I just finished my PhD proposal regarding medical case retrieval (available as PDF). Here is the abstract:

The proposed PhD project addresses the problem of medical case retrieval (MCR), where a medical case is represented by a multimedia document describing a certain disease or a patient’s history. The ImageCLEF evaluation campaign poses a yearly MCR task using a heterogeneous dataset of more than 75,000 medical publications consisting of text and images. The best results achieved by participants of the ImageCLEF MCR task in 2012 are moderate and call for improvement. Interestingly, approaches based on visual retrieval perform significantly worse than text-only retrieval, even if combined with text retrieval. This project therefore aims at designing an MCR model that is able to deliver a substantially better retrieval performance on the ImageCLEF dataset. Moreover, the potential of further improvement by leveraging the feedback of medical expert users for long-term learning will be investigated.

Here are the courses I give this summer term:

621.171 Distributed systems lab
621.401 Compiler construction lab
621.402 Compiler construction lab

Students access the course material through non-public Moodle. If you are not enrolled to these courses but are interested in the course material, please drop me an e-mail.

Today I had a talk on virtualization of operating systems with demos using Virtualbox and Proxmox VE at the Inf2School workshop at AAU, which targets further education of secondary school teachers. Slides are here (in German).

I participated at the International Computer Vision Summer School in Sicily last week. Lecture slides are announced to be available within one week.

I just announced a development project for bachelor students (Softwarepraktikum) at the TEWI blog. The project goal is to build a video system for recording and documenting courses to support our e-learning department. Please see the link above for details (in German) or drop me an e-mail if you are interested.

In summer 2012, I will give these two courses:

• 621.172 Distributed systems (laboratory), Monday 12-14.
• 621.401 Compiler construction (laboratory), Thursday, 10-12.

Courses will start in the week of Monday, March 5. I would be glad to see you there!

My small contribution to the Video Browser Showdown at the MMM’12 conference, entitled “A key-frame oriented video browser”, has been accepted. The preprint is available here.

To appear in: K. Schoeffmann et al. (eds.): MMM 2012, LNCS 7131, pp. 655-657, Springer, 2012.
Update: here is the official DOI.

The 4 Scrum teams finished their Reversi game (aka Othello) projects in my Software Engineering 2 course with great success. The game software developed includes features like hot seat and network modi, different levels of difficulty, speed gaming, and even voice control. Some teams agreed to make their software available online:

Team 2 user software (13 MB) / full source code (41 MB)
Team 3 user software (38 MB) / full source code (91 MB)
Team 4 user software (50 MB) / Reversi home page

Congratulations!

In winter 2011/12, I give two lab courses:

• Computer organization (PR Rechnerorganisation), Monday 10-12
• Introduction to programming (PR ESOP), Tuesday 12-14

Here are the courses I gave this year:

Summer Term 2011

• PR 621.253 Software Engineering 2
• PR 621.401 Compiler Construction

Winter Term 2010/11

• PR 621.201 Software Engineering 1
• PR 621.203 Software Engineering 1
• PR 621.701 Computer Organisation