Multimedia Information Retrieval

Introduction

    This course covers three major areas of multimedia technology, namely, they are storage, retrieval and organization of multimedia data. In particular, the popular technologies about image data processing and mining will be covered under the context of big data. The focus of this course will be on web retrieval, especially the modern technology of search engine. Moreover, content-based image/video retrieval is another focus of this course. The topics such as image/visual instance search, and video search will be also discussed in the lecture.

Course Code: 15504, Lecturer: Dr. Wan-Lei Zhao
Syllabus and Slides
        Lecture 1: Introduction [slides]
        Lecture 2: Document Retrieval: the Model [slides]
        Lecture 3: Document Retrieval: searching [slides]
        Lecture 4: Miscellaneous Techniques behind IR [slides] [Assignment-1]
        Lecture 5: Clustering [slides] [Assignment-2]
        Lecture 6: Fundamentals about Image Processing [slides]
        Lecture 7: Image Features [slides]
        Lecture 8: Feature Matching and Aggregation [slides] [Assignment-3]
        Lecture 9: Nearest Neighbor Search [slides]
        Lecture 10: Visual Instance Search [slides]
        Course Project: NN-Descent Nearest Neighbor Search [project document]
Slides maintained on GitHub