Program Overview

COMP4425: Multimedia Retrieval

Overview

The explosive growth of multimedia data, including text, audio, images, and video, has imposed unprecedented challenges for search engines to meet various information needs of users. This unit provides students with the necessary and updated knowledge of this field in the context of big data, from the information retrieval basics of a search engine, to many advanced techniques towards next-generation search engines, such as content-based image and video retrieval, large-scale visual information retrieval, and social media.

Unit Details and Rules

• Managing Faculty or University School: Engineering
• Study Level: Undergraduate
• Academic Unit: Computer Science
• Credit Points: 6

Enrolment Rules

• Prerequisites: DATA3888 or COMP3888 or COMP3988 or CSEC3888 or ISYS3888 or SOFT3888 or ENGG3112 or SCPU3001
• Corequisites: None
• Prohibitions: COMP5425
• Assumed Knowledge: A major in a computer science area. Experience with programming skills as covered in INFO1113 or COMP2123 or COMP2823 or INFO1105 or INFO1905 or other similar units

Learning Outcomes

At the completion of this unit, students should be able to:

• LO1. Perform functional analysis for a specific application domain and specific users
• LO2. Conduct a literature review in the field related to a given task
• LO3. Perform function design of a retrieval system
• LO4. Design technical solutions to solve a media retrieval problem with learned knowledge and techniques
• LO5. Explain the framework and key components of a general retrieval system
• LO6. Reflect on the state of the art in multimedia retrieval
• LO7. Evaluate the advantages and shortcomings of a specific retrieval technique and solution
• LO8. Practice popular algorithms related to retrieval techniques, such as feature extraction and similarity measurement

Unit Availability

This unit is available in various sessions and locations. The unit outline, which includes assessment details and a schedule of weekly activities, is published two weeks before the first day of teaching. Previous outlines can be viewed for a guide to the details of the unit.

• Session: Semester 1 2025, Semester 1 2026, Semester 1 2023, Semester 1 2024
• Mode of Attendance (MoA): Normal evening
• Location: Camperdown / Darlington, Sydney, Remote
• Outline: Available for viewing for previous years, unavailable for Semester 1 2026 at the time of publication.