AICS 2021
Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science 2021

Table of Contents

• Preface
  Summary: There were 44 papers submitted for peer-review to this workshop. Out of these, 24 papers were accepted for this volume, 17 regular papers and 7 student papers.

Full Papers

• Modelling the COVID-19 Virus Evolution With Incremental Machine Learning 1-12
  Andrés L. Suárez-Cetrulo , Ankit Kumar , Luis Miralles-Pechuán
• Virtual Tutor Personality in Computer Assisted Language Learning 13-24
  Johanna Dobbriner , Cathy Ennis , Robert Ross
• Domain Randomization for Object Counting 25-35
  Enric Moreu , Kevin McGuinness , Diego Ortego , Noel E. O'Connor
• Robust 3D U-Net Segmentation of Macular Holes 36-47
  Jonathan Frawley , Chris G. Willcocks , Maged Habib , Caspar Geenen , David H. Steel , Boguslaw Obara
• Malware Classification Using Static Disassembly and Machine Learning 48-59
  Zhenshuo Chen , Eoin Brophy , Tomas Ward
• Nearest Neighbour-Based Data Augmentation for Time Series Forecasting 60-71
  Duncan Wallace , Eoin Delaney , Mark T. Keane , Derek Greene
• Machine Learning in Space: A Review of Machine Learning Algorithms and Hardware for Space Applications 72-83
  James Murphy , John E Ward , Brian Mac Namee
• Sign Language Fingerspelling Recognition using Synthetic Data 84-95
  Frank Fowley , Anthony Ventresque
• Synthetic Data for Unsupervised Polyp Segmentation 96-105
  Enric Moreu , Kevin McGuinness , Noel E. O'Connor
• Panta Rhei: Curiosity-Driven Exploration to Learn the Image-Schematic Affordances of Pouring Liquids 106-117
  Mihai Pomarlan , Maria M. Hedblom , Robert Porzel
• Loan Default Prediction Using Spark Machine Learning Algorithms 118-129
  Aiman Muhammad Uwais , Hamidreza Khaleghzadeh
• Sentiment Analysis: Using Detrended Fluctation Analysis of EEG Signals in Natural Reading 130-140
  Boi Mai Quach , Cathal Gurrin , Graham Healy
• Linguistic and Gender Variation in Speech Emotion Recognition Using Spectral Features 141-152
  Zachary Dair , Ryan Donovan , Ruairi O'Reilly
• Bias Bubbles: Using Semi-Supervised Learning to Measure How Many Biased News Articles Are Around Us 153-164
  Qin Ruan , Brian Mac Namee , Ruihai Dong
• Solving the Real Robot Challenge Using Deep Reinforcement Learning 165-175
  Robert McCarthy , Francsico Roldan Sanchez , Qiang Wang , David Cordova Bulens , Kevin McGuinness , Noel O'Connor , Stephen Redmond
• Adaptation of Compositional Data Analysis in Deep Learning to Predict Pasture Biomass Proportions 176-187
  Badri Narayanan , Mohamed Saadeldin , Paul Albert , Kevin McGuinness , Noel E. O'Connor , Brian Mac Namee
• Combining Ensembles of Multi-Input Multi-Output Subnetworks and Data Augmentation Does not Harm Your Calibration 188-199
  Çağrı Demir , Simon Caton , Pierpaolo Dondio

Student Papers

• Towards an Optimised Vehicle Detection Algorithm for Multi-Object Tracking in Traffic Surveillance 200-211
  Soumi Mitra , Nandhini Reddy Aileni , Irina Tal , Malika Bendechache
• Evaluation of Interest and Coherence in Machine Generated Stories 212-223
  Dominic Callan , Jennifer Foster
• Representational and Embodied Accounts of Abstract Concepts: A Framework for Prelinguistic Acquisition of Numerical Cognition 224-235
  Jules Wax
• Image Segmentation to Identify Safe Landing Zones for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles 235-247
  Joe Kinahan , Alan F. Smeaton
• Forecasting Gold Prices Using Temporal Convolutional Networks 248-259
  Justin Fajou , Andrew McCarren
• Debated Backpropagation 260-271
  Isaac James , Christopher Stone , Alice Toniolo
• Detection of Covid-19 From an Imbalanced Chest X-ray Image Data Set 272-283
  Sharath Madhu Manjunath , Manju Gurjar , Neil O'Kane , Andrew McCarren , Leonardo Gualano