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Alan F. Smeaton publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alan F. Smeaton sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 770 publications — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

Alan F. Smeaton D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alan F. Smeaton sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 76 D-Index — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Computer Science in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2017 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to multimedia information indexing and retrieval
  • 2015 - Gold Medal, Royal Irish Academy Engineering Sciences
  • 2013 - Member of the Royal Irish Academy

Overview

Alan F. Smeaton is affiliated with Dublin City University in Ireland. Their research primarily spans the field of Computer Science, with a particular focus on several subfields including Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Neuroscience, Sociology and Political Science, and Signal Processing.

Their research interests cover distinct topics such as:

  • Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
  • Image and Video Quality Assessment
  • Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
  • Video Analysis and Summarization
  • Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
  • Image Enhancement Techniques
  • Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis

Smeaton has published extensively in multiple venues, frequently contributing to:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Dublin City University Open Access Institutional Repository (Dublin City University)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • IEEE Access
  • Sensors

Some notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Smeaton include:

  • "Contrastive Representation Learning: A Framework and Review," 2020, IEEE Access
  • "Predicting livestock behaviour using accelerometers: A systematic review of processing techniques for ruminant behaviour prediction from raw accelerometer data," 2021, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
  • "Using Twitter to Detect and Tag Important Events in Sports Media," 2021, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • "Young and restless, old and focused: Age-differences in mind-wandering frequency and phenomenology," 2021, Psychology and Aging
  • "Attention-Based Neural Networks for Chroma Intra Prediction in Video Coding," 2020, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing

Their collaborative network includes frequent co-authors such as Graham Healy, Hyowon Lee, Lorin Sweeney, Noel E. O'Connor, and Michael Scriney.

Smeaton has also contributed to the publication of books under Springer Science+Business Media, including:

  • Advances in Visual Informatics (2021)
  • Human-Computer Interaction. Design and User Experience Case Studies (2021)
  • Advances in Visual Informatics (2023)

Awards and recognition attributed to them include:

  • IEEE Fellow (2017) for contributions to multimedia information indexing and retrieval
  • Gold Medal, Royal Irish Academy (2015) in Engineering Sciences
  • Member of the Royal Irish Academy (2013)

Best Publications

  • Evaluation campaigns and TRECVid

    Alan F. Smeaton;Paul Over;Wessel Kraaij

  • TRECVID 2011 - An overview of the goals, tasks, data, evaluation mechanisms, and metrics

    P. Over;G. Awad;J. Fiscus;B. Antonishek

  • Contrastive Representation Learning: A Framework and Review

    Phuc H. Le-Khac;Graham Healy;Alan F. Smeaton

  • TRECVID 2012 - An overview of the goals, tasks, data, evaluation mechanisms, and metrics

    P. Over;J. Fiscus;G. Sanders;B. Shaw

  • TRECVID 2014 - An Overview of the Goals, Tasks, Data, Evaluation Mechanisms, and Metrics

    Paul Over;Jon Fiscus;Gregory A. Sanders;David Joy

  • TRECVID 2013 -- An Overview of the Goals, Tasks, Data, Evaluation Mechanisms, and Metrics | NIST

    Paul D. Over;Jonathan G. Fiscus;Gregory A. Sanders;David M. Joy

  • TRECVID 2013 -- An Overview of the Goals, Tasks, Data, Evaluation Mechanisms and Metrics

    P. Over;J. Fiscus;G. Sanders;M. Michel

  • Lifelogging: Personal Big Data

    Cathal Gurrin;Alan F. Smeaton;Aiden R. Doherty

  • On Using Twitter to Monitor Political Sentiment and Predict Election Results

    Adam Bermingham;Alan Smeaton

  • Classifying sentiment in microblogs: is brevity an advantage?

    Adam Bermingham;Alan F. Smeaton

  • Video shot boundary detection: Seven years of TRECVid activity

    Alan F. Smeaton;Paul Over;Aiden R. Doherty

  • Challenges in information retrieval and language modeling: report of a workshop held at the center for intelligent information retrieval, University of Massachusetts Amherst, September 2002

    James Allan;Jay Aslam;Nicholas Belkin;Chris Buckley

  • Experiments on using semantic distances between words in image caption retrieval

    Alan F. Smeaton;Ian Quigley

  • Combining Social Network Analysis and Sentiment Analysis to Explore the Potential for Online Radicalisation

    Adam Bermingham;Maura Conway;Lisa McInerney;Neil O'Hare

  • High-level feature detection from video in TRECVid: a 5-year retrospective of achievements

    Alan F. Smeaton;Paul Over;Wessel Kraaij

  • Wearable cameras in health: the state of the art and future possibilities.

    Aiden R. Doherty;Steve E. Hodges;Abby C. King;Alan F. Smeaton

  • Natural language processing and information retrieval

    Alan F. Smeaton

  • Predicting livestock behaviour using accelerometers: A systematic review of processing techniques for ruminant behaviour prediction from raw accelerometer data

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  • The Retrieval Effects of Query Expansion on a Feedback Document Retrieval System

    Alan F. Smeaton;C. J. van Rijsbergen

  • TRECVID 2005 - An Overview

    Paul Over;Tzveta Ianeva;Wessel Kraaij;Alan F. Smeaton

  • Progress in the application of natural language processing to information retrieval tasks

    Alan F. Smeaton

  • Proceedings of the 23rd ACM international conference on Multimedia

    Xiaofang Zhou;Alan F. Smeaton;Qi Tian;Dick C.A. Bulterman

Frequent Co-Authors

Noel E. O'Connor
Noel E. O'Connor Dublin City University
Cathal Gurrin
Cathal Gurrin Dublin City University
Aiden R. Doherty
Aiden R. Doherty University of Oxford
Paul Over
Paul Over National Institute of Standards and Technology
Wessel Kraaij
Wessel Kraaij Leiden University
Dermot Diamond
Dermot Diamond Dublin City University
Tomas E. Ward
Tomas E. Ward Dublin City University
Barry Smyth
Barry Smyth University College Dublin
Yannis Avrithis
Yannis Avrithis Institute of Advanced Research on Artificial Intelligence (IARAI)
Chris J. A. Moulin
Chris J. A. Moulin Grenoble Alpes University

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