Primary Department
School of Computing
Work Area/Key Responsibilities
School of Computing
Phone number: 01 700
6052
Email Address
suzanne.little@dcu.ie
Academic biography
Suzanne Little is professor in the School of Computing at Dublin City University and an SFI Principal Investigator at the Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics working in the area of media analytics, information access and retrieval across a variety of application domains. She completed her PhD at the University of Queensland, Australia in 2006 examining and developing tools for analysing and managing scientific multimedia data. She has worked on a number of EU projects in the areas of multimedia, technology enhanced education, security, autonomous vehicles and big data. Prof. Little is co-director of the SFI Centre for Research Training in Artificial Intelligence (CRT-AI) and a Funded Investigator in the iForm Advanced Manufacturing Centre. Her expertise is in video analysis, semantic search and data integration and current research includes projects examining bias in deep learning models for computer vision, safety in micromobility and personal transportation, improved medical image analysis, biomedical data and water desalination.
Research interests
Content-based analysis and indexing of digital multimedia - principally images and video - using computer vision, machine learning and related techniques. This can be for object or event detection, segmentation, classification and/or tracking. Example applications include surveillance, document reuse (eg, lectures), traffic or instrumented vehicles, smart cities, cultural heritage, sport or entertainment. Also fundamental research in optimising complex neural network based architectures and in the consequences of biased visual datasets and models.
