Patents

  1. Method of recommending broadcasting contents and recommending apparatus therefore. 

    1. Korea Patent Application No. KR101552147B1. Granted 11 Sep 2015. Details.

    2. U.S. Patent Application No. US2009271826. Granted Feb 23, 2016. Details.

  2. System, method, and computer program for detecting and measuring changes in network behavior of communication networks utilizing real-time clustering algorithms. U.S. Patent Application No. US14815715. Granted Jul 31, 2015. Details.

  3. Event-based system, method, and computer program for intervening in a network service. U.S. Patent Application No. US14954860. Granted Nov 30, 2015. Details.

  4. System, method, and computer program for identifying significant attributes of records. U.S. Patent Application No. US10067990B1. Granted Sep 4, 2018. Details.

  5. System, method, and computer program for identifying significant records. U.S. Patent Application No. US10140345. Granted Nov 27, 2018. Details.

  6. Event processing system, method, and computer program. U.S. Patent Application No. US10353888B1. Granted Jul 16, 2019 Details.

  7. Segment-wise prediction machine learning frameworks
    U.S. Patent Application No. US20230224493A1. Filed Jul 13, 2023: Details.

  8. Focusing unstructured data and generating focused data determinations from an unstructured data set. U.S. Patent Application No. US20240078245A1. Filed Mar 7, 2024: Details.

  9. Focusing unstructured data and generating focused data determinations from an unstructured data set. U.S. Patent Application No. US20240078609A1. Filed Mar 7, 2024: Details.

  10. Focusing unstructured data and generating focused data determinations from an unstructured data set. U.S. Patent Application No. US20240078610A1. Filed Mar 7, 2024: Details.

Publications

1. Paul Ferguson and Alan F. Smeaton, “Index ordering by query-independent measures,” Information Processing and Management: an International Journal, vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 569-586, May 2012.

2. Paul Ferguson, Neil O’Hare, James Lanagan, Owen Phelan, and Kevin McCarthy, “An investigation of term weighting approaches for microblog retrieval,” in ECIR 2012 - European Conference on Information Retrieval, Barcelona, Spain, Apr. 2012, pp. 552-555.

3. Deirdre Hogan, Johannes Leveling, Hongyi Wang, Paul Ferguson, and Cathal Gurrin, “SMS Normalisation, Retrieval and Out-of-Domain Detection Approaches for SMS-Based FAQ Retrieval,” in FIRE 2011 - Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation, Gandhinagar, India, Dec. 2011, pp. 184-196.

4. David Sadlier, Paul Ferguson, Dian Zhang, Noel E. O’Connor, and Hyowon Lee, “InSPeCT: Integrated surveillance for port container traffic,” in ACM Multimedia, Scottsdale, AZ, Nov. 2011.

5. Paul Ferguson, Neil O’Hare, James Lanagan, Alan F. Smeaton, Owen Phelan, Kevin McCarthy, and Barry Smyth, “CLARITY at the TREC 2011 Microblog Track,” in TREC 2011 - Text Retrieval Conference, Gaithersburg, MD, Nov. 2011.

6. David A. Sadlier, Paul Ferguson, Ciarán O’Conaire, Noel E. O’Connor, and Killian Doyle, “Image-based vehicle indexing for a seaport transportation surveillance system,” in AVSS 2011 - 8th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-based Surveillance, Klagenfurt, Austria, Sep. 2011.

7. Colum Foley, Jinlin Guo, David Scott, Paul Ferguson, and Cathal Gurrin, “Searching for videos on Apple iPad and iPhone,” in International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), Jul. 2011.

8. Colum Foley, Jinlin Guo, Dave Scott, Paul Ferguson, Peter Wilkins, Kealan McCusker, Emma Sesmero Diaz, Cathal Gurrin, Alan F. Smeaton, Xavier Giro-i-Nieto, Ferran Marques, Kevin McGuinness, and Noel E. O’Connor, “TRECVid 2010 experiments at Dublin City University,” in TRECVid 2010 - Text Retrieval Conference TRECVid Workshop, Gaithersburg, MD, Nov. 2010.

9. Cathal Gurrin, Hyowon Lee, Paul Ferguson, Alan F. Smeaton, Noel E. O’Connor, Yoonhee Choi, and Heeseon Park, “Social recommendation and visual analysis on the TV,” in CM Multimedia 2010 - ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Industrial Exhibit, Oct. 2010.

10. Peter Wilkins, Alan F. Smeaton, and Paul Ferguson, “Properties of optimally weighted data fusion in CBMIR,” in SIGIR 2010 - 33rd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, Jul. 2010.

11. James Lanagan, Paul Ferguson, Neil O’Hare, and Alan Smeaton, “Coping with noise in a real-world weblog crawler and retrieval system,” in 4th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, Washington, DC, USA, May 2010.

12. Hyowon Lee, Paul Ferguson, Neil O’Hare, Cathal Gurrin, and Alan F. Smeaton, “Integrating interactivity into visualising sentiment analysis of blogs,” in IVITA 2010 - 1st International Workshop on Intelligent Visual Interfaces for Text Analysis, at the IUI 2010, Hong Kong, China, Apr. 2010.

13. Paul Ferguson, Cathal Gurrin, Hyowon Lee, Sorin Sav, Alan F. Smeaton, Noel E. O’Connor, Yoon-Hee Choi, and Heeseon Park, “Enhancing the functionality of interactive TV with content-based multimedia analysis,” in International Workshop on Content-Based Audio/Video Analysis for Novel TV Services, at the International IEEE Symposium on Multimedia, San Diego, CA, USA, Dec. 2009.

14. Paul Ferguson, Neil O’Hare, Michael Davy, Adam Bermingham, Páraic Sheridan, Cathal Gurrin, and Alan F. Smeaton, “Exploring the use of paragraph-level annotations for sentiment analysis of financial blogs,” in WOMSA 2009 - 1st Workshop on Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis, Seville, Spain, Nov. 2009.

15. Neil O’Hare, Michael Davy, Adam Bermingham, Paul Ferguson, Páraic Sheridan, Cathal Gurrin, and Alan F. Smeaton, “Topic-dependent sentiment analysis of financial blogs,” in TSA 2009 - 1st International CIKM Workshop on Topic-Sentiment Analysis for Mass Opinion Measurement, Hong Kong, Nov. 2009.

16. Hyowon Lee, Paul Ferguson, Cathal Gurrin, Alan F. Smeaton, Noel E. O’Connor, and Heeseon Park, “Balancing the power of multimedia information retrieval and usability in designing interactive TV,” in uXTV 2008 - International Conference on Designing Interactive User Experiences for TV and Video, Mountain View, CA, Oct. 2008.

17. Paul Ferguson, Cathal Gurrin, Hyowon Lee, Sorin Sav, Thomas Foures, Stephane Lacote, Alan F. Smeaton, and Noel O’Connor, “Experiences and challenges of supporting social interactive TV,” in Workshop on Social Television and Video: Opportunities, Challenges, and Future Outlook, at uXTV 2008 - International Conference on Designing Interactive User Experiences for TV and Video, Mountain View, CA, Oct. 2008.

18. Paul Ferguson, Hyowon Lee, Cathal Gurrin, Sorin Sav, Thomas Foures, Stephane Lacote, Alan F. Smeaton, and Noel O’Connor, “Searching without text in an interactive TV environment,” in AIR 2008 - 2nd International Workshop on Adaptive Information Retrieval, London, UK, Oct. 2008.

19. Hyowon Lee, Cathal Gurrin, Paul Ferguson, Sorin Vasile Sav, Thomas Foures, Stephane Lacote, Noel E. O’Connor, Alan F. Smeaton, and Heeseon Park, “Balancing simplicity and functionality in designing user-interface for an interactive TV,” in EuroITV 2008 - 6th European Interactive TV Conference, Salzburg, Austria, Jul. 2008.

20. Noel E. O’Connor, Thomas Duffy, Paul Ferguson, Cathal Gurrin, Hyowon Lee, David A. Sadlier, Alan F. Smeaton, and Ke Zhang, “A content-based retrieval system for UAV-like video and associated metadata,” in SPIE Defence and Security Conference 2008, Orlando, FL, Mar. 2008.

21. Paul Ferguson and Alan F. Smeaton, “Index ordering by query-independent measures,” Ph.D. Thesis, Sep. 2007.

22. Paul Ferguson, Cathal Gurrin, Alan F. Smeaton, and Peter Wilkins, “Dublin City University at the TREC 2005 terabyte track,” in TREC 2005 - Text Retrieval Conference, Gaithersburg, MD, Nov. 2005.

23. Peter Wilkins, Tomasz Adamek, Paul Ferguson, Mark Hughes, Gareth JF Jones, Gordon Keenan, Kevin McGuinness, Jovanka Malobabić, Noel E. O’Connor, and David A. Sadlier, “K-space at TRECVID 2006,” in TRECVID 2006 - Text REtrieval Conference TRECVid Workshop, Gaithersburg, MD, Nov. 2006.

24. Peter Wilkins, Paul Ferguson, and Alan F. Smeaton, “Using score distributions for querytime fusion in multimedia retrieval,” in MIR 2006 - 8th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval, Santa Barbara, CA, Oct. 2006.

25. Peter Wilkins, Paul Ferguson, Cathal Gurrin, and Alan F. Smeaton, “Automatic determination of feature weights for multi-feature CBIR,” in ECIR 2006 - European Conference on Information Retrieval, London, UK, Apr. 2006.

26. Peter Wilkins, Paul Ferguson, Alan F. Smeaton, and Cathal Gurrin, “Text based approaches for content-based image retrieval on large image collections,” in 2nd IEE European Workshop on the Integration of Knowledge, Semantic and Digital Media Technologies, London, UK, Nov. 2005.

27. Paul Ferguson, Cathal Gurrin, Alan F. Smeaton, and Peter Wilkins, “Dublin City University at the TREC 2005 terabyte track,” in TREC 2005 - Text Retrieval Conference, Gaithersburg, MD, Nov. 2005.

28. Paul Ferguson, Alan F. Smeaton, Cathal Gurrin, and Peter Wilkins, “Top subset retrieval on large collections using sorted indices,” in SIGIR 2005 - 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference, Salvador, Brazil, Aug. 2005.

29. Paul Ferguson, Cathal Gurrin, Peter Wilkins, and Alan F. Smeaton, “Físréal: A low cost terabyte search engine,” in ECIR 2005 - 27th European Conference on Information Retrieval, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Mar. 2005.

30. Stephen Blott, Oisin Boydell, Fabrice Camous, Paul Ferguson, Georgina Gaughan, Cathal Gurrin, Gareth JF Jones, Noel Murphy, Noel E. O’Connor, and Alan F. Smeaton, “Experiments in terabyte searching, genomic retrieval and novelty detection for TREC 2004,” in TREC 2004 - Text Retrieval Conference, Gaithersburg, MD, Nov. 2004.

31. Eddie Cooke, Paul Ferguson, Georgina Gaughan, Cathal Gurrin, Gareth JF Jones, Hervé Le Borgne, Hyowon Lee, Seán Marlow, Kieran McDonald, Mike McHugh, and others, “TRECVid 2004 experiments in Dublin City University,” in TRECVid 2004 - Text REtrieval Conference TRECVid Workshop, Gaithersburg, MD, Nov. 2004.