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Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation School of Informatics The University of Edinburgh sean.moran[ ]ed.ac.uk |
 
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I'm currently a EPSRC funded PhD candidate in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, where I am a member of the Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation. My supervisors are Dr Victor Lavrenko and Dr Miles Osborne.
My thesis investigates novel quantisation and projection schemes for approximate nearest neighbour search using hashing techniques. The outcome of my thesis will be methods that permit more accurate image/document retrieval over large-scale datasets where the database items are represented by compact binary codes. I have also previously worked within the fields of image and video retrieval.
I hold an MSc degree (in Informatics) from the University of Edinburgh and an MA degree (Computer Science and Management) from the University of Cambridge. I have extensive prior experience within industry and academia. More recently I have held the position of IT Analyst with Deutsche Bank, Research Assistant with CERN/UNOSAT and Research Assistant within the University of Edinburgh.
Curriculum Vitae
Please contact me for a copy of my CV.
Publications
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6. Optimal Kernel Shape and Bandwidth for Atomistic Support of Continuum Stress Ulz, M., Moran, S. (Under review) Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering (MSMSE). Journal Paper: Soon. Citation: Soon |
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5. Variable Bit Quantisation for LSH Moran, S., Lavrenko, V., Osborne, M. (2013) Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Sofia, Bulgaria. Paper: PDF. Citation: Bibtex. Datasets: Reuters-21578, TDT2, CIFAR-10. |
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4. Neighbourhood Preserving Quantisation for LSH Moran, S., Lavrenko, V., Osborne, M. (2013) Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR), Dublin, Ireland. Paper: PDF. Citation: Bibtex. Datasets: Labelme-22k, 100k TinyImages, CIFAR-10. |
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3. A Gaussian mixture modelling approach to the data-driven estimation of atomistic support for continuum stress Ulz, M., Moran, S. (2012) Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering (MSMSE). Featured Article Journal Paper: PDF. Talk: PDF. Citation: Bibtex |
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2. Optimal Tag Sets for Automatic Image Annotation Moran, S., Lavrenko, V. (2011) British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), Dundee, UK [Oral presentation] Abstract: PDF. Paper: PDF. Talk: PDF. Citation: Bibtex |
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1. Robust Fusion of Colour Appearance Models for Object Tracking Town, C., Moran, S. (2004) British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), Kingston, UK Paper: PDF |
Other
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2. Automatic Image Tagging Moran, S. MSc Disstertaion, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. Dissertation: PDF. Citation: Soon |
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1. Linking Video Segments to Relevant Wikipedia Content Lavrenko, V., Moore, J., Moran, S. (2010) IDEA Lab research project Poster: PDF. |
Teaching Experience
| Autumn 11-13 | Introductory Applied Machine Learning Teaching Assistant, Tutor, Demonstrator, Marker |