Markus Koskela

D.Sc.(Tech), Researcher
Department of Information and Computer Science, TKK

Research interests

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

Selected publications

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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]
PicSOM Experiments in TRECVID 2008
Markus Koskela, Mats Sjöberg, Ville Viitaniemi, and Jorma Laaksonen. Online Proceedings of the TRECVID 2008 Workshop. Gaithersburg, MD, USA. November 2008. [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]
Semantic Concept Detection from News Videos with Self-Organizing Maps
Markus Koskela and Jorma Laaksonen. In Proceedings of 3rd IFIP Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations (AIAI 2006). Athens, Greece. June 2006. [abstract] [pdf]
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.

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.

Courses

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.

TIK.Kand Bachelor's Thesis and Seminar / Kandidaatintyö ja seminaari, Spring 2008.

Contacting

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

Email: markus.koskela (at) tkk.fi

+358-9-451 5024 (work)
+358-9-451 3277 (fax)
+358-50-350 4925 (mobile)

Department of Information and Computer Science / Adaptive Informatics Research Centre
Helsinki University of Technology (TKK)
P.O. Box 5400 / Konemiehentie 2
FI-02015 TKK
FINLAND