Alan Smeaton

Professor Alan Smeaton is an author and academic at Dublin City University. Among his accomplishments are founding TRECVID, the Centre for Digital Video Processing, and being a winner of the University President's Research Award in Science and Engineering 2002.

Currently (2007), Prof. Smeaton also serves on the editorial boards for the ACM Journal on Computers and Cultural Heritage and the journal Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval.

Published works

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 International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval, MIR 2006, ACM, 2006.

External links

* [http://www.computing.dcu.ie/~asmeaton/ Home Page]