DATA AND KNOWLEDGE

ENGINEERING GROUP

On this page you find information about the course "Multimedia Retrieval", which is given by Andreas Nürnberger in summer term 2014. This page will be updated regularly throughout the semester.

General Information

Multimedia Retrieval (MIR) considers information search in non or less structured multimedia data sets. Examples for applications are web search engines, digital libraries and multimedia archives like music, picture or video data bases. As part of this course the basic MIR concepts will be introduced and discussed based on diverse application examples. Since the content based search is important, also different methods for representing and indexing content of texts and multimedia objects will be presented.

Requirements for Participation in the Final Exam

There will be exercise sheets for the exercises. You need to "vote" for exercise tasks. By "voting" for a task the student shows that she / he is able to present this task in front of the class. (Possible solutions will be discussed. They do not need to be correct. However, we expect that the "voter" is well prepared and is able to present at least an initial solution in front of the class.) The tasks will be split up into 2 groups: programming tasks and other tasks. The programming tasks will be marked as such.

The requirements for participation in the final exam (oral or written) are:

• at least 66% of all programming points,
• at least 66% of votes for all other exercise tasks and
• at least one time presentation of a solution in front of the class.

The requirements for the "Schein" (without a mark) are pass of a short colloquium of approximatly 10 minutes or pass of the written exam at the end of the semester. (If an oral or written exam is offered then it will be announced on this page.)

Dates and Rooms

Further information about the lecture and exercise can be found in the LSF portal.

Teaching Staff

If you have any questions about the lecture or the exercises, please contact us via e-mail:

Lecture:

• Andreas Nürnberger
  e-mail: andreas.nuernberger@ovgu.de

Exercise:

• Michael Kotzyba
  e-mail: michael.kotzyba@ovgu.de

Materials

Lecture Slides

• 00. General Course Info
• 01. Introduction
• 02. Vector Space Model
• 03. Evaluation
• 04. Structuring
• 05. MPEG7 Overview
• 06. MPEG7 Visual Descriptors
  
• 07. Video-Retrieval
• 08. Audio-Retrieval
• 09. MPEG7 Audio Descriptors
• 10. Algorithms and Data Structures
• 11. Human-Computer-Interaction
• ...

Exercise Sheets

• Exercise 01 (until 08.04.2014)
• Exercise 02 (until 15.04.2014)
  
  • programming evaluation
• Exercise 03 (until 22.04.2014)
• Exercise 04 (until 06.05.2014)
• Exercise 05 (until 13.05.2014)
• Exercise 06 (until 20.05.2014)
• Exercise 07 (until 27.05.2014)
• Exercise 08 (until 03.06.2014)
• Exercise 09 (until 10.06.2014)
• Exercise 10 (until 17.06.2014)
• Exercise 11 (until 24.06.2014)
• Exercise 12 (until 01.07.2014)
• ...
• Assignment for the programming task P02 (until 09.06.2013)
  
  • also see "Additional Material" below
  • programming evaluation

Additional Material

• Inverted Index + Lucene Quick Tutorial
• gioconda.bmp
• mpeg7bindings.zip
• mpeg7bindings_usage.pdf
• MPEG-7 Binding for Java with XMLBeans
• Pearson Algorithm.jpg
• AudioExample.zip
• ...

Literature

• Ähnlichkeitssuche in Multimedia-Datenbanken
  Ingo Schmitt
  Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag GmbH, München, 2005.
• Modern Information Retrieval
  Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Berthier Ribiero-Neto
  Addison Wesley, 1999.
• Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing
  Chris Manning and Hinrich Schütze
  MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1999.
• Information Retrieval: Data Structures and Algorithms
  William B. Frakes and Ricardo Baeza-Yates
  Prentice-Hall, 1992.
• Soft Computing in Information Retrieval
  Fabio Crestani and Gabriella Pasi
  Physica Verlag, 2000.

Links to other Web Pages

• Information Retrieval book by C. J. van Rijsbergen
• Information Retrieval journal, Kluwer
• ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval