1. Multimedia Course UART/AEMMI
Lecturer:
Tomáš Sysala
Department of Automation and Control Engineering
Room – 51/717
Phone number:
Home Work 1: Please send me an I had to address you.

2. About this Course
Lectures and Laboratories (Tutorials) – 2 hours a week
Exam and Final Grade:
Exam: 40%
Coursework: 60%

3. What is Multimedia?
„Talking about multimedia is a lot like talking about love. Everybody agrees that it´s a good thing, everybody wants it, wants to participate in it; but, everybody has a different idea of what „it“ really is. Right now, the industry reminds me of a bunch of teenagers dabbling in something that instinctively feels right, all the while wondering how and when they´ll know for sure if they´re really in „it,“ and what to do about it if they are.“ (Vaughan)
„Hovory o multimédiích se velmi podobají hovorům o lásce. Všichni souhlasí s tím, že je to dobrá věc, každý ji chce, chce se na ní podílet, ale každý má jiný názor, co „to“ skutečně je. Právě teď mi obor připomíná partu teenagerů, kteří se rýpají v něčem, o čem si instinktivně myslí, že je to to pravé, a celou dobu jsou zvědaví, jak a kdy si budou jisti, jestli jsou skutečně „v tom“ a co budou dělat, pokud ano .“

4. Course Materials http://czv.wz.cz/en PDFs with Slides (Colour)
Coursework material
Lots of Links to other materials
Always under Development — More to be added

5. Course Outline A basic grounding in issues surrounding Multimedia
Multimedia data: digital audio, graphics, images and video,
Underlying concepts and representations of sound, pictures and video,
Audio/Digital signal processing fundamentals,
Data compression — JPEG, MPEG video and MP3 audio.
– Core data compression algorithms in JPEG/MPEG etc.
Multimedia applications

6. More detailed course content
An introduction to Multimedia
How do we store movies? (Key frames, data rates, Mpeg compression, encoders, containers)
How to create movie or animations: (Slow-motion, Fast-motion, Stop-motion, Reverse-motion)
Morphing and Warphing (Task 2 – 20 Points (Pts))
How are audio files stored? (MP3 copression)
How are audio files edited ? (Task 3 – 10 Pts)
What is video post processing? (Time line, movie processing software, After Effect) (Task 4 – 10 Pts)
Seminar work on one of the Multimedia topics (Task 1 – 20 Pts)
Final semester project (creation of a short movie) (Project 5 – 40 Pts)
Show an example of Fnal Project.

7. Seminar Work Use at least 4 references!!! Students have to submit:
PowerPoint presentation (for 5-7 min),
Seminar work in Microsoft Word or PDF format (10 pages or 15 pages if in work are many pictures). Use at least 4 references!!!.
The text of your seminar work should be formatted as follows:
- 12-point Times, Times Roman or Times New Roman.
- The text should be set to single line spacing.
- Paragraphs should be justified.
Use at least 4 references!!!
References should be cited in the text by placing sequential numbers in brackets (for example, [1], [2, 5, 7], [8-10]). They should be numbered in the order in which they are cited.

8. Topics for a Seminar Work
Virtual Reality and its technical equipments.
Television broadcasting standards (PAL, NTSC), (DVB-T, DVB-T2, DVB-S).
Technical procedures for photographing. Description of terms such as aperture, shutter speed, depth of focus and others.
Steganography - ways of hiding data in multimedia files.
P2P networks. Principle and most frequently used programs.
Bar code and QR code. History, principle, most frequently used programs.
Multimedia in education. Equipments a most frequently used multimedia programs.
Any other topic according to your idea or preferences.