SELECTED TOPICS IN INFORMATION ENGINEERING (4 Credits)

Learning Outcomes:

On successful completion of this course, students will be able to: Understand the need of information for business and the principle components of a multimedia information retrieval system and how they differ from other retrieval systems, most notably text information retrieval systems; Improve the skills, technologies, applications and practices that enhance the use of information for better decision making and state the computational principles underlying both current and emerging multimedia information retrieval systems; Describe a strategy and specific actions for addressing targeted problems and issues related to a business intelligence initiative and the importance of the human perception of multimedia data for the purpose of content-based retrieval; Understand standards for description and retrieval of multimedia content; Implement the steps of Business Intelligence development; Analyse and criticize previous research on multimedia indexing and retrieval.

Topics:

1. An Overview of IT Project Management;
2. Identifying and Prioritizing Business Intelligence-Driven Opportunities;
3. Business Intelligence Readiness: Prerequisites for Leveraging Business Intelligence to Improve Profits;
4. Business Intelligence Development Step;
5. Introduction to Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval;
6. Searching for Text Documents;
7. Speech Indexing;
8. A Spatio-temporal and Probabilistic Approach in Video Retrieval;
9. Multimodal Content-based Video Retrieval;
10. Evaluation of Multimedia Retrieval Systems.