18 September 2007

Congratulations to Ciarán Ó Conaire who successfully defended his thesis and will be awarded the degree of PhD.

The title of Ciarán's thesis is "Adaptive detection and tracking using Multimodal Information".

He completed his PhD in the Centre for Digital Video Processing (CDVP), Adaptive Information Cluster (AIC) and the School of Electronic Engineering, DCU under the supervision of Dr. Noel E. O’Connor.

Brief description of Project:

The difficulty of fusing data from multiple sources of information for automated visual analysis was addressed in two areas of computer vision: adaptive detection and adaptive object tracking. The work on adaptive object detection explores a new paradigm in dynamic parameter selection, by selecting thresholds for object detection to maximise agreement between pairs of sources.

Object tracking, a complementary technique to object detection, was also explored in a multi-source context and an efficient framework for robust tracking, termed the Spatiogram Bank tracker, was proposed as a means to overcome the difficulties of traditional histogram-based tracking. While general frameworks for data fusion were developed, the fusion of thermal infrared video with standard visual video was specifically targeted. Potential applications include: pervasive human-computer interaction and automated surveillance.

This project was generously funded by the Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology (IRCSET) and Science Foundation Ireland (SFI).

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