CS 778/578-Multimedia Systems
Spring 1997
Instructor
Name: Hussein M. Abdel-Wahab, Ph.D.
Office : 249-4 Education Building
Phone : 683-4512
Office Hrs: T 10am-12 & W 3:30-5pm or contact me for an appointment.
Electronic Mail: wahab@cs.odu.edu or wahab@cs.unc.edu
Textbook
Understanding Networked Multimedia: Applications and Technology
By F. Fluckiger, Prentice-Hall, 1995
Topics
- What is multimedia and why it is so popular?.
- Multimedia Applications
- Audio-video interpersonal applications
- Shared workspace for CSCW
- Audio-video distribution in the workplace
- Audio-videoconferncing
- Multimedia electronic mail and multimedia document transfer
- Multimedia server-based applications
- Networked hypertext and hypermedia
- World-Wide Web: Towards a universal information hyperspace
- Virtual reality
- Networking requirements for multimedia applications
- Network features and performance
- Networking requirements of audio and motion video
- Networking solutions for multimedia.
- LANs as multimedia carriers
- Packet WANs as multimedia carriers
- Circuit WANs as multimedia carriers
- ATM WANs as multimedia carriers
- Encoding and Compression.
- Basic digitizing techniques
- Principles of compression techniques
- Audio compression
- Image and TV compression
- Case Study: The IRI system.
Grading
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