Alan Smeaton's MMIR Group

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.

Paul Browne, finished his PhD in ostensive relevance feedback in object-based video, (2001-2005).
Jiamin Ye, PhD, finished her work on MPEG-7 aggregation for video retrieval and graduated 2004. (2000-2004).
Cathal Gurrin, awarded PhD, 2002, for work on links based web retrieval, nowworking as a post-doctoral researcher with us.
Edel Greevey, M.Sc. in automatic classification of web pages 2002-2003
Tom Sødring, awarded PhD, 2002, for work on CEOLAIRE information retrieval from music by melody, then worked with us as a post-doctoral researcher until 2003 before heading back to Norway to work with Simula.
Hyowon Lee, awarded PhD, 2001, for his work on user interface development for digital video browsing, now doing a postdoc with us.
Paul Browne, awarded M.Sc., 2001 for his work on shot boundary detection in digital video segmentation, then started PhD
Prof. Catherine Berrut from the IMAG laboratoty in Grenoble, France, visited us for 5 months during 2000 and is now back in Grenoble.
Criostaí Mac Íomhaire worked on the ISOS Digital Library of Old Irish manuscript pages - how to search through Irish, etc., now working in Paris
Joaquim Macedo from the University of Minho, Portugal, working on distributed and networked information retrieval, visited us in 1997, 1998 and again in 2000
Jane Kernan awarded an M.Sc. in 1999 for her work on user interface design and evaluation for text based IR systems, now working as a lecturer here in DCU
Dai Dongxue awarded an M.Sc. in 1999 for her work on information retrieval from Chinese texts, now working in Microsoft, Dublin
Jerh O'Connor awarded an M.Sc. in 1999 working on refining character shape code based retrieval
Colin O'Toole, awarded an M.Sc. in 1999 on shot boundary detection using colour histograms, worked in Sydney, Australia, now back in Dublin
Gerard Quinn, awarded M.Sc. in 1998 for speech retrieval system, then did a year of work on the Video project
Francis Crimmins, awarded M.Sc. in 1998 for Fusion meta search engine work, then worked on the EuroGatherer project and now in Canberra, Australia.
Dr. Mike Morony, 1997-1998, post-doctoral researcher in speech processing worked on the Taiscealai news retrieval and on using audio information in digital video browsing
Dr. Nick Kushmerick, 1997-1998, worked on wrapper induction for web resources and web discovery, now working in UCD.
Gavin Gollogley, M.Sc., 1997, worked as webeditor for www.dcu.ie and has now moved to the Irish Times on the web.
Dr. Mark Burnett, Research Fellow, 1996-7 ... Mark came from Canberra, Australia, to work with us for 12 months on applying clustering techniques to searching through intranets and is now gone back to Canberra.
Fergus Kelledy completed a PhD in 1997 .. worked for Broadcom Éireann in Dublin then Xelector, also in Dublin
Robert Whelan, M.Sc. 1996, works for a software company in Dublin
Ian Quigley, M.Sc. 1995, works for a software company first in Limerick and now based in Dublin
Pat Morrissey, M.Sc. 1994, works for Aldiscon in Dublin
Ray Richardson, PhD 1994, worked for Broadcom Éireann in Dublin before re-joining us in 1998 as a post-doc and now works for Kadius in Dublin
Ruairi O'Donnell, M.Sc. 1994, now lecturing in Information Science at Strathclyde University
Aidan Gregan, M.Sc. 1994, now works for Andersen Consulting, mostly in the UK
Liam O'Neill, M.Sc. 1994, back to the Irish Aviation Authority in Dublin after his M.Sc. and now moved to Tralee Institute of Technology
Fergus Kelledy, M.Sc. 1993, then stayed in DCU for another while working on an EU-project and on his PhD, also with me as supervisor
Paul Caffrey, M.Sc. 1992, now works for Informix in Dublin
Catherine Guinan, M.Sc. 1992, working for Silicon & Software Systems, a software company in Dublin
Mark Roantree, M.Sc. 1992, finished his PhD at Napier (Edinburgh) in 2001, now lecturing here at DCU
Páraic Sheridan, M.Sc. 1991, finished his PhD at ETH Zürich having also obtained an M.S. degree at Carnegie Mellon University, and working for Textwise in Syracuse, NY.