(1) Create a login on the LML Course Manager: https://tron.liacs.nl and then
(2) Register for Course: Multimedia Systems

Period: Wednesdays, 7 Sept - 30 Nov 2011
Time: 13:45-15:30
Place: 405

Organizers:

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

Dr Erwin M. Bakker, (Lecturer) email: erwin@liacs.nl

L. Cao, (Teaching Assistant) email: lucao@liacs.nl

Abstract:

In this course, the goal is to give students a broad view on the prominent multimedia technologies from the international research community (a blend of past, present, and future trends) and based on the technologies develop their own vision of how multimedia technology will be used. This is a masters level course, where instead of having only lectures and an exam, we have a combination of lectures and student presentations and novel programming projects. Our intention is to give a wide angle look focusing on current research trends and what is scientifically novel. Most of the international student awards by the LIACS MediaTechnology Masters program (July 2010) have come from projects created in this course. From a practical standpoint, the technologies may be areas where the student will do further research, take in-depth courses in the specific area (i.e. Speech Understanding) or be used as components for future multimedia systems. Two projects which emphasize the students vision on future multimedia technologies are mandatory: (1) In the future vision video project, the student is expected to show their own vision on how multimedia technology will effect society in the future. (2) In the final project, the students create a working prototype of a novel multimedia system based on thier own vision and interests. In summary, we show you the diverse landscape of multimedia technology as a broad foundation, and based on that foundation you develop your own interests and vision. This year, we will discuss the following topics in multimedia systems: speech recognition, social computing, robotics, vision & machine learning, video understanding & retrieval, and biometrics & face recognition.

There are workshops and project discussions during the semester, which are meant to provide reinforcement, practical experience, feedback and advice for each student’s application. Therefore, class discussion is important and is included as part of the grade.

Requirements: Equivalent of 6 months programming experience in C or C++

Grading (6 EC):
- Multimedia Project: Design & Programming & Documentation for your multimedia system (60% of grade).
- Future Vision Project (10% of grade): Create a short video of the future.
- Class discussions, attendance (you should be at every class), homework, and problem sets (30% of grade).

Schedule (tentative): (Look on the forum for class notes)

Each lecture is meant to be a blend of past, present, and future trends

1. 07-09-2011: Social Computing I (Michael)
2. 14-09-2011: Speech Recognition (Erwin)
3. 21-09-2011: Speech Recognition Workshop (Erwin)
4. 28-09-2011: Social Computing II (Michael)
5. 05-10-2011: Future Vision Projects Expo (Michael, Erwin)
6. 12-10-2011: Project Discussions (Michael, Erwin)
7. 19-10-2011: Robotics (Erwin)
8. 26-10-2011: Physics Simulation Workshop (Erwin)
9. 02-11-2011: Robotics Workshop (Erwin)
10. 09-11-2011: Computer Vision and Machine Learning I (Michael)
11. 16-11-2011: Vision and Machine Learning Workshop (Michael)
12. 23-11-2011: Computer Vision and Machine Learning II (Michael)
13. 30-11-2011: Multimedia Expo: Project Demos (the class)