CENTRE for DIGITAL VIDEO PROCESSING
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News articles and newsletters on our Centre and our official presentations

 
"Utilising Wearable Sensor Technology to Provide Effective Memory Cues"
from ERCIM News (No. 76, January 2009)
On a wearable sensor technology that passively records 'lifelog' images and sensor readings of a wearer's daily life... The focus of our work is not on aggregating, collecting or networking data as in the usual application of sensors in the Sensor Web, but rather on detecting events of interest to the wearer from a multi-sensor standalone device... Link to article
BBC TV, Big Ideas by James May on our SenseCam study
from BBC Big Ideas (9 October 2008)
Our SenseCam research appeared on BBC TV Big Ideas by James May... Clip from YouTube
"Technology pros serve tennis ace"
from Irish Times (21 July 2008)
A DCU team has made the ultimate tennis court where computers and video help players to improve and give coaches a new way to monitor performance... Full story from Irish Times
"Minister Martin Announces €16.4 Million Investment for New Ground Breaking Research Centre"
from SFI Press and Events (15 April 2008)
Mr. Micheál Martin, T.D, Minister for Enterprise Trade and Employment, today (Tuesday 15th April 2008) announced the establishment of CLARITY a new Science Foundation Ireland Centre for Science, Engineering and Technology (CSET)... Full story from SFI
"New research centre on sensor technology"
from RTE Six One News (15 April 2008)
Philip Bromwell reports on the joint UCD-DCU research centre which will focus on developing new uses for sensor technology... Full story from RTE News
"DCU and UCD combine to seek commercial research advances in new technologies"
from DCU online news (15 April 2008)
A unique €16.4M technology collaboration between DCU and UCD, supported by Cork’s Tyndall Institute and funded by Science Foundation Ireland, aims to tame twenty-first century media information overload, facilitate improved health, and ensure that our environment is meeting tough standards being set to deliver a better quality of life... Full story from DCU homepage
"UCD, DCU team up for sensor research"
from RTE Business News (15 April 2008)
Science Foundation Ireland is to fund a €16.4M technology partnership between UCD and DCU. The project, called CLARITY, is being supported by research at the Tyndall National Institute in Cork... Full story from RTE Business
"Miniature camera unveiled"
from RTE Six One News (9 November 2007)
Ray Colgan reports on a new camera which automatically takes over 3,000 photos a day... News story clip from RTE
"Microsoft - DCU Micro camera project shoots a million pictures"
from DCU online news (9 November 2007)
DCU scientists are working with the Research Department of US Multinational Microsoft using a wearable miniature camera – a SensCam - to provide a searchable digital picture diary of a person's entire day... Full story on DCU homepage
"On The Record, All the Time: Researchers digitally capture the daily flow of life. Should they?"
from The Chronicle of Higher Education (9 February 2007)
... researchers like Alan F. Smeaton, are trying to find automated ways to navigate lifelogging data. Mr. Smeaton, a professor of computing at Dublin City University, in Ireland, specializes in video, and his research team has created programs that can scan video and automatically find, say, action sequences... Read full article
"Gordon Bell feeds every piece of his life into a surrogate brain"
from FastCompany.com (Issue 110, November 2006)
...So are all those photos a waste of memory? Or can that kind of exhaustive visual record actually be worth something? Alan Smeaton, a professor of computing at Dublin University, thinks it can. After hearing about Bell's project, Smeaton got Microsoft to lend him a few SenseCams and gave them to his students, who began wearing them all day long... Read full article
"System 'spots multimedia content' "
from BBC News (16 November 2006)
A smart system that can recognise and label the content in photos and videos is being developed by researchers... Read full article
"Research Cocktail"
from Science Spin (Issue 17 Page 3)
The wonderful thing about digital technology is that it crosses many disciplines, spreading as it does like an omnipresent blanket over our lives. The SFI-funded Adaptive Information Cluster in DCU is running with this theme... Read full article (PDF)
"Navigating through the content of digital videos - the viewer's cut!"
from DCU Times (Summer Edition, 26 May 2006)
A unique cross-disciplinary collaboration is yielding exciting developments in the field of automated analysis of digital video information. Cormac Sheridan talks to Prof Alan Smeaton of DCU's Centre for Digital Video Processing about how his cutting-edge research is attracting multinational investment. Link to Summer Edition - Link to article (PDF)
"Tangled up in a web of hate"
from Sunday Tribune (14 May 2006)
It's been accused of facilitating bullying, and of rendering a generation of teenagers illiterate and inarticulate, but until last week, the Bebo website, with 24 million users world wide...
"Taking holiday snaps to a whole new level"
from Sunday Tribune (26 February 2006)
Taking photographs on holiday may become a thing of the past due to new technology Irish researchers are working on which will creat photo diaries using a tiny camera that can attach to clothing...
"Microsoft and DCU Target Alzheimer’s in Micro Camera Project"
from Pat Kenney Show, RTE Radio 1 (21 February 2006)
US Multinational Microsoft has chosen a Dublin City University research team to take part in a project to create tiny cameras that can record a searchable digital picture diary of your entire day... Listen to the clip (mp3; 9min 55sec)    Also from DCU News Link to article
"Google picks DCU for US University Project"
from Irish Times (10 February 2006)
Internet research engine Google has chosen Dublin City University (DCU) to take part in a project with two US universities aimed at translating manuscripts... Link to article
"The Book of Kells - Google to put ancient text on the internet"
from Irish Independent (10 February 2006)
Fancy googling the Book of Kells or all 65,000 pages of first US president George Washington's diaries? A new collaboration between Irish scientists and internet wizards Google may... Link to article
"Google picks DCU"
from The Star (10 February 2006)
Internet giant Google has chosen Dublin City University to join two American universities in a quest to make information across the globe easy to search for scholars... Link to article
"Google backs DCU handwritten documents search research"
from Morning Ireland, RTE Radio 1 (9 February 2006)
Prof Alan Smeaton of DCU's Adaptive Information Cluster says we might be able to word search handwritten Census documents to find our ancestors. Listen to the clip (mp3; 4min 36sec)
"MediAssist: Managing Personal Digital Photo Archives"
from ERCIM News (No. 62, July 2005)
MediAssist is creating a range of applications to help people to manage their digital photo archives by employing context to automatically annotate photo collections. Link to article
"Físchlár-News: Multimedia Access to Broadcast TV News"
from ERCIM News (No. 62, July 2005)
Físchlár-News is an operational system which provides content-based access to a growing archive of broadcast TV news. The story on the Físchlár-News - its features, the technology incorporated, and current status. Link to article
"Adapting to a Bright New World"
from University View (DCU alumni magazine) (Spring 2004)
Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)'s 5.6 million euro funding to Adaptive Information Cluster project in which CDVP is a team. Link to article
"SFI invests in DCU and UCD"
from DCU online news (6 November 2003)
On Science Foundation Ireland's over €5.6m funding for Adaptive Information Cluster, the collaboration between DCU (CDVP and NCSR) and UCD. Link to article
"Home-grown to roam"
from Digital Ireland (9th ed.), The Irish Times (October 2003)
Mentioning Aliope and the Centre in an article on Irish indigenous m-tech companies. Link to article
"SFI invests EUR 5.6M in adaptive information technology..."
from Science Foundation Ireland (October 2003)
On Science Foundation Ireland's over €5.6m funding for Adaptive Information Cluster. Link to article
"SFI grant for 'filter' research"
from RTE OnBusiness (14 October 2003)
On Science Foundation Ireland's over €5.6m funding for Adaptive Information Cluster, the collaboration between DCU (CDVP and NCSR) and UCD. Link to article
"Learning and Understanding Bimanual Movements"
article from ERCIM News (Issue No. 55, October 2003)
Scientists at Dublin City University have researched a subset of human movements called bimanual movements. At different stages of this research they have approached the problems from the novel points of view. They believe that many machine learning problems can accommodate neuroscience and perceptual aspects of human movements for learning and recognising human behaviours. Link to full article
"Professor Anne Scott and Professor Alan Smeaton - this year's President's research award recipients"
from DCU online news (11 March 2003)
Story about Alan's being awarded with DCU's highest research distinction, the President's Award. Ceremony and presentation was on 11 March 2003. Link to article
"Project aims to create smarter video"
from The Irish Times (7 March 2003)
Story about Centre's research on video analysis, indexing, browsing, summarisation and mobile application, and the Físchlár applications that demonstrate these. Link to article
"GAA highlight system 'huge potential'"
from The Sunday Tribune (3 November 2002)
Story about automatic summarisation of gaelic football programmes - developed by David Sadlier (VMPG/CDVP), the analysis of whole programme results in detecting important parts of the game and subsequent clipping of those parts into a short summary (say 10-minute summary). Link to article
"DCU opens innovation centre to spur on entrepreneurs"
from Irish Independent (27 September 2001)
Story about the newly openned Invent Centre in DCU, in which one of the campus companies, Aliope Ltd, getting input from the Centre's research. Link to article
ON IR 2001, FINLAND -----

"Físchlár on a PDA: A Hand-Held User-Interface to Digital Video"
article from ERCIM News (July 2001 issue)
Article about a video keyframe-based browsing interface design for PDA (Compaq iPAQ) and how the underlying design framework resulted in this particular design. Link to article
"Hand-Gesture Recognition for HCI"
article from ERCIM News (July 2001 issue)
Article about hand-shape and hand-motion recognition work which can be used for human-computer interaction in the future. Link to article
"Campus pushes out the limits of video technology"
article from The Irish Times (1 June 2001)
Story about Centre's digital video research and Aliope Link to article
"Campus company aims for Fischlar without wires"
from online Newsletter IT's Monday (21 May 2001)
Link to article
"Ireland: Record, browse and play TV programmes digitally on your PC"
from online Newsletter TV meets the Web (23 March 2001)
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"Record, browse and play TV programmes digitally on your PC"
article from Europemedia.net (21 March 2001)
Link to article
"Fast-forward to the future"
article from The Irish Times (19 March 2001)
Link to article
"Indexing and retrieval of digital video"
from The Irish Scientist: 1999 Year book (1999)
Article in The Irish Scientist 1999, outlining the Centre's early stage of the project with prototype system interface. Link to article
"Four techniques identify images in video"
from online Newsletter IT's Monday (9 August 1999)
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