Kevin Gildea

Kevin Gildea
PhD Candidate

Funding body: Irish Road Safety Authority

Collaborators: National Roads Policing Bureau, Dublin City Council, Cycling Ireland, Irish Cycling Advocacy Network

Description: Statistical & engineering analyses of cyclist road traffic collisions (RTCs).

Topics: 

  • Collection of novel data for cyclist RTCs using 1) a nationally distributed survey, & 2) police forensic investigation files.
  • Inferential and descriptive statistical analyses, & definition of common collision scenarios [4,6,7].


  • Video-based assessment of causative factors for single cyclist/bicycle falls, and development of a predictive modelling tool for Surrogate Measures of Safety (SMoS) (SafeCross) [5].





  • Development of a physics-based 3D 6DOF human pose estimation approach (KinePose) for assessment of human kinematics and dynamics in falls [1,2,3].

Selected publications: 

  1. KinePose: A temporally optimized inverse kinematics technique for 6DOF human pose estimation with biomechanical constraints, K. Gildea, C. Mercadal-Baudart, R. Blythman, A. Smolic, C. Simms  - Irish Machine Vision & Image Processing Conference (IMVIP) (2022)
  2. Temporally optimized inverse kinematics for 6DOF human pose estimation, K. Gildea, C. Mercadal-Baudart, R. Blythman, C. Simms  - Congress of the European Society of Biomechanics (ESB) (2022)
  3. Towards computational modelling of active response in cyclist falls from in-the-wild footage, K. Gildea, C. Simms  - Congress of the European Society of Biomechanics (ESB) (2022)
  4. Characteristics of fatal and serious cyclist collisions in Ireland: Analysis of police investigation files, K. Gildea, A. Kervick, C. Simms  - International Research Council on Biomechanics of Injury Europe (IRCOBI Europe) (2022)
  5. Video-based assessment of cyclist-tram track interactions in wet road conditions, K. Gildea, C. Mercadal-Baudart, B. Caulfield, C. Simms  - International Cycling Safety Conference (ICSC) (2022)
  6. Configurations of underreported cyclist-motorised vehicle and single cyclist collisions: Analysis of a self-reported survey, K. Gildea, D. Hall, C. Simms - Accident Analysis & Prevention (2021)
  7. Characteristics of cyclist collisions in Ireland: Analysis of a self-reported survey, K. Gildea,  C. Simms - Accident Analysis & Prevention (2021)
  8. An investigation into the effects of European vehicle type testing regulations on cyclist injury occurrence, G. Li, K. Gildea, M. Wisch, O. Zander, C. Simms - International Research Council on Biomechanics of Injury Asia (IRCOBI Asia) (2020)
  9. Cycling related major trauma in Ireland, J. Foley, M. Cronin, L. Brent, T. Lawrence, C. Simms, K. Gildea, J. Ryan, C. Deasy, J. Cronin - Injury (2019)


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