Multimedia Systems
CS 643 – Summer 2007
Instructor: Dr. Ramazan Aygün
Office: Technology Hall N360
Email: raygun@cs.uah.edu
Phone: 824-6455
Office Hour: TR 9:00-10:30
Meeting day(s): TR 2:45-4:45
Location: N306
This course introduces the fundamental concepts, principles, and tools to build multimedia systems. This is an advanced multimedia systems course that establishes the foundation for research and practical work in multimedia systems.
CS 543.
Ze-Nian Li and Mark S. Drew, Fundamentals of Multimedia, Prentice Hall
(Part Two: Multimedia Data Compression will be extensively covered in this course.)
Title |
Reading Chapters |
Overview of Multimedia Systems |
|
Lossless Compression Algorithms |
7 |
Lossy Compression Algorithms |
8 |
Image Compression Standards |
9 |
Basic Video Compression Techniques |
10 |
MPEG 1 and 2 |
11 |
MPEG 4,7, and beyond |
12 |
MPEG Audio Compression |
14 |
Multimedia Network Communications and Applications |
16 |
Multimedia Synchronization |
|
Content-Based Retrieval Systems |
18 |
P2P Multimedia Streaming |
|
30% Homework (3 programming assignments)
20% Paper & Presentation
25% Midterm (June 26th, 2007, Tuesday)
25% Final (August 2nd, 2007, Thursday; 3:00-5:30)
The following information is from http://www.uah.edu/library/turnitin/about.htm: “Turnitin.com allows the student or educator to upload a paper into the Turnitin.com database, where software will then use algorithms to create “digital fingerprints” that can identify similar patterns in text (“About Turnitin.com”). Then the paper is matched to billions of web pages, paper mill essays, and student papers submitted online. In an hour or less, Turnitin.com creates an “originality report” that highlights any passages from the paper that might not be authentic, and lists web sites and other resources with content that matches that in the paper (“About Turnitin.com”).
Students can use Turnitin.com to:
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Quickly track down sources used in their essays, minimizing the chance that
they will forget to cite sources.
• Learn about the concept of plagiarism and its consequences for the student,
course, and the academic community as a whole.
• Acquire tips on how to avoid both Internet and conventional plagiarism.
• Learn guidelines for proper citation.
• Gain strong research and writing skills.
• Clarify misunderstood concepts like fair use, public domain, and copyright
laws.”
For more information please visit http://www.uah.edu/library/turnitin/.
The students are urged to use turnitin.com before the submission of their reports and papers. The instructor will use turnitin.com in the evaluation of the reports and papers.