Timo Ojala
Dr.Tech.
Coordinates

CURRENT POSITION
Professor, University of Oulu, Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering Laboratory
Director, MediaTeam Oulu research group

TOPICAL

  • UBI-haaste (~ UBI-challenge in English) challenges the general public and companies to innovate new services into the UBI-hotspots.
  • 521261A Computer Networks I (spring 2010): opening lecture on Mon 15.2.2010 at 10:15 in L5.
  • 521266S Distributed Systems (spring 2010): opening lecture on Monday 15.2.2010 at 14:15 in TS127.
  • Intensive postgraduate course "Advanced Internet Services" by Professor Henning Schulzrinne from Columbia University on 7-11.6.2010 in Oulu.
  • Have you used an UBI-hotspot or the panOULU network?

    • RESEARCH

    Publications since 1997 with online copies

    Current projects
  • UBI (UrBan Interactions) research program
  • panOULU and KampusWLAN

    • Past projects and research activities
  • Rotuaari (Context-aware mobile multimedia services)
  • CBIR (Content-based information retrieval)
  • Countess (Using semantic information in content-based retrieval) and CMRS demo
  • Duchess (Wireless media telephony services in the office environment)
  • MFO Showroom

    • Texture analysis research in the Machine Vision Group
  • Outex - New framework for empirical evaluation of texture analysis algorithms

    • TEACHING
    Undergraduate courses

  • 521261A Computer Networks I (spring 2010)
  • 521262S Computer Networks II (fall 2009)
  • 521266S Distributed Systems (spring 2010)
  • 521489S Information Processing Research Work (course description in Finnish)
  • 521476S Computer Networks (fall 2006)
  • 521490S Interactive Systems Technical Design (spring 2005)

    • Postgraduate courses
  • Postgraduate book exams
  • Advanced Internet Services (2010)
  • Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (2007)
  • Internet Multimedia (2002)
  • Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (2002)

    • INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

    MUM 2007, 6th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, in Oulu, Finland, 12-14 December 2007
    General Chair

    Wireless Cities 2006 Conference in Oulu, Finland, 5-8 June 2006
    Scientific Chair

    City WLAN 2005 in Oulu, Finland, 29-30 August 2005
    Founding Chair (2006 Lahti, Finland)


    MUM 2002, 1st International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, in Oulu, Finland, 11-13 December 2002
    Co-founding Chair (2003 Norrköping, Sweden; 2004 College Park, USA; 2005 Christchurch, New Zealand; 2006 Stanford, USA)


    IR 2001, Infotech Oulu International Workshop on Information Retrieval, in Oulu, Finland, 19-21 September 2001
    Chair of program committee

    Texture'99, Infotech Oulu Workshop on Texture Analysis in Machine Vision, in Oulu, Finland, 14-16 June 1999
    Chair of organizing committee

    Committee memberships

  • CIKM 2001, 10th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Atlanta, GA
  • ICPR 2002, 16th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Biomedical and Multimedia Applications track, Quebec, Canada
  • CIKM 2002, 11th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, McLean, VA
  • MUM 2003, 2nd International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, Norrköping, Sweden
  • MUM 2004, 3rd International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, College Park, MD
  • MUM 2005, 4th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, Christchurch, New Zealand
  • ICME 2006, 2006 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo, Multimedia Computing and Software track, Toronto, Canada
  • PIMRC 2006, 17th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, Helsinki, Finland
  • MUM 2006, 5th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, Stanford, CA

    • OTHER PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

  • panOULU consortium: University of Oulu's representative in the board

    • PERSONAL