Course Outline:

Overview of multimedia systems, Audio/Video fundamentals (representation, human perception, equipment and applications). Audio and video compression (e.g., JPEG, MPEG, H.26X, etc.), scalable coding, perceptual audio encoders. Performance comparison of coding algorithms, Algorithms for image and video processing, multimedia programming.

Recommended Books:

• Fred Halsall, "Multimedia Communications: Applications, Networks, Protocols, and Standards".

• Puri, "Multimedia Systems, Standards and Networks", Marcel Dekker

• Steve Heath, "Multimedia and Communication Technology", Focal Press

• Bill Whyte, "Multimedia Telecommunication", Chapman and Hall

Class Lectures:

• Lec 41: Internet teleconferencing and data conferencing

• Lec 40: VoIP, basic features and history, different scenarios

• Lec 39: Internet telephony and conference

• Lec 38: RTSP, RTP and HTTP

• Lec 37: Media streaming service access process / Service modules

• Lec 36: Proxy server, Distributed proxy server, Distributed server clustering

• Lec 35: Key points in streaming media service

• Lec 34: Streamed media on demand delivery, Streamed media broadcast

• Lec 33: Media distribution across internet

• Lec 32: Spatial and temporal scalability, Amplitude/Frequency scalability

• Lec 31: Scalability methods

• Lec 30: Scalable coding, Scalable video coding

• Lec 29: Joint stereo coding

• Lec 28: Perceptual models

• Lec 27: Masking in frequency/time domain

• Lec 26: Source coding vs. perceptual coding

• Lec 25: Requirements for audio coding systems

• Lec 24: Pictorial overview of MPEG-21

• Lec 23: Review of Advanced Coding (JPEG 2000, H.264 and MPEG-21)

• Lec 22: Image and video compression - application scenario of MPEG-4, MPEG-7 and MPEG-21

• Lec 21: Image and video compression - overview of MPEG standards

• Lec 20: Image and video compression - overview of H.261, H.262, H.263 and H.264

• Lec 19: Image and video compression - intra-frame and inter-frame compression

• Lec 18: Image and video compression - block transform coding

• Lec 17: Image and video compression - JPEG image compression standard

• Lec 16: Image and video compression - effects of compression and coding overview

• Lec 15: Audio compression - audio coding (MPEG-1, 2 and 4)

• Lec 14: Audio compression - speech compression and coding standards

• Lec 13: Audio compression - coding schemes and masking affects

• Lec 12: Audio compression - models, techniques & requirements of sound Coding

• Lec 11: Image and video fundamentals - digital video, luma sampling and chroma sub-sampling

• Lec 10: Image and video fundamentals - color models (RGB, YIQ, YUV, YCrCb)

• Lec 9: Image and video fundamentals - image data formats, video scanning (interlaced...)

• Lec 8: Image and video fundamentals - basic of color, image and image types

• Lec 7: Audio fundamentals - fourier transform

• Lec 6: Audio fundamentals - process of analog to digital conversion

• Lec 5: Audio fundamentals - sound, sound wave, sound perception

• Lec 4: Components of multimedia system

• Lec 3: Characteristics of multimedia system

• Lec 2: Classification and categorization of multimedia

• Lec 1: An overview of multimedia systems