Paul F. Whelan is

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at the Centre for Image Processing & Analysis, School of Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Computing

Dublin City University Dublin City University (abbreviated as DCU) ( ga, Ollscoil Chathair Bhaile Átha Cliath) is a university based on the Northside of Dublin, Ireland. Created as the ''National Institute for Higher Education, Dublin'' in 1975, it enrolled its f ...

Education and career

Whelan earned his

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with First Class Honours from the

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before enrolling in the

University of Limerick The University of Limerick (UL) ( ga, Ollscoil Luimnigh) is a Public university, public research university institution in Limerick, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. Founded in 1972 as the National Institute for Higher Education, Limerick, it beca ...

for his

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degree. After receiving his PhD in Computing Mathematics/Computer Vision from

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, Whelan joined the Industrial and Scientific Imaging Ltd to research and develop an industrial vision system.

Selected publications

* ''Machine Vision Algorithms in Java: Techniques and Implementation'', Springer (reprinted Aug. 2001), 2000. * ''Intelligent Vision Systems for Industry'', Springer-Verlag, 1997.

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