Alan Smeaton is a Professor of Computing at Dublin City University where he is Director of the Centre for Digital Video Processing. His research interests cover the indexing and content-based retrieval of information in all media, text,image, audio (spoken) and especially digital video. At present his major research funding is in the area of indexing and retrieval of digital video and in digital libraries, and has also received funded research in music IR and in web searching.
Alan Smeaton is closely associated with the TREC programme
and most recently he has been one of the coordinators of the TREC
video track, a specialist track to explore evaluation of information
retrieval applications on archives of digital video information.
He has published over 80 book chapters, journal and conference
papers and is an Associate Editor of the Kluwer Journal Information
Retrieval and a member of the Editorial Boards of Information
Processing and Management and of the Journal on Digital Libraries.
asmeaton @ computing.dcu.ie