Readings in Advanced Intellimedia, Fall 2007 (IMM 9th Semester)

Zheng-Hua Tan, Associate Professor, Ph.D.

+45 9635-8686, zt@es.aau.dk

Office: Room A6-319, Niels Jernes Vej 12

To give the students a comprehension of the current state-of-the-art in advanced Intellimedia systems through the presentation and plenum discussion of a number of concepts and systems representative of the field.

syllabus 

calendar 

• Lecture 1: Mobile Speech Recognition and Its Applications (Zheng-Hua) 

  • Slides (To be distributed in the lecture room)

  • Readings (The slides will have a broader coverage):

    Zheng-Hua Tan, Paul Dalsgaard and Borge Lindberg, "Automatic Speech Recognition over Error-Prone Wireless Networks," Speech Communication, vol. 47, no. 1-2, pp. 220-242, Sep.- Oct. 2005. Published version in PDF OR Draft in PDF © Elsevier

    Haitian Xu, Zheng-Hua Tan, Paul Dalsgaard, Ralf Mattethat and Børge Lindberg, "A Configurable Distributed Speech Recognition System", Biennial on DSP for in-Vehicle and Mobile Systems, Sesimbra , Portugal , September 2005.  PDF

    Bowen Zhou, Yuqing Gao, Jeffrey Sorensen, Daniel Dkchelotte and Michael Picheny, "A hand-held speech-to-speech translation system," IEEE ASRU 2003. 

• Lecture 2: Audio-Visual Speech Recognition (Yoni Bauduin and Kristoffe Biglete)

• Slides

• Readings: 

  Gerasimos Potamianos, Chalapathy Neti, Juergen Luettin, Iain Matthews, "Audio-Visual Automatic Speech Recognition: An Overview", in: Issues in Visual and Audio-Visual Speech Processing, G. Bailly, E. Vatikiotis-Bateson, and P. Perrier, Eds., MIT Press, 2004. PDF.  OR the Workshop Report version.

  Bregler, C. Omohundro, S.M., "Nonlinear manifold learning for visual speech recognition", in: Proceedings of Fifth International Conference on Computer Vision, Jun 1995

• Lecture 3: Video Surveillance and Monitoring (Jimmy Mattiuzzo and Fadi Zahran) 

  • Slides

  • Readings: 

    Cheng, Michael F. and Pham, Binh L. and Tjondronegoro, Dian W. (2006) Tracking and Video Surveillance Activity Analysis. In Proceedings 4th international conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques in Australasia and Southeast Asia, pages pp. 367-373, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. PDF

    RT Collins, AJ Lipton, T Kanade, H Fujiyoshi, D, A System for Video Surveillance and Monitoring, CMU technical. report. PDF
    Yiğithan Dedeoğlu, �Moving Object Detection, Tracking and Classification for Smart Video Surveillance�, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, August 2004. PDF

    Walter Phillips III, Mubarak Shah, Niels da Vitoria Lobo, Flame Recognition in Video, Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 23 (1-3), pp 319-327, January 2002. PDF

• Lecture 4: Internet Evolution (Julien Boriachon and Charles Dagouat)

• Slides

• Readings: 

  Main sources:
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0 
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_3.0 
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web 
  
  Supplemental sources:
  http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html  
  http://xmlfr.org/actualites/decid/051201-0001 
  http://www.bpm-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=12100768D258&page=1 

• Lecture 5a: Cybersurveillance and privacy (Delphine BLONDEAU)

  • Slides

  • Readings: 

  • Vinod Chachra and Daniel McPherson, Personal Privacy and Use of RFID Technology in Libraries
    http://www.privacyinternational.org/issues/internet/interimrankings.pdf 
    http://www.google.com/privacy.html 
    Social network: http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_9/barnes/ 
    http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/~acquisti/papers/privacy-facebook- gross-acquisti.pdf 
    http://www.cnil.fr/fileadmin/documents/La_CNIL/publications/CNIL_EN_BREF-VFVD.pdf

• Lecture 5b: Artificial Intelligence in Chess (Alexandre Gimenez)

  • Slides

  • Readings: 

  • Main sources:

  • Murray Campbell a, A. Joseph Hoane Jr. b, Feng-hsiung Hsu, "Deep Blue", Artificial Intelligence 134 (2002) 57-83. http://www.chessbrain.net/docs/chessbrainII.pdf 
    General, quite complete: http://www.frayn.net/beowulf/theory.html 
    General (wikipedia): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_chess 
    
    Supplemental sources:
    AI: http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/%7Etony/RecentPapers/report.mac.pdf 
    AI: http://www.redhotpawn.com/rival/programming/evaluation.php 
    History: Automaton http://www.chessgraphics.net/ac.htm 
    History: General http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/ 
    Chess Brain (system that uses grid computing over the internet) http://www.chessbrain.net/docs/chessbrainII.pdf 

            

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Instructor:

Zheng-Hua Tan, Department of Electronic Systems, Aalborg University