Teaching and Academic Programme Development
， Bachelor of Computing in (Communications and Media)
(launched in July 2001)
The goal of this program is to address the fast emerging discipline of digital media and its effective management and communications. It is a multi-disciplinary program that integrates content design and mass communication techniques with the Internet, WWW, and digital media technology. It aims to produce computing students with a good knowledge of artistic design and human communications.
(For further details, refer to: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~bcompcm)
， A graduate programme is also consolidated to nurture graduate research in the media area.
， CS3242: Hypermedia Technologies
This course teaches the major concepts and technologies of multimedia and hypermedia. It covers basic multimedia technologies and standards in text, image and video; and hypermedia concepts, XML, semantic web and recent developments. It is an essential header module for the B. Comp (Communications and Media) programme. It is designed to be a project-based module.
， CS4241 Multimedia Information Systems
This course introduces techniques for analysis, representation and retrieval of multimedia information. It covers various attributes characterising the multimedia data. The attributes to be discussed are text, colour, texture and shapes. For each attribute, the course discusses its representation scheme, similarity-based retrieval model, iterative refinement technique, and other representation and retrieval models. The use of these attributes to retrieve images, audio and video, and a framework for multimedia information retrieval and directions of the future work are discussed.
， CS5246: Text Processing on the Web
This course introduces techniques for the processing of free-text information on the web. It discusses the analysis, indexing, retrieval, categorization, summary and extraction of information from text-based information sources.
(For further details, refer to: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~cs5246.
， Currently supervising 9 PhD and 5 senior undergraduate students.
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