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Course Information

PA128 Similarity Searching in Multimedia Data

Faculty of Informatics
Spring 2012

Extent and Intensity

2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

prof. Ing. Pavel Zezula, CSc. (lecturer)
doc. RNDr. Vlastislav Dohnal, Ph.D. (assistant)
RNDr. Michal Batko, Ph.D. (assistant)

Supervisor

prof. RNDr. Luděk Matyska, CSc.
Department of Computer Systems and Communications - Faculty of Informatics
Contact Person: prof. Ing. Pavel Zezula, CSc.
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Department of Computer Systems and Communications - Faculty of Informatics

Timetable

Wed 14:00–15:50 B204

Course Enrollment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

Fields of study the course is directly associated with

• Applied Informatics (programme FI, B-AP)
• Bioinformatics (programme FI, B-AP)
• Informatics (programme FI, B-IN)
• Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-EB)
• Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-IO)
• Mathematical Informatics (programme FI, B-IN)
• Parallel and Distributed Systems (programme FI, B-IN)
• Computer Graphics and Image Processing (programme FI, B-IN)
• Computer Networks and Communication (programme FI, B-IN)
• Computer Systems and Data Processing (programme FI, B-IN)
• Programmable Technical Structures (programme FI, B-IN)
• Social Informatics (programme FI, B-AP)
• Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing (programme FI, B-IN)
• Applied Informatics (programme FI, N-AP)
• Information Technology Security (programme FI, N-IN)
• Bioinformatics (programme FI, N-AP)
• Information Systems (programme FI, N-IN)
• Informatics (programme FI, N-IN)
• Parallel and Distributed Systems (programme FI, N-IN)
• Computer Graphics (programme FI, N-IN)
• Computer Networks and Communication (programme FI, N-IN)
• Computer Systems (programme FI, N-IN)
• Embedded Systems (programme FI, N-IN)
• Embedded Systems (eng.) (programme FI, N-IN)
• Service Science, Management and Engineering (programme FI, N-AP)
• Service Science, Management and Engineering (eng.) (programme FI, N-AP)
• Theoretical Informatics (programme FI, N-IN)
• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Informatics (programme FI, N-SS)
• Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing (programme FI, N-IN)
• Image Processing (programme FI, N-AP)

Course objectives

Upon successful completion of the course student will be able:
to understand principles of similarity searching;
to apply similarity searching paradigm to multimedia data;
to explain principles of index structures for multimedia data;
to implement an index structure introduced in the course.

Syllabus

• Part I Metric Searching in a Nutshell:
• Foundations of Metric Space Searching
• Survey of Existing Approaches
• Part II Metric Searching in Large Collections of Data:
• Centralized Index Structures
• Approximate Similarity Search
• Parallel and Distributed Indexes.

Literature

• ZEZULA, Pavel, Giuseppe AMATO, Vlastislav DOHNAL and Michal BATKO. Similarity Search: The Metric Space Approach. 2005. vyd. New York, NY 10013, USA: Springer, 2005. 220 pp. Advances in Database Systems, Vol. 32. ISBN 0-387-29146-6. Publisher's page Home page info

Teaching methods

Lectures with slides. The course is given in English. Questions during lectures are allowed also in Czech.

Assessment methods

Final exams are organized during the examination period and the exam is oral. The student is asked two questions to verify the student's knowledge obtained during lectures.

Language in which the course is taught

English

Further Comments

Study Materials
The course is taught annually.

Listed among pre-requisites of other courses

• PV229 Multimedia Similarity Searching in Practice
  PA128 || NOW(PA128)  

The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2013, Spring 2014.

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