUG-09 - 21-AUG-09, Maynooth, Ireland
• Nikolaos Antonopoulos (University of Surrey, UK), Uyen Trang Nguyen (York University, Canada),Sumeet Dua (Louisiana Tech University, USA), , International Joint Journal Conference in Engineering 2009, 01-MAR-09 - ,
• , , China-Ireland International Conference on Information and Communications Technologies, 26-SEP-08 - 28-SEP-08, Beijing, P.R. China
• Kathy Clawson, Anne McMullan, Adrian Moore, Philip Morrow, Kurt Saetzler, Bryan Scotney, Huaizhong Zhang , , International Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference , 03-SEP-08 - 05-SEP-08, Portrush, Northern Ireland
• W. Kelly, A. Donnellan and D. Molloy , Screening for Objectionable Images: A Review of Skin Detection Techniques, IMVIP 2008 , 03-SEP-08 - 05-SEP-08, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland
• Carol O'Sullivan, Trinity College Dublin, , Irish Graduate Student Symposium on Vision, Graphics and Visualisation - VGV08 , 05-JUN-08 - , Trinity College Dublin
• Moore P., Molloy D. , A Survey of Computer-Based Deformable Models , In Proc. International Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference, 2007, 05-SEP-07 - 07-SEP-07, NUI Maynooth, Ireland, 55 - 66
• Eugene Kennedy, Junliang Chen, Lingling Sun. , , China-Ireland International Conference on Information and Communications Technologies, 28-AUG-07 - 29-AUG-07, Dublin City University, Ireland
• Barry D., Donnellan A. , Molloy D. , A review of non-parametric and semi-parametric skin colour models , Proc. Irish Signals and Systems Conf., 2007, 13-AUG-07 - 17-AUG-07, , 163 - 168
• Kelly W., Donnellan A. , Molloy D. , A review of skin detection techniques for objectionable images , Proc. Information Technology and Telecommunications Conf., 2007,, 01-JUN-07 - , , 40 - 49
• Barry D., Donnellan A., Molloy D. , Automated Image Similarity and 3-D Visualization of Large Digital Content Sets , Proc. Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing, 2006, 01-SEP-06 - 03-SEP-07, Dublin City University, 199 -
• Moore, P., Molloy, D. , In Proc. Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference, 2006, Active Surface Meshes for Intuitive 3-D Computer Graphics Shape Deformation and Modelling , 01-SEP-06 - , Dublin City University, 197 -
• Moore, P., Molloy D. , Virtual Sculpting: Active Contour Models for Computer Graphics Shape Modelling and Deformation., In Proc. EuroGraphics Ireland , 01-SEP-06 - , University College Dublin, Ireland., 53 - 59
• Molloy, D., , In: Molloy, D. Sadleir R. Ghitao, O. ed.Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference, 31-AUG-06 - 02-OCT-06, Dublin City University
• E.Boyle, D.Molloy , Flexible Silhouette Based Creation of Virtual Humans, IMVIP Conference 2005 , 30-AUG-05 - 31-AUG-05, Queen¿s University Belfast
• Olivier Bompis, Marine Sorin, Eamonn Boyle and Derek Molloy , Flexible Extraction of Human Shape in Real-Time Using Motion-Tuned Active-Contour Based Segmentation,, IMVIP Conference 2005 , 30-AUG-05 - 31-AUG-05, Queen¿s University Belfast.
• P. Moore, E. Boyle, D. Molloy , Construction of 3D Human Models from Two Orthographic Projections, Eurographics Ireland , 03-JUN-05 - , ITB, Ireland
• E. Boyle, D. Molloy, , A Review of Techniques for the Creation of Virtual Humans, , Eurographics Ireland, 03-JUN-05 - , ITB, Ireland
• E. Boyle, B. Uscilowski, D. Molloy and N. Murphy , Using Facial Feature Extraction to Enhance the Creation of 3D Human Models, WIAMIS 2005 - 6th International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services , 13-APR-05 - 15-APR-05, Montreux, Switzerland
• E. Boyle, D. Molloy , Definition of B-Spline Templates for the Automatic Extraction of Human Shape Information , IADAT-micv2005, 30-MAR-05 - 01-APR-05, Madrid, Spain,
• D.Molloy , Single-Source Interactive and Printed Content Publishing using the DocBook XML Standard, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Multimedia and Information & Communication Technologies in Education (m-ICTE2003), Advances in Technology-Based Education: Toward a Knowledge-Based Society , 03-DEC-03 - 06-DEC-03, Badajoz, Spain,, 1800 - 1804
• J.Higgins, D. Molloy , Model Based Approach to Non-Intrusive Human Motion Capture, ISSC 2003 , 01-JUL-03 - 02-JUL-03, Limerick
• D. Molloy and P.F.Whelan , Active-Mesh Self-Initialisation, Irish Machine Vision and Image processing Conference 1999 , 01-SEP-99 - 03-SEP-99, Dublin City University, Ireland, 116 - 129
• D. Molloy and P.F.Whelan , Motion Tracking using Self-Initialising Active Meshes, The I.E.E. Seventh International Conference on Image Processing and its Applications , 12-JUL-99 - 15-JUL-99, University of Manchester, UK
• D. Molloy and P.F.Whelan , Robotic navigation using self-initializing active contours, Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XVI: Algorithms, Techniques, Active Vision, and Materials Handling, Proc. SPIE Vol.3208. , 01-OCT-97 - , Pittsburgh
• D Molloy and P.F. Whelan , Self-Initialising Active Contours for Motion Discrimination, Proc. IMVIP'97 - Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference 1997 , 10-SEP-97 - 13-SEP-97, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, 139 - 146
• D. Molloy, T. McGowan, K. Clarke, C. McCorkell and P.F. Whelan , Application of machine vision technology to the development of aids for the visually impaired, Machine Vision Applications, Architectures, and Systems Integration III, Proc. SPIE 2347 , 31-OCT-96 - 02-NOV-96, Boston USA, 59 - 69