AC21/T12 Multimedia Systems

1.             Representation of Multimedia Data                                                                                          10 hours

1.1     Concept of Non-Temporal and Temporal Media.

1.2     Basic Characteristics of Non-Temporal Media

1.2.1            Images.

1.2.2            Graphics.

1.2.3            Text.

1.3     Basic Characteristics of Temporal Media.

1.3.1            Video.

1.3.2            Audio.

1.3.3            Animation

1.3.4            Basics of Morphing.

1.4     Hypertext and Hypermedia.

1.5     Multimedia Presetations.

1.5.1            Synchronisation.

I [2,3,4,5,15]; II [1 (1.2 & 1.3)]

2.             Compression of Multimedia Data                                                                                                   25 hours

2.1                 Basic concepts of Compression.

2.2                 Still Image Compression

2.2.1            JPEG Compression.

2.2.2            Features of JPEG2000.

2.3                 Natural Video Compression

2.3.1            MPEG-1&2 Compression Schemes.

2.3.2            MPEG-4 Video Compression.

2.4                 Audio Compression

2.4.1            Intoduction to Speech and Audio Compression.

2.4.2            MP3 Compression Scheme.

2.5                 Management of Coded Data

2.5.1            Stream management in MPEG-4

2.5.2            BIFS

2.5.3            DMIF

I [6]; II [9 (9.1, 9.2), 11 (11.1, 11.2), 12 (12.1-12.5). 13, 14 (14.2, 14.3), 16.4];

3.             Multimedia System Design                                                                                                             10 hours

3.1            General Purpose Architecture for Multimedia Processing

3.2            Operating System Support for Multimedia Data.

3.2.1            Resource Scheduling with real-time considerations.

3.2.2            File System

3.2.3            I/O Device Management.

I [9]; II [9, 15, 16]

4.           Delivery of Multimedia data                                                                                                            10 hours

4.1                 Network and Transport Protocols.

4.2                 QoS issues.

4.3                 RTP and RSVP.

4.4                 Video-conferencing and video-conferencing standards.

4.5                 Overview of Voice over IP.

I [10, 11];  II [15, 16]

5.           Multimedia Information Management                                                                                           5 hours

5.1                 Multimedia Data base Design

5.2                 Content Based Information Retrieval

5.3                 Image Retrieval.

5.4                 Video Retrieval.

5.5                  Overview of MPEG-7.

I [12]; II [18]

Text Books:

I.         Multimedia : Computing, Communication & Applications  by Ralt Steinmetz and Klara Nahrstedt, Pearson Education

        Publications, Indian reprint – 2004.

II.       Fundamentals of Multimedia by Ze-Nian Li. Mark S. Drew Pearson Education First Indian reprint 2004.