COMPSCI 212 MULTILMED SYS APPS, Fall 2009

Class Schedule | Class Presentation | Text Book | Project Material ICS 253, Tuesdays/Thursday, 9:30-10:50AM

Course Syllabus

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Course Objectives and Goals

This course will discuss elements of multimedia systems. Multimedia is becoming the common mode of synchronous, asynchronous, local, and remote communication. Most of the current assisted communication technologies use single medium. Adoption of multimedia has significant social implications. More relevant to this course, it has significant opportunity for technology development.

Multimedia computing and communication systems started receiving attention more than a decade ago. Naturally, early systems dealt with very limited aspect of multimedia. With progress in technology, we will have to address several computing and communication issues in dealing with creation, communication, storage, access, and presentation of multimedia. In this course, we will discuss fundamentals of multimedia systems and address emerging issues that are being addressed as well as should be addressed. In discussing topics, our emphasis will be on concepts and fundamentals.

Prerequisites

Students should have experience of programming in either C++ or Java. Proficiency of the UNIX environment will be helpful.

Collaboration Policy

Students are encouraged to work in a group for their project assignment. The groups should not have more than 3 students. The assignments on the other hand should be individually done. Students can however feel free to discuss the assignment with their peers.

Grading Criteria

Two Exams 50%
Projects 50%

Textbooks

There are several books already available in multimedia. Most books are very narrow in their coverage. Since we will be adopting a different perspective in this course, none of the existing book will exactly suit the course.

I will provide chapters from a book that is under preparation. Since this will be the material that is in draft form, you will have to put up with typos and some incloplete material. The authors of the book (Gerald Friedland and Ramesh Jain) will appreciate your help very much in refining the draft. The book used by the instructor for many topics in this course is:

Fundamentals of Multimedia, by Z.N. Li and M.S. Drew .

Other Material

Material from many other sources will also be used. Such material will be made available you.

Class slides will be available before each lecture.

Project

A project will be a major part of the course. You will select a project and may work in a group of no more than 3 students. A list of potential projects will be discussed in class. You may, however, define your own project and discuss with the instructor to evaluate whether that will satisfy the requirement in the course.