This lecture addresses the design and creation of knowledge processing and discovery systems from two important aspects of information-science and brain-science. From the viewpoint of "Information-science," we study knowledge base systems for multimedia databases (image, video, music and text databases), data mining and emotion-based ("Kansei") multimedia knowledge processing. The first important objective of this lecture is to develop knowledge and skills for designing and creating multimedia knowledge-bases and multimedia systems with experimental practice. It is essential to study how to analyze, store, retrieve and integrate media data (image, video, music and text) in a knowledge-base system environment. An actual knowledge-base system is used to create experimental multimedia knowledge-bases and applied it to WWW system environments. We also design a meta-level multimedia system with data mining processes for new-multimedia creation.
About the latter seven classes, recent advance in brain science has revealed some mechanisms of knowledge processing in a human brain. We study how the visual and auditory systems acquire and process knowledge derived from the external environment, how the memory system retains such knowledge, and how the multimodal knowledge processing is achieved, from a neuroscience point of view. In parallel, they learn anatomical brain structures and pathways, and experience peripheral and central illusions to study knowledge processing phenomenologically.