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Master's of Information Technology and System Management with Thesis

BTS575

VISUAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Course Code
BTS575
Semester
-
Theory+Practice
3 + 0
ECTS
10
Course TypeElective Course
Course LevelMaster's Degree With Thesis
Year of Study-
Semester-
ECTS10
Name of Lecturer(s) -
Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, the students;

  1. Will have learned the basic concepts of visual systems and have mastered several topics in multimedia and visual information systems
Mode of DeliveryFace to face
PrerequisitesNo
Recommended Optional Programme ComponentsThere is no recommended optional programme component for this course.
Course DescriptionTechnologies and applications of visual information systems, such as image/video search engines, video navigation interfaces, mobile video delivery, and digital rights management systems for multimedia. Survey algorithms, theories, and tools developed in research and market for video coding, indexing, summarization, copyright protection, and digital rights management. Knowledge and hands-on experience about popular multimedia standards, such as MPEG-2, MPEG-7, and DVD.
Course Contents
WEEK TOPICS
1st Week Introduction and overview
2nd Week Compression standards and others
3rd Week Multimedia metadata standard
4th Week Syntactic video analysis: shot segmentation
5th Week Syntactic video analysis: Keyframe selection and summarization
6th Week Content based retrieval
7th Week Content based retrieval
8th Week Midterm
9th Week Content based retrieval
10th Week Multimedia security and watermarking
11th Week Multimedia security and watermarking
12th Week Visualization and Abstraction, Content Adaptation for Ubiquitous Media Access
13th Week Digital Rights Management
14th Week Image Query: Systems
Recommended or Required ReadingMichael S. Lew (Editor), "Principles of Visual Information Retrieval", ISBN 1-85233-381-2, Springer-Verlag, 2001.
Guojun Lu, "Multimedia Database Management Systems", ISBN 0-89006-342-7, 1999, Artech House, Inc.
Mark T. Maybury (Editor), "Intelligent Multimedia Information Retrieval", ISBN 0-262-63179-2, AAAI Press/The MIT Press, 1997.
Ralf Steinmetz and Klara Nahrstedt, "Multimedia: Computing, Communications and Applications", ISBN 0-13-324435-0, Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 1995.
Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
  • Lecture
  • Questions/Answers
  • Problem Solving
  • Other
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Quantity Percentage (%)
Mid-term 1 30
Assignment 1 10
Project 1 10
Total(%) 50
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) 50
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) 50
Total(%) 100
Language of InstructionTurkish
Work Placement(s)No

Programme Qualifications / Learning Outcomes

LO1
K1 X
K2 X
K3
K4
K5 X
K6
K7
K8 X
K9 X
K10 X
K11 X