Multimedia Information Retrieval 2012

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Joint Leiden University & TU Delft BioInformatics Course (IN4174)

Period: Wednesdays, 8 Feb 2012 - 9 May 2012
Time: 13:45 - 15:30
Place: Rm. 405

Organizer:

Dr. Michael S. Lew, (Lecturer) email: mlew@liacs.nl (Email to make an appointment)

Abstract:

Extending beyond the borders of culture, art, and science, the search for digital information is one of the major challenges of our time. Digital libraries, bio-computing & medical science, the Internet, streaming video, databases, cultural heritage collections and peer-2-peer networks have created a worldwide need for new paradigms and techiques on how to browse, search, and summarize multimedia collections.

This course focusses on the area of searching and retrieving multimedia information from digital databases and collections. Examples of multimedia would be X-Ray and MRI scans, general photos, and video.

Requirements: Willingness to learn or already know C, C++ programming languages

Grading:

    - 50% for Presentation & Questions (class participation).

    - 50% for Software Project.

As this is a seminar, attendance is mandatory

    - 6 EC for Leiden University Students (presentation and software project)
    - 3 EC for TU Delft Students (presentation only); It is possible for Delft students to do the project also.

Class Project

to be announced

Recommended Reading: Principles of Visual Information Retrieval, M. S. Lew, Springer, 2001, ISBN: 978-1-85233-381-2

Suggestions for class presentations

- Introduce the problem and main idea - Explain the motivation for the paper
- Cover the main points of the algorithm
- Make sure you have a slide which clearly states the main contribution of the paper at the end
- There should be a little humor in the presentation to make it interesting for the audience

Schedule:

Class 1: 8 Feb - Introduction to Multimedia Information Retrieval

Class 2: 15 Feb - Color, Texture, Shape, and Salient Points

Class 3: 22 Feb - Similarity and Ranking

Class 4: 29 Feb - Advanced Methods

Class 5: 7 Mar - no class

Class 6: 14 Mar - Research Paper Presentations

Class 7: 21 Mar - Research Paper Presentations

Class 8: 28 Mar - Research Paper Presentations

Class 9: 4 April - Research Paper Presentations

Class 10: 11 April - Research Paper Presentations

Class 11: 18 April - Discussion

Class 12: 25 April - no class

Class 13: 2 May - Class Projects

Class 14: 9 May - Class Projects