Matthew McGuigan, BSc, MSc.

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TV Interview and Publications

See my TV interview for the solar eclipse here:

Publications:

[Journal paper]:

McGuigan, M. and Christmas, J. (2020). Automating RTI: Automatic light direction detection and correcting non uniform lighting for more accurate surface normals, Published in Elsevier Computer Vision and Image Understanding. Volume 192, March 2020, 102880.

[Conference paper and oral presentation]:

McGuigan, M. and Christmas, J. (2020). Remote Extraction of Latent Fingerprints (RELF), Published in IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence. July 2020.

[Technical report for Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl)]:

Benning M., Bonthrone L., Carr T., Dyer J., Malip A., McGuigan M., Puiu A., Tian Y., Wendland A., Yang L. (2019). Identifying Potential Hardening Techniques for Image Classifiers - Cryptanalysis in Machine Learning, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL), United Kingdom (UK), pp. 1-31.

Blog

Pi Projects During Lockdown

During the current lockdown I'm working on a few side projects to try and learn a little bit about robotics and running machine learning algorithms

Data Scraping and AI Generated Tweets

I decided to make a post about AI generated tweets using data scrapings from twitter since I didn't actually know much about it and thought it sounded...

Raspberry Pi Motion Sensor Project

Following some suspected feline break-ins I set up a motion sensing night vision camera using a Raspberry Pi Zero W (~£20) and...

Space Exe 2019 Conference

Myself and the rest of the committee are organising another ambitious conference with speakers from Met Office, various universities and various observatories.

Robotics and Automation Workshop | Nottingham

I was kindly awarded a travel bursary from Nottingham Trent University and presented at their Smart Industry Robotics and Automation Workshop.

CASTEP Training Workshop | University of Oxford

I attended the CASTEP electron microscopy training workshop at Oxford University. I refreshed my knowledge on solid state physics and enjoyed being...

Industrial Maths (SIAM) Conference 2018 in Portland

This summer I will present at the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Annual Meeting (AN18) in Portland, Oregon, US. My abstract can be...

ESGI at University College Dublin

This summer I will attend the European Study Group with Industry (ESGI) 141 in at University College Dublin, Ireland. This workshop takes place on 25-29th of June.

Arranging the Space Exe Space Science Conference

I am Outreach officer for Space Exe at Exeter University, who organised a spectacular conference with speakers from Met Office...

International Day of Light Photo Competition

I entered a photograph into the Exeter University Optics and Photonics Society Photography competition and won the Audience Favourite prize.

Research and Interests

My research interests include Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Optics, Astronomical Imaging. Please see below for some things I have been working on.

My PhD Project

My PhD involves the estimation of an object’s shape, reflectance and surface topography from photographs using machine learning and artificial intelligence approaches.

RTI Group at Exeter

The group in which I am a postgraduate student consists of a range of personnel from various disciplines including computer science, natrual science and material science.

Solar Eclipse TV Interview

I was contacted for an interview and asked to explain how to image the 2015 solar eclipse. I also discussed some astrophotograpy which I had posted online.

Photography

A few of my photographs

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Matthew McGuigan, BSc, MSc.

I am a Computer Science PhD student at the University of Exeter.

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