CS295 Multimedia Systems Course

CS 295: Multimedia Systems (2006 Spring, 3 credits)

Instructor: Xingquan Zhu, Votey 377, xqzhu@cs.uvm.edu

Lecture Time: MWF, 3:35 PM - 4:25 PM. Classroom: Votey 367

This world is just too wonderful to be described by words, that's why there is Multimedia...

Course Description:

Multimedia data has become an indispensable part of our daily life and modern research projects. It's also one of the critical links in the ongoing unification of computing and communications. In this course, students will be introduced to principles and current technologies of multimedia systems, multimedia standards, and gain hands-on experience in this area. Issues in effectively representing, processing, and retrieving multimedia data such as sound and music, graphics, image and video will be addressed.

Key Benefits:

A comprehensive understanding with multimedia standards, tools and systems; extensive practices from multimedia capturing, processing, transmitting, content representing to retrieval; building a solid background in multimedia for your academic researches or industrial applications.

Topics:

1. Introduction

2. Issues in Multimedia Applications Design.

3. Multimedia Data Processing and Representations.

4. Multimedia Compression Standards (Text, Image, Video and Audio).

5. Multimedia Content Representation.

6. Content-based Multimedia Retrieval.

7. Multimedia Network Communications.

8. Other Topics.

Prerequisites:

A background in C, C++ or Java ( C or C++ preferred).

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