Selected Grants

Currently active research projects include:

"High Resolution Scanning, Digital Archiving and Retrieval of Museum Artefacts", Dept. Arts, Sports and Tourism, 1 year starting Aug 2006

"K-Space: Knowledge Space of Shared Technology and Integrative Research to Bridge the Semantic Gap", European Commission IST Programme - FP6 Network of Excellence, 3 years starting Jan 2006

"Power Aware Multimedia Platforms and ApplicationS", Enterprise Ireland Commercialisation Fund - Technology Development Phase, 3 years starting Oct 2005

"COST 292: Semantic Multimodal Analysis of Digital Media", European Commission COST Programme, 3 years starting Jan 2005

"Advanced Content Processing and Management on Mobile Devices", Enterprise Ireland Proof of Concept, 1 year starting Oct 2004

"aceMedia: Integrating knowledge, semantics and content for user-centred intelligent media services", European Commission IST Programme - FP6 Integrated Project, 4 years starting Jan. 2004

Industry research contracts include collaborations with SAMSUNG, Microsoft & Google

Previous projects include:

"DigiFact: Digitisation and Indexing of Museum Artefacts Facilitating Search and Retrieval", Enterprise Ireland Proof of Concept, 1 year starting Jan. 2006

"MediAssist: Tools for organizing, browsing and retrieving from a personal electronic picture collection", Enterprise Ireland Advanced Technology Research Programme, 3 years starting Oct 2003.

"L'OEUVRE: Linked Objects and Events for User-Driven Video Retrieval", Enterprise Ireland Advanced Technologies Research Programme, 3 years starting Oct. 2002

"SCHEMA: NoE in Content-Based Semantic Scene Analysis and Information Retrieval", European Commission IST Programme - EU FP5 Network of Excellence, 3 years starting May 2002

"A-VISAGE: Audio-Visual Indexing and Summarisation Adapted to Genre", European Commission IST Programme - EU Marie Curie Development Host, 2 years starting Dec 1999

"Power Efficient Hardware Accelerators for Mobile MPEG-4", Enterprise Ireland Research Innovation Fund 2 years starting Sep 2002

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