Alan Smeaton - Program Committees, Reviews, Examining and other Professional Activities

2013

Program Committees, etc.

• Member of the Program Committee for the Third International Visual Informatics Conference, November 13-15, Selangor, Malaysia;
• Member of the Program Committee for the Workshop on Living Labs for Information Retrieval Evaluation @ CIKM 2013 , San Francisco, November 1, 2013;
• Area Co-Chair for the ACM MULTIMEDIA Conference, October 21-25, Barcelona, Spain;
• Member of the Program Committee for the Fourth International Workshop on Human Behavior Understanding at ACM MULTIMEDIA 2013, October 21-22, Barcelona, Spain;
• Member of the Program Committee for the workshop on Multimedia Indexing and Information Retrieval for Healthcare (MIIRH) at ACM MULTIMEDIA 2013, October 21-22, Barcelona, Spain;
• Member of the Program Committee for the 1st ACM Workshop on Personal Data Meets Distributed Multimedia at ACM MULTIMEDIA 2013, October 21-22, Barcelona, Spain;
• Member of the Program Committee for the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'13) , Atlanta, Georgia, USA, November 17-20, 2013;
• Member of the Program Committee for the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE Big Data 2013), Silicon valley, CA, USA, October 6-9, 2013;
• Member of the Program Committee of the 4th International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval Copenhagen, Denmark, 29th September - 2nd October 2013;
• Member of the Program Committee of the First Workshop on Speech, Language and Audio in Multimedia, SLAM-2013. InterSpeech satellite event, Marseille, France August 22-23, 2013
• Member of the Technical Program Committee (TPC) for the Theme Track "Multimedia for Humanity" at the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME2013, San Jose, California, 15th-19th July, 2013;
• Member of the Technical Program Committee (TPC) for the 14th International Workshop on Image and Audio Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services, WIAMIS2013, Paris, France, 3-5 July, 2013;
• Member of the Program Committee for the 11th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing, CBMI2013 , Veszprém, Hungary 17-19 June, 2013;
• Member of the Program Committee for the 1st International Workshop on Lifelogging for Pervasive Health in Conjunction with PervasiveHealth 2013, Venice, Italy, 5th May 2013;
• Panels Co-chair and Member of the Program Committee for the ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, (ICMR 2013) Dallas, Texas, 16th-19th April, 2013;
• Member of the Program Committee for the 35th European Conference on Information Retrieval, (ECIR 2013) Moscow, Russia, 24-27th March, 2013.
• Member of the Program Committee for the 28th Symposium on Applied Computing: Information Access and Retrieval Track, SAC/IAR, Coimbra, Portugal, 18-22 March, 2013;
• Member of the Technical Program Committee for the International Conference on Multimedia Modeling, (MMM 2013), Huangshan, China, January 7-9, 2013;

Reviewer:

• Appointed member of the International Review Panel for the NExT Research Center (National University of Singapore and Tsinghua University (China));
• Appointed member of the International Advisory Committee (IAC) for CominLabs, part of the “Laboratoires d‟Excellence” program funded by the French ministry of research and education, Rennes, France;
• Reviewer for Signal Processing (Elsevier journal);
• Reviewer for Information Processing & Management;
• Reviewer of research proposal to Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) (UK);
• Reviewer of research proposal to the Austrian Science Fund (FWF);
• Reviewer of research proposal to ERA-NET CHIST-ERA;
• Reviewer of research proposal to New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment (MBIE);
• Review for The Computer Journal;

2012

Program Committees, etc.

• Member of the Program Committee for IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'12), Macau, China December 4-7, 2012
• Member of the Program Committee for the ECCV 2012 Workshop on Information Fusion in Computer Vision for Concept Recognition (IFCVCR 2012), Florence, Italy, Nov 2012
• Member of the Technical Program Committee for Long/Short Paper Track at the 20th ACM Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), Nara, Japan, 29 Oct-2 Nov, 2012;
• Member of the Program Committee for the , AMR2012,  Copenhagen, Denmark, 24-25 October 2012;
• Member of the Program Committee for HCI 2012, Birmingham, UK, September 12-14, 2012
• Member of the Program Committee for Recommender Technologies for Lifestyle Change 2012 A workshop collocated with the 6th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (Recsys), Dublin, Ireland, September 13, 2012
• Member of the Technical Program Committee for the 10th Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing, CBMI 2012, Annecy, France, June 27-29, 2012;
• Member of the Program Committee for the 6th Irish Human Computer Interaction (iHCI) Conference, NUI Galway, Ireland, June 20-21, 2012;
• Co-chair of the Tehnical Program Committee, ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, ICMR 2012, Hong Kong, 5-8 June, 2012;
• Member of the Technical Program Committee (TPC) of the 13th International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services, WIAMIS 2012, Dublin, Ireland, May 23-25, 2012;
• Member of the steering committee for the 3rd SenseCam Symposium 2012, Oxford, U.K., April 3-4, 2012;
• Member of the Program Committee for the 27th Symposium on Applied Computing: Information Access and Retrieval Track, Trento, Italy, 25-29 March, 2012;
• Member of the Program Committee for the Fifth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, WSDM 2012, Seattle, Washington, February 8-12, 2012;
• Member of the Technical Program Committee for the 18th International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling, MMM 2012, Klagenfurt, Austria, January 4-6, 2012;

Reviewer:

• Reviewer for Royal Society of Edinburgh Research and Enterprise Awards;
• Reviewer for project proposals for the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT);
• Reviewer for European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grants;
• Member of the International Advisory Committee (IAC) of the COMunnications INformation Science Laboratores (COMINLabs);
• Reviewer for research project proposals to the Romanian National Council for Scientific Research;
• Reviewer for MultiMedia Tools and Applications;
• Reviewer for Proceedings of the IEEE;
• Reviewer for research project proposals to the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO);
• Advisory Editor for the Journal on Information Retrieval and Knowledge Management;

External Examiner:

• Villie Viitaniemi, PhD Thesis external examiner, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland;
• Benoit Huet, HDR, Nice, France
• Bahjat Safadi, Université Josef Fourier, Grenoble, France
• Keyun Ruan, University College Dublin, Ireland

2011

Program Committees, etc.

• Member of the Technical Program Committee for ACM Multimedia 2011, Scottsdale, Arizona, US, Nov 28 to Dec 1, 2011;
• Member of the Program Committee for Detection, Representation, and Exploitation of Events in the Semantic Web (DeRiVE 2011), Workshop in conjunction with the 10th International Semantic Web Conference, Bonn, Germany 23 to 24 October 2011;
• Member of the Program Committee for the 5th Irish Human Computer Interaction Conference, Cork, Ireland, September 8-9, 2011;
• Member of the Program Committee for the 9th International Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval (AMR 2011), Barcelona, Spain, July 18-19, 2011;
• Member of the Program Committee for the STAIR 2011: International Conference on Semantic Technology and Information Retrieval, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, June 27-29, 2011;
• Member of the Program Committee for the Evaluating Personal Search workshop at the European Conference on Information Retrieval, Dublin, Ireland, 18 April 2011;
• Member of the Program Committee and member of the best paper selection committee for the 33rd European Conference on information Retrieval Dublin, Ireland, 18-21 April, 2011;
• Member of the Program Committee for the 26th Symposium On Applied Computing: Information Access and Retrieval Track, Tunghai University, Tai Chung, Taiwan, March 21-25, 2011;
• Member of the Program Committee for the Fourth International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM-2011), Hong Kong, Feb 9-12, 2011;

Reviewer:

• Reviewer for research projects submitted to the French National Research Agency (ANR) Content and Interactions (CONTINT) programme;
• Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics;
• Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Multimedia;
• Reviewer for Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (twice);
• Reviewer for chapter in book entitled "TV Content Analysis", published by CRC Press, Taylor Francis, 2011;
• Reviewer for ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (twice);
• Reviewer for ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems;
• Reviewer for Information Processing and Management;
• Reviewer for Entropy (Journal);
• Reviewer for Scientific Research and Essays (Journal);
• Reviewer for The Computer Journal;
• Reviewer for Multimedia Systems Journal;
• Reviewer for Austrian Science Fund (FWF) Translational Research Project proposal;
• Reviewer for SENSORS Journal;

External Examiner:

• Lailatul Qadri binti Zakaria, PhD Thesis external examiner, University Southampton, UK;
• Mas Rina Mustaffa, PhD Thesis external examiner, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia;

2010

Program Committees, etc.

• Member of the Program Committee for the 5th International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies (SAMT 2010), Saarbrucken, Germany, December 1-3, 2010;
• Member of the Program Committee for the 19th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge(CIKM) Management Demos Program, Toronto, Canada, October 26-30, 2010;
• Member of the Technical Program Committee for ACM Multimedia 2010, Multimedia Content Track, Firenze, Italy, 25-29 October, 2010;
• Member of the Program Committee for ACM CMM 2010 - The First ACM International Workshop on Connected Multimedia, held in conjunction with ACM MM 2010: ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Firenze, Italy, 29 October, 2010;
• Member of the Program Committee for ACM MULTIMEDIA 2010 Workshop on Very-Large-Scale Multimedia Corpus, Mining and Retrieval (VLSMCMR), held in conjunction with ACM MM 2010: ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Firenze, Italy, 29 October, 2010;
• Program co-chair of the Conference on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation, CLEF2010, Padua, Italy, 20-23 September, 2010;
• Member of the International Scientific Committee (ISC) for the 11th International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archeology and Cultural Heritage (VAST 2010), Paris, France, September, 2010;
• Co-chair of the program committee for the Irish HCI Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 2-3 September, 2010;
• Member of the program committee for the 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'10), Toronto, Canada, August 31 - September 3, 2010;
• Member of the program committee of the 8th Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval (AMR 2009), Linz, Austria, August 17-18, 2010;
• Member of the Technical Program Committee for the 8th Workshop on Content-based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI 2010), Grenoble, France, 23-25 June, 2010;
• Program co-chair of the Sensor Networks track of the Extended (European) Conference on Semantic Web (ESWC), Heraklion, Greece, 30 May - 3 June, 2010;
• Member of the program committee for RIAO'2010: Adaptivity, Personalization and Fusion of Hetergeneous Information, Paris, France, 28-30 April, 2010;
• Member of the Program Committee of the Search Track for the 19th International World Wide Web Conference, Raleigh, NC, USA, 26-30 April, 2010;
• Member of the program committee for the Eleventh ACM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval, MIR 2010, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 29-31 March, 2010;
• Member of the program committee for the 32nd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'2010), Milton Keynes, UK, 28-31 March, 2010;
• Co-organiser of the Workshop on Information Access for Personal Media Archives held in conjunction with the 32nd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), Milton Keynes, UK, 28-31 March, 2010;
• Member of the program committee for the Third ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM'2010), New York City, USA, 4-6 February, 2010;

Reviewer:

• Reviewer for European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grants;
• Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology;
• Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics;
• Reviewer for ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications;
• Reviewer for journal SENSORS (x2);
• Reviewer for the Journal of Intelligent Information Systems;
• Reviewer for the journal Multimedia Tools and Applications;
• Reviewer of book chapter for "Internet Multimedia Search and Mining";
• Reviewer for the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Express Letters;

External Examiner:

• Bart Thomee, PhD Thesis, University of Leiden, Netherlands;
• Bouke Huurnink, PhD Thesis, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands;
• Alia Amin, PhD Thesis, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands;

Other:

• Reviewer of EU FP6 TrebleCLEF Project, Trento, January 2010;
• Ch-chair, co-organiser of the Fourth Irish Human Computer Interaction Conference, iHCI, Dublin, 2-3 September 2010;
• Co-chair, co-organiser of 2nd SenseCam Workshop, Dublin, September 2010;

2009

Program Committees, etc.

• Member of the program committee for the First International Workshop on Content-Based Audio/Video Analysis for Novel TV Services, in conjunction with the International IEEE Symposium on Multimedia, San Diego, California, USA, December 14-16, 2009;
• Member of the program committee for the Eurographics Ireland 2009 Workshop, Dublin, Ireland, December 11, 2009;
• Member of the program committee for the 1st International Workshop on Internet Multimedia Mining, in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, Miami, Florida, USA, December 6 2009,
• Member of the program committee for the 4th International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies (SAMT), Graz, Austria, 2-4 December, 2009;
• Member of the program committee for the Workshop on Web-Scale Multimedia Corpus, co-located with ACM Multimedia'09, Beijing, China, 23 October, 2009;
• Member of the program committee member for the 1st International Workshop on Large-Scale Multimedia Retrieval and Mining, co-located with ACM Multimedia'09, Beijing, China, 23 October, 2009;
• Member of the International Scientific Committee (ISC) for the 10th VAST International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archeology and Cultural Heritage, Malta, September 22-25, 2009;
• Member of the program committee of the Seventh Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval (AMR 2009), Madrid, Spain, September 24-25;
• Member of the Program Committee for I-HCI, the Irish HCI Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 17 and 18 September, 2009;
• Member of the Program Committee for Workshop selection for the 32nd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Boston, Mass., USA, July 23, 2009;
• Member of the Program Committee for the workshop on "Cross-media Information Access and Mining" (CIAM) held at IJCAI-09 (Twenty-first International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence), Pasadena, Calif., USA, July 11-17, 2009;
• Member of the Program Committe for the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME2009), Cancun, Mexico, June 28 - July 3, 2009;
• Member of the Technical Program Committee of the the 7th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI), Chania, Crete, 3-5 June 2009.
• Member of the Technical Program Committee for the Rich Media Track of the World Wide Web 2009 Conference, Madrid, Spain, April 2009;
• Member of the Technical Program Committee for the 31st European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2009), Toulouse, France, April 6-9, 2009;
• Program Co-Chair of the 15th International MultiMedia Modeling Conference (MMM2009), Sophia Antipolis, France, 7-9 January 2009.

Reviewer:

• Assessor for Australian Research Council Discovery Projects research proposal;
• Reviewer for Multimedia Tools and Applications Journal;
• Reviewer for journal SENSORS;
• Reviewer for 13th International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC), September 4-7, 2009, Linz, Austria;
• Reviewer of Chapter for book on "Multimedia Semantics" to be published by John Wiley;
• Reviewer for CHI 2009, Boston, Mass, April 4-9, 2009;
• Reviewer of research proposal for Swiss National Science Foundation;
• Reviewer of research proposal for Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) (UK);
• Reviewer of research proposal for IWT-Vlaanderen, research and innovation funding agency of the Flanders (Belgian) government;
• Reviewer of research proposal for Niels Stensen Stiching, the Netherlands;
• Reviewer for Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology;
• Reviewer for ACM Transactions on the Web;
• Reviewer for the Journal of Electronic Imaging;
• Reviewer for Memory Journal (Taylor and Francis);
• Reviewer for chapter proposals for book on "Internet Multimedia Search and Mining", Bentham Science Publishers;
• Reviewer for Journal of Intelligent Information Systems;

External Examiner:

• Tony O'Callaghan, University of Limerick, external examiner for M.Sc. thesis;
• Huda Saeed Alkaabi, Khalifa University of Science Technology and Research, Sharjah, UAE, external examiner for M.Sc. thesis;
• Essa Ibrahim Basaeed, Khalifa University of Science Technology and Research, Sharjah, UAE, external examiner for M.Sc. thesis;

Other:

• Joint coordinator of the TRECVID 2009 Evaluation Workshop, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Md., USA, 16/17 November 2009;
• Reviewer of EU FP6 TrebleCLEF Project, Paris, January 2009;

2008

Program Committees, etc.

• Member of the Technical Program committee for the 9th VAST International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaelogy and Cultural Heritage (VAST 2008), Braga, Portugal, December 2-6, 2008;
• Member of the Technical Program Committee for the 3rd International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies (SAMT), Koblenz, Germany, December 3-5, 2008;
• Member of the Technical Program Committee for the International Conference on Collaborative Computing over Social Networking, Korea University, Seoul, Korea, November 13-14, 2008;
• Member of the Technical Program Committee for the ACM Multimedia 2008 Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada, October 27 - November 1 2008;
• Member of the Program Committee of the ACM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval 2008 (MIR 2008), Vancouver, BC, Canada, October 2008.
• Member of the Program Committee of the 17th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2008), Napa Valley, California, USA, October 26-30, 2008.
• Member of the Program Commitee of the Fifth International Conference on Visual Information Engineering, VIE'08, Xi'an, China, July 29-August 1, 2008.
• Member of the Program Commitee of the 5th Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems Conference (AH2008), Hannover, Germany, July 28 - August 1, 2008;
• Member of the Program Commitee of the Workshop on Adaptation for the Social Web in Association with Adaptive Hypermedia 2008, Hannover, Germany, July 29, 2008;
• Member of the Program Committee for the ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR), Niagra Falls, Canada, July 7-9, 2008;
• Member of the Program Committee for the 6th Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval (AMR 2008), Berlin, Germany, June 26-27, 2008;
• Member of the Program Committee for the Multimedia Systems area of the 28th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2008), Beijing, China, June 17 - 20, 2008.
• Member of the Program Committee for the Workshop on Collaborative Information Retrieval, at the 8th Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), Pittsburgh, Pa., USA, June 16-20, 2008;
• Member of the Program Committee of the Rich Media track for the World Wide Web conference, Beijing, China, April 21-25, 2008;
• Member of the Program Committee for the 30th European Conference on Information Retrieval, Glasgow, Scotland, March 30 - April 3, 2008;
• Member of the Technical Program Committee for the Sixth International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI 2008), London, UK, March 18-20th, 2008;
• Member of the Program Committee for the 28th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing 2008, special track on Information Access and Retrieval (ACM SAC-IAR), Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil, March 16-20, 2008;
• Member of the Program Committee for the IS&T/SPIE 20th Annual Symposium on Electronic Imaging: Conference on Multimedia Content Access: Algorithms and Systems II, San Jose, Calif., January 27-31, 2008.

Reviewer:

• Reviewer for ACM Transcations on the Web;
• Reviewer for ACM Computing Surveys;
• Reviewer for ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications;
• Reviewer for journal IEEE Intelligent Systems;
• Reviewer of short paper submissions for the 1st International Conference on Designing Interactive User Experiences for TV and Video (uxTV), Silicon Valley (San Francisco Bay Area), California, USA, October 22-24, 2008.
• Reviewer for the journal Computer Vision and Image Understanding (Elsevier);
• Reviewer for the Journal of the Franklun Institute (Elsevier);
• Reviewer of research proposal for Australian Research Council Discovery Project;
• Reviewer of research proposal for City University of New York;
• Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Multimedia;
• Reviewer for ACM Transactions on Information Systems;
• Reviewer of research proposal to Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO);
• Reviewer for Pervasive 2008 Late Breaking Results, Sydney, Australia, May 19-22, 2008;
• Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology;
• Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (twice);
• Reviewer for the Journal of Information Science;
• Reviewer for book Chapter for "Intelligent Techniques for Warehousing and Mining Sensor Network Data", IGI Global Publishers;
• Reviewer for book Chapter for BOEMIE Project state of the art survey of representation of multimedia semantics;

External Examiner:

• Jun Jie Foo, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, external examiner for PhD;

Other:

• Co-chair / organiser of the TRECVID BBC Rushes Summarization Workshop in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2008, Vancouver, BC, Canada, November 01, 2008;
• Appointed member of the Scientific Advisory Board for Institute Eurecom (Graduate School and Research Center), Sophia Antipolis, France, 2008.
• Co-organiser of Irish Graduate Student Symposium on Vision, Graphics and Visualisation (VGV2008) Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, June 5th 2008;
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the FP6 integrated project MESH - Multimedia sEmantic Syndication for enHanced news services (FP6);

2007

Program Committees, etc.

• Member of the technical program committee for the Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technology (SAMT'07) Genova, Italy, 5-7 December 2007;
• Member of the program committee for LIVE and BOEMIE combined SAMT 2007 Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition from Multimedia Content (KAMC), Genova, Italy, 7 December 2007;
• Member of the program committee for the Workshop on Personalized Access to Web Information (PAWI), Nancy, France, in December 3-7, 2007;
• Member of the Scientific Committee for the 8th International Symposium (VAST 2007), part of the 5th EUROGRAPHICS workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage Brighton, November 26-29, 2007;
• Member of the technical program committee for the ACM Multimedia 2007 Conference (Content Track), Augsburg, Germany, September 23-29, 2007;
• Co-chair / organiser of the TRECVID BBC Rushes Summarization Workshop in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2007, Augsburg, Germany, 28 September 2007;
• Member of the program committee for the 9th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR), in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2007 in Augsburg, Germany September 28-29, 2007;
• Member of the program committee for the Irish Machine Vision and Information Processing Conference (IMVIP), NUI Maynooth, September 5-7, 2007;
• Member of the programme committee for the BCS IRSG Symposium: Future Directions in Information Access, Glasgow, Scotland, August 28-29, 2007;
• Member of the scientific committee of SSMS 2007, the Second Summer School on Multimedia Semantics Analysis, Annotation, Retrieval and Applications, Glasgow, UK, July 15-21, 2007;
• Member of the technical programe committee of the ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR2007), Amsterdam, the Netherlands, July 9-11, 2007;
• Member of the program committee of the 5th International Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval (AMR2007), Paris, France, 5-6 July 2007;
• Member of the technical program committee for IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME'07), Beijing, China, July 2-5, 2007, under the Multimedia Content Analysis Track;
• Member of the International Steering Committee and the Program Committee for the International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis and Mining (MCAM'07), Shandong University, WeiHai, China, June 30-July 1 2007;
• Member of the Program Committee of the Fifth International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI'2007), Bordeaux, France, June 25-27 2007;
• Member of the technical program committee for the Eight International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS), Santorini, Greece, 6-8 June 2007;
• Member of the Program Committee for the 8th Conference on Recherche d'Information Assistee par Ordinateur (RIAO), Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 30 May-1 June, 2007;
• Member of the program committee for the 29th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), Rome, 2-5 April, 2007;
• Member of the program committee for the Quatrième conférence francophone en Recherche d'Information et Applications (CORIA 2007), á l'École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Étienne, France, 28 au 30 March, 2007;
• Member of the program committee for the ACM SAC 2007 Track on Information Access and Retrieval (ACM SAC-IAR), Seoul, Korea, 11-15 March, 2007;
• Member of the program committee for the International MultiMedia Modeling Conference (MMM) 2007, Singapore, 9-12 January, 2007;

Reviewer:

• Reviewer for International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2008, Canary Islands, Spain, 13-16 January 2008.
• Reviewer for Marine Institute (Ireland) Research proposals;
• Reviewer for papers for the ACM CHI 2008 Conference, Florence, Italy, April 2008;
• Referee for European Research Council evaluation of Stage 2 proposals of the first ERC Starting Grant;
• Member of the International Evaluation Committee for the large-scale Dutch MultimediaN project, funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO);
• Reviewer for ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications;
• Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Multimedia;
• Reviewer for project proposals for Australian Research Council discovery projects;
• Reviewer for CONTEXT 2007, the Sixth International Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and User Context, Roskilde University, Denmark, 20-24 August 2007;
• Reviewer for Cognitive Processing (Springer);
• Reviewer for Signal Processing: Image Communication (Elsevier);
• Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security;
• Reviewer for Enterprise Ireland Proof of Concept project proposals;
• Research project proposal reviewer for Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, NWO);
• Research project proposal reviewer for the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF);
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the X-Media FP6 Integrated Project (FP6);
• Reviewer for ACM Transactions on Database Systems;
• Reviewer for ACM Transactions on Information Systems;
• Reviewer for IEEE Multimedia Magazine;
• Project reviewer for the EU FP6 integrated project VIKEF (January 2007);
• Reviewer for EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing;

External Examiner:

• Matt Mouley Bouamrane, Trinity College Dublin, external examiner for PhD;

Other:

• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the FP6 integrated project MESH - Multimedia sEmantic Syndication for enHanced news services (FP6);

2006

Program Committees, etc.

• Member of the program committee for the 1st International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies (SAMT 06), Athens, Greece, 7-8 Dec, 2006;
• Member of the program committee for the ACM Multimedia 2006 (Content Track), and member of the best paper selection committee for ACM Multimedia 2006 Conference, Santa Barbara, California, USA, 22-28 October, 2006;
• Member of the Program committee for CASCON 2006: DUBLIN SYMPOSIUM in association with CASCON 2006 the 16th Annual International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering, October 16-19, 2006.
• Member of the program committee for the International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP2006), Atlanta, Ga., USA, October 8-11, 2006;
• Member of the program committee for the 10th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL06), Alicante, Spain, September, 17-22, 2006;
• Member of the best paper and best student paper selection committee for the 10th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL06), Alicante, Spain, September, 17-22, 2006;
• Member of the organising commitee of the Summer School on Multimedia Semantics, Analysis, Annotation, Retrieval and Applications, Chalkidiki, Greece, 4-8 September 2006;
• Member of the program committee for the 10th Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing (IMVIP) Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 30 Aug-1 Sept 2006;
• Member of the program committee for the 4th International Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval (AMR2006), Geneva, Switzerland, 27-28 July, 2006;
• Member of the program committee for the International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval, Tempe, Arizona, 13-15 July, 2006;
• Member of the program committee and Track Chair for "Multimedia Interfaces and Interactions" for the 7th IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), Toronto, Canada, 9-12 July 2006;
• Member of the program committee for the 4th International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems (AH 2006) Dublin, Ireland, June 19-23, 2006;
• Member of the program committee for the Symposium on Applied Computing Information Access and Retrieval, Dijon, France, April 23-27 2006;
• Member of the program committee for the 2nd Int'l Workshop on Document Image Analysis for Libraries (DIAL'06), Lyon, France, 27-28 April 2006;
• Member of the program committee for the 10th International Conference on Extending DataBase Technology (EDBT 2006), Munich, Germany, March 27-31, 2006;
• Member of the program committee for the Conférence en Recherche d'Infomations et Applications (CORIA'06), Lyon, France, 15-17 March 2006;
• Member of the program committee for Multimedia Content Analysis, Management and Retrieval (EI121), - Part of the IS&T/SPIE International Symposium on Electronic Imaging, San Jose, Calif., January 2006;

Reviewer:

• Annual Review of Information Science and Technology;
• Research project proposal reviewer for Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), UK;
• IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence;
• Project reviewer for the EU FP6 integrated project VIKEF (June 2006);
• 14th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Florence, Italy, September 4-8 2006;
• ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMCCAP);
• Enterprise Ireland Commercialisation Fund - Technology Development, evaluation of proposals;
• Springer Multimedia Systems Journal;
• IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (3 times);
• Academic promotions panel, University College Dublin;
• Australian Research Council Discovery Projects;
• Reviewer for Distinguished dissertation for the joint UK Council of Professors and Heads of Computing (CPHC) / British Computer Society (BCS) best British PhD/DPhil dissertation in Computer Science, 2006;

External Examiner:

• Jana Urban, University of Glasgow, Scotland, external examiner for PhD;
• Mika Rautiainen, University of Oulu, Finland, external examiner for PhD;
• Yan Xu, University of Surrey, UK, external examiner for PhD;
• David Lillis, University College Dublin, external examiner for M.Sc. by research;

Other:

• Appointed member of the Editorial Board of the ACM Journal on Computers and Cultural Heritage, 2006-;
• Member of the steering committee of the International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies formerly the European Workshop on the Integration of Knowledge, Semantic and Digital Media Technologies;
• Invited Lecturer at the joint K-Space-aceMedia Summer School on Multimedia Semantics - Analysis, Annotation, Retrieval and Applications (SSMS'06), Chalkidiki, Greece, 4-8 September 2006;
• Invited Lecturer at the joint DELOS-MUSCLE Summer School on "Multimedia digital libraries: Machine learning and cross-modal technologies for access and retrieval", San Vincenzo, Italy, 12 to 17 June 2006;
• Invited member of scientific advisory committee to the Frontiers of Engineering and Science Directorate, Science Foundation Ireland, April 2006-;

2005

Program Committees:

• Member of the program committee for the Second European Workshop on the Integration of Knowledge, Semantic and Digital Media Technologies, EWIMT 2005, 29 November/December, 2005, London, UK;
• Member of the program committee for ACM Multimedia 2005 (Content Track and Short Papers Track), November, Singapore;
• Member of the program committee for the Multimedia Information Retrieval Workshop in conjunction with the ACM Multimedia Conference, November 2005, Singapore.
• Member of the program committee for the Fourteenth ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 31th October - 5th November, 2005, Bremen, Germany;
• General chair and host of the 5th European Summer School in Information Retrieval, ESSIR2005, Dublin, September 2005;
• Co-chair of the program committee for the International Conference and Multimedia Expo (ICME2005), Amsterdam, July 2005;
• Member of the program committee for the ICML Workshop on Learning in Web Search, Bonn, Germany, August 2005;
• Member of the program committee for the Third International Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval, AMR2005, Glasgow, July 2005.
• Member of the program committee for the Workshop on New Technologies for Personalized Information Access at User Modeling 2005, Edinburgh, July 2005;
• Member of the program committee, (Area Coordinator), chair of the best paper awards committee and member of the workshops selection committee for ACM SIGIR 2005, Salvador, Brazil, July 2005;
• Member of the program committee of the Fourth International Workshop on Content Based Multimedia Indexing, CBMI 2005, Riga, Latvia, June 2005;
• Member of the program committee for CoLIS 5, Glasgow, June 2005;
• Member of the program committee for the ACM SAC Workshop on Information Access and Retrieval, (ACM SAC/IAR), New Mexico, March 2005;
• Member of the program committee for the 27th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2005, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, March 2005;
• Member of the program committe for the Conférence en Recherche d'Informations et Applications (CORIA) 2005, Grenoble, France, March 2005;
• Member of the program committee for ACM SAC-IAR 2005, March 13-17, Santa Fe, New Mexico;
• Member of the program committee for the IS&T/SPIE Symposium on Electronic Imaging Storage and Retrieval Methods and Applications for Multimedia Conference 2005 (EI121), San Jose, Calif., January 2005;

Reviewer:

• Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January 4-7, 2006;
• ACM Multimedia Systems Journal;
• Research project proposal reviewer for the Austrian Science Fund (Fonds zur Forderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung, FWF);
• Research project proposal reviewer for the Australian Research Council, Discovery projects/Linkage projects;
• Reviewer for the Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (Switzerland);
• Pattern Recognition Letters (Elsevier);
• IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence;
• ACM Transactions on Infomration Systems;
• Reviewer for the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) CATCH research programme;
• Project reviewer for the EU FP6 integrated project VIKEF (March 2005, May 2005);
• Enterprise Ireland Commercialisation Fund - Technology Development, evaluation of proposals;
• The Nuffield Foundation, applications for research funding;
• Information Systems (Elsevier) Journal;

External Examiner:

• Mohammad Belkhatir, PhD theses, Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France;
• Trystan Upstill, PhD theses, Australian National University;
• Martin Robinson, PhD theses, University of Ulster, Jordanstown, Northern Ireland;

Other:

• Appointed to the Editorial Board of the Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval;

2004

Program Committees:

• Member of the program committee for the European Workshop on the Integration of Knowledge, Semantics and Digital Media Technology, London, November 2004;
• Member of the program committee for SPIRE 2004 - 11th Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval, Padova, October 2004;
• Member of the program committee of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, (ICIP2004), Singapore, October 2004;
• Member of the program committee for MIR2004 - 6th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval, New York, October 2004;
• Member of the Technical Program Committee for the 12th ACM Multimedia Conference, (MM2004), New York, October 2004;
• Member of the program committee for the 8th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2004), Bath, UK, September 2004;
• Member of the selection committee for ECDL2004 best paper awards;
• Member of the program committee for 2nd International Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval (AMR 2004), Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain, August 2004;
• Member of the program committee for the 3rd International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems, (AH'2004), Eindhoven, The Netherlands, August 2004;
• Member of the program committee for the ACM SIGIR Conference, Sheffield, UK, July 2004;
• General chair, host, and member of the program committee of the 4th International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval, CIVR 2004, July 2004;
• Workshops Co-chair for the Human Language Technology Conference / North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics annual meeting (HLT/NNACL), Boston, May 2004;
• Member of the program committe for the RIAO'2004 Conference University of Avignon (Vaucluse), France, April, 2004;
• Member of the program committee for the 26th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2004, Sunderland, UK, April 2004;
• Member of the program committee for the International Workshop on Document Image Analysis for Libraries, DIAL'2004, Palo Alto, Calif., January 2004;

Reviewer:

• Journal of Systems and Software;
• IEEE Transactions on Multimedia;
• IEEE Multimedia;
• EURASIP JASP Journal;
• Journal of the American Society for Information Science and technology (JASIST) - twice;
• International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR);
• Reviewer of papers submitted to CHI2004 Conference;
• Reviewer of papers submitted to ACM SAC/IAR workshop, Cyprus, 2004;
• Journal of Digital Information;
• Science Foundation Ireland ICT Advisory Board member;
• Science Foundation Ireland E.T.S. Walton Visiting Scientist research proposals reviewer;
• National Science Foundation, USA, Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) research proposals;
• EPSRC (UK), Overseas Travel Grants proposal reviewer;
• Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) - ToKeN research program proposal reviewer;
• University of Tampere Research Evaluation Panel;
• European Young Investigator Award Scheme (EURYI) proposal reviewer;
• University Grants Committee of Hong Kong research proposals reviewer;
• Arts and Humanities Research Board (UK) Project reviewer;
• Enterprise Ireland Commercialisation Fund - Technology Development research project proposal evaluator;
• Enterprise Ireland Proof of Concept research project proposal evaluator;

External Examiner:

• Jonathan Dukes, PhD theses, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland;
• Thijs Westerveld, PhD theses, University of Twente, The Netherlands;
• Markus Pickering, PhD theses, University of London, UK;

2003

Program Committees:

• Member of the program committee for the 6th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL 2003), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 2003;
• Member of the program committee for the 5th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval, MIR 2003, Berkeley, Calif., November 2003;
• Member of the Associate Program Committee for the 11th ACM Multimedia Conference, (MM2003), Berkeley, Calif., November 2003;
• Member of the program committee for First International Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval (AMR 2003), Hamburg, Germany, September 2004;
• Member of the program committee for the 4th European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR 2003), Aussois, France, September 2003;
• Member of the program committee for the 7th European Conference on Digital Libraries, (ECDL 2003), Trondheim, Norway, August 2003;
• Program committee co-chair for the ACM SIGIR Conference, Toronto, Canada, July 2003;
• Member of the program committee for the 3rd International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval, (CIVR2003), Urbana-Champaign, Ill., July 2003;
• Member of the program committee for the 5th DELOS Workshop on Multimedia Contents in Digital Libraries, Crete, Greece, June 2003;
• Member of the program committee for the 25th European Conference on Information Retrieval, (ECIR2003), Pisa, Italy, April 2003;

Reviewer:

• IEEE Transactions on Multimedia;
• Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology;
• The Computer Journal;
• IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology;
• Ingenierie des Systems d'Information (ISI) (France);
• Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) research project proposal reviewer;
• Irish Research Council for Science Engineering and Humanities (IRCSET) EMBARK Postgraduate Scholarships proposal reviewer;
• Arts and Humanities Research Board (UK) research project proposal reviewer;
• Enterprise Ireland Basic Research Grant Scheme research project proposal reviewer;
• Enterprise Ireland Commercialisation Fund Technology Development research project proposal reviewer;
• Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (UK) research project proposal reviewer;
• Australian Research Council research project proposal reviewer;
• University Grants Committee of Hong Kong research project proposal reviewer;
• Project reviewer for the EU FP5 project MIND (Luxembourg, Feb 2003);
• Project reviewer for the EU FP5 project ARION (Luxembourg, Feb 2003);
• Project reviewer for the EU FP5 project OAF (University of Bath, September 2003);
• Appointed reviewer of book proposals from Wiley and Co.

PhD theses External Examiner:

• Robert Villa, PhD theses, University of Glasgow;
• Philippe Mulhem, Habilitation a Diriger de Recherche, Université Josef Fourier, Grenoble, France;

pre-2003 ...

This record only goes back to the start of 2003 !