Multimedia Commun: Signal Processing, Networking, Applications, & Standards

(3-0-0-3)

CMPE Degree: This course is Not Applicable for the CMPE degree.

EE Degree: This course is Not Applicable for the EE degree.

Lab Hours: 0 supervised lab hours and 0 unsupervised lab hours.

Technical Interest Group(s) / Course Type(s): Telecommunications

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Prerequisites: None.

Catalog Description

Comprehensive coverage of media compression, synthesis and recognition, media communications and networking, and standards for audiovisual communications over wired and wireless networks.

Textbook(s)

Course Outcomes

Not Applicable

Strategic Performance Indicators (SPIs)

Not Applicable

Topical Outline

Overview of Signal Compression

Speech Compression: Waveform coders and Analysis-synthesis coders

Audio Compression: Perceptual Transform Coding

Image Compression: Perceptual Transform Coding

Video Compression: Rate-distortion optimization of mode selection and motion compensation

Models of Channels and Networks

Standards for Wired and Wireless Networks

Media Communications over Imperfect Networks: Error resiliency and concealment

The Voice-User Interface: Speech synthesis and automatic speech recognition

The Visual-User Interface: Graphics and image recognition

Multimedia Information Retrieval: Indexing, databases, and semantics

Research Directions