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44
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6865
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7661
National Ranking
24

Overview

Cathal Gurrin is affiliated with Dublin City University in Ireland. Their research primarily focuses on fields within computer science, with a strong emphasis on computer vision and pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, cognitive neuroscience, human-computer interaction, and general health professions.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

  • Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
  • Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques
  • Video Analysis and Summarization
  • Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
  • Topic Modeling
  • Human Pose and Action Recognition
  • Image Retrieval and Classification Techniques

Gurrin has published extensively, contributing 130 papers in total. Notable publication venues include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval
  • IEEE Access
  • Online Information Review
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Several recent papers showcase their research in interactive video retrieval and multimedia computing:

  • Is the Reign of Interactive Search Eternal? Findings from the Video Browser Showdown 2020, 2021, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications
  • Interactive video retrieval evaluation at a distance: comparing sixteen interactive video search systems in a remote setting at the 10th Video Browser Showdown, 2022, International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval
  • Interactive video retrieval in the age of effective joint embedding deep models: lessons from the 11th VBS, 2023, Multimedia Systems
  • Evaluating Performance and Trends in Interactive Video Retrieval: Insights From the 12th VBS Competition, 2024, IEEE Access
  • Comparing Interactive Retrieval Approaches at the Lifelog Search Challenge 2021, 2023, IEEE Access

The scientist frequently collaborates with several co-authors. Noteworthy collaborators include Minh-Triet Tran, Binh T. Nguyen, Van-Tu Ninh, Klaus Schoeffmann, and Graham Healy, each having contributed with Gurrin to multiple publications.

In addition to articles, Gurrin has contributed to books published by Springer Science+Business Media, including titles such as Advances in Information Retrieval (2023 editions) and MultiMedia Modeling (2022).

Best Publications

  • Lifelogging: Personal Big Data

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

  • Passively recognising human activities through lifelogging

    Aiden R. Doherty;Niamh Caprani;Ciarán í Conaire;Vaiva Kalnikaite

  • Touch Screens for the Older User

    Niamh Caprani;Noel E. O’Connor;Cathal Gurrin

  • Topic-dependent sentiment analysis of financial blogs

    Neil O'Hare;Michael Davy;Adam Bermingham;Paul Ferguson

  • Children’s everyday exposure to food marketing: an objective analysis using wearable cameras

    L. N. Signal;J. Stanley;M. Smith;M. B. Barr

  • Constructing a SenseCam visual diary as a media process

    Hyowon Lee;Alan F. Smeaton;Noel E. O'connor;Gareth Jones

  • Experiences of Aiding Autobiographical Memory Using the SenseCam

    Aiden R. Doherty;Katalin Pauly-Takacs;Niamh Caprani;Cathal Gurrin

  • Combination of content analysis and context features for digital photograph retrieval.

    Neil O'Hare;Cathal Gurrin;Gareth J.F. Jones;Alan F. Smeaton

  • Overview of the NTCIR-14 Lifelog-3 task

    C. Gurrin;H. Joho;F. Hopfgartner;L. Zhou

  • Overview of NTCIR-13 Lifelog-2 Task

    Cathal Gurrin;Hideo Joho;Frank Hopfgartner;Liting Zhou

  • The smartphone as a platform for wearable cameras in health research.

    Cathal Gurrin;Zhengwei Qiu;Mark Hughes;Niamh Caprani

  • Analysis of papers from twenty-five years of SIGIR conferences: what have we been doing for the last quarter of a century?

    Alan F. Smeaton;Gary Keogh;Cathal Gurrin;Kieran McDonald

  • Comparing approaches to interactive lifelog search at the lifelog search challenge (LSC2018)

    Cathal Gurrin;Klaus Schoeffmann;Hideo Joho;Andreas Leibetseder

  • ImageCLEF 2019: Multimedia Retrieval in Medicine, Lifelogging, Security and Nature

    Bogdan Ionescu;Henning Müller;Renaud Péteri;Yashin Dicente Cid

  • Overview of ImageCLEF 2018: Challenges, Datasets and Evaluation

    Bogdan Ionescu;Henning Müller;Mauricio Villegas;Alba Garcia Seco de Herrera

  • Introduction to the Fifth Annual Lifelog Search Challenge, LSC'22

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  • Introduction to the Fourth Annual Lifelog Search Challenge, LSC'21

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  • Interactive video retrieval evaluation at a distance: comparing sixteen interactive video search systems in a remote setting at the 10th Video Browser Showdown

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  • A Comprehensive Study of Bluetooth Fingerprinting-Based Algorithms for Localization

    Li Zhang;Xiao Liu;Jie Song;C. Gurrin

  • Overview of ImageCLEF 2017: Information extraction from images

    Bogdan Ionescu;Henning Müller;Mauricio Villegas;Helbert Arenas

  • TRECVID 2004 Experiments in Dublin City University

    David Scott;Jinlin Guo;Colum Foley;Frank Hopfgartner

  • NTCIR Lifelog: The First Test Collection for Lifelog Research

    Cathal Gurrin;Hideo Joho;Frank Hopfgartner;Liting Zhou

  • Overview of NTCIR-12 Lifelog Task

    Cathal Gurrin;Hideo Joho;Frank Hopfgartner;Liting Zhou

  • Overview of ImageCLEF 2018

    Bogdan Ionescu;Henning Müller;Mauricio Villegas;Alba García Seco de Herrera

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan F. Smeaton
Alan F. Smeaton Dublin City University
Noel E. O'Connor
Noel E. O'Connor Dublin City University
Aiden R. Doherty
Aiden R. Doherty University of Oxford
Gareth J. F. Jones
Gareth J. F. Jones Dublin City University
Michael Riegler
Michael Riegler OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University
Dag Johansen
Dag Johansen University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Zhenxing Zhang
Zhenxing Zhang Lanzhou University
Pål Halvorsen
Pål Halvorsen OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University
Henning Müller
Henning Müller University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland
Petia Radeva
Petia Radeva University of Barcelona

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