Course info

Description
After text retrieval, the next waves in web searching and multimedia retrieval are the search for and delivery of images, music, video, and 3D scenes. Not only the perceptual and cognitive aspects, but also many of the algorithmic and performance aspects are still badly understood. One relevant issue is the design of dissimilarity measures (distance functions) that have desired properties. Another aspect is the development of algorithms that can compute or approximate these distances efficiently. Indexing data structures and search algorithms are necessary to make the search more efficient than sequential browsing through large collections. Apart from provable properties of individual algorithms, the experimental verification of the performance of a complete retrieval system is important to analyse merits and drawbacks of certain approaches, and to compare various techniques.

Target group
Graduate students (advanced master students and PhD students in the early stage of their study) with a background in computer science.

Topics

The summerschool presents lectures on:

• Issues in multimedia retrieval. Remco Veltkamp (Utrecht University).
• Retrieval of trademark images. Helmut Alt, Sven Schulz, Ludmila Scharf (Free University Berlin).
• Retrieval of music. Anja Volk, Frans Wiering (Utrecht University).
• Retrieval of 3D objects. Simone Marini, Silvia Biasotti (CNR IMATI).
• Indexing large collections. Reinier van Leuken (Utrecht University).

Course material

The presentations are available here .