Electronic Engineering

Biographical Details:

Dr Sean Marlow, MIEI, CEng, received a BSc (Hons) degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Queen's University, Belfast in 1976 and a PhD in signal processing from the same University in 1979. From 1979 to 1980 he was assistant lecturer in University College, Cork. From 1980 to the present he was employed at Dublin City University (formerly NIHE Dublin), first as lecturer, then as senior lecturer in electronic engineering. Dr Marlow is joint Irish representative on the COST 211ter (Video Compression for Telecomms) Management Committee. He is co-Director of the Visual Media Processing Group and Centre for Digital Video Processing

Research Interests:

Image and Video Compression: Very Low Bit Rate Coding; Object-based coding; MPEG-4 Audio Visual Analysis: A-V classification; DSP Architectures for A-V analysis; Applications of DSP in speech and vision

Selected Peer Reviewed Journals

• Sadlier D, Marlow S, O'Connor N. and Murphy N. 2002. Automatic TV Advertisement Detection from MPEG Bitstream. Journal Of The Pattern Recognition Society, 35, 12, pp2719-2726.
• Sadlier D, Marlow S, O'Connor N. and Murphy N. 2002. Automatic TV Advertisement Detection from MPEG Bitstream. Pattern Recognition, 35, No 12,

• Duffner O, O'Connor N, Murphy N, Smeaton A.F. and Marlow S., Road Traffic Monitoring using a Two-Microphone Array, 118th Audio Engineering Society (AES) Convention, 28-MAY-05 - 31-MAY-05, Barcelona, Spain
• Kinane A, Muresan V, O'Connor N, Murphy N and Marlow S., Energy-Efficient Hardware Architecture for Variable N-point 1D DCT, PATMOS 2004 - IEEE International Workshop on Power And Timing Modeling, Optimization and Simulation, 15-SEP-04 - 17-SEP-04, Santorini, Greece
• Sadlier D, O'Connor N, Murphy N and Marlow S., A Framework for Event Detection in Field-Sports Video Broadcasts based on SVM generated Audio-Visual Feature Model. Case-Study:Soccer Video, IWSSIP'04 - International Workshop on Systems, Signals and Image Processing, 13-SEP-04 - 15-SEP-04, Poznan, Poland, 243 - 246
• Jarina R, O'Connor N, Murphy N and Marlow S., An Experiment in Audio Classification from Compressed Data, IWSSIP'04 - International Workshop on Systems, Signals and Image Processing, 13-SEP-04 - 15-SEP-04, Poznan, Poland
• Malobabic J, O'Connor N, Murphy N, and Marlow S., Automatic Detection and Extraction of Artificial Text in Video, WIAMIS 2004 - 5th International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services, 21-APR-04 - 23-APR-04, Lisbon, Portugal
• Sadlier D, O'Connor N, Marlow S, and Murphy N., A Combined Audio-Visual Contribution to Event Detection in Field Sports Broadcast Video. Case Study: Gaelic Football, ISSPIT'03 - IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, 14-DEC-03 - 17-DEC-03, Darmstadt, Germany, 552 - 555
• Gurrin C, Smeaton A.F, Lee H, Mc Donald K, Murphy N, O'Connor N and Marlow S., Mobile Access to the Físchlár-News Archive, In: Fabio Crestani and Mark Dunlop and Stefano Mizzaro ed.Mobile HCI 2003 - 5th International Symposium on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, Workshop on Mobile and Ubiquitous Information Access. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 2954, 08-SEP-03 - 11-SEP-03, Udine, Italy, 124 - 142
• Czirjek C, O'Connor N, Marlow S, Murphy N., Face Detection and Clustering for Video Indexing Applications, Acivs 2003 - Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems, 02-SEP-03 - 05-SEP-03, Ghent, Belgium
• O'Connor N, Adamek T, Sav S, Murphy N and Marlow S., QIMERA: A Software Platform for Video Object Segmentation and Tracking, WIAMIS 2003 - 4th Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Service, 09-APR-03 - 11-APR-03, London, U.K.
• O'Connor N, Muresan V, Kinane A, Larkin D, Marlow S and Murphy N., Hardware Acceleration Architectures for MPEG-Based Mobile Video Platforms: A Brief Overview, WIAMIS 2003 - 4th Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Service, 09-APR-03 - 11-APR-03, London, U.K.
• Smeaton A.F, Lee H, O'Connor N, Marlow S and Murphy N., TV News Story Segmentation, Personalisation and Recommendation, AAAI 2003 Spring Symposium on Intelligent Multimedia Knowledge Management, 24-MAR-03 - 26-MAR-03, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
• Marlow S, Sadlier D, O'Connor N and Murphy N., Voice Processing for Automatic TV Sports Program Highlights Detection, Proceedings of 8th International Symposium on Social Communication, 20-JAN-03 - 24-JAN-03, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, 502 - 506
• Sadlier D, Marlow S, O'Connor N and Murphy N., MPEG Audio Bitstream Processing Towards the Automatic Generation of Sports Programme Summaries, ICME 2002 - IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo,, 26-AUG-02 - 29-AUG-02, Laussane, Switzerland,
• Sadlier D, Marlow S, O'Connor N and Murphy N., MPEG Audio Bitstream Processing Towards the Automatic Generation of Sports Programme Summaries, ICME 2002 - IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, 26-AUG-02 - 29-AUG-02, Laussane, Switzerland, 77 - 80
• Jarina R, O'Connor N, Marlow S, Murphy N., Rhythm Detection for Speech-Music Discrimination in MPEG Compressed Domain, DSP 2002 - 14th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing, 01-JUL-02 - 03-JUL-02, Santorini, Greece
• Jarina R, O'Connor N, Marlow S, Murphy N., Rhythm Detection for Speech-Music Discrimination in MPEG Compressed Domain, DSP 2002 - 14th IEEE International Conference on Digital Signal Processing, 01-JUL-02 - 03-JUL-02, Santorini, Greece
• Jarina R, Duffner O, Marlow S, O'Connor N and Murphy N., MPEG-1 Bitstreams Processing for Audio Content Analysis, ISSC 2002 - Irish Signals and Systems Conference, 25-JUN-02 - 26-JUN-02, Cork, Ireland
• Muresan V, O'Connor N, Murphy N, Marlow S and McGrath S., Low Power Techniques for Video Compression, ISSC 2002 - Irish Signals and Systems Conference, 25-JUN-02 - 26-JUN-02, Cork, Ireland
• Muresan V, O'Connor N, Murphy N, Marlow S and McGrath S., Low Power Techniques for Video Compression, ISSC 2002 - Irish Signals and Systems Conference, 25-JUN-02 - 26-JUN-02, Cork, Ireland, 95 - 102
• Marlow S, Sadlier D, O'Connor N and Murphy N., Audio Processing for Automatic TV Sports Program Highlights Detection, ISSC 2002 - Irish Signals and Systems Conference, 25-JUN-02 - 26-JUN-02, Cork, Ireland, 207 - 212
• Jarina R, Duffner O, Marlow S, O'Connor N and Murphy N., MPEG-1 Bitstreams Processing for Audio Content Analysis, ISSC 2002 - Irish Signals and Systems Conference, 25-JUN-02 - 26-JUN-02, Cork, Ireland, 435 - 442
• Marlow S, Sadlier D, O'Connor N and Murphy N., Audio Processing for Automatic TV Sports Program Highlights Detection, ISSC 2002 - Irish Signals and Systems Conference, 25-JUN-02 - 26-JUN-02, Cork, Ireland
• Calic J, Sav S, Izquierdo E, Marlow S, Murphy N and O'Connor N., Temporal Video Segmentation for Real-Time Key Frame Extraction, ICASSP 2002 - International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 13-MAY-02 - 17-MAY-02, Orlando, Florida
• O'Connor N, Czirjek C, Deasy S, Marlow S, Murphy N and Smeaton A.F., News Story Segmentation in the Físchlár Video Indexing System, ICIP 2001 - International Conference on Image Processing, 10-OCT-01 - 12-OCT-01, Thessaloniki, Greece
• O'Connor N, Czirjek C, Deasy S, Marlow S, Murphy N and Smeaton A, . "News Story Segmentation in the Físchlár Video Indexing System", ICIP 2001 - International Conference on Image Processing., 07-OCT-01 - 10-OCT-01, Thessaloniki, Greece
• Jarina R, Murphy N, O'Connor N and Marlow S, "Speech-Music Discrimination from MPEG-1 Bitstream", SSIP'01 - WSES International Conference on Speech, Signal and Image Processing., 01-SEP-01 - 06-SEP-01, Malta
• Sav S, Marlow S, Murphy N and O'Connor N., "An automatic technique for visual quality classification for MPEG-1 video", SSIP'01 - WSES International Conference on Speech, Signal and Image Processing., 01-SEP-01 - 06-SEP-01, Malta
• Jarina R, Murphy N, O'Connor N and Marlow S., Speech-Music Discrimination from MPEG-1 Bitstream, In: Kluev V.V and Mastorakis N.E. (Eds.), Advances in Signal Processing, Robotics and Communications, WSES Press, 2001, SSIP'01 - WSES International Conference on Speech, Signal and Image Processing, 01-SEP-01 - 06-SEP-01, Malta, 174 - 178
• Sav S, Marlow S, Murphy N and O'Connor N., An Automatic Technique for Visual Quality Classification for MPEG-1 Video, SSIP'01 - WSES International Conference on Speech, Signal and Image Processing, 01-SEP-01 - 06-SEP-01, Malta
• Lee H, Smeaton A, Murphy N, O'Conner N and Marlow S, "Físchlár on a PDA: Handheld User Interface Design to a Video Indexing, Browsing and Playback System", UAHCI 2001 - International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction, 05-AUG-01 - 10-AUG-01, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Lee H, Smeaton A, Murphy N, O'Conner N and Marlow S., Físchlár on a PDA: Handheld User Interface Design to a Video Indexing, Browsing and Playback System, UAHCI 2001 - International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction, 05-AUG-01 - 10-AUG-01, New Orleans, Louisiana, 377 - 381
• Sadlier D, Marlow S, O'Connor N and Murphy N., Automatic TV Advertisement Detection from MPEG Bitstream, PRIS 2001 - The 1st International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Information Systems, 07-JUL-01 - 10-JUL-01, Setubal, Portugal, 14 - 25
• Sadlier D, Marlow S, O'Connor N and Murphy N, "Automatic TV Advertisement Detection from MPEG Bitstream", ICEIS 2001 - International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems., 07-JUL-01 - 10-JUL-01, Setubal, Portugal
• Marlow S, Sadlier D, O'Connor N and Murphy N., "Audio and Video Processing for Automatic TV Advertisement Detection", ISSC 2001 - Irish Signals and Systems Conference, 25-JUN-01 - 27-JUN-01, Maynooth, Ireland
• Marlow S, Sadlier D, McGeough K, O'Connor N and Murphy N., Audio and Video Processing for Automatic TV Advertisement Detection, ISSC 2001 - Irish Signals and Systems Conference, 25-JUN-01 - 27-JUN-01, Maynooth, Ireland
• Smeaton A, Murphy N, O'Connor N, Marlow S, Lee H, Mc Donald K, Browne P and Ye J, "The Físchlár Digital Video System: A Digital Library of Broadcast TV Programmes", JCDL 2001 - ACM+IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 24-JUN-01 - 28-JUN-01, Roanoke, VA
• Smeaton A.F, Murphy N, O'Connor N, Marlow S, Lee H, Mc Donald K, Browne P and Ye J., The Físchlár Digital Video System: A Digital Library of Broadcast TV Programmes, JCDL 2001 - ACM+IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 24-JUN-01 - 28-JUN-01, Roanoke, VA, 312 - 313
• Lee H, Smeaton A.F, Murphy N, O'Connor N and Marlow S., User Interface Design for Keyframe-Based Browsing of Digital Video, WIAMIS 2001 - Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services, 16-MAY-01 - 17-MAY-01, Tampere, Finland
• Lee H, Smeaton A, Murphy N, O'Conner N and Marlow S, "User Interface Design for Keyframe-Based Browsing of Digital Video", WIAMIS 2001 - Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services, 16-MAY-01 - 17-MAY-01, Tampere, Finland
• O'Connor N, Marlow S, Murphy N, Smeaton A.F, Browne P, Deasy S, Lee H and Mc Donald K., Físchlár: An On-line System for Indexing and Browsing of Broadcast Television Content, ICASSP 2001 - International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Procesing, 07-MAY-01 - 11-MAY-01, Salt Lake City, UT
• O'Connor N, Marlow S, Murphy N, Smeaton A, Browne P, Deasy S, Lee H and Mc Donald K, "Físchlár: An On-line System for Indexing and Browsing of Broadcast Television Content", ICASSP 2001 - International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 07-MAY-01 - 11-MAY-01, Salt Lake City, UT
• Mc Donald K, Smeaton A, Marlow S, Murphy N and O'Connor N, "Online Television Library: Organisation and Content Browsing for General Users", SPIE Electronic Imaging - Storage and Retrieval for Media Databases 2001, 24-JAN-01 - 26-JAN-01, San Jose, CA
• Mc Donald K, Smeaton A.F, Marlow S, Murphy N and O'Connor N., Online Television Library: Organisation and Content Browsing for General Users, SPIE Electronic Imaging - Storage and Retrieval for Media Databases 2001, 24-JAN-01 - 26-JAN-01, San Jose, CA
• Lee H, Smeaton A.F, McCann P, Murphy N, O'Connor N and Marlow S., Físchlár on a PDA: A Handheld User Interface to a Video Indexing, Browsing and Playback System, ERCIM Workshop "User Interfaces for All", 25-OCT-00 - 26-OCT-00, Florence, Italy, 352 - 353
• Lee H, Smeaton A.F, Berrut C, Murphy N, Marlow S and O'Connor N., Implementation and Analysis of Several Keyframe-Based Browsing Interfaces to Digital Video, In: Jose Borbinha and Thomas Baker ed.In: Borbinha J and Baker T. (Eds.), Research and Advances Technology for Digital Libraries, LNCS 1923. ECDL 2000 - European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, 18-SEP-00 - 20-SEP-00, Lisbon, Portugal, 206 - 218
• Donnelly S, Smeaton A.F, Berrut C, Marlow S, Murphy N and O'Connor N., Automatically Detecting Camera Motion from MPEG-1 Encoded Video, IMVIP 2000 - Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference, 31-AUG-00 - 02-SEP-00, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 215 - 215
• Browne P, Smeaton A.F, Murphy N, O'Connor N, Marlow S and Berrut C., Evaluating and Combining Digital Video Shot Boundary Detection Algorithms, IMVIP 2000 - Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference, 31-AUG-00 - 02-SEP-00, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 93 - 100
• Lee H, Smeaton A.F, O'Toole C, Murphy N, Marlow S and O'Connor N., The Físchlár Digital Video Recording, Analysis, and Browsing System, RIAO 2000 - Content-based Multimedia Information Access, 12-APR-00 - 14-APR-00, Paris, France, 1390 - 1399
• Smeaton A.F, Gilvarry J, Gormley G, Tobin B, Marlow S and Murphy N., An Evaluation of Alternative Techniques for Automatic Detection of Shot Boundaries in Digital Video, IMVIP'99 - 3rd Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference, 08-SEP-99 - 09-SEP-99, Dublin, Ireland
• O'Toole C, Smeaton A.F, Murphy N and Marlow S., Evaluation of Automatic Shot Boundary Detection on a Large Video Test Suite, CIR'99 - The Challenge of Image Retrieval: 2nd UK Conference on Image Retrieval, 25-FEB-99 - 26-FEB-99, Newcastle, UK