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Time & Location: Monday and
Wednesday at 12:00 -
1:20 PM; Room SUR
5360
Instructor: Mohamed Hefeeda, Office Hours: Monday 1:30 PM -- 2:30 PM, or by
appointment.
This course covers current research in the field of multimedia computing
and networking. Topics will include media data representation,
compression, retrieval, network communications, and multimedia systems. A
primary focus of the course will be on scalable and adaptive multimedia
streaming to heterogeneous clients over the Internet.
Topics will include (Tentative list)
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Review of Video and Audio Coding
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Models for Scalable Coding of Multimedia Streams (layered, FGS, MDC,
...)
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Adaptive Multimedia Streaming
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Synchronization Schemes
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Streaming to Wireless and Mobile Devices
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Content-aware Streaming and Storage of Multimedia Streams
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Security of Scalable Multimedia Streams
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Implementation of Multimedia Systems (protocols, packetization, client
buffering, server design, ...)
Grading Scheme
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Class Participation, Assignments, and Quizes: 40%
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Final Project: 60%
(Some project suggestions will be given, check the
Wiki page)
References
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[Burg09] Burg, The Science of Digital Media, Prentice
Hall, 2009
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[KR08]
Kurose and Rose, Computer
Networking: A top-down Approach Featuring the Internet, 4th
edition, Addison Wesley,
2008
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[SC07] Schaar and Chou (editors),
Multimedia over IP and Wireless Networks: Compression,
Networking, and Systems, Elsevier, 2007
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[LD04]
Li and Drew, Fundamentals of Multimedia, Prentice Hall, 2004
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[SN04]
Steinmetz and Nahrstedt, Multimedia Systems, Springer, 2004
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