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Biography
From Clifden, Rory Ward (Member, IEEE, ACM) received a bachelor’s degree in electronic and computer engineering from the National University of Ireland Galway in 2021. He is pursuing his PhD at the University of Galway, where he is sponsored by the Centre for Research Training in Artificial Intelligence. His research interests include generative AI, neuro-symbolic AI and computer vision. He received the best oral presentation award at the Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing (IMVIP) Conference 2022 for his paper “Towards Temporal Stability in Automatic Video Colorization". He has also won the best paper award for the AI and Agents track at the ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2025) for his paper “RAGCol: RAG-Based Automatic Video Colorization Through Text Caption Generation and Knowledge Enrichment”.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
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SDG 2 Zero Hunger
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BiAgriNet: Binarized Knowledge-Distilled Network for Real-Time Semantic Segmentation in Agriculture
Khan, H., Iftikhar, S., Ward, R., Davy, S. & Breslin, J. G., 6 Nov 2025, In: IEEE Access. 13, p. 192374-192390 17 p.Research output: Contribution to a Journal (Peer & Non Peer) › Article › peer-review
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RAGCol: RAG-Based Automatic Video Colorization Through Text Caption Generation and Knowledge Enrichment
Ward, R., Dalal, D., Buitelaar, P. & Breslin, J., 14 May 2025, 40th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2025. Association for Computing Machinery, p. 953-962 10 p. (Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing).Research output: Chapter in Book or Conference Publication/Proceeding › Conference Publication › peer-review
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LatentColorization: Latent Diffusion-Based Speaker Video Colorization
Ward, R., Bigioi, D., Basak, S., Breslin, J. G. & Corcoran, P., 2024, (CoRR).Research output: Working paper › Preprint
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NEONATAL LUPUS SYNDROME: OPTIMISM JUSTIFIED?
Venning, M. C., Burn, D. J., Ward, R. M., Henry, J. A. & Davison, J. M., 1988, In: The Lancet.Research output: Contribution to a Journal (Peer & Non Peer) › Article › peer-review
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