CpSc 863 (Section 1): Multimedia Systems and Applications
Spring 2009

General Information:

      Class Time: 5:00 PM-6:15 PM   Tuesday and Thursday.
      Location: 408 Daniel Hall
      Instructor: Dr. James Z. Wang
      Office: 305 McAdams Hall
      Phone: 864-656-7678
      Email: jzwang@cs.clemson.edu
      Office Hours: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM   Tuesday and Thursday.
      Syllabus: http://www.cs.clemson.edu/~jzwang/0901863/syllabus.htm

Presentation Schedule:

Date Presenters
04/14/2009 Bhanu Kamapantula, Srikanth Gadde, Niharika Avasarala, Rohan Rajeevan, Ye Mao
04/16/2009 Sravanthi Vattikuti, Kyle Peacock, Kruthi Neela, Preethi Poddatur, Hima Karri
04/21/2009 Lakshmi Kothapalli, Sri Devabhaktuni, Swathi Vasanthapura, Llewelyn Jones, Bab Sennakesava
04/23/2009 Sekar Neethi, Hardik Barot, Syed Ahmed, Suraj Karnati, Karthik Injarapu

Final Exame Schedule:

             Thursday, April 30, 7:00PM to 9:30PM

Notes and Schedule:

      01/10: Introduction
      01/12: Data Compression
      01/20: Image Compression - JPEG
      01/22: JPEG 2000 - Overview
      02/02: Video Compression
      02/04: Audio Compression
      02/10: Multimedia Streaming
      02/24: Multimedia Distribution - BitTorrent
      03/03: Digital Watermarking -- by Alexander Hasslacher
      03/05: Image Retrieval -- by Ximena Olivares
      03/10: Photo-based QA -- by Tom Yeh
      03/12: Contextual Inimage Advertising -- by Tao Mei
      03/31: Flickr Distance -- by Wu et al.
      04/01: Precise object cutout from images -- by Ming Liu et al.
      04/01: Naming faces in broadcast news video by image google -- by Chunxi Liu et al.
      04/07: Real Time Google and Live Image Search Re-ranking -- by Cui et al.
      04/07: Hierarchical Clustering-Based Navigation of Image Search Results -- by Ding et al.
      04/09: Word2Image: Towards Visual Interpreting of Words -- by Haojie Li et al.

Peer Presentation Slides:

An online image watermarking tool -- by svatti.
Boosting image retrieval -- by ppoddat.

Projects:

      01/25: Project proposal is due by 11:59PM on Sunday, February 8, 2009. Your proposal must contain the essential elements we discussed in the class.
      04/01: Project Report is due by 11:59PM on Friday, April 24, 2009. You should have completed your project by then. You are required to submit your source code, a technical report and presentation slides.

Your technical report should include system design, implementation details, evaluation/testing results, and user manual or instruction on how to use your system.

Please make sure you also write a readme/instruction on how to deloy your project with your source code on the specific platform.

Project Topics:

  1. P2P video ads management system.
  2. Online 3D brain image annotation tool.
  3. Online image watermarking tool.
  4. Google-based Clemson University interactive map.
  5. Research projects presented in ACM MM 2008.

Academic Integrity:

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“When, in the opinion of a faculty member, there is evidence that a student has committed an act of academic dishonesty, the faculty member shall make a formal written charge of academic dishonesty, including a description of the misconduct, to the Associate Dean for Curriculum in the Office of Undergraduate Studies. At the same time, the faculty member may, but is not required to, inform each involved student privately of the nature of the alleged charge.”

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