Syllabus
1. Web platforms for retrieval and sharing of multimedia content
2. Web interfaces, modalities and quality of retrieval
3. Text-based and bag-of-words models
4. Similarity search - models and queries
5. Similarity search - popular similarity functions
6. Global image descriptors
7. Local image features
8. Image retrieval using neural networks
9. Feature extraction from video, audio, music and melody
10. Retrieval of 2D and 3D models
11. Principles of multimedia indexing
12. Metric access methods
Annotation
The introduction to technologies of retrieval of multimedia content on the web. Since multimedia applications and databases acquire even larger space on the web, the module offers a perspective to the future developers of multimedia applications and databases.
The student obtains general knowledge regarding interfaces of portals providing multimedia content, the principles of similarity search, the methods of feature extraction from multimedia objects, indexing, and structure of distributed search engines.
The knowledge of databases in extent of the course NDBI025 is supposed.