Markus Koskela

D.Sc.(Tech), Researcher
Academic coordinator of the Macadamia Master's Programme
Chairman of the Pattern Recognition Society of Finland

Department of Information and Computer Science
Aalto University School of Science

Current

The 18th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (SCIA 2013) at Espoo, Finland, organized by the Pattern Recognition Society of Finland. June 17-20, 2013.

Research interests

Selected publications

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Large-Scale Visual Concept Detection with Explicit Kernel Maps and Power Mean SVM
Mats Sjöberg, Markus Koskela, Satoru Ishikawa, and Jorma Laaksonen. Accepted to ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR 2013). Dallas, Texas. April 2013.
PicSOM Experiments in TRECVID 2012
Mats Sjöberg, Satoru Ishikawa, Markus Koskela, Jorma Laaksonen, and Erkki Oja. Online Proceedings of the TRECVID 2012 Workshop. Gaithersburg, MD, USA. December 2012. [pdf]
Real-time large-scale visual concept detection with linear classifiers
Mats Sjöberg, Markus Koskela, Satoru Ishikawa, and Jorma Laaksonen. Proceedings of 21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2012). Tsukuba, Japan. November 2012. [link]
An Augmented Reality Interface to Contextual Information
Antti Ajanki, Mark Billinghurst, Hannes Gamper, Toni Järvenpää, Melih Kandemir, Samuel Kaski, Markus Koskela, Mikko Kurimo, Jorma Laaksonen, Kai Puolamäki, Teemu Ruokolainen, and Timo Tossavainen. Virtual Reality, 15(2-3): 161-173. 2011. [DOI]
Mobile Visual Search from Dynamic Image Databases
Xi Chen and Markus Koskela. In Proceedings of Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (SCIA 2011). Ystad, Sweden. May 2011. [DOI]
Indoor location recognition using fusion of SVM-based visual classifiers
Mats Sjöberg, Markus Koskela, Ville Viitaniemi, and Jorma Laaksonen. In Proceedings of 2010 IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP 2010), Kittilä, Finland, August-September 2010. [pdf]
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]

My full list of publications is available here. All publications at the Department of Information and Computer Science are listed here. My citations at Google Scholar Citations are 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-61.6030 Special Course in Computer and Information Science III: Machine learning in machine vision, Spring 2013.

T-61.6030 Special Course in Computer and Information Science III: Real-world face recognition, Spring 2012.

T-61.6030 Special Course in Computer and Information Science III: Digital video processing, Spring 2011.

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

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

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

Contacting

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

Email: markus.koskela (at) aalto.fi

+358-50-430 1157 (work)
+358-50-350 4925 (personal)
+358-9-470 23277 (fax)

Department of Information and Computer Science
Aalto University
P.O. Box 15400 / Konemiehentie 2
FI-00076 Aalto
FINLAND