ICOM6018 Multimedia Computing Fall 2002 Course Information

Teaching Staff Lecturer: –Dr. Ben Kao Data Mining Real-Time DBs

Teaching Staff Lecturer: –Dr. Beta Yip Chi Lap Database Systems Multimedia Music

Teaching Staff Teaching Assistant: –Mr. Ng Chi Yuen (CY) ebXML Web

Teaching Staff Demonstrator and invited speaker: –Ms. Filli Cheng Flash Adobe Premiere –C.Y. IBM Hotmedia –Mr. Jack Wong Fingering Music and Audio Production Company Audio processing

Lectures, Tutorials, and Labs Lectures –10 sessions in P6-03 Graduate House Tutorials & Demonstrations –4 demonstrations, about 1.5 hrs each –Room 308, Chow Yei Ching Building (CYC) –Oct. 17, 31, Nov. 7, 14 (tentative)

Office Hours Kao (CYC 326) –On leave till Nov. 1 st Yip (CYC 327) –TBA Ng –by appointment

References “Networked Multimedia Systems” –Raghavan, Tripathi, Prentice Hall “Communication & Computing for Distributed Multimedia Systems” –Lu, Artech House “Multimedia Communications – Applications, Networks, Protocols and Standards” –Fred Halsall, Addison-Wesley “Multimedia Systems and Techniques” –Borko Furht, KAP Technical Papers

Grading 2 written assignments (50%) no midterm Final (50%) –Dec. 10 th 2002

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Course Contents 1. Overview (3 hrs) –Introduction –Multimedia applications –Media types –Challenges and research issues –Tools 2. Color Basics (1 hr)

Course Contents 3. Data Compression and Encoding (10 hrs) –Lossless compression, Huffman, Arithmetic, LZW –Lossy compression, JPEG –Video coding, H.261, MPEG –Audio compression 4. Digital Audio (3 hrs, Yip) –Basic acoustics –Computer music, MIDI 5. Computer Graphics (0 hrs) –Too much to be covered

Course Contents 6. Storage Media (3 hrs) –Magnetic media –RAID –Optical disks (CDROM, CD-DA, CD-R, CD-RW, MO, DVD) –Block placement and admission control 7. Network Communications (0 hrs) –LANs and WANs –Wireless 8. Scheduling Techniques (0 hrs) –Real-Time scheduling –I/O scheduling –Network scheduling

Course Contents 9. Digital Watermarking and Copy Protection (2 hrs) –Steganography –DVD copy protection 10. Standards (3 hrs, Yip) –XML, SMIL, SVG 11. Information Retrieval Techniques (2 hrs) –Audio indexing –Image retrieval systems –Video indexing