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Last updated: 15 April, 2005.

The Centre for Digital Video Processing (CDVP) is headed by Prof. Alan Smeaton. Its a collaboration between our School of Electronic Engineering and our School of Computing ... more details are on the CDVP website ... have a look at some old Christmas dinner photos.

The people working in the area are: 

  • Sinead McGiveney - started a PhD with us in 2004.
  • Colum Foley - started a PhD with us in 2004.
  • Mike McHugh - graduated from DCU B.Sc. in Computer Applications in the mid-1990s and then worked for SUN Microsystems in Dublin before joining us as a PhD student in 2004.
  • Pete Wilkins - joined our group providing technical support in 2004, coming from CSIRO in Australia.
  • Cathal Gurrin, did a PhD on web discovery systems, working with the TREC web track data, and spent Summer 2000 working in AT&T, NJ. 1998-2002, and is now a post-doctoral researcher in the CDVP.
  • Hyowon Lee, did PhD in video retrieval, specifically issues related to interfaces, 1998-2001, now working as a post-doctoral researcher in the group.
  • Kieran McDonald, PhD student, finishing up his PhD on personalised video browsing, 1999-2005 with some intermittent spells spent working on industry contracts for us.
  • Georgina Gaughan, PhD student, working on annotation of video, 2002-
  • Neil O'Hare, fininshed an M.Sc. thesis on automatic segmentation using a support vector machine, and now working as a PhD student on personal photo retrieval, 2002-
  • Sandra Rothwell, PhD in using music to detect emotion in movies, 2003-.
  • Paul Ferguson, PhD student in web retrieval 2003-

Roll of Honour: The Multimedia Information Retrieval research group has been around at Dublin City University for a long time ... the first M.Sc. student graduated in 1991 ! Here is a list of the people who have worked with us in the past; if you can update any of this, i.e. people's whereabouts, please let us know.