Markus Koskela D.Sc.(Tech), Researcher Department of Information and Computer Science Aalto University School of Science and Technology

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Research interests

• Multimodal Interfaces /  Content-Based Image and Information Retrieval
• PicSOM - Content-based image and video retrieval with Self-Organizing Maps

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Selected publications

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• PicSOM Experiments in TRECVID 2009

  Mats Sjöberg, Ville Viitaniemi, Markus Koskela, and Jorma Laaksonen. Online Proceedings of the TRECVID 2009 Workshop. Gaithersburg, MD, USA. November 2009. [pdf]

• Improving Automatic Video Retrieval with Semantic Concept Detection

  Markus Koskela, Mats Sjöberg, and Jorma Laaksonen. In Proceedings of 16th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (SCIA 2009). Oslo, Norway. June 2009. [pdf]

• Rushes Summarization with Self-Organizing Maps

  Markus Koskela, Mats Sjöberg, Jorma Laaksonen, Ville Viitaniemi, and Hannes Muurinen. In Proceedings of TRECVID Workshop on Video Summarization (TVS 2007) at ACM Multimedia 2007. Augsburg, Germany. September 2007. [abstract] [pdf] © Copyright 2007 by ACM, Inc.

• Measuring Concept Similarities in Multimedia Ontologies: Analysis and Evaluations

  Markus Koskela, Alan F. Smeaton, and Jorma Laaksonen. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 9(5): 912-922. August 2007. [abstract] [DOI]

• Class Distributions on SOM Surfaces for Feature Extraction and Object Retrieval

  Jorma Laaksonen, Markus Koskela, and Erkki Oja. Neural Networks 17(8-9): 1121-1133. October-November 2004. [abstract] [DOI]

• PicSOM--Self-Organizing Image Retrieval With MPEG-7 Content Descriptors

  Jorma Laaksonen, Markus Koskela, and Erkki Oja. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 13(4): 841-853, July 2002. Available online here.

My full list of publications is available here. Recent publications of our research group are listed here.

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Doctoral thesis

• Interactive Image Retrieval using Self-Organizing Maps

  Markus Koskela. Doctoral thesis, Helsinki University of Technology, Dissertations in Computer and Information Science, Report D1, Espoo, Finland. November 2003. Available online here.

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Courses

T-61.6020 Special Course in Computer and Information Science II P: Local image descriptors, Spring 2010.

T-61.6020 Special Course in Computer and Information Science II P: Visual Analysis of People, Spring 2009.

T-61.6030 Special Course in Computer and Information Science III P: Multimedia Retrieval, Spring 2008.

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Contacting

Room B309, 3rd floor at the CS Building (building number 15 in this map) [Google Maps].

Email: markus.koskela (at) tkk.fi

+358-9-470 25024 (work)
+358-50-350 4925 (mobile)
+358-9-470 23277 (fax)

Department of Information and Computer Science / Adaptive Informatics Research Centre
Aalto University School of Science and Technology
P.O. Box 15400 / Konemiehentie 2
FI-00076 Aalto
FINLAND