Lectures taught at the first MUSCLE Summerschool on "Multimedia Digital Libraries: Machine Learning and Cross-modal Technologies for Access and Retrieval" (12-17 June 2006, San Vincenzo, Italy). This event was jointly organised with the DELOS Network of Excellence on DIGITAL LIBRARIES.

• James Wang Pennsylvania State University, USA
     Introduction to Multimedia Digital Libraries
  

• Fernando Pereira Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa, Portugal
     Multimedia representation standards  

• Nicu Sebe University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
     Feature extraction and content description, part 1  

• Milind Naphade IBM, USA
     Feature extraction and content description, part 2  

• Alex Hauptmann Carnegie Mellon University, USA
     Cross-modal Analysis  

• Padraig Cunningham Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
     Machine Learning for Access and Retrieval, part 1  

• Jia Li Pennsylvania State University, USA
     Machine Learning for Access and Retrieval, part 2  

• Alan Smeaton Dublin City University, Ireland
     Evaluation and Benchmarking