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The CDVP is a cross-disciplinary collaboration between
the School of Computing and the School of Electronic Engineering that was awarded the status of University Designated
Research Centre in 1999. The Centre is founding component of the
CLARITY: Centre for Sensor Web Technologies, a cross-disciplinary
research centre funded by Science Foundation Ireland, focusing on the intersection between two important research areas - Adaptive Sensing and
Information Discovery - to develop innovative new technologies of critical importance to Ireland's future industry base and contribute to
improving the quality of life of people in areas such as personal health, digital media and management of our environment. CLARITY is a collaboration between
DCU, UCD and Tyndall National Institute.
The CDVP performs basic and applied research into the technologies necessary to support efficient management of
large collections of multimedia information. This specifically addresses repositories video information but we
also apply our work to collections of image and audio information. The CDVP conducts research into audio-visual
content analysis for feature extraction, content-based information retrieval for information-seeking applications,
browsing and search interfaces (including using mobile and next generation interface devices) also for information-seeking,
and overall video navigation for safety and for security applications. In addition in our work we perform 3-D and
multi-spectral imaging and the design of low-power hardware architectures for video processing at our
Hardware subgroup.
This points to a large and diverse range of research activities, but all are linked together by the common aim of providing efficient
management of large collections of information.
The CDVP comprises 6 faculty, 9 post-doctoral researchers, 9 full-time research assistants, and over
25 graduate PhD students as well as technical and administration support personnel. Since its inception, centre members have published
over 260 refereed publications and filed 5 international patents. In addition, a large number of submissions have been
made to the ISO/IEC MPEG world-wide standardization body for which centre members act as National representatives.
Centre members also co-ordinate the TRECVid
world-wide content-based information retrieval benchmarking initiative
sponsored by the US ARDA. The centre has hosted a number of important research events, including the
3rd Intl. Conference
on Image and Video Retrieval in July 2004 (CIVR 2004), the
5th European Summer School on Information Retrieval
in September 2005 (ESSIR 2005), and members
serve on the Organising Committees and Programme Committees of a large number of world-renowned conferences and workshops.
Research in the CDVP is funded by both industry and by research funding agencies including Google (US), Microsoft
Research (US), Samsung (Korea), and other industry partners, Science Foundation Ireland, Enterprise Ireland, and several
multi-partner EU framework projects. This total amount of outside funding brought in by the CDVP each year, makes us the
largest and most successful research grouping in the Faculty. A spin-off company, Aliope Ltd, was created in 2002 to
commercialise CDVP intellectual property and has since been purchased by another Irish company.
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