Research Seminar on Multimedia Computing and Systems

Through all the exciting recent advances in digital media technology and the rapid growth of social media platforms, multimedia content is increasingly embedded in our daily lives, gaining enormous potential in improving the traditional educational, professional, business, communication and entertainment processes. To be able to use this potential for transferring these processes into user-centric interactive multimedia applications, technology is required that can help us access, deliver, enrich and share rich-media content. This course provides insight into the state-of-the-art cross-disciplinary research efforts related to the development of such technology. The topics covered by the course include, but are not limited to, multimedia engagement (emotional and social signals and recommender systems), multimedia technology (language and speech technology, telepresence and VR, mobile), and multimedia experiences (Quality of Experience, collaboration), and Multimedia in the Generative AI Era.