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SIRET (SImilarity RETrieval) research group (SRG) was founded in 2006 at the Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague. SRG deals with database methods for efficient and effective similarity search in databases of complex unstructured objects. In particular, SRG is interested in three areas - general methods of indexing similarity (metric and nonmetric spaces), biological applications of the similarity search, and indexing image databases for content-based retrieval.

Events

06.01.2020

The SOMHunter team from our SIRET research group has won the 9th Video Browser Showdown competition organized at the 26th International Conference on Multimedia Modeling in Daejeon. For more details (in Czech), see the following link.

16.08.2019

We organize a summer workshop on interactive video retrieval and machine learning in multimedia retrieval. For more details see http://siret.ms.mff.cuni.cz/videohunter/

22.10.2018

In cooperation with K. Schoeffmann, J. Lokoč gave a tutorial at ACM MM in Seoul. Slides are available here https://www.slideshare.net/klschoef/interactive-video-search-where-is-the-user-in-the-age-of-deep-learning

05.02.2018

The team from SIRET has won the 7th Video Browser Showdown competition organized at the 24th International Conference on Multimedia Modeling in Bangkok. For more details (in Czech), see the following link.

Projects

Bioinformatics & Cheminformatics

  • MolArt - MolArt is a responsive, easy-to-use JavaScript plugin which enables users to view annotated protein sequence and overlay the annotations over a corresponding experimental or predicted protein structure. - Details
  • Molpher - Software tool for exploration of the chemical space - Details
  • P2Rank - Protein binding site prediction - Details
  • rPredictor - Infrastructure consisting of tools, a database and web interface that together enable predicting ribosomal RNA secondary structure and analysing it. - Details
  • SETTER - RNA structure similarity search - Details
  • Traveler - Traveler is an RNA sescondary structure visualization tool implementing a template-based approach enabling to lay out even the largest RNA structures in the standard orientation. - Details

General indexing

  • PGRTree - Plugin for Indexing Multidimensional Data in PostgreSQL Using R-tree - Details

Multimedia

Grants

Past grant projects

  • GAČR 19-22071Y Flexible models for known-item search in large video collections (2019 - 2021)
  • GACR 19-01641S Contextual Similarity Search in Open Data (2019 - 2021)
  • GAČR 17-22224S User Preference Analytics in Multimedia Exploration Models (2017 - 2019)
  • GAUK 232217 Lineup identification using machine learning (2017 - 2019)
  • GAČR 15-08916S Efficient subgraph discovery for petabyte-scale web analysis (2015 - 2017)
  • GAČR 15-00885S Novel methods for computational prediction and visualization of secondary structures of ribosomal ribonucleic acids - an integrated solution (2015 - 2017)
  • GAUK 174615 Adaptive virtual screening (2015 - 2017)
  • GAUK 201515 Using metric indexes for efficient content-based multimedia exploration (2015 - 2017)
  • GAČR 14-29032P Efficient chemical space exploration using multi-objective optimization (2014 - 2016)
  • GAUK 550214 rRNA Secondary Structure Prediction (2014 - 2015)
  • GAUK 910913 Real-time Exploration Queries in Multimedia Databases (2013 - 2015)
  • GAUK 126313 Development of User Preferences over Time (2013 - 2015)
  • GAUK 154613 Efficient Molecular Representation (2013 - 2014)
  • CISCO 2013 Finding similar events within IDS (2013 - 2014)
  • GAČR P202/12/P297 Synergistic Modeling of Adaptive Similarities for Multimedia Retrieval (2012 - 2014)
  • GAUK 567312 Algorithmic exploration of axiom spaces for efficient similarity search at large scale (2012 - 2014)
  • FEBS Short-Term Fellowships Similarity Retrieval in Protein Structure Databases (2012 - 2012)
  • FEBS Short-Term Fellowships Fast Similarity Retrieval in Mass Spectra Databases (2012 - 2012)
  • GAČR P202/11/0968 Large-scale Nonmetric Similarity Search in Complex Domains (2011 - 2014)
  • GAUK 430711 Application of Metric and Non-metric Indexing Methods in Computational Proteomics (2011 - 2012)
  • GAČR 201/09/0683 Similarity Searching in Very Large Multimedia Databases (2009 - 2011)
  • GAUK 18208 Distributed and parallel metric indexing in multimedia databases (2008 - 2009)
  • GAUK 57907 Similarity search in biological databases (2007 - 2008)
  • GAČR 201/05/P036 Efficient metric search in large multimedia databases (2005 - 2007)