CSc 461/561: Multimedia Systems

Spring 2006 Lectures

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Course Outline

Lecture schedule: TWF 12:30 - 1:30pm, CLE A304
Lecture instructor: Dr. Jianping Pan, pan@uvic.ca, x7226
Office hours: TWF 11:30am - 12:30pm, EOW 323 or by appointment

Course Announcements

4/18: Final exam timetable
4/4: Assignment 3 is returned to you and discussed today
3/28-31: Student presentation week
3/24: Assignment 3 due at lecture today
3/22: Course formal evaluation today
3/17: Presentation slides due today
3/15: Assignment 3 is out
3/7: Midterm is returned to you today
2/28: Midterm today
2/15: Assignment 2 is returned to you and discussed today
2/8: Assignment 2 is due at lecture today
2/1: Assignment 2 is out
1/31: Assignment 1 is returned to you today
1/24: Assignment 1 is due at lecture today
1/17: Assignment 1 is out
1/10: NSERC USRA and IBM Extreme Blue
1/3: Lab starts the first week of the class

Lectures and Slides

Week	Dates	Topics	Notes
1	-/Jan 4/6	-/Introduction/Overview
2	Jan 10/11/13	Multimedia Representation: Audio/Image/Video
3	Jan 17/18/20	Multimedia Compression: Lossless/Lossy
4	Jan 24/25/27	Audio/Image/Video
5	Jan 31/Feb 1/3	Assignment 1/MPEG/Topic
6	Feb 7/8/10	Multimedia Communication: TCP/IP/Multimedia/Multicast
7	Feb 14/15/17	Multicast/Assignment 2/Review, RTP
8	-/-/-	no lecture, see suggested readings below	reading break
9	Feb 28/Mar 1/3	Midterm/RTP/SIP
10	Mar 7/8/10	Midterm*/QoS/Congestion	* discussion
11	Mar 14/15/17	Error/CDN/Streaming
12	Mar 21/22/24	Streaming
13	Mar 28/29/31	student presentation week
14	Apr 4/5/7	Assignment 3/P2P

Slides artwork credits: Kurose&Ross, Li&Drew, Liu, Shoja.

Assignments and Marks

Mark for Midterm

Assignment 3 [TeX] (due on March 24, 2006)
Mark for Assignment 2
Solution for Assignment 2 (discussed on Feb 15, 2006)
Assignment 2 [TeX] (due on Feb 8, 2006)
Mark for Assignment 1
Solution for Assignment 1 (discussed on Jan 31, 2006)
Assignment 1 (due on Jan 24, 2006)

Probe Further (suggested readings)

speech
- R Cox, et al, Low bit-rate speech coders for multimedia communication, IEEE Communications Magazine, 34(12):34-41, 1996.
- A Gersho, Advances in speech and audio compression, Proceedings of IEEE, 82(6):900-918, 1994.
MPEG audio
- D Pan, A Tutorial on MPEG/Audio Compression, IEEE Multimedia, 2(2):60-74, 1995.
- P Noll, MPEG digital audio coding, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 14(5):59-81, 1997.
JPEG
- G Wallace, The JPEG still picture compression standard, Communications of the ACM, 34(4):30-44, 1991.
JPEG2000
- M Antonini, et al, Image coding using wavelet transform, IEEE Trans on Image Processing, 1(2):205-220, 1992.
- B Usevitch, A tutorial on modern lossy wavelet image compression: foundations of JPEG 2000, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 18(5):22-35, 2001.
- A Skodras, et al, The JPEG 2000 still image compression standard, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 18(5):36-58, 2001.
MPEG video
- D Gall, MPEG: A video compression standard for multimedia applications, Communications of the ACM, 34(4):46-58, 1991.
- T Sikora, MPEG digital video-coding standards, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 14(5):82-100, 1997.
MPEG-4
- R Koenen, MPEG-4 multimedia for our time, IEEE Spectrum, 36(2):26-33, 1999.
- N Brady, MPEG-4 Standardized Methods for the Compression of Arbitrarily Shaped Video Objects, IEEE Trans on CSVT, 9(8):1170-1189, 1999.
H.264/AVC
- T Wiegand, et al, Overview of the H.264/AVC Video Coding Standard, IEEE Trans on CSVT, 13(7):560-576, 2003.
Multimedia networking
- J Crowcroft, et al, Internetworking Multimedia, UCL Press.

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