Multimedia Course

CMG University Class,  January 2000

Peter van der Putten

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Goals and objectives

Expose students to multimedia applications & tools, standards and algorithms for manipulation of text, image, video and audio data.

Prequisites

None

General description

This course aims to give a practical introduction into multimedia. Both multimedia applications and the underlying standards and algorithms will be discussed. Rather than just giving a broad overview, some exemplary topics will also be discussed in greater detail, such as authorware, MPEG standards and text retrieval. Lab projects are used to get more practical experience with applications and algorithms.

Relation to other courses

The Multimedia and Web Technology courses are both more application oriented. The Multimedia course closely complements the Web Technology course; internet related issues will be postponed to Web Technology.

Class Schedule
 
Day Topics Exam Materials
Monday January 3 & Friday January  7 
(slides)		 Multimedia Applications & Tools:
Multimedia trends, Multimedia definition, Multimedia applications, Multimedia tools, Authoring		 Vaughan (1998), Chapter 1,2,3,8
Monday January 10 & Friday January 13 (slides) Multimedia Standards:
Needs for multimedia standards, Standards for representation, the MPEG case, Standards for storage and transmission		 Sloane (1996), 77-91
Koenen (1999)
Freed (1999)
Monday January 17 & Friday January 20 (slides) Multimedia Algorithms:
Case: Indexing and retrieval, Precision and recall, Video indexing & retrieval, Audio indexing and retrieval, Text indexing and retrieval
Frakes (1992), Chapter 1
Thursday January 27 Exam  
Thursday February 24 Second Exam  

Lecture will be from 8:30 to 11:30. 10 minute breaks at 9:20 and 10:20. Location lectures: room 316

Lab Sessions

There are 3 lab sessions to gain practical experience:

Tools used are Authorware from MacroMedia and C++. Documentation for the software will consist of the online help plus the assignment descriptions. Lab session leaders are:


Homework assignments

Homework assignments prepare for lectures and lab sessions. There are two homework assignments. Homework assignments must be turned in the next week before 12:30.


Required Literature

Tay Vaughan (1998). Multimedia: Making it Work. Fourth Edition. Osborne McGraw Hill, Berkeley California, 1998. Includes a cd with a bindle of Macromedia Products.

Reader

William B. Frakes and Ricardo Baeza Yates (eds). Information Retrieval: Data Structures and Algorithms. Prentice Hall, 1992. Chapter 1:Introduction to Information Storage and Retrieval Systems.

Ken Freed. Developers to leap ahead with MPEG-4 Approval. Inter@ctive Week, January 20, 1999.

R. Koenen. MPEG-4: Multimedia for our time. IEEE Spectrum, Vol 36, No. 2, February 1999, pp. 26-33.
Skip paragraphs "Wrapping the data" and "Streams here, Streams there".

Andy Sloane. Multimedia Communication. Chapter  4: Systems, Tools, Applications & Standards. Pp77-91, 1996
(extra pages handed out in week 2)

[ C.J. van Rijsbergen. Information Retrieval. Butterworths, London. 1979. Pp 74-76:
Article is not required literature for the exam anymore!]

Additionial articles may be handed out during lectures.

Selected References

Borivoje Furht. (1998, ed). Handbook of Multimedia Computing. CRC Press, 1998.

E. England & Andy Finney. Managing Multimedia : Project Management for Interactive Media. Addison-Wesley Pub Co, 1999.

V.S. Subrahmanian (1998). Principles of Multimedia Database Systems. Morgan Kaufman, 1998.

Exam

The exam for this course is a closed book exam. Material to be studied:

A test exam with solutions was handed out on January 13 and January 17.

The exam and the solutions can be found here (Word97).
 

Grading

Homework: 20%
Lab Sessions: 35%
Exam: 45%

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