Course Outline
o 9/26
- Introduction & Logistics (prof. Chang)
o 10/1
– Multimodal Information Systems (prof. Chang)
o 10/3
- Virtual IO (Zoran & Raju)
- Virtual IO: Preemptible Disk
Access,
Z. Dimitrijevic, R. Rangaswami, and E. Chang, ACM International
Conference on Multimedia, December 2002.
- Managing Parallel Disks
for Continuous Media Data, Edward Chang, Chen Li and Hector
Garcia-Molina, A Book Chapter in Information Organization &
Databases, p.107-120 Kluwer Publisher, 2000.
o 10/8
– Low-level Feature Extraction (Yang Meng)
- Spatial and Feature
Normalization for Content-based Retrieval, John Smith, et. al IEEE
Multimedia, 2002
- Image
Retrieval: Current Techniques, Promising Directions and Open Issues,
Y. Rui and T. S. Huang and S-F. Chang, IEEE Transaction, 1998
- A
Society of Models for Video and Image Libraries, R. Picard, IBM
Journal, 1997
- IRM:
Integrated Region Matching for Image Retrieval, Jia Li, James Z. Wang,
Gio Wiederhold, ACM Multimedia,
pp. 147-156, Los Angeles, ACM, October 2000.
o 10/10
– High-level Semantics: Introduction to Machine Learning - HTV Chapter 1
(prof. Chang)
o 10/11
– Project Meeting
o 10/15
– Supervised Learning - HTV Chapter 2 (prof. Chang)
o 10/17
– Guest Lecture: Video Analysis and Systems Integration (Dr. Alexandre Francois, USC, Engineering-II
Pavilion)
o 10/18
– Project Proposal Due
o 10/22
- Image Annotation (Student)
- Content-based Soft Annotation
for Multimodal Retrieval, Kingshy Goh, Gerard Sychay, Edward Chang, Gang
Wu, IEEE CSVT Special Issue, 2002.
- Learning the Semantics
of Words and Pictures, K. Barnard and D.A. Forsyth, Int. Conf.
Computer Vision, 2001
- Semi-automatic
Image Annotation, Liu Wenyin, Susan Dumais, Yanfeng Sun, Hong-Jiang
Zhang, Mary Czerwinski, and Brent Field, 2001
- Giving Meaning
to WWW Images, Heng Tao Shen, Beng Chin Ooi, Kian-Lee Tan, ACM
Multimedia, 2000
- Unifying
Keywords and Contents for Image Retrieval, Xiang Sean Zhou, T. S.
Huang, International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing,
Italy, September 2001.
o 10/24 – Kernel
Methods I – HTV Chapters 4 (prof. Chang)
o
10/25 – Guest Lecture: Web Crawling and
Mining (prof. Junghoo Cho, UCLA,
Engineering-1 #2162)
o 10/29
– Kernel Methods II – HTV Chapter 6 (prof. Chang)
o
10/31 – Similarity (Beitao Li & Yi Wu)
- The Discovery of
A Percpeptual Distance Function for Measuring Image Similarity,
B. Li, E. Chang, and Y. Wu, ACM Multimedia Journal Special Issue on
Content-Based Image Retrieval, 2002.
- On the Surprising Behavior of Distance Metrics in
High Dimensional Spaces, Charu C. Aggarwal, Alexander Hinneburg, Daniel A.
Keim, ICDT 2001.
- Video Shot Detection using a Perceptual Distance
Function, Yi WU, E. Chang, B. Li, IEEE Multimedia, 2002
o 11/5
- Model Inference and Averaging – HTV Chapter 8 (prof. Chang)
o 11/7
- Information Retrieval Fundamentals (Wenrui Gong)
o 11/12
- Personalization I (Wenrui Gong)
o
11/14 – Term Project Discussion (Project Leads,
Engineering-1, #2164)
o
11/19 - Personalization II (prof. Chang)
o 11/21
- High-dimensional Indexing (Kingshy Goh)
- High-dimensional Indexing
Techniques
- VAfile
- Locality Sensitive Hashing
o 11/26
– Unsupervised Learning – HTV Chapter 14 (prof. Chang)
o
11/28 – Thanksgiving Holiday
o 12/6
– Course Review
o 12/6 – 16 - Final
project demos by appointment