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CPE
443
Multimedia Systems and Applications
In this course, students will be introduced to principles and current technologies of computer-based multimedia systems. They will study current media types (images, video, audio, graphics etc) and how they are used to create multimedia content. Issues in effectively representing, processing, and compressing multimedia data will be addressed. The students will be familiarized with the range of tools used in creating computer-based multimedia.
Prerequisites:
0600304,0610385
0612443
(3-0-3)

Credits and Contact Hours

3 credits, 43 hours

Course Instructor Name

Dr. Mohamad Awad

Textbook

  • Fundamentals of Multimedia, Ze-Nian Li and Mark S Drew, 3rd Edition, 2021
  • Reference
  • Multimedia Signals and Systems, Marinal Kr. Mandal, Springer, 2003

Catalog Description

In this course, students will be introduced to the principles and current technologies of computer-based multimedia systems. They will study current media types (images, video, audio, graphics, etc.) and how they are used to create multimedia content. Issues in effectively representing, processing, and compressing multimedia data will be addressed. The students will be familiarized with the range of tools used in creating computer-based multimedia.

Prerequisite

ENGR-304, EE-385

Specific Goals for the Course

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

  • Identify different multimedia data types such as image, audio, and video.
  • Understand basic image data representations. (Student outcomes: 1)
  • Learn fundamental concepts in video. (Student outcomes: 1)
  • Understand basics of digital audio representation. (Student outcomes: 1)
  • Understand multimedia standards. (Student outcomes: 1)
  • Familiarize with basic audio, image, and video coding/compression techniques such as MPEG, JPEG, etc. (Student outcomes: 1)
  • Learn how to capture, digitize, store, and manipulate a variety of multimedia data. (Student outcomes: 1)
  • Learn basic multimedia processing transforms. (Student outcomes: 1)
  • Understand multimedia networking and communications quality of service requirements. (Student outcomes: 1)
  • Learn retrieval of multimedia objects in Digital Libraries. (Student outcomes: 1)
  • Design and development of a multimedia application. (Student outcomes: 1, 2)

Topics to Be Covered

  • Introduction to Multimedia.
  • Graphics and Image Data Acquisition and Representations.
  • Color in Image and Video.
  • Fundamental Concepts in Video.
  • Basics of Digital Audio.
  • Transforms and Sub-Band Decomposition
  • Lossy Compression Algorithm
  • Basic Video Compression.
  • Basic Audio Compression.
  • Multimedia Communication.