Department of Computer Science, National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUIM)

Thomas J. Naughton Department of Computer Science National University of Ireland, Maynooth Maynooth County Kildare Ireland Contact: Office: Callan Building Extension, Room 2.104 Phone: +353-1-7084599 Fax: +353-1-7083848

Research Publications Seminars Teaching Department

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Research

Publications

Research projects

Research seminars and presentations

Selected publications

• Shortt, et al., "Histogram approaches for lossy compression of digital holograms of three-dimensional objects," IEEE Trans. Image Processing 16, 1548 (2007). (© IEEE.)
• Mc Elhinney, et al., "Depth-independent segmentation of macroscopic three-dimensional objects encoded in single perspectives of digital holograms," Opt. Lett. 32, 1229 (2007). (© OSA.)
• Frauel, et al., "Three-dimensional imaging and processing using computational holographic imaging," Proc. IEEE 94, 636 (2006). (© IEEE.)
• Woods & Naughton, "An optical model of computation," Theoret. Comput. Sci. 334, 227 (2005). (© Elsevier.)
• Keane, et al., "DPRml: distributed phylogeny reconstruction by maximum likelihood," Bioinformatics 21, 969 (2005). [HTML] (© OUP.)
• Matoba, et al., "Real-time three-dimensional object reconstruction by use of a phase-encoded digital hologram," Appl. Opt. 41, 6187 (2002). (© OSA.)
• Naughton, et al., "Compression of digital holograms for three-dimensional object reconstruction and recognition," Appl. Opt. 41, 4124 (2002). (© OSA.)

  
  Professional Activities

• Reviewer for Optics Letters (OSA), Optics Express (OSA), Applied Optics (OSA), IEEE/OSA Journal of Display Technology (IEEE/OSA), Optics Communications (Elsevier), Optical Engineering (SPIE), Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics (IOP), Measurement Science and Technology (IOP), and ETRI Journal (ETRI) in the area of optical information processing, and Bioinformatics (OUP) and Computers & Operations Research in the area of algorithms

• Programme committee member, Electro-Optical Sensors and Systems, 20th Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (IEEE LEOS 2007), Lake Buena Vista, Florida, 21 October - 25 October 2007
• Programme committee member, Three-Dimensional TV, Video, and Display VI, SPIE Optics East, Boston, USA, 9-12 September 2007
• Programme committee member, International Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference (IMVIP 2007), Maynooth, Ireland, 5-7 September 2007
• Programme committee member, Optics and Photonics for Information Processing, SPIE Optics & Photonics, San Diego, USA, 26-30 August 2007
• Programme committee member, Sixth Euro American Workshop on Information Optics, Reykjavik, Iceland, 25–30 June 2007
• Programme committee member, Electro-Optical Sensors and Systems, 19th Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (IEEE LEOS 2006), Montreal, Canada, 29 October - 2 November 2006
• Programme committee member, Three-Dimensional TV, Video, and Display V, SPIE Optics East, Boston, USA, 1-4 October 2006
• Programme committee member, Optical Information Systems IV, 51st Annual Meeting of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, San Diego, USA, 13-17 August 2006
• Programme committee member, Photon Management II, SPIE International Symposium on Photonics Europe, Strasbourg, France, 3-7 April 2006
• Programme committee member, Electro-Optical Sensors and Systems, 18th Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (IEEE LEOS 2005), Sydney, Australia, 23-27 October 2005
• Programme committee member, Optical Information Systems III, 50th Annual Meeting of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, San Diego, USA, 31 July - 4 August 2005
• Programme committee member, Photon Management in Ireland, SPIE Opto-Ireland Symposium 2005, Dublin, Ireland, 4-6 April 2005
• Programme committee member, Electro-Optical Sensors and Systems, 17th Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (IEEE LEOS 2004), Rio Mar, Puerto Rico, 7-11 November 2004
• Programme committee member, Optical Information Systems II, 49th Annual Meeting of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, Denver, USA, 2-6 August 2004

• Member of ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (ACM SIGACT)
• Member of the NUIM Theoretical Aspects of Software Systems (TASS) research group
• Member of the NUIM Computer Vision and Imaging Lab (CVIL)

Teaching

Graduate level...

• CS605 - Mathematics and Theory of Computer Science [M.Sc.(Software Engineering)]
• Spring School on Optical Information Processing [Ph.D. students in applied optics, electrical/electronic engineering, and computer science],

Undergraduate courses...

• CS151 - Discrete Structures 1 [B.Sc.(CSSE, Venture Management, Music Technology), B.A., B.A.(Finance)]
• CS355 - Theory of Computation [B.Sc.(Science), B.Sc.(CSSE), M.Comp.Sci]
• CS370 - Computation and Complexity [B.Sc.(Science), B.Sc.(CSSE), M.Comp.Sci]

• SE120 - Discrete Structures II [B.Sc.(CSSE)]
• CS210 - Algorithms and Data Structures I (B.Sc., H.Dip.IT, M.Comp.Sci)
• CS211 - Algorithms and Data Structures II (B.Sc., H.Dip.IT, M.Comp.Sci)
• CS403 - Computational Complexity Theory [B.Sc.(Science), B.Sc.(CSSE), M.Comp.Sci]
• SE307 - Computation and Complexity Theory [B.Sc.(CSSE)]
• SE411 - Signal, Image, and Optical Processing II [B.Sc.(CSSE)] (with Dr. J. Timoney)
• CS407 - Formal Methods (B.Sc., M.Comp.Sci)
• SE104 - Software Methodology & Engineering I [B.Sc.(CSSE)]

Department

• Research postgraduate coordinator 2004-2005
  The Department's initiatives to maintain and improve the quality of its research postgraduate programme are detailed here. (Some access restricted.)
  Special Seminar Series for research postgrads (maintained by Des Traynor).
  A FAQ for new and current research postgrads (updated by current research postgrads). (Some access restricted.)
  

• Final year B.Sc. projects
  Projects for 2004-2005. I am open to suggestions from students. Please see previous years' projects for an idea of my interests: 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999.

• Third year CSSE projects
  Projects for 2001-2002.

Other Interests

Eating noodles and stuff.

URL: http://www.cs.nuim.ie/~tnaughton
Last updated: January 2007
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