CMPE 250 - Fall 04

CMPE 250: Multimedia Systems

Fall 2004

Classroom: E2 192; Class Hours: MW 5:00 - 6:45 pm

Instructor:

Roberto Manduchi

Office:

E2 327

Office Hours:

W-Th 2:30-3:30

e-mail:

manduchi@soe.ucsc.edu

Announcements

12/1 - Here is the second homework.
11/7 - Here are the solutions to the midterm.
10/26 - The solutions to the first homework are out.
10/17 - The first Homework is out. Due Monday, October 25. Here is the data to use for Exercise 1.
The Midterm will be given on Wednesday, October 27.

Project

Information about the class project (required) will be posted here. Please check this page often for updates.

Lectures

Class notes (complementing the textbooks) will be posted here, possibly before the beginning of each lecture.

General Description

This course covers the state-of-the-art technology for networked multimedia systems. We will study the requirements of modern distributed multimedia system, both in terms of data processing and communication, and will look at efficient design solutions. Topics covered in the course include:

Introduction to Multimedia: taxonomy and application examples
Basics of digital signal processing: sampling, quantization, audio/video format examples
Compression basics: lossless compression (entropy coding), lossy compression (predictive quantization, transform coding)
Audio and speech compression: MPEG standards for CS-quality audio (including MP-3) and ITU standards for speech compression
Structured audio (MIDI), 3-D audio
Color processing, halftoning
Image compression: JPEG, progressive encoding (JPEG-2000)
Video compression and motion-compensated coding: ITU H26*, MPEG-1, -2, -4
Multimedia databases, MPEG-7
Digital Television
Internet protocols for multimedia
Networking: QoS issues, technologies for streaming and multicast

Prerequisites: Proficiency in C and/or C++ (this is needed for the project).

Textbooks: No single book works for this class. The only required reading are the c lass notes. Here are some references for the more curious:

Z-N. Li, M.S. Drew, Fundamental of Multimedia, Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2004
Y. Wang, J. Ostermann, Y. Zhang, Video Processing and Communications, Prentice Hall, 2002
D. Taubman and M. Marcellin, JPEG 2000: Image Compression Fundamentals, Standards and Practice, Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, 2002.
T. Ebrahimi, F. Pereira, The MPEG-4 Book , Prentice Hall, 2002.
M. Bosi, R. Goldberg, Introduction to Digital Audio Coding and Standards, Kluwer Academic Publishing, 2003

Grading: The course work will be weigthed as follows:

Midterm 30%
Final Exam 40% (the Final Exam will be held on Wednesday, December 8, 7:30-10:30 pm.)
Project 30%.

Project : All students must complete a project. Information about the project will be posted her e.

It is important that you check this web page frequently for project updates and announcements.

All students enrolling in this class are advised that Academic Integrity will be strictly enforced.

Last updated 9/29/04

Instructor:	Roberto Manduchi
Office:	E2 327
Office Hours:	W-Th 2:30-3:30
e-mail:	manduchi@soe.ucsc.edu