Multimedia Information Systems
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Course Description: This course covers principle topics related to multimedia informations systems. These include organizing multimedia content, physical storage and retrieval of multimedia data, Content-based Search and retrieval, creating and delivering networked and multimedia presentations, and current research directions in this area. The main objective of the course is to introduce students different types of multimedia data, different techniques to store, manipulate, and retrieve multimedia data residing across global computer networks.

Text Book: There is no assigned text for this course. Class notes, chapters from the reference books and research papers should be used as the primary reference.

Reference Books:

1. V.S. Subrahmanian, Principles of Multimedia Database Systems, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1998.
2. Elmasri and Navathe, Fundamentals of Database Systems, 4th Edition, Addison-Wesley
3. Korth and Silberschatz, Database System Concepts, 2nd Edition, McGraw-Hill, 1991.
4. Ullman, Principles of Database Systems, 3rd Edition.
5. Date, Introduction to Database Systems, 4th Edition.

Other Reading:

1. Christos Faloutsos, Searching Multimedia by Content, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996.
2. V. S. Subrahmanian, Sushil Jajodia (Eds.): Multimedia Database System: Issues and Research Directions. Springer 1996.
3. Ahmed K. Elmagarmid et al., Video Database Systems: Issues, Products and Applications. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997.
4. William I. Grosky, Ramesh Jain, Rajiv Mehrotra (Eds.): Handbook of Multimedia Information Management. Prentice-Hall 1997.
5. Peter M. G. Apers, Henk M. Blanken, Maurice A. W. Houtsma (Eds.): Multimedia Databases in Perspective. Springer 1997.
6. Kingsley C. Nwosu, Bhavani M. Thuraisingham, P. Bruce Berra (Eds.): Multimedia Database Systems: Design and Implementation Strategies. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996.
7. Andleigh, Prabhat K., and Thakrar, Kiran, Multimedia Systems Design, Prentice Hall,1995.

Other Resources:

1. ACM Special Interest Group Multimedia
2. The DBLP Bibiliography An Excellent source for the Research materials in the Database area
3. Computer Science Research Literature Digital Library in the Computer science area
4. ACM Multimedia Systems Journal
5. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
6. Journal of Multimeida Tools and Applications
7. ACM Transactions on Information Systems
8. ACM Transactions on Database Systems
9. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
10. Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications
11. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas of Communications
12. Proceedings of the ACM Multimedia Conference
13. IEEE Multimedia Conference
14. IEEE Computer
15. IEEE Networking
16. Communications of the ACM

Expected Work:

• Research Paper and Presentation 35%
• Class Discussions and Presentation 15%
• Mid-term Examinations 25%
  
• Final Examinations 25%
  

Jan 18

• Introduction to Multimedia Information Systems
• Class Notes
• Overview of Databases
• Class Notes
• Indexing
• Indexing Notes

Jan 25

• Organizing Multimedia Content, Multidimensional Data Structures
• Multidimensional Datastructures Notes
• Techniques and Data Structures for Efficient Multimedia Retrieval Based on Similarity, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MULTIMEDIA, VOL. 4, NO. 3, SEPTEMBER 2002

Feb 1

• Image and Video Databases
• Image Databases Notes
• Video Databases Notes
• Research Paper Topic and Abstract Due

Feb 8

• Outline of the Research Paper is Due
• Text and Audio Databases
• Text Databases Notes
• Audio Databases Notes

Feb 15

• List of References for your Research Paper is Due
• Multimedia databases, and Physical Storage and Retrieval
• Multimedia Databases Notes
• Multimedia Storage Notes
• Multimedia Storage Info By Vasu
• Multimedia Storage Info By Vasu

Feb 22

• Content Based Retrieval of Images, Leader: Dihua Guo
  • Survey paper: Presented by Dihua Guo
    1. Smeulders, A.W.M.; Worring, M.; Santini, S.; Gupta, A.; Jain, R.; Content-based image retrieval at the end of the early years, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Volume: 22 , Issue: 12, Dec. 2000 Presentation
  • 3 Technical Papers:
    1. Jaume Amores, Nicu Sebe, Petia Radeva, Theo Gevers and Arnold Smeulders, Boosting Contextual Information in Content-Based Image Retrieval, Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGMM international workshop on Multimedia information retrieval. New York, NY, USA Pages: 31 - 38, 2004. Presented by Ya-Hsiang Kang Presentation
    2. J. Jeon, V. Lavrenko, and R. Manmatha, Automatic Image Annotation and Retrieval using Cross-Media Relevance Models, Proceedings of the 26th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in informaion retrieval, Toronto, Canada, Pages: 119 - 126, 2003. Presented by Anu Thuremella Presentation
    3. Feng Jing, Mingjing Li, Hong-Jiang Zhang and Bo Zhang, An Effective Region-Based Image Retrieval Framework, Proceedings of the tenth ACM international conference on Multimedia Juan-les-Pins, France, Pages: 456 - 465, 2002. Presented by Janice Warner Presentation

Mar 1

• Spatio-temporal Data Warehouse, Leader: Songmei Yu
  • Survey paper: Presented by Songmei Yu
    1. Nebojsa Stefanovic, Jiawei Han and Krzysztof Koperski, ``Object-based Selective Materialization for Efficient Implementation of Spatial Data Cubes'', IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 12, No. 6, Nov/Dec 2000 Presentation
  • 3 Technical Papers:
    1. Data Model: Christian S. Jensen, Augustas Kligys, Torben Bach Pedersen, Igor Timko, ``Multidimensional data modeling for location-based services'', The VLDB Journal, Volume 13 Issue 1, Jan. 2004. Presented by Qi Guo Presentation
    2. Spatial OLAP Operations: Papadias, D., Tao,Y., Kalnis, P., Zhang, J. ``Indexing Spatio-Temporal Data Warehouses'', Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), pp. 166-175, San Jose, Feb. 2002. Presented by Udi Hoitash Presentation
    3. View Materialization: H. Gupta and I. Mumick. ``Selection of Views to Materialize in a Data Warehouse'' IEEE Transactions of Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), Vol 17, No. 1, 2005. Presented by Vasu Chaudhuri Presentation

Mar 8

• Mid-term Examination

Mar 15

• Spring recess: No Class

Mar 22

• Spatial Data Mining, Leader: Vandana Janeja
  • Survey paper: Presented by Vandana Janeja
    1. S. Shekhar, P. Zhang, Y. Huang, R. Vatsavai, Trend in Spatail Data Mining, as a chapter in Data Mining: Next Generation Challenges and Future Directions, H. Kargupta, A. Joshi, K. Sivakumar, and Y. Yesha(eds.), AAAI/MIT Press, 2003. Presentation
  • 3 Technical Papers:
    1. Co-location patterns: Yan Huang, Shashi Shekhar, Hui Xiong, Discovering Co-location Patterns from Spatial Datasets: A General Approach (2004), IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON KNOWLEDGE AND DATA ENGINEERING, VOL. 16, NO. 12, DECEMBER 2004, Presented by Vasu Chaudhuri Presentation
    2. Scan Statistics: Kulldorff M. A spatial scan statistic. Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods, 1997;26:1481-1496. Source: ask vandana for a hard copy. Presented by Janice Warner Presentation
    3. Spatial clustering: Osmar R. Zaoane, Chi-Hoon Lee, Clustering Spatial Data When Facing Physical Constraints, in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'2002), pp 737-740, Maebashi City, Japan, December 9 - 12, 2002. Presented by Qi Guo Presentation

Mar 29

• Mutimedia Delivery, Leader: Ahmed Gomaa
  • Survey paper: Presented by Ahmed Gomaa
    1. Lawrence Rowe and Ramesh Jain. ACM SIGMM Retreat Report on Future Directions in Multimedia Research. March 2004 Presentation
  • 3 Technical Papers:
    1. Tayeb Lemlouma and Nabil Layaoda, Context-Aware Adaptation for Mobile Devices, 2004 IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM'04): Presented by Udi Hoitash Presentation
    2. Joost Geurts, Stefano Bocconi, Jacco van Ossenbruggen, and Lynda Hardman. Towards Ontology-driven Discourse: From Semantic Graphs to Multimedia Presentations. In: Second International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2003) (pages 597-612), October 20-23, 2003, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA. Presented by Anu Thuremella Presentation
    3. Aurrecoechea C., Hauw L., Campbell C., "Survey of QoS Architectures", ACM/Springer Verlag Multimedia Systems Journal, Special Issue on QoS Architecture, Vol. 6 No. 3, May 1998, pp. 138-151. Presented by Ya-Hsiang Kang Presentation

Apr 5

• Improving the Interoperability of Digital Rights Management, by Janice Warner Presentation
• Query Processing Query Processing in Multimedia Sensor Network Databases, by Anu Thurimella Presentation

Apr 12

• Storing XBRL files in a Database System by Udi Hoitash Presentation
• Indexing for Moving Object Data and Authorizations by Qi Guo, Presentation

Apr 19

• Storing XML data in RDBMS: Analysis of Different Methods by Vasu Chaudhuri Presentation
• Ya-Hsiang Kang Presentation

Apr 26

• Final Examination Due.
• Final Research Papers are Due