ICOM6018Multimedia Computing

Fall 2002

Course Information

Teaching Staff

• Lecturer:– Dr. Ben Kao

• Data Mining

• Real-Time DBs

Teaching Staff

• Lecturer:– Dr. Beta Yip Chi Lap

• Database Systems

• Multimedia

• Music

Teaching Staff

• Teaching Assistant:– Mr. Ng Chi Yuen (CY)

• ebXML

• Web

Teaching Staff

• Demonstrator and invited speaker:– Ms. Filli Cheng

• Flash• Adobe Premiere

– C.Y.• IBM Hotmedia

– Mr. Jack Wong• Fingering Music and Audio Production Company• Audio processing

Lectures, Tutorials, and Labs

• Lectures– 10 sessions in P6-03 Graduate House

• Tutorials & Demonstrations– 4 demonstrations, about 1.5 hrs each– Room 308, Chow Yei Ching Building (CYC)– Oct. 17, 31, Nov. 7, 14 (tentative)

Office Hours

• Kao (CYC 326)– On leave till Nov. 1st

• Yip (CYC 327)– TBA

• Ng (cyng@csis.hku.hk)– by appointment

References

• “Networked Multimedia Systems” – Raghavan, Tripathi, Prentice Hall

• “Communication & Computing for Distributed Multimedia Systems” – Lu, Artech House

• “Multimedia Communications – Applications, Networks, Protocols and Standards” – Fred Halsall, Addison-Wesley

• “Multimedia Systems and Techniques” – Borko Furht, KAP

• Technical Papers

Grading

• 2 written assignments (50%)

• no midterm

• Final (50%)– Dec. 10th 2002

Other Information

• Course homepage:http://intranet.ecom-icom.hku.hkhttp://www.csis.hku.hk/~icom6018

Course Contents

1. Overview (3 hrs)– Introduction– Multimedia applications– Media types– Challenges and research issues– Tools

2. Color Basics (1 hr)

Course Contents

3. Data Compression and Encoding (10 hrs)– Lossless compression, Huffman, Arithmetic, LZW– Lossy compression, JPEG– Video coding, H.261, MPEG– Audio compression

4. Digital Audio (3 hrs, Yip)– Basic acoustics– Computer music, MIDI

5. Computer Graphics (0 hrs)– Too much to be covered

Course Contents

6. Storage Media (3 hrs)– Magnetic media– RAID– Optical disks (CDROM, CD-DA, CD-R, CD-RW, MO, DVD)– Block placement and admission control

7. Network Communications (0 hrs)– LANs and WANs– Wireless

8. Scheduling Techniques (0 hrs)– Real-Time scheduling– I/O scheduling– Network scheduling

Course Contents

9. Digital Watermarking and Copy Protection (2 hrs)– Steganography– DVD copy protection

10. Standards (3 hrs, Yip)– XML, SMIL, SVG

11. Information Retrieval Techniques (2 hrs)– Audio indexing– Image retrieval systems– Video indexing