Mr. Kevin McGuinness

Dr. Kevin McGuinness graduated from Dublin City University in 2005 with a B.Sc (Hons) in Computer Applications and Software Engineering. He subsequntly joined the Center for Digital Video Processing group in DCU, and was awarded a Ph.D from the School of Electronic Engineering in 2009. Kevin has since been employed as a post-doctoratoral researcher in CLARITY: Center for Sensor Web Technologies in Dublin City University. His research interests include image and video segmentation, segmentation evaluation, content-based multimedia information retrieval, human-computer interaction, and software systems development. He is currently involved in research on computer vision, image and video processing, medical image analysis, embedded systems development, and HCI.

During his postgraduate studies, Kevin was involved in the K-Space Network of Excellence: a 14 partner EU sponsored network of research teams, collaboratively working on semantic inference and automated multimedia analysis and retrieval. He participated in the annual NIST TRECVid video retrieval activity in 2006, 2007, and 2008. In 2008 he interned at Walt Disney Feature Animation in Burbank, California, working on a large scale image retrieval and scene completion engine. Kevin’s Ph.D thesis focused on manual and interactive image segmentation and computer vision algorithm evaluation. The research resulted in several peer-reviewed publications, including an article on evaluating interactive segmentation in the Pattern Recognition journal; software platforms and datasets based on the research have been also published online for the wider research community. Kevin completed his viva-voce in November 2009; the external examiner was Prof. Phillipe Salembier from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) in Barcelona.

Kevin is currently involved in HCI, augmented reality, and embedded systems research as part of a collaborative Entreprise Ireland initiative involving CLARITY and Disney Research. Within CLARITY, he is involved in research on computer assisted analysis of ultrasound images, the annual TRECVid video information retrieval activity, the 3D Life project, and the Wireless Aquatic Navigator for Detection and Analysis (WANDA) project. He is also involved in an EU FP7 proposal on audiovisual digital libraries.

Kevin has also been a reviewer for several conferences and journal articles, including ACM Multimedia Tools and Applications, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications, ACM Multimedia, Pattern Recognition, the International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS), and the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME).