CSE 629 Digital Multimedia Systems, FALL 1997
Course Description
This is the graduate-level multimedia course, focusing
mainly on the underlying technologies of multimedia systems,
rather than multimedia applications development.
The course consists of lectures, homeworks and class projects.
There will be
three programming homeworks, each taking about
3-4 weeks, but no exams.
No late homeworks beyond the official deadline will be accepted.
In addition, students are expected to complete a class project
with a publication-quality project report turned in at the
end of the class.
Students will form teams of at most two to work on homeworks
and projects. If you want to form a larger team than two members, please
come to see me.
This is really a project-oriented class, so there is no point taking
the course if you cannot commit serious efforts to it.
Auditors are not welcome.
The lectures of this course will concentrate on the following
topics:
- Compression
algorithms for various media types including text, video, image,
volume, and graphics data
- Video analysis
- Video server and file system
- Content-based
media retrieval
- Real-time network protocols.
- Integration of graphics and video
In addition, I expect there will be three to four guest lectures on various
other topics.
This semester, the students registering in this class are expected
to work exclusively on the following projects:
- Video/Graphic Annotation
- Efficient Low-Delay Video Encoding
- Performance Optimization of Speech Coder
- Implementation and Evaluation of Collaborative Web Surfing
- Evaluation of Multimedia File System (MMFS)
- Audio/Graphical Lecture Integration
- Distributed System Support for Network Games
In the end, each team needs to make a 20-minute presentation of their
results
to the class. Every team also needs to turn in a
research report documenting the experiments, results, and analysis.
The grade will be based on: 55% Homework and 45% Project.
There will be no official textbooks. The contents of the lectures will come
from various books and research articles. Students will take turns to
take notes in the class and share them with everyone in the class.
The first class is on 9/4 (Thursday).
Administrative Matters
- Location: CS Building, Room 2210
- Time: Tuesday, Thursday, 3:50-5:10 PM
- Textbook: none
- Instructor: Professor Tzi-cker Chiueh
- Office: CS Building, Room 1419
- Phone: 516-632-8449
- mail: chiueh@cs.sunysb.edu
- Office Hours: Tuesday, Thursday, 2:00-3:00 PM
- Course Homepage: http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~chiueh/cse629
Special Needs
If you have a physical, psychological, medical or learning disability that may impact on your ability to carry out assigned course
work, I would urge that you contact the staff in the Disabled Student Services office (DSS), Room 133 Humanities,
632-6748/TDD. DSS will review your concerns and determine, with you, what accommodations are necessary and
appropriate. All information and documentation of disability is confidential.
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