This is the course material for CISC 7610: Multimedia Databases at
Brooklyn College, as taught by Michael
Mandel in Spring 2016.
Note that this schedule might change, so check back frequently!
| Date |
Topic |
Assignments |
Readings |
|
Part I: Multimedia Databases |
| 2016/02/01 |
Introduction to multimedia databases |
|
Th:1, W:1 |
| 2016/02/08 |
Review of relational databases |
HW1 Assigned |
Th:Appendix B, W:2 |
| 2016/02/15 |
[No class, president's day] |
|
|
| 2016/02/22 |
Multimedia data and data formats |
HW1 Due |
Th:3, W:4, Optional:
JPEG tutorial,
H.264 tutorial
|
| 2016/02/29 |
Approaches to multimedia databases |
|
Th:4,
W:12, Stajano,
Optional: SLAC CIDR 05 |
| 2016/03/07 |
Distributed multimedia DBs |
HW2 Assigned |
Th:7 |
| 2016/03/14 |
Midterm review (was Multimedia DB architectures and performance issues) |
|
Th:5, Th:6, Ts:3, Ts:23, Ts:24 |
| 2016/03/21 |
Midterm exam |
|
|
|
Part II: Multimedia information retrieval |
| 2016/03/28 |
Principles of content-based retrieval |
|
M:1, M:8,
R:2, Th:8,
Th:C |
| 2016/04/04 |
Evaluating retrieval, Text retrieval |
|
M:2, M:6,
Th:9.1, Th:9.2,
W:9 |
| 2016/04/11 |
Image retrieval |
Project proposals due |
Th:9.3, W:5,
W:6, R:3 |
| 2016/04/18 |
Speech and music retrieval |
|
Th:9.5, W:8 |
| 2016/04/25 |
[No class, spring break] |
|
|
| 2016/05/02 |
Speech and music retrieval |
|
Th:9.4,
Optional:
Video retrieval survey |
| 2016/05/09 |
Video retrieval |
|
|
| 2016/05/16 |
Project presentations |
Final projects due |
|
Textbooks
- Th
- B Thuraisingham. Managing and Mining Multimedia Databases. CRC
Press, 2001.
- W
- A Wichert. Intelligent big multimedia databases. World
Scientific Publishing Company, 2015.
- M
- C Manning, P Raghavan, H Schuetze. An introduction to information
retrieval. Cambridge University Press,
2009.
Online
- Ts
- P Tse. Multimedia Information Storage and Retrieval. IGI Global,
2008. Online
- R
- S Rueger. Multimedia Information Retrieval: Synthesis Lectures
on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services. Morgan & Claypool,
2009.
Announcements
- 2016/01/28
- Welcome to class, the course website has been updated for this semester