Name: Paul Ross McWhirter
Type: User
Company: Queen's University Belfast & FP McCann Ltd
Bio: KTP Associate at Queen's University Belfast. Computer vision engineer and machine learning specialist in astrophysics and computer science.
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Paul Ross McWhirter's Projects
In progress code to introduce time-aggregated accumulated probabilities for detected objects from YOLOv3 for interframe inference on thermal video.
Python wrapper for the darknet machine learning software used by Astroecology
Python script to augment thermal drones images and labels in the darknet format to simulate different operation altitudes.
A set of Jupyter Notebooks for the analysis of the equivalent widths of BLAP spectra from the SPRAT spectrograph on the Liverpool Telescope.
Jupyter Notebook to build a K-fold cross validation split.
Two early Jupyter Notebooks for splitting darknet format images and labels into stratified cross validation sets and removing classes from the Knowsley Duo dataset.
Python scripts using openCV to perform Gaussian adaptive thresholds to draw boxes around bright thermal sources in thermal images.
Python command line script for accessing the Gravitational wave Optical Transient Observer photometric database and science frames.
Jupyter Notebooks for the importing of Zooniverse labels into Deeplabel SQLite3 databases.
A collection of Jupyter Notebooks and Python/R scripts used to achieve the Liverpool Telescope 41st placement in the Kaggle LSST (VRO) PLAsTiCC variable star and transient classification competition.
Python scripts to import OSIRIS long-slit spectra and use Aspired and Rascal for optimal spectral extraction.
Large number of R functions used for the classification of light curves from the Liverpool Telescope SkycamT photometric database.
Python script to generate 14 fps videos for the Zooniverse Spotting Spider Monkeys project for British Science Week.