In October 2025 a one-day community workshop was convened to explore the vision, scope, and feasibility of establishing a Centre for AI in Applied Nuclear Physics, with relevance to both civil and defence domains. The event brought together researchers, industry partners, and government stakeholders for a series of interactive sessions, keynote presentations, and a community poster...
Global geo-political and economic instabilities and uncertainties mean that our security services are under increasing pressure to respond to suspected and genuine incidents under time pressures and with limited resources. These conditions impose challenges on the equipment used and the underpinning technologies, in order to ensure ease of use, robustness under increasingly under...
Reliable UXO detection remains one of the most persistent sensing challenges due to the diversity of threats and the variability of real-world environments. This study explores the use of synthetic data to train object detection models for landmine detection. The YOLOV8n model trained on n=1000 real images achieved a mAP@50 of 0.983, a precision of 0.966 and a recall of 0.961. The best...
