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