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Paul Ferguson
CDVP,
Dublin City University

Email:

pferguson[at]computing.dcu.ie
 
 

General Info.



I am a PostDoctoral researcher in the Centre for Digital Video Processing (CDVP) in Dublin City University (DCU). I have recently completed my PhD., in the area of large-scale web retrieval, under the supervision of Prof. Alan Smeaton.

Room: L131
E-mail: pferguson[at]computing.dcu.ie

 

Research Activities


  • I am currently working with a group from the CDVP to develop an interactive TV system for a large electronics company.

  • My PhD research was funded by Science Foundation Ireland funded Project, as part of the Adaptive Information Cluster (AIC) group.

    • This research deals with large scale web collections and how current retrieval techniques can scale to terabyte-sized collections. As well as investigating novel ways of efficiently searching large collections of documents, using minimal resources.

    • As part of this research Pete Wilkins and myself developed the Físréal search engine, to handle 1.2 terabytes of data (94,500,000 web pages), from the SPIRIT collection.

    • I particapated in TREC (Text REtrieval Conference) in 2004, 2005 and 2006. Mainly concentrating on the Terabyte track, but also contributing to the CDVP's particapation in TrecVid.

  • A list of my publications can be found on the CDVP's publication page