TERM 3, 2008/2009
INFOAMS: Seminar Advanced Multimedia Systems
Wednesdays, 13-17h, BBL-509, & Fridays, 9-13h, BBL-433

Lecturer: Wolfgang Hürst (WWW, Email)

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NOTE: The articles for the presentations have moved and can now be found together with the slides in the schedule.
Literature: Since we will be looking at current research projects, obviously no textbooks will be used. Instead, we will rely on journal articles and conference papers. Some of them will be mandatory to read for all participants, but most of the literature will be individually assembled for the topic of your presentation. Hence, expect to read a few mandatory articles, some articles that are related to your presentation topic and which will be handed out to you, as well as some supplemental material that you have to find yourself doing a little literature research.
Mandatory reading: As an introduction into the different areas we are going to address this year, each participant has to read two mandatory overview articles. (Except for the mobile multimedia topic, for which three articles have to be read. However, the overall workload for all topics should be about the same). For each of the two articles, a few simple questions have to be answered. The answers should be given to the instructor via email or as printout during or before the 2nd meeting on Feb 11.

Mandatory article for all participants: In addition, each participant should read the article(s) of one of the following areas that we will be addressing this year, and turn the related question sheet in:
Sources for literature research: Here are some starting points for researching literature for your second talk (which you are supposted to find yourself). Please contact the instructor if you need further assistance or have any questions related to this. Since your second talk has to be related to the first one, a good starting point for literature research are obviously the references given in the paper from your first talk. Some digital libraries and web portals for scientific articles also provide lists of newer articles that reference to a given one. Good places to find computer science related literature online (and that also list related references) are Important journals for multimedia in general are Important multimedia conferences are Note: These are just some major conferences. There are many other events that might have relevant content for you. Depending on your particular topic, it might also make sense to look into journals and conferences related to other areas (e.g. mobile computing, etc.). The links to the ACM and IEEE digital libraries provided above also lead to lists of journals and conference proceedings which you might want to consult for this purpose. Here are some further sources related to the topics discussed in the seminar:

Additional sources for research related to mobile multimedia are the following conferences: For multimedia analysis and semantics, the general multimedia conferences listed above are probably the most important sources. If you are dealing with video analysis, the following conference (as well as many computer vision related events) might be relevant as well: For vision-based human motion analysis various computer-vision related events are relevant. The overview paper provided as mandatory reading (cf. above) also lists various sources that might be worth considering.
(c) Wolfgang Hürst