PhD Completion Date
15th January 2005

Status:
I am currently working as a software developer for Changingworlds. When I finshed by PhD I worked for a year in the MMIR group at Imperial College London.
While In DCU I completed my B.Sc, M.Sc and Ph.D. in Computer Science at Dublin City University, Ireland. I was a member of the Centre for Digital Video Processing at DCU, the main project page is located at the Centre for Digital Video Processing .

My publication list is available from here

Contact
paul.f.browne (put in the at) gmail.com
LinkedIn

Research:
My Ph.D. research (Video Retrieval Using Objects And Ostensive Relevance Feedback) was in the area of digital video indexing and retrieval. This work required the development of a user-based relevance feedback retrieval model for video, the integration of object-based interaction and retrieval, the combination of low level visual features + text + objects, and the creation of a video retrieval application.

The searchable index was created from a combination of subtitle/audio ASR text, low and high level visual features (colour and edge histogram, colour region moments, character object data). The goal of the research is to facilitate improved video retrieval. The Following is an Abstract of My PhD Thesis

My M.Sc. research (Segmenting Digital Video) involved improving the performance of our current digital video shot boundary detection methods. A shot is continously recorded content from a single camera source and by detecting these accurately you get a good overview of the video. Segmentating digital video for scenes usually involves taking a representative image from each shot (keyframe) and grouping similar keyframes together. The second part of my M.Sc involved two approaches to scene segmentation, one was a luminance based approach that detects location based scenes and the other was a news scene segmentation approach.

Selected Presentations:
M.Sc Research on Video Segmentation
PhD Research on Video Retrieval using Objects and Ostensive Relevance Feedback
Basic HTML
HTML Design
Digital Video Creation

Selected Programming Code:
This program will ftp a file at a specific day and time (c / c++ code)
This program reads a text file and appends to larger file (c / c++ code)

Image processing methods written in Java (Colour histogram, Edge detection, colour averages) Instructions at top