Welcome to CS5240 Theoretical Foundations of Multimedia!

First lecture:

Date: Thursday, 13 Aug. 2009

Time: 4pm - 7pm

Place: COM 1, Room 208

See you in class!

- Dr. Terence Sim

[page last updated: 6 Aug. 2009]

We will be using IVLE for course administration. Please login to IVLE and search for CS5240.

Notes:

  1. This module has been changed from previous years, when it was taught by Prof. Mohan Kankanhalli. It is now geared towards PhD research students, and it more theoretical in its emphasis.
  2. Non-PhD students are, of course, welcome to take this module. But please be aware of the emphasis and expectations.
  3. What Prof. Mohan used to teach is now renamed as CS5342 Multimedia Computing and Applications. You may also be interested in this module.

Tentative syllabus:

Introduction to Matlab
Vector representation: SVD, Inverse, Pseudo-inverse, Projections, Rotations, Orthogonal bases, Derivatives
Application: geometric transformation of images; homogeneous coordinates; image registration and mosaicking
Signal representation: convolution, DTFT, DFT
Wavelets, multi-resolution analysis
Statistical learning: probability and statistics. Clustering
Parameter estimation: MLE, MAP, MMSE
Components Analysis: PCA, LDA
Application: music transcription
Expectation Maximization
Robust Methods: Ransac
Information theory