[C] Christopher Bishop, Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, Springer 2006
for fundamentals of pattern recognition
Course short description
This course addresses Multimedia Recognition and Indexing, reviewing recent advances in Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition and Multimedia Retrieval. Includes image, video and 3D media content description and matching for the purpose of recognition and classification. Covers matching in small and large scale datasets and over the Internet, with advanced algorithms and recent solutions. Most of the course content includes solid scientific results and achievements from 2004 to this point
Instructor
Office Hours: working days 09-11, Dipartimento Sistemi e Informatica S. Marta 3 (week of instruction)
Prof. Alberto del Bimbo http://www.micc.unifi.it/delbimbo/
Tutors
Office Hours: working days 10-13, MICC Media Integration and Communication Center, Viale Morgagni 65
Marco Bertini
Andy Bagdanov
Lorenzo Seidenari
Lamberto Ballan
Giuseppe Lisanti
Giuseppe Serra
Credits 9
Class Schedule
Frontal lessons: Facoltà Ingegneria, Via S. Marta 3, Room 205-206
Tuesday 2 - 5 pm
Thursday 8 – 11 am
Laboratory: MICC Media Integration and Communication Center, Viale Morgagni 65, Basement
Tuesday 2 - 5 pm
Thursday 8 – 11 am
and other weekdays at student’s wishes
Modalities
Class participation (optional); Laboratories (mandatory); Final project development (mandatory); Review/presentation (mandatory).
Class partecipation includes attending frontal lessons by the instructor
Laboratory includes development of exercise work (Laboratory exercises are held at MICC or under request at your home under tutor supervision)
Final project; the following options are available:
small-scale (approx 1 man-month) for the Course exam only
medium scale (approx 3-4 man-months) for the Course exam and the Master Thesis
Final projects are held at MICC, or at industry companies that cooperate with MICC, and developed under tutor supervision (cooperating companies year 2011: Thales Italia SpA, Selex Communications SpA, Magenta SrL)
Exam Grading
60% class participation and laboratories, 20% final project, 20% Review/presentation
Prerequisites
Students are expected to have basic familiarity with background in image analysis and pattern recognition. Programming skills in Matlab or C, C++ language are highly useful.
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