Please note that as of 21/05/2010 I am no longer employed by DCU, and am moving to Google. I still retain some research interest, and contact is still welcomed, however my response times to emails may increase considerably ;). Correspondance regarding any research activities of the CDVP/CLARITY can be directed towards the CDVP homepage for contact details.
I was a Postdoc with the Centre for Digital Video Processing (CDVP), a cross-disciplinary research centre involving the Schools of Computing and Electrical Engineering at Dublin City University (DCU). My current project is the Information Access Disruptions (iAD) project, led by Cathal Gurrin.
I completed my Ph.D studies in 2009, producing my thesis: "An Investigation into weighted data fusion for Content-Based Multimedia Information Retrieval". My supervisor was Prof. Alan Smeaton and this work was being funded as part of the K-Space NoE.
My research interests continue to evolve with time and exposure to new ideas. Broadly speaking, my interests are in Multimedia Information Retrieval, and the wide variety of approaches that encompasses. In particular I have an interest in evaluation and in applications of machine learning techniques, as it's pretty obvious now that given sufficient data(^), the machine learning approaches can offer excellent performance.
^ Of course getting sufficient data, in particular user data, remains a rather significant problem.
Previously i've worked with the CDVP and with the Technologies for Electronic Documents (TED) group of the CSIRO (whose activities are now encompased by the CSIRO ICT Centre).
I'm also now involved in ECIR 2011 - Dublin, as the local organizer.
DORAS is an excellent resource provided by DCU which is now hosting the majority of our publications. This resource is very extensive, however there will still be some publications missing. If there is any in particular that is of interest and you cannot find online, please drop me an email.
Other aggregated lists of my publications can be found at:
The following list contains publications I was involved in prior to my time in DCU.
An Empirical Study of the Effect of Coherent and Tailored Document Delivery as an Interface to Organizational Websites, Cécile Paris, Mingfang Wu, Anne-Marie Vercoustre, Stephen Wan, Peter Wilkins and Ross Wilkinson, Proceedings of the Adaptive Hypermedia Workshop at the 2003 User Modelling Conference, Pittsburgh, USA, June 22, 2003.
CSIRO INEX experiments: XML search using PADRE, Anne-Marie Vercoustre, James A. Thom, Alexander Krumpholz, Ian Mathieson, Peter Wilkins, Mingfang Wu, Nick Craswell and David Hawking, INEX 2002 Workshop, Dagstuhl, Germany, 2002.
XML Document Retrieval with PADRE, Nick Craswell, David Hawking, Alexander Krumpholz, Ian Mathieson, James A. Thom, Anne-Marie Vercoustre, Peter Wilkins and Mingfang Wu, 7th Australasian Document Computing Symposium, Sydney, Australia, 2002
Panoptic Expert: Searching for experts not just for documents, Nick Craswell, David Hawking, Anne-Marie Vercoustre and Peter Wilkins, Ausweb Poster Proceedings, Queensland, Australia, 2001