Niall McLaughlin
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Niall McLaughlin
Dr
- Senior Lecturer, School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Speech, Image and Vision Systems
- Institute of Electronics, Communications & Information Technology
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0917-9145
- Phone+44 (0)28 9097 1830
- Emailn.mclaughlin@qub.ac.uk
Accepting PhD Students
PhD projects
Deep Learning, Neural Networks, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Image processing, Tracking, Re-identification, Human Pose Estimation, Cybersecurity, Malware detection
2011Research output 2011: 2Research output 2013: 2Research output 2015: 3Research output 2016: 2Research output 2017: 3Research output 2018: 1Projects 2019: 1Research output 2020: 2Projects 2021: 1Research output 2021: 2Projects 2022: 2Research output 2022: 3Projects 2023: 1Research output 2023: 3Projects 2024: 1Research output 2024: 7Projects 2025: 1Research output 2025: 72025
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Projects
McLaughlin, N. (PI) & Kyriazakis, I. (CoI)
06/02/2025 → …
Project: Research - ### R1373GFS: UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training in Sustainable Understandable agri-food Systems Transformed by Artificial INtelligence (SUSTAIN)
Kyriazakis, I. (PI), Creevey, C. (CoI), Jurek-Loughrey, A. (CoI) & McLaughlin, N. (CoI)
09/02/2024 → …
Project: Research - ### R1272ECS: TruDetect: Trustworthy Deep-Learning based Hardware Trojan Detection - Version 2
O'Neill, M. (PI), Alouani, I. (CoI) & McLaughlin, N. (CoI)
25/09/2023 → …
Project: Research - ### R1796ECS: NIO New Deal Cyber Bid -AIDE_NICYBER2025 (linked to R1778ECS)
Miller, P. (PI), Alouani, I. (CoI), Devereux, B. (CoI), Johnson, C. (CoI), Martinez-del-Rincon, J. (CoI), McLaughlin, K. (CoI), McLaughlin, N. (CoI), O'Neill, M. (CoI), Olukoya, O. (CoI), Scott-Hayward, S. (CoI), Sharma, V. (CoI) & Wang, H. (CoI)
19/12/2022 → …
Project: Research
- Radio Access Network
- 6G
- Service-Level Agreement
- Quality of Service
- Deep Reinforcement Learning
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R8915CPH: Expanding the Gateway Research Infrastructure on Exposome Studies for the Health and Retirement Study and the Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol International Network of Studies
Hunter, R. (PI), Anderson, N. (CoI), Kee, F. (CoI), McGuinness, B. (CoI), McKinley, J. (CoI) & McLaughlin, N. (CoI)
19/10/2022 → …
Project: Research
Research output
- 12 Conference contribution
- 10 Article
- 3 Paper
- 1 Chapter (peer-reviewed)
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1 More
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Automated precision weighing: leveraging 2D video feature analysis and machine learning for live body weight estimation of broiler chickens
Campbell, M., Miller, P., Diaz Chito, K., Irvine, S., Baxter, M., Martinez-del-Rincon, J., Hong, X., McLaughlin, N., Arumugam, T. & O'Connell, N., Mar 2025, In: Smart Agricultural Technology. 10, 100793.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access
File
- Learning System
- Artificial Intelligence
- Broiler Chickens
- Broiler Chicken
- Body Weight
9 Citations (Scopus)
258 Downloads (Pure) - ### LAB-KG: a retrieval-augmented generation method with knowledge graphs for medical lab test interpretation
Guo, R., Devereux, B., Farnan, G. & McLaughlin, N., 30 Jan 2025, Proceedings of Bridging Neurons and Symbols for Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Graphs Reasoning @ COLING 2025. European Language Resources Association, p. 40-50 10 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
Open Access
File
- Large Language Model
- Information Retrieval
- Knowledge Graph
- Laboratory Test
- Interpretability
90 Downloads (Pure) - ### Mind the gap: detecting black-box adversarial attacks in the making through query update analysis
Park, J., McLaughlin, N. & Alouani, I., 13 Aug 2025, IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2025). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 10235-10243 (Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
Open Access
File
- Adversarial Machine Learning
- Attack Strategy
- Model Architecture
- Learning System
- Machine Learning
49 Downloads (Pure) - ### Re-identification for long-term tracking and management of health and welfare challenges in pigs
Odo, A., McLaughlin, N. & Kyriazakis, I., Mar 2025, In: Biosystems Engineering. 251, p. 89-100
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access
File
- Performance Characteristic
- Management Condition
- Optical Tracking
3 Citations (Scopus)
77 Downloads (Pure) - ### SP-FGSM - salient pixel masking for improved adversarial attack concealment
McCaughey, D., McLaughlin, N. & Martinez-del-Rincon, J., 04 Sept 2025, Proceedings of the Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference 2025. Irish Pattern Recognition & Classification Society, Vol. 2025. p. 30-37 8 p. (Proceedings (Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference)).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
Open Access
File
- Adversarial Machine Learning
- Image Similarity
- Performance Gap
- Salient Region
- Learning System
6 Downloads (Pure)
Prizes
McLaughlin, N. (Recipient), Millar, S. (Recipient), Martinez-del-Rincon, J. (Recipient) & Miller, P. (Recipient), 25 Feb 2019
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards) - ### Research Best Paper (AMDO 2018 Conference)
McLaughlin, N. (Recipient) & Martinez-del-Rincon, J. (Recipient), 2018
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
- Pose Estimation
- Autoencoder
Press/Media
O'Connell, N., Martinez-del-Rincon, J., Miller, P. & McLaughlin, N.
27/05/2020
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
Impacts
Ji, M. (Participant), Srinivasan, R. (Participant), Crookes, D. (Participant), Stewart, D. (Participant), McLaughlin, N. (Participant) & Woods, R. (Participant)
Impact: Economic Impact, Health Impact