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CSCI 478/578 Multimedia Data Processing/Multimedia Systems

PREREQUISITE: COURSE SCHEDULE: CSCI 232 (CS 241) or consent of instructor. T/R 11:10am 12:30pm @ SS 362

COURSE OBJECTIVES: This course introduces techniques for processing and retrieval of multimedia data. The media to be considered include image, audio and video. At the end of this course, the students should have the expertise and competence to develop retrieval software for certain multimedia data. Brief Description: We now live in a multimedia world surrounding with new media from YouTube to Facebook. Multimedia data is unstructured and rich in content. In the course, we will introduce various attributes characterizing the multimedia data; discuss the use of these attributes for similarity-based multimedia data retrieval (Similarity-based retrieval relies on best-match rather than exact match and uses techniques to compute the similarities between the query and information items); survey a set of real-world applications and systems to illustrate many of the basic concepts. I STRUCTOR: Name: Office: Office Hours: E-mail address: Phone: TOPICS:

Min Chen Social Sciences 413 T 3:30pm-5:00pm W 10am-12noon; 1pm-5pm chen@cs.umt.edu 243-2886

Fundamental concepts of multimedia data Introduction to multimedia data representations: color, texture, shape, audio, etc. Image query and retrieval Similarity measure and performance evaluation Video structure Video parsing and representations JPEG, MPEG Introduction to multimedia systems, tools and applications

TEXTS: RECOMME DED: Multimedia Information Retrieval and Management, by F. David, W.C. Siu, and H. J. Zhang, Springer, 2003. Multimedia Retrieval (Data-Centric Systems and Applications), by Henk M. Blanken, Arjen P. de Vries, Henk Ernst Blok, and Ling Feng, Springer, 2007. Multimedia Database Management Systems, by G. Lu, Artech House Publishers, 1999, ISBN: 0-89-006342-7.

GRADI G SCALE: Tests (1st test @ 20% and 2nd test @ 25%): Assignments: Class quiz/attendance/participation

45% 50% 5%

OTE: Attendance - arrive within five minutes of class start time and remain attentive for the duration of class Participation - contribute to class discussion

ASSIG ME T A D EXAM: Unscheduled test or exam will not be administered, except on the grounds of medical reasons. Hence it is your responsibility to plan ahead so that there is no interruption in your study. Assignments are to be submitted in class on the due date specified. Except on the grounds of valid medical reasons, the following policy will be enforced: Hand in materials: 1 day (24 hours): 2 days (48 hours): 3 days (72 hours): 4 days or more: Presentations: -10% No late presentations. -30% -50% No thanks, I dont want it.

CHEATI G: Plagiarism will be handled harshly, as per the Student Conduct Code. You may fail the assignment or the course. TE TATIVE COURSE SCHEDULE Week 1: Introduction; Syllabus; Image basics; Quiz #1; Assignment #1 Week 2: Image processing; Text basics Week 3: Text compression; Text processing; Quiz #2 Week 4: Assignment #1 demo; Advanced image topics; Assignment #2 Week 5: Advanced image topics; Assignment #2 presentation Week 6: Relevance feedback; Assignment 3; Quiz #3 Week 7: Complete open topics if needed; Review; Exam #1 Week 8: Audio basics; compression; features Week 9: HMM; Speech Recognition; Quiz #4 Week 10: Video basics; Assignment #3 demo; Assignment #4 Week 11: More video topics; MPEG Week 12: Multimedia authoring and presentation; Quiz #5 Week 13: Review; Complete open topics if needed [Thanksgiving Vacation] Week 14: Multimedia Searching; Assignment #4 demo; Quiz #6; Assignment #5 Week 15: Wrap up; Exam #2 Week 16: Assignment 5 final report due; No final exam!

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