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3. Apply appropriate security techniques in
multimedia contents.
Synopsis of Course Content
This course covers the following topics related to
multimedia forensic and security: Digital Right
Management,
Multimedia
security
issues,
Multimedia
Encryption,
Authentication
for
multimedia content, Information hiding, Biometric
spoofing, Anti-piracy technology.
Assessment Methods
Continuous Assessment: 50%
Final Examination: 50%
WIG3009
MULTIMEDIA RETIEVAL
Credit:
3
Course Pre-requisite(s) :
None .
Medium of Instruction:
English
Learning Outcomes
1. Describe issues and techniques involved in
retrieving multimedia information.
2. Discuss the main challenges facing the
representation, storage and retrieval of
multimedia information.
3. Build an application to search and retrieve
multimedia information from the web.
Synopsis of Course Content
This course covers the following topics: concepts of
information retrieval, IR metrics precision and recall;
search engine concept and architecture (i.e.
document indexing, querying, ranking and
information retrieval models); textual information
retrieval - information retrieval models (e.g.
Boolean, Vector Space, Probabilistic, Fuzzy),
indexing (e.g. suffix tree, inverted files), querying
(e.g. keyword-based queries, context queries,
natural language queries); image retrieval – manual
image indexing using metadata, indexing bye visual
features (i.e. color, shape, texture), shape and color
based retrieval; speech retrieval, speech
recognition and retrieval; video retrieval – motion
detection and video segmentation.
Assessment Method
Continuous Assessment: 50%
Final Examination: 50%
