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This group was started in 1998 when Dr. Anil Kokaram joined the EEE Department at Trinity College as lecturer. We are involved in a very wide range of research activities centred on digital signal processing technology. There are three main areas of work:
We have been involved with many EU projects (i3dpost,MOUMIR, PRESTOSPACE) and we have associations with archive houses around Europe. We have helped to create new cinema post-production tools and our motion estimation technology (in collaboration with The Foundry) is used around the world for film special effects in movies like Matrix, Lord of the Rings, X-Men, Spider Man, Harry Potter and so on (See our research page).
Signal processing is a fundamental component in all this work. We exploit knowledge from statistics, applied mathematics, computer vision, image/video/audio processing in order to solve very unique problems in several domains. Much of our work is articulated with Bayesian inference of some kind and there is a thrust toward making numerical Bayesian techniques practical for video processing.
There are about 10-15 people in the group depending on the time of year you turn up to visit us. Over the summer months we tend to have 2-4 interns from the undergrad population at TCD as well as from universities in France and Germany and even Trinidad and Tobago. Currently there are 3 post-docs and 7 PhD students with the group. Many of our activities are team based, especially the retrieval work which is too big for one person alone. We are all involved with teaching of some kind. Students do laboratory demonstration and tutorials while post-docs are involved with that as well as course creation.
