Mark's PhD research is focused on developing new spatio-temporal techniques for processing video.
...more on MD
...A History of Motion
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...obtained a First Class Honours BSc in Applied Physics in 2003 from the University of Limerick, Ireland.
...attended Moscow State University, 2001-02.
...work placement Analog Devices, 8" fab, 2001.
Reports
First Year Report, Sept 2004
Second Year Report, Sept 2005
Publications and Presentations
M. Sugrue and E.R. Davies, "Towards Pedestrian Tracking in CCTV video for Crime Detection", Presented at the RE:HVS Basic Technology Project Open Day, Imperial College, November 30, 2004.
M. Sugrue and E.R. Davies, "Tracking in CCTV Video Using Human Visual System Inspired Algorithm", Visual Information Engineering 2005, University of Glasgow, 4-6 April 2005 (presentation)
M. Sugrue and E.R. Davies "Motion distillation for pedestrian surveillance", The Sixth IEEE International Workshop on Visual Surveillance, Graz, May 13, 2006. (poster)
M. Sugrue, "Motion Distillation", BMVA One Day Technical Meeting on Detection Vs. Tracking, July 5th 2006.
M. Sugrue and E. R. Davies, "Motion Distillation", Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference 2006 (IMVIP'06), 30 Aug-1 Sept 2006, Dublin City University. (*Winner of Best Poster prize*)
M. Sugrue and E. R. Davies. Motion detection and tracking by mimicking neurological dorsal/ventral pathways [under review]. In A. Bharath and M. Petrou, editors, Reverse Engineering the Human Visual System: Next Generation Artificial Vision Systems. Artech House, 2007.
(Other papers currently in peer review)
Fun stuff Imaging Code Links Contact
The Machine Poem
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Entropy Thresholding (C++)&(C#)
Multiresolution Wavelet Image Processing toolkit (C#)
'Temporal Sobel' Motion Edge code (C#) (zipped Exe app)
.Net DLL 'FrameManager'. Accesses Avi and presents lists of images like a movie.
Misc image processing code (C#, arrays -> Bitmaps, extra Maths fns, etc)
(For other code, please e-mail)
Wikipedia's CV List - articles on Machine Vision and CV topics
Open Computer Vision Project - a vast collection of algorithms and sample code
CVOnline - The Evolving, Distributed, Non-Proprietary, On-Line Compendium of CV
CVwiki - The Encyclopedia of CV that Anyone can edit
My PhD Blog - An experimental blog for organising my research