Grants
Competitive research funding, technology commercialisation, and industry partnerships.
AI and Process Automation for Sustainable Entertainment and Media (EMERALD)
2023 – 2026 European Commission — Horizon Europe • Co-Principal Investigator
Developing green media AI algorithms and neural processing pipelines for sustainable video production, live broadcast, and virtual studios.
SYZE: Computer Vision for 3D Body Measurement from Smartphone Imagery
2019 – 2020 Enterprise Ireland Commercialisation Fund • Lead Principal Investigator
Pioneered neural reconstruction and metric scale estimation for apparel sizing; subsequently spun out as Swan AI.
SFI Research Centres Programme (Huawei Industry Collaboration)
2018 – 2020 Huawei Technologies / SFI • Lead Principal Investigator
High-performance video analysis, perceptual coding, and computer vision systems.
SFI Research Centres Programme (Huawei Phase 1)
2017 – 2018 Huawei Technologies / SFI • Lead Principal Investigator
Intelligent video processing algorithms for next-generation mobile hardware.
eBay Image Processing and Machine Translation Project
2017 eBay / SFI ADAPT • Lead Principal Investigator
Visual search and product image quality enhancement.
Advanced Video Debanding
2013 Google Research Award • Lead Principal Investigator
Development of statistical debanding algorithms for compressed internet video.
3DScam: 2D-to-3D Video Conversion
2011 – 2013 Enterprise Ireland Commercialisation Fund • Lead Principal Investigator
Developed stereoscopic depth estimation systems; led to the formation of TCD campus company PixelPuffin.