Kieran Mc Donald, CDVP

Kieran Mc Donald, B.Sc., Ph.D.
Postdoctural Researcher
Centre For Digital Video Processing,
Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland.

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I am currently a postdoctural researcher in the Centre for Digital Video Processing (CDVP) in the School of Computing at Dublin City University. I completed my Ph.D. titled "Discrete Language Models for Video Retrieval" under the supervision of Alan Smeaton in September 2005 also at the CDVP. I have researched different aspects of video retrieval since 1999. In my early research I was involved in developing many of the Físchlár video retrieval systems and our TRECVid video retrieval systems though not the current DCU-CDVP TRECVid 2005 work. My interests outside of academia are swimming, cinema, travelling, reading predominantly science fiction and learning Mandarin.

Thesis: Discrete Language Models for Video Retrieval (PDF 4.5MB, PS 13.3 MB, Latex 7MB)

Front. Table of Contents, List of Tables and Figures
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Information Retrieval Using Language Models
Chapter 3. State-of-the-art in Video Retrieval
Chapter 4. Proposed discrete Language Modelling Approach for Video Search
Chapter 5. Evaluation I: Video Retrieval Using Text Features
Chapter 6. Evaluation II: Video Retrieval Using Visual Features
Chapter 7. Evaluation III: Video Retrieval Using Combined Features
Chapter 8. Conclusion
Back. Appendices and References

Publications

Year: 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000. | Citations of my papers

2005
- Annodex-ing Broadcast TV News for Semantic Browsing and Retrieval.
  Smeaton A.F, Foley C and Mc Donald K. ISWC2005 - 4th International Semantic Web Conference, Galway, Ireland, 6-10 November 2005.
  Conference Website.
- Dublin City University at CLEF 2005: Experiments with the ImageCLEF St Andrew's Collection
  Gareth J. F. Jones and Kieran McDonald. ImageCLEF 2005 - Cross-Language Retrieval in Image Collections, Austria, 21-23 September 2005.
- Thesis: Discrete Language Models for Video Retrieval
  Mc Donald K - School of Computing, Dublin City University, September 2005.
- A Comparison of Score, Rank and Probability-based Fusion Methods for Video Shot Retrieval.
  Mc Donald K and Smeaton A.F. CIVR 2005 - International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval, Singapore, 20-22 July 2005.
  Presentation CIVR2005-CDVP-KMD-FINAL.ppt, Errata.
2004
- TRECVID 2004 Experiments in Dublin City University.
  Cooke E, Ferguson P, Gaughan G, Gurrin C, Jones G, Le Borgne H, Lee H, Marlow S, Mc Donald K, McHugh M, Murphy N, O'Connor N, O'Hare N, Rothwell S, Smeaton AF and Wilkins P. TRECVID 2004 - Text REtrieval Conference TRECVID Workshop, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 15-16 November 2004.
  (Full-text PDF SIZE: 652K; Poster PDF SIZE: 2.5M)
- Improving the Quality of the Personalized Electronic Program Guide
  O'Sullivan D, Smyth B, Wilson D, Mc Donald K and Smeaton A.
  Journal of User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp 5-36., 2004.
  (Journal Website)
- The Físchlár-News-Stories System: Personalised Access to an Archive of TV News
  Smeaton A, Gurrin C, Lee H, Mc Donald K, Murphy N, O'Connor N, O'Sullivan D, Smyth B and Wilson D.
  RIAO 2004 - Coupling Approaches, Coupling Media and Coupling Languages for Information Retrieval, Avignon, France , 26-28 April 2004.
  (conference homepage)
- Físchlár-Nursing, Using Digital Video Libraries to Teach Processes to Nursing Students
  Gurrin C, Browne P, Smeaton A, Lee H, Mc Donald K and MacNeela, P.
  WBE 2004 - IASTED International Conference on Web-Based Education, Innsbruck, Austria , 16-18 February August 2004.
  (conference homepage)
- Experiences of Creating Four Video Library Collections with the Físchlár System
  Smeaton A, Lee H and Mc Donald K.
  Journal of Digital Libraries: Special Issue on Digital Libraries as Experienced by the Editors of the Journal, Vol 4, No. 1, 2004.
  (journal homepage)
2003
- Design, Implementation and Testing of an Interactive Video Retrieval System
  Gaughan G, Smeaton A, Gurrin C, Lee H and Mc Donald K.
  MIR 2003 - 5th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval, Berkeley, CA , 7 November 2003.
  (Full-text PDF SIZE: 416K, workshop homepage)
- Mobile Access to the Físchlár-News Archive
  Gurrin C, Smeaton A, Lee H, Mc Donald K, Murphy N, O'Connor N and Marlow S.
  Mobile HCI 2003 - 5th International Symposium on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, (workshop proceedings)
2002
- Dublin City University Video Track Experiments for TREC 2002
  Browne P, Czirjek C, Gurrin C, Jarina R, Lee H, Marlow S, Mc Donald K, Murphy N, O'Connor N, Smeaton A and Ye J.
  (Full-text PDF SIZE: 485K; Poster PDF SIZE: 719K)
- Analysis of papers from twenty-five years of SIGIR conferences: what have we been doing for the last quarter of a century?
  Alan F. Smeaton, Gary Keogh, Cathal Gurrin, Kieran McDonald and Tom Sødring
  ACM SIGIR Forum, Sept 2002, Volume 36, Issue 2, Pages: 39 - 43, ISSN:0163-5840, ACM Press
2001
- Dublin City University Video Track Experiments for TREC 2001
  Browne P, Gurrin C, Lee H, Mc Donald K, Sav S, Smeaton A and Ye J.
  TREC 2001 - Text Retrieval Conference. Gaithersburg, Maryland, 13-16 November 2001.
- Use of the Físchlár Video Library System
  Mc Donald K, Smyth B, Smeaton A, Browne P and Cotter P.
  UM 2001 - International Conference on User Modeling 2001, Workshop on Personalization in Future TV.
  Sonthofen, Germany, 13-14 July 2001.
- The Físchlár Digital Video System: A Digital Library of Broadcast TV Programmes
  Smeaton A, Murphy N, O'Connor N, Marlow S, Lee H, Mc Donald K, Browne P and Ye J.
  JCDL 2001 - ACM+IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Roanoke, VA , 24-28 June 2001.
- Físchlár: An On-line System for Indexing and Browsing of Broadcast Television Content
  O'Connor N, Marlow S, Murphy N, Smeaton A, Browne P, Deasy S, Lee H and Mc Donald, K.
  ICASSP 2001 - International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Procesing, Salt Lake City, UT , 7-11 May 2001.
- Online Television Library: Organisation and Content Browsing for General Users
  Mc Donald K, Smeaton A, Marlow S, Murphy N and O'Connor N.
  SPIE Electronic Imaging - Storage and Retrieval for Media Databases 2001.
  San Jose, CA, 24-26 January 2001.
2000
- Supporting Different Search Strategies in a Video Query Interface
  Dunlop M and Mc Donald K.
  RIAO 2000 - Content-based Multimedia Information Access.
  Paris, France, 12-14 April 2000.

Patents

“Multimedia Management”, Patent Number: WO2004043029, Date: 21 May 2004
Inventors: Alan Smeaton; Sean Marlow; Noel Murphy; Noel O'Connor; Kieran McDonald; Hyowon Lee; Frederic Herrera; Paul Browne; Sheila Pollard

Academic Reviews

I have reviewed academic papers for the following:

IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2006 Conference).
IEE Proceedings: Vision, Image & Signal Processing (Journal, 2004)
International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR 2004 Conference)
Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2003 Conference).

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science, Dublin City University. 1999-2005
Title: Discrete Language Models for Video Retrieval, Supervisor: Prof. Alan F. Smeaton
B.Sc. in Computer Applications, Dublin City University. 1995-1999

Employment

Centre for Digital Video Processing, Dublin City University, Glasnevin, Dublin 9, Ireland.
Postdoctoral researcher, 24 January 2005 – Present
Duties: Research and develop a domain specific video retrieval and annotation system for a commercially funded project.
Teltec, Dublin City University, Glasnevin, Dublin 9, Ireland.
Research Assistant. 7 June 1999 – 1 Oct. 1999
Duties: Development of the DICEMAN video query application for EU funded research consortium.

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