Database Seminar

Organised by: Magda Balazinska

The Database Group meets on Mondays at 3.30 p.m. - 4.20 p.m. in CSE 405, Allen Center.

Upcoming talks are announced on uw-db@cs. Please sign up for the mailing list.

Schedule

Date	Presenter	Talk Title
Oct. 12	Cong, Laurel	Week 1: Basic Image Storage and Retrieval V.E. Ogle and M. Stonebraker, "Chabot: Retrieval from a Relational Database of Images," IEEE Computer 1995
Oct. 19	Shumo, Maaz	Week 2: Content-based Querying Christos Faloutsos, Myron Flickner, Wayne Niblack, Dragutin Petkovic, Will Equitz, Ron Barber, “ Efficient and Effective Querying by Image Content”, IBM Research Report 1993
Oct. 26	Brandon M., Nicole	Week 3: More Content-based Querying Chad Carson, Megan Thomas, Serge Belongie, Joseph M. Hellerstein and Jitendra Malik, " Blobworld: a System for Region-Based Image Indexing and Retrieval" (long version), 1999
Nov. 2	Brandon H., Parmita, Connor	Week 4: Query Optimization & Indexing in the Presence of Image Data S. Chaudhuri and L. Gravano. Optimizing queries over multimedia repositories. In 16th ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems , pages 91–102, Tucson, 1997. ACM Melliyal Annamalai, Rajiv Chopra, Samuel DeFazio: Indexing Images in Oracle8i. 539-547 (short paper)
Nov. 9	Dominik, Dylan, Ham (Slides)	Week 5: Multimedia Queries Ronald Fagin, Edward L. Wimmers: Incorporating User Preferences in Multimedia Queries. ICDT 1997: 247-261. Ronald Fagin, Amnon Lotem, Moni Naor: Optimal Aggregation Algorithms for Middleware. PODS 2001 (Journal version).
Nov. 16	Srini, Shrainik	Week 6: Modern Content-based Image Retrieval LeCun, Y., Bengio, Y. and Hinton, G. E., Deep Learning, Nature, Vol. 521, pp 436-444. Y. LeCun, L. Bottou, Y. Bengio and P. Haffner: Gradient-Based Learning Applied to Document Recognition, Proceedings of the IEEE, 86(11):2278-2324, November 1998
Nov. 23	Ryan, Jingjing, Megan	Week 7: Image Search VisualRank: Applying PageRank to Large-Scale Image Search. Background info on the effect deep learning has had on image search: http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2013/06/improving-photo-search-step-across.html
Nov. 30	Jen, Helga	Week 8: Novel Applications "Photo Recall: Using the Internet to Label Your Photos," Neeraj Kumar, Steven Seitz, 2nd Workshop on Web-scale Vision and Social Media (VSM) at CVPR 2014, Pentland et al's paper "Photobook: Content-based manipulation of image databases." (Old but interesting application)
Dec. 7	Jeremy, Bailu	Week 9: Knowledge Bases from Multimedia Data Incremental Knowledge Base Construction Using DeepDive Sen Wu, Ce Zhang, Christopher De Sa, Jaeho Shin, Feiran Wang, and C. Ré. VLDB. 2015.

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