Prof. Anil Kokaram is currently an associate professor at the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Prior to Jan 1998 he was a Research Fellow at the Signal Processing Lab, Department of Engineering, Cambridge University, U.K. and a Fellow of Churchill College there. Originally from Trinidad, he was at Cambridge, U.K., from 1986 as an undergraduate and he gained the PhD degree in May 1993 from the Signal Processing laboratory. Much of his work has involved Image and Video Restoration . He has previously coordinated an EU funded Research Training Network in Information Retrieval (MOUMIR) and was also involved with the EU Projects BRAVA and Prestospace which dealt with Restoration of Archived Video.

For more information see his web page or email him: anil.kokaram[a]tcd.ie

Dr. Naomi Harte holds the SFI Lectureship in Digital Media Systems. She has extensive experience in audio, video and hardware systems development. Her current research interests are in multimedia systems development, particularly audio-visual fusion for speech recognition, digital hearing aids and entertainment systems.

For more information see her web page or e-mail her: nharte[a]tcd.ie

Dr. François Pitié is currently a research fellow at the Sigmedia Lab. He's returning from a 9 months Marie-Curie post-doc at The Foundry, the leading company for digital post-production software development. He received his M.Sc. in Telecommunications from ENST Bretagne/Eurecom in 2002 and in Image Processing from the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis. He holds a Ph.D. on video segmentation under Prof. Anil Kokaram from the University of Dublin, Trinity College.

For more information see his web page and you can contact me by e-mail: fpitie[a]mee.tcd.ie

Dr. David Corrigan completed his PhD under Dr. Anil Kokaram in 2008. The thesis was concerned with the effect of motion estimation failure on the robustness of image processing applications, especially with regard to digital film restoration applications. His other research interests include video object segmentation and image texture synthesis. He has also completed a 9 months Marie-Curie post-doc at The Foundry, and is now a research fellow with sigmedia.

For more information, please e-mail him: corrigad[a]tcd.ie

Dr. Gavin Kearney graduated from Dublin Institute of Technology in 2002 with an honors degree in Electronic Engineering and has since obtained both MSc and PhD degrees in Audio Signal Processing from Trinity College Dublin. He is currently a postdoctoral research fellow on the SFI Metropolis project and lecturer on the Interactive Digital Systems and Music and Media Technology courses in Trinity College. His main research interests are in Higher Order Ambisonics, binaural audio processing, and acoustic response capture and synthesis. For more information see his web page web page or e-mail him: gpkearney[a]ee.tcd.ie

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Dr. Damien Kelly graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 2005 with a degree in Computer and Electronic Engineering. He complete his PhD thesis entitled "Active Speaker Localisation and Tracking using Audio and Video" in 2009 under the supervision of Prof. Frank Boland.

For more information e-mail him at dkelly[a]mee.tcd.ie

Dr. Dan Ring graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 2005 with a degree in Computer Engineering. Following that, he was awarded a Ph.D in Content-Based Analysis of Video Through Sparse Features under Prof. Anil Kokaram.

For more information, e-mail him: dan[a]unworkable.org

Gary Baugh is here to play Cricket, that's it.

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Dr. Darren Kavanagh is from Valleymount in Co. Wicklow, near the town of Blessington. Darren was awarded his Ph.D. by Trinity College Dublin in 2011, supervised by Prof. Frank Boland at the School of Engineering. His doctoral research was in the area of advanced signal processing, pattern recognition and machine learning for audio (speech) and acoustic signals. Darren is now researching signal processing technologies for eLearning and Gaming.

For more information, e-mail him: kavanadf[a]tcd.ie

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Craig Berry graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 2007 with a degree in Electronic Engineering. He is currently researching in the area of Audio-Visual Speech Recognition under Dr. Naomi Harte.

For more information e-mail him: cberry[a]tcd.ie

Kangyu Pan graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 2008 with a degree in Electronic and Computer Engineering. He has joined the group in October 2008 to pursue a PhD in Image processing for Microscopy under Prof. Anil Kokaram. His research is collaborated with the Neuroscience Institute in TCD. At the moment, he is working on the images of alien cells.....

For more information, e-mail him: pank[a]tcd.ie

Mohamed Ahmed graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 2008 with a Gold Medal in Electronics and Computer Engineering. He is currently researching in the area of transparency and illumination variation under Prof. Anil Kokaram.

For more information, e-mail him: ahmedelm[a]tcd.ie

Andrew Hines (MA,BAI,MSc,MBA) joined the lab in 2008. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D in Applications of Auditory Nerve Models for Digital Hearing Aid Design under Dr. Naomi Harte.

For more information see his web page or e-mail him: hinesa[a]tcd.ie

Félix Raimbault received his M.Eng. in Telecommunications from ENST Paris/Eurecom in 2009. He joined Sigmedia to pursue a Ph.D. in motion based video processing for stereo cinema under Prof. Anil Kokaram.

For more information, e-mail him: raimbauf[a]tcd.ie

Finnian Kelly received his degree in Electronic & Computer Engineering from TCD in 2009. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Robust Speaker Verification for Biometrics under Dr Naomi Harte.

For more information, e-mail him: kellyfp[a]tcd.ie

Luca Cappelletta received his M.Sc. in Physics from Università degli Studi Milano - Bicocca in 2008, within the local INFN group. He joined Sigmedia in November 2009 and he is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Audio-Visual Speech Recognition under Dr. Naomi Harte.

For more information, e-mail him: cappelll[a]tcd.ie

Ken Sooknanan. He joined Sigmedia in 2009 and he is currently pursuing a PhD.

For more information, e-mail him: sooknank[a]tcd.ie

Róisín Rowley-Brooke graduated from TCD in 2009 with a degree in Electronic Engineering. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Degraded Document Restoration and Enhancement under Prof. Anil Kokaram.

Yunfeng Wang received his degree in Electronic & Computer Engineering from TCD in 2010. He is currently pursuing a PhD in atomic force microscopy (AFM) image restoration under Prof. Anil Kokaram.

For more information, e-mail him: wangyu[a]tcd.ie

Dr. Deirdre O'Regan graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 2005 with a degree in Computer Engineering & Mathematics. Following that, she pursued a PhD in Content-Aware Media Adaptation under Prof. Anil Kokaram, graduating in 2010. Her PhD work included projects on automatic Sound Texture Synthesis, Face Detection in Images, and automatic Cartoonization / Stylization of Video Headshots with Skin Detection.

For more information e-mail her: deirdre.oregan[a]gmail.com

Andrew Rankin has worked on a few different projects with Sigmedia: starting off with the Dumping Detective project (2006), and more recently on alpha matte extraction for 3D cinema (2008-09). He was also a major contributor to the Dissection Guide project, a collaboration with the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland.

For more information, e-mail him: rankina[a]mee.tcd.ie

Dr. Jun Liu is currently a Marie-Curie research fellow at the Sigmedia Lab. He's visiting from The Foundry, the leading company for digital post-production software development. He received his Ph.D. on computer vision from the University of Manchester, UK.

For more information see his web page and you can contact me by e-mail: jun [a] thefoundry . co . uk

Adrien Girard is a research assistant coming from the EURECOM Institute.

For more information, e-mail him: adrien.girard[a]gmail.com

Valeria Rongione is a research assistant coming from the EURECOM Institute.

For more information, e-mail her: valeria.rongione[a]gmail.com

Daire Lennon graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 2005 with a degree in Electronic Engineering. He completed his Research Masters in August 2007 under Dr. Anil Kokaram. He has since gone on to complete a second MSc in Finance & Capital Markets in DCU.

For more information, e-mail him: lennondh[a]tcd.ie

Phil Parsonage was a Marie-Curie research fellow at the Sigmedia Lab. He was visiting from The Foundry, were he is a senior software engineer. He received his M.Eng. from Oxford in 2002.

For more information you can contact me by e-mail: parsonap[a]tcd.ie

Dr. Hugh Denman studied computer science at Churchill College, Cambridge University and completed his PhD in 2006 on semantic object segmentation under Dr Anil Kokaram. He have since gone back to college to study Music.

His website is here. For more information, e-mail him: denmanh[a]tcd.ie

Dr. Francis Kelly graduated with a degree in Electronic and Computer Engineering from Trinity College Dublin in 2001. He received his PhD on Fast Probabilistic Inference and GPU Video Processing in 2005. He has now left Sigmedia to work for the new software conglomerate GreenParrotPictures. Attach:face_drink.gif

For more information, e-mail him: fk[a]greenparrotpictures.com

Akash Pooransingh joined the group in March 2004 as a visiting MSc. research student. He is currently working on his PhD on the Semantic Access and Presentation for Cricket under the supervision of Dr Anil Kokaram and Dr. Cathy Radix (University of the West Indies, Trinidad). The area of his research is Colour Image Segmentation and geometry extraction for event spotting in the game of Cricket (see his cricket tutorial). He will continue to collaborate with us on video retrieval for Cricket.

For more information, please e-mail him: apooransingh[a]gmail.com

Andy Crawford joined the group in June 2002. He is performing software developements for current projects (like Dysvideo project). He has developed a real-time shake removal using DirectShow SDK. Andy worked with Dominico Vitulano at CNR in Rome, Italy. He has completed his PhD in motion picture restoration.

For more information, please e-mail him: ajcrawford[a]gmail.com

Dr. Rozenn Dahyot (1996 BSc, Msc 1998 and PhD 2001 from University Louis Pasteur of Strasbourg France) As a phd candidate, she was working on robust detection and recognition of objects in road scene image databases, for the management of the road network. She then joined the Sigmedia group as a Research Fellow working on Information Retrieval (EU project MOUMIR ) and video restoration (EU project BRAVA). After a few months working in Cambridge university, she joined the Statistics department in Trinity College to continue work on video understanding as part of the EU Network of Excellence MUSCLE. She is now a lecturer in the Statistics department in Trinity. Her research interest concerns image, video and audio processing, object detection and recognition, statistical learning, amongst others.

For more information, have a look to her web pages or e-mail her: dahyot[a]mee.tcd.ie

Dr. Claire Gallagher is a research assistant at the sigmedia lab. Claire received her primary degree in Electronic and Computer Engineering from Trinity College Dublin in 2002. She then went on to complete her PhD in Example Based Image Processing under the supervision of Dr. Anil Kokaram. Her main areas of research were image segmentation and texture synthesis.

For more information, please e-mail her: gallaghc[a]mee.tcd.ie

Dr. Niall Rea graduated from the Electronic Engineering Department in Trinity College Dublin, Ireland in 2001. He joined the MOUMIR project in the same year as an PhD student under Dr. Anil Kokaram in the Signal Processing and Media Applications Group in Trinity College Dublin. His research involved developing a semantic indexing and retrieval system for sports using statistical methods.

For more information, e-mail him: oriabhan[a]tcd.ie