This course will cover topics in the emerging area of multimedia systems including (not limiting to) the following: ?Fundamentals of multimedia, media and data streams, sound/audio, image, graphics, video and animation. ?Topics in data compression including coding requirements, source, entropy, and hybrid coding, JPEG, H.261 (px64), MPEG, MP3 and etc. ?Computer technology issues such as communication architecture, multimedia workstations, cache systems, storage systems and optical storage. ?Multimedia operating system issues such as real-time operation, resource management, process management, file systems, and Multimedia networking. ?Multimedia synchronization, presentation requirements, reference model, and synchronization techniques. ?Multimedia database issues such as data organization, indexing and retrieval. ?Multimedia applications including digital libraries, system software, toolkits, conferencing paradigms, structured interaction support, and examples from video/audio/graphics conferencing. ?Latest Web technologies, such as XML, X3D and Semantic Web. |