Research InterestsMy research is in
the areas of Multimedia Information
Retrieval, Digital Memories and Mobile
Device Access. My phd research was on
methods of exploiting linkage densities
in WWW graphs to improve ranking in
Search Engine results. Since my PhD I
have worked within the CDVP initially
developing multimedia search engines for
image and video. In recent years I have
become interested in Human Digital
Memories and have worn a SenseCam since
June 2006 (capturing 3.3 million photos
as of March 2009). Also, I have an
interest in Human Computer Interaction,
especially for mobile devices.
My
research Interestes can be summarised
under the following headings:
- Human
Digital Memories -
capturing, storing,
understanding, searching,
filtering, recommending and
providing ubiquitous access to
personal digital memories and
personal multimedia collections.
My work has focused on sensecam data,
but also GPS and human sensing
data.
- MultiMedia
Information Retrieval -
indexing and retrieval of
Multimedia data (video and image
data). I have been heavily
involved in the development of
the Físchlár digital video
suite (Físchlár-News,
Físchlár-TREC,
Físchlár-Sheffield and
Físchlár-Nursing).
- Mobile
Access to Information -
developing search engines to
support access to multimedia
content on mobile devices is a
challenge that I am addressing
through the iAd project.
- WWW
search - large Scale Search
for WWW data, being the subject
of my PhD thesis, is still an
area of great interest to me.
- Digital
Library Architectures - with iAd
partners in the University of
Tromso, I am developing
architectures for digital
libraries that incorporate
content management logic directly
into the digital library,
reducing user overhead when
managing large archives.
- Person
and Environmental Sensing
-sensing the person and the
environment; developing search
infrastructures and retrieval
strategies to deal with such
sensor streams.
Current
Projects
iAd -
Information Access Disruptions
(Norwegian Research Council) - The aim of this
seven year project is to target
core research for next generation
precision, analytics and scale
for information retrieval from
multimedia content. iAD will be
directed by Fast Search &
Transfer in collaboration with
Schibsted, one of Europe’s
largest media companies,
Accenture, and leading
universities: Cornell University,
University College Dublin, Dublin
City University, BI Norwegian
School of Management and the
universities in Tromsø (UiT),
Trondheim (NTNU) and Oslo (UiO).
InsideOut (NDRC) - "Inside
Out" is focused on the
development of a next generation
gaming system to create a unique
learning environment for
children. In particular, the
project is focused on the area of
health awareness and childhood
obesity.
Zignals (Enterprise
Ireland) - tba
Stokes
Lecturship (SFI) - The Science
Foundation Ireland Stokes
Professorship and Lectureship
Programme (briefly “The
Stokes”) is designed to
support the strategic planning
for increasing the number of
research active faculty members
in Irish Universities. My
lecturship at DCU is sponsored by
a SFI Stokes award.
Previous
Projects I have been involved in:
07-08,
Digital TV Project
Project Manager & Principal
Negotiator - of a team of five people
(four postdocs and one research
assistant).
06-07,
Digital Photo Management Project
Project Manager - of a team of four
(three postdocs and one research
assistant).
05-07,
Content Annotation
Project Manager - of a variable size team
of three postdocs, phd students and
research assistants.
03-06,
Mediassist
Postdoctoral Researcher - working on
methods to automatically organise
personal photo collections.
00-03,
Físchlár II
PhD Student - working on techniques to
search, filter, alert and summarise video
news programmes.
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