Special Topics in Multimedia Information Retrieval

v         Syllabus

v         Lectures

v         Projects

o                   Project 1 (due on Feb. 7^th)

§                           Images.zip

o                   Project 2 (due on Mar. 9^th)

o                   Project 3 (due on May. 2^nd)

§                           Twin-Comparison Algorithm for Video Shot Detection

§                           Reference paper: Hong.Jiang Zhang, Atreyi Kankanhalli, Stephen W. Smoliar, "Automatic Partitioning of Full-Motion Video," ACM Multimedia Systems Journal, 1993, pp.10-28.

§                           JMF 2.1.1e Software download: http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/jmf/2.1.1/download.html

§                           MS DirectShow download: www.microsoft.com/windows/directx

§                           Test Video Sequence: soccer.avi (in MS MPEG4 format), or soccer.mpg (in mpeg1 format), or soccer-cinapack.avi (in cinapack format)

§                           Other references regarding video shot detection: http://www.videoanalysis.org/Research_Topics/Video_Segmentation/Shot_Detection/shot_detection.html

v         Term presentations

o                   Francis: slides paper

o                   Xin: slides paper

o                   Allen: slides paper

o                   Yin: slides paper

o                   Kunning: slides paper

v         Reference books:

·                     Multimedia Information Retrieval and Management, by Feng David, Springer, 2003 XVII, ISBN: 3-540-00244-8.

·                     Modern Information Retrieval, by Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Pearson Education, 1st edition, 1999, ISBN: 020139829X.

·                     V.S. Subrahmanian, Principles of Multimedia Database Systems, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1998.

·                     Ullman, Principles of Database Systems, 3rd Edition.

·                     Date, Introduction to Database Systems, 4th Edition.

v         Other sources:

·                     ACM Special Interest Group Multimedia

·                     The DBLP Bibliography An Excellent source for the Research materials in the Database area

·                     Computer Science Research Literature Digital Library in the Computer science area

·                     ACM Multimedia Systems Journal

·                     IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

·                     Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications

·                     ACM Transactions on Information Systems

·                     ACM Transactions on Database Systems

·                     IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

·                     Proceedings of the ACM Multimedia Conference

·                     IEEE Multimedia Conference

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