Syllabus:
· Introduction
o Introduction to Multimedia, Motivation and Applications
o Signals and Waves
o Analog and Digital Data
o Sampling and Quantization
· Audio
o Introduction to Digital Audio
o Representing Audio Data
o WAV Audio Format
o Audio Data Compression
o MP3
· Image
o Image Data Representation
o Color Models
§ RGB
§ YCbCr
o Main Image File Formats
§ Bitmap Files
§ Lossless Image Compression
· Run-length Coding (pcx )
§ Lossy Image Compression
· Cosine Transform Based Coding (jpeg)
· Video
o Video Data and the Need for Compression
o Video Compression Standards
§ MPEG
§ H263
§ H264
· Streaming Multimedia over the Internet
o Scalable Video Coding
o Multiple Description Coding