TYPE OF COURSE UNIT	Elective Course
LEVEL OF COURSE UNIT	Master's Degree With Thesis
YEAR OF STUDY	-
SEMESTER	-
NUMBER OF ECTS CREDITS ALLOCATED	10
NAME OF LECTURER(S)	-
LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT	At the end of this course, the students; 1) Will have learned the basic concepts of visual systems and have mastered several topics in multimedia and visual information systems
MODE OF DELIVERY	Face to face
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE	No
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT	There is no recommended optional programme component for this course.
COURSE DEFINITION	Technologies and applications of visual information systems, such as image/video search engines, video navigation interfaces, mobile video delivery, and digital rights management systems for multimedia. Survey algorithms, theories, and tools developed in research and market for video coding, indexing, summarization, copyright protection, and digital rights management. Knowledge and hands-on experience about popular multimedia standards, such as MPEG-2, MPEG-7, and DVD.
COURSE CONTENTS	WEEK TOPICS 1st Week Introduction and overview 2nd Week Compression standards and others 3rd Week Multimedia metadata standard 4th Week Syntactic video analysis: shot segmentation 5th Week Syntactic video analysis: Keyframe selection and summarization 6th Week Content based retrieval 7th Week Content based retrieval 8th Week Midterm 9th Week Content based retrieval 10th Week Multimedia security and watermarking 11th Week Multimedia security and watermarking 12th Week Visualization and Abstraction, Content Adaptation for Ubiquitous Media Access 13th Week Digital Rights Management 14th Week Image Query: Systems
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READING	Michael S. Lew (Editor), "Principles of Visual Information Retrieval", ISBN 1-85233-381-2, Springer-Verlag, 2001. Guojun Lu, "Multimedia Database Management Systems", ISBN 0-89006-342-7, 1999, Artech House, Inc. Mark T. Maybury (Editor), "Intelligent Multimedia Information Retrieval", ISBN 0-262-63179-2, AAAI Press/The MIT Press, 1997. Ralf Steinmetz and Klara Nahrstedt, "Multimedia: Computing, Communications and Applications", ISBN 0-13-324435-0, Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 1995.
PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS	Lecture,Questions/Answers,Problem Solving,Other
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA	Quantity Percentage(%) Mid-term 1 30 Assignment 1 10 Project 1 10 Total(%) 50 Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) 50 Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) 50 Total(%) 100
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION	Turkish
WORK PLACEMENT(S)	No