ICSI-533/433 Theory and Practice of Multimedia Computing

Fall 2016

Announcements · Course Objectives · Evaluation · Lectures Notes · Project · Assignments · Recommended Study Material

Instructor: Pradeep K. Atrey
Office: UAB 421
Class Meeting Time: Tuesdays, Thursdays 10:15-11:35 a.m.
Class Room: HU019
Office Hours: Mondays, Wednesdays 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. and by appointment
Email: first letter of first name plus last name at albany dot edu

Announcements

September 14, 2016: Assignment #1 has been posted.

Course Objectives, Learning Outcomes and Prerequisites

This course lays the foundation for students to conduct research in the area of multimedia computing applications. Multimedia computing involves automated processing and analysis of multiple types of data such as text, images, and videos and audio, in a way that whole is greater than the sum of its parts. The course covers state-of-the-art computational techniques and algorithms for multimedia content processing, compression, networking, fusion, summarization, search and retrieval applicable to different areas such as social media, homeland surveillance and cyber security and privacy. The objective of this course is to prepare students to i) understand the theoretical foundation of multimedia computing, and ii) apply computational tools such as Matlab and Intel OpenCV to the processing and analysis of multimedia data.
Prerequisites: As it is a higher level CS course, you are expected to have solid programming skills (e.g. CSI310/213).

Evaluation Components

Term tests/quizes (30%)
Assignments (25%)
Class participation (5%)
Project (40%)

Note: Assignments and Project may require strong programming skills. However, you will be free to choose any programming language/tool.

Lecture Notes

Project

Project proposal: due on September 15, 2016, 11:59 p.m. The topics of potential projects can be found here.
Sample final project reports can be found here: [Implementation] and [Survey]

Assignments

There will be two to three assignments.
Late assignments will be accepted, with a 10% penalty per day, up to five days.
Submission procedure and other requirements will be stated in individual assignments.
Students are responsible for backing up and protecting their work.

Recommended Study Material

The following will be used as a reference book for this course:

R: Fundamentals of Multimedia, Ze-Nian Li and Mark S. Drew, Prentice-Hall, # ISBN-10: 9780130618726# ISBN-13: 978-0130618726

Some of the material will be taken from research papers published in various reputed journals (e.g. ACM Multimedia Systems Journal; ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications; IEEE Transactions on Multimedia; and Springer Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications). Also, the instructor will provide other supplementary material wherever necessary.