IR4MMS - Multimedia Systems

Course specification
Course title		Multimedia Systems
Acronym		IR4MMS
Study programme		Electrical Engineering and Computing
Module		Computer Engineering and Informatics
Type of study		bachelor academic studies
Lecturer (for classes)
Lecturer/Associate (for practice)		professor PhD Milan Bjelica
Lecturer/Associate (for OTC)		professor PhD Milan Bjelica
ESPB		6.0	Status	elective
Condition		None
The goal		Introduce students to the main characteristics of formatting, compression and transmitting video and audio signal.
The outcome		Understanding standards for formatting and transmitting multimedia signals and structure of the telecommunication network as multimedia application support.
Contents
Contents of lectures		Multimedia documents. Distributed and central systems. Picture, Video, audio and text formats. H. 26x, MPEG - x, MHEG. AVC and DAVIC standards. MPEG - 7, MPEG - 21 Semantically analysis of multimedia signals. Transmittion of multimedia signals. Traffic modeling and analysis. Quality of service.
Contents of exercises		Auditory exercises following the lessons. Laboratory exercises in a computer lab simulating a production studio environment.
Literature
N. Chapman, J. Chapman, Digital Multimedia, J. Wiley, 2002. (Original title) T.Wysocki, B.Honary, B.Wysocki, Signal Processing for Telecommunications and Multimedia, Springer Science + Business Multimedia, 2005 (Original title) Iain Richardson, The H264 Advanced Video Compression Standard, Wiley, 2010. (Original title) G.Iwacz, A.Jajszczyk, M.Zajaczkowski-Multimedia Broadcasting and Multicasting in Mobile Networks-Wiley, 2008. (Original title)
Number of hours per week during the semester/trimester/year
Lectures	Exercises	OTC	Study and Research	Other classes
3	1	1
Methods of teaching		Lectures, auditory and laboratory exercises.
Knowledge score (maximum points 100)
Pre obligations		Points	Final exam	Points
Activites during lectures		0	Test paper	50
Practical lessons		0	Oral examination	0
Projects		50
Colloquia		0
Seminars		0