Topics

• Models of information retrieval
• Nearest neighbors, range queries, hash algorithms
• PLSA and topic models vector space models
• Text categorization, analysis, tagging, parsing
• Content based image and video retrieval
• Image retrieval based on color, texture, and shape
• Visual bag of words model
• Grouping, static and motion segmentation, scene cuts
• Geometric indexing, verification, and object recognition
• Automatic annotation and categorization
• HMM-based methods (audio, video, music, document retrieval)
• Generative and discriminative methods
• Selected special purpose applications, such as face detection, x-ray image analysis
• Performance evaluation and competitions
• Applications in consumer imaging, security, forensics, and copyright and plagiarism detection