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Teleseminar Mannheim-Lancaster

General Information


 

It is the purpose of this joint seminar between the University of Mannheim, Germany and Lancaster University, U.K. to bring together researchers and students from both places to do joint work on multimedia topics. Both universities have outstanding multimedia research groups, and it will be quite beneficial for students on both sides to learn more about international state-of-the-art research and cooperation.

In addition, it has become quite normal for computer science students to work on an international team after they graduate. For example, consulting companies often form such international teams, with colleagues with specific competences from all over the world, to work on customer problems, using their laptops, no matter where they currently are. We intend to create a similar setting for our students in order to train them for this new scenario.

 

Topic

The content topic in the Spring of 2007 will be cut detection algorithms for digital video. Students should have participated in an introductory class on this topic.

We will have a first meeting at Lancaster University on February 9, 2007, give an introduction to the topic and build the teams. In a subsequent cooperation phase of approximately 6 weeks, the teams will cooperate from their home locations, designing and programming software for cut detection (in Java). Finally, the teams will prepare a short paper, a PowerPoint presentation and a demo, and we will all meet in Mannheim to present and discuss the results.


Grading

For Mannheim students the participation will either count as a seminar (3 ECTS points), as a ”Praktikum” (6 ECTS points), or as a "Studienarbeit", depending on the amount of work they are planning to spend. For Lancaster students, the participation will count as a project in the multimedia class.


If you are interested in a really exciting international experience we invite you to apply for this teleseminar:

  • In Mannheim, please send an email with information about your studies and standing so far to Professor Effelsberg (effelsberg@informatik.uni-mannheim.de).

  • In Lancaster, please send the same information to Dr. Mauthe (andreas@comp.lancs.ac.uk).

 

Deadline

The deadline for applications is December 11, 2006. You will be informed if you can participate no later than December 15, 2006.