CLARITY: Centre for Sensor Web Technologies, Centre for Digital Video Processing and
School of Computing
Dublin City University
Glasnevin
Dublin 9, IRELAND.

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E: Alan Smeaton

• Principal Investigator and Deputy Director of CLARITY: Centre for Sensor Web Technologies, (2008-2013)
• Founding Director, Centre for Digital Video Processing, (1999-).
• Winner of the University President's Research Award in "Sciences and Engineering", 2002.
• Joint coordinator of TRECVid - an International Benchmarking Evaluation Campaign on Information Retrieval from Digital Video (2001-) (NOTE: TRECVid and TREC share a workshop location and a sponsor, and TRECVid started as a track in TREC, but they parted in 2002 and are not the same).
• Program co-chair of the 15th International MultiMedia Modeling Conference (MMM2009), Sophia Antipolis, France, 2009.
• Program co-chair of TRECVid Summarization workshops at ACM Multimedia in 2007 and in 2008;
• General chair and host of the 5th European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR2005), Dublin, September 2005.
• Co-Chair of the Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Amsterdam, July 2005
• General Chair of the Conference on Image and Video Retrieval, Dublin, July 2004.
• Co-chair of the Program Committee, ACM SIGIR Conference, Toronto, 2003.

• Member, Editorial Board, Information Retrieval Journal (1998-2007).
• Member, Editorial Board, Information Processing and Management (2000-).
• Member, Editorial Board, International Journal on Digital Libraries (2002-).
• Member, Editorial Board, Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval (2006-).
• Member, Editorial Board, ACM Journal on Computers and Cultural Heritage (2006-)

• Undergraduate and taught postgraduate student project ideas, as well as some past projects, all in one place !