Office: ETA 22
Class Hours: Tue WW 4 4 5 (ETA B5)
Office Hours: M 1 Tue 3 W 3 and anytime available
E-mail: gurgen@boun.edu.tr
Tel: 0 212 359 6863
Assistant: Oya Aran
Various Sources:
1) Multimedia Systems, J. F. Koegel Buford, Contributing Editor, Addison Wesley, 1994.
2) Multimedia: Computing, Communications and Applications, Steinmettz R. And Nahrstedt K., Prentice Hall, 1995.
3) Multimedia Fundamentals: Media Coding and Content Processing, Steinmettz R. And Nahrstedt K., Pentice Hall, 2002.
4) Multimedia Communication Systems: Techniques, Standards and Networks, Rao K. R. Bojkovic Z. S., Milanovic D. A., Prentice Hall 2002.
5) Fundamentals of Multimedia, Li Z. N. And Drew M. S., Prentice Hall, 2004.
Objectives: In this course, the main principles and current technologies of multimedia system applications will be overviewed. Topics include elementary digital signal processing, multimedia systems applications, examples of multimedia hardware and software, issues in effectively representing, processing, and retrieving multimedia data such as text, graphics, sound and music, image and video.
1. Multimedia Information and Applications
- What is Multimedia? Types: continuous media (CM), hypertext (world wide web-WWW), audio, video, animation, graphics..
- Multimedia and Personalized Computing
- A Tour of Emerging Applications
2. Architectures and Issues for Distributed Multimedia Systems
- Distributed Multimedia Systems
- The Role of standards: synchronization, orchestration, and quality of services (QoS) Architecture and examples
- Example cases for Multimedia Systems: telemedicine, telerobotics, video on demand, remote access applications, wireless and light weight clients
3. Digital Audio Representation and Processing
- Basics of Digital Audio Signal Processing: voice, speech and the other audio types, MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface), etc.
4. Image and Video Technology
- Scanning Principles and Sensors for TV Cameras
- Color Fundemantals and Color Video
6. Audio and Video Compression
- Multimedia Compression example: multimedia encyclopedia
- Audio and Video Standards and examples
7. Multimedia Networks and Issues
- Multimedia Systems Architecture: networks, standards, services (ATM, wireless services, ..etc.)
- Multimedia Networks examples
8. Issues
- Video versus Computing
- Quality and Conditions
- Intelligent Multimedia Systems
Grading: Midterm (30%) + Homeworks, Presentation+Project and quizzes (35%) + Final (35%)
Attendance: is required! (2/3 of the total number of classes must be attended)
Late presentations and projects will be graded as 0.