Professor Alan Smeaton is an author and academic at Dublin City University

Dublin City University

Dublin City University is a university situated between Glasnevin, Santry, Ballymun and Whitehall on the Northside of Dublin in Ireland...

. Among his accomplishments are founding TRECVID

TRECVID

The TRECVID evaluation meetings are on-going series of workshops focusing on a list of different information retrieval research areas in content based retrieval of video. It is co-sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Intelligence Advanced Projects Activity of...

, the Centre for Digital Video Processing, and being a winner of the University President's Research Award in Science and Engineering in 2002 and the DCU Educational Trust Leadership Award in 2009. He is a Principal Investigator and Deputy Director of CLARITY: Centre for Sensor Web Technologies, (2008-2013)

Currently (2011), Prof. Smeaton also serves on the editorial boards for the ACM Journal on Computers and Cultural Heritage, Information Processing and Management and the journal Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval.

Published works

Alan Smeaton has published over 300 refereed journal and conference articles and he has an h-index (Google Scholar) of 35.

Books by Alan Smeaton include:

• Information Retrieval and Hypertext, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996.
• Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science '89, Springer-Verlag, 1989.

Representative Papers by Alan Smeaton include:

• TRECVID: Benchmarking the Effectiveness of Information Retrieval Tasks on Digital Video, Alan Smeaton and Paul Over, in Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval, CIVR 2003, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. LNCS2728, Springer, London, 2003.
• Evaluation Campaigns and TRECVID, Alan Smeaton, Paul Over, and Wessel Kraaij, in Proceedings of the Eight ACM
  Association for Computing Machinery
  The Association for Computing Machinery is a learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational computing society. Its membership is more than 92,000 as of 2009...
  
  International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval, MIR 2006, ACM, 2006.

External links

• Home Page