Faculty of Engineering and Computing - Research
Faculty of Engineering and Computing
Congratulations to Neil O'Hare
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17 September 2007
The title of Neil's thesis is "Semi-Automatic Person-Annotation in Context-Aware Personal Photo Collections".
He completed his PhD in the Centre for Digital Video Processing (CDVP), Adaptive Information Cluster (AIC) and the School of Computing, DCU under the supervision of Prof. Alan Smeaton.
Brief description of Project:
The MediAssist system is a prototype context-aware photo
management system that facilitates browsing, searching and semi-automatic
annotation of
We developed person classification and retrieval
techniques based on analysis of the context of photo capture, such as the
time and location, in addition
We successfully evaluated our person classification and retrieval techniques using the real photo collections of a number of users, and we also successfully evaluated the interactive annotation system with a number of users.
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.
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Congratulations
to Neil O'Hare who successfully defended his thesis and will be awarded the
degree of PhD.
