Information for New Students...

If you like to conduct Ph.D. research in the research areas highlighted, you must have relevant background knowledge. A good way to obtain the relevant background knowledge is to take the following courses offered by CS Department: >> CS4243 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition      This is a upper undergraduate-level course on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. It covers interesting and useful topics that can be      applied to many application areas. >> CS5240 Theoretical Foundation of Multimedia      This is an introductory graduate-level course on theoretical and mathematical foundation of multimedia algorithms. It covers fundamental      algorithms that are used in many multimedia application areas. >> CS6240 Multimedia Analysis      This is a graduate-level course on more advanced algorithms for multimedia analysis. It covers topics that are useful for applications of      computer vision, medical image analysis, 3D modeling, etc.