Introduction to Multi Media

Instructor

• Jianhua MA

Goal and Theme

This course is for students to learn basic features of audio and video, their coding methods and standards, and important multimedia technologies.

Abstract

This course mainly provides concepts, models, techniques and applications of multimedia computing. It consists of two parts: media fundamentals and media technologies. Part I, the media fundamentals, first explains multimedia concept and topics, then discusses audio perception and representation as well as compression techniques, and finally examines image/video digitization and coding standards including JPEG, H.26x and MPEG-1, 2, 4, 7 and 21. Part II, media technologies, includes media object production, media integration, media presentation, media protection, media retrieval, media distribution across the Internet, IP telephony, teleconferencing and wireless multimedia technology.

Schedule

1. Multimedia Concept and Topics
2. Audio Fundamentals
3. Audio Coding and Standard
4. Image/Video Fundamentals
5. Image/Video Coding: JPEG and H.26x
6. MPEG Coding Standards
7. Advanced Multimedia Coding
8. Media Object Production
9. Media Integration and Presentation
10. Media Protection and Watermarking
11. Media Content-based Retrieval
12. Media Distribution Across Internet
13. Media Communication - IP Telephony and Teleconference
14. Mobile Multimedia Service over Wireless Networks
15. Review

Materials

• http://cis.k.hosei.ac.jp/~jianhua/course/mm/

References

• 藤原洋, 画像&音声圧縮技術のすべて, ISBN 4-7898-3315-1, 2000.
• 大久保 榮, 川島正久, H.323/MPEG-4教科書, ISBN 4-901280-03-1, 2001.
• Ismail Khalil (Editor), Handbook of Research on Mobile Multimedia, Second Edition, IGI Global, 2008.
• M.C. Angelides and H.W. Agius (Editors), The Handbook of MPEG Applications: Standards in Practice. John Wiley and Sons Ltd., 2010.

Evaluation Method

Attendance (20%), Report I(20%), ReportII(20%), QuizI (20%), Quiz II (20%)