Multimedia Systems

Introduction to concepts and techniques of transmission, storage, display and processing of multimedia data such as digital images, audio, video, animation. Interactive Multimedia. Multimedia on the Internet. Designing multimedia applications and familiarizing with software for creating and processing multimedia.

Objectives

1. Course objectives /outcomes and competences: • Cognitive: Understanding of theoretical issues for multimedia technologies. • Skills: Usage of multimedia technologies/tools for image, video, animation, and 3D graphics creation. 2. Course objectives categorization: • Cognitive Domain: Remembering, Understanding, Applying, Analysing, Evaluating, Creating • Affective Domain: Reception, Response, Valuing, Organization, Characterization Psychomotor Domain

Prerequisites

not available

Syllabus

• Communication: Shannon-Weaver model and Gerbner model. Entropy, redundancy. • Multimedia: Sampling, Nyquist theorem, coding, interactive multimedia, multimedia data compression. • Digital Image: resolution, colour, image formats JPEG compression, CCD technology, scanning, printing, monitors’ technology. • Digital Sound: formats, mp3 coding. Digital Video: analogue and digital video technology, sampling of video signal, MPEG compression, motion compensation. Animation techniques. Streaming media technology.