CSC576

Textbooks:
[1] Digital Multimedia, 2nd edition, Nigel Chapman & Jenny Chapman, chapters   1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9
[2] Chapter 7 -  Multimedia Fundamentals, Volume 1: Media Coding and Content Processing, Second Edition
ISBN: 0-13-031399-8
 
Course Discription:
Part 1      Multimedia - An introduction
•       From the Physical to the Digital

•       Evolution and challenges in multimedia

•       Enabling Technologies
•       Bits and Bytes - Interpretation of Bits
•       Compact Discs (CD ROM – DVD – Blue ray) Technologies
•       Data Encoding/Decoding  in Compact Discs
•       Error Performance in Compact Discs
•       Multimedia uses and applications
Part 2  Sound – Image – Graphics - Video
Intro to Sound :
•       How is Sound Recorded?
•       Digital Signals
•       Digitization - Sampling and Quantization
•       QUALITY OF DIGITAL RECORDING
•       Audio Coding Standards
•       Sound Compression Algorithms
Bitmapped Images:
•       Color Model RGB
•       Indexed Colour
Graphics:
•       Types of Graphics : Bitmap Graphics - Vector Graphics
•       Graphic Attributes : Image Resolution - Image Bit Depth
•       Graphics File Formats – Bitmaps File Formats
•       Sources of Graphics
•       Types of Graphic Programs
Computer Video: The Basics
•       Video Coding Standards
•       Video Digitization
•       Videoteleconference  : Dedicated systems - Desktop systems
•       Digital Video/Digital Audio and "File Size"
Part 3A    Compression
Signals and Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Entropy (Lossless) Compression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1-     Repetitive Sequence Compression
Example: Run-length encoding (RLE)
2-     Statistical Compression
Example: Huffmann coding
3-      Dictionary-based schemes
 LZ77, LZ78, LZW (LZW used in GIF)
Source (Lossy) Compression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1-     Differential Compression {Prediction or Relative Coding}
2-     Transform Compression
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Part 3B :    Image Compression
JPEG Compression
Part 3C
 
Image Compression using
wavelet Transform
JPEG 2000
Part 4       Video Compression
v Spatial (intra-frame) compression
v Temporal (inter-frame) compression
v MPEG-1
v Prediction modes  MPEG-2
v Motion JPEG (M-JPEG)