Course Outline & Lecture Notes

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Part I: Overview of Multimedia Processing & Coding (6 weeks)

¡± Overview of Multimedia Communications [2-page] [color] (09/13/2010)

¡± Video Basics [2-page] [color] (09/13/2010)

¡± Video Coding Fundamentals [2-page] [color] (09/13/2010)

¡± Lossless Compression [2-page] [color] (10/11/2010)

¡± Lossy Compression: Quantization [2-page] [color] (10/18/2010)

¡± Discrete Cosine Transform [2-page] [color] (10/25/2010)

¡± Motion Compensated Predictive Coding [2-page] [color] (11/01/2010)

Part II: Multimedia Coding Standards (6 weeks)

¡± JPEG/JPEG-2000 [2-page] [color] (11/02/2010)

¡± H.26x, MPEG-1/2/4/7, AVC

(H.261: [2-page] [color], H.263: [2-page] [color]) (11/02/2010)

(MPEG-1: [2-page] [color], MPEG-2: [2-page] [color], MPEG-4: [2-page] [color], MPEG-7: [2-page] [color], H.264/AVC: [2-page] [color]) (12/22/2010)

¡± Scalable Video Coding

Part III: Multimedia Networking (6 weeks)

¡± Introduction of Network Infrastructure

¡± End-to-End QoS for Video Delivery [2-page] [color] (01/03/2011)

Q. Zhang, W. Zhu, and Y.-Q. Zhang, ¡§End-to-end QoS for Video Delivery over Wireless Internet,¡¨ Proc. IEEE, vol. 93, no. 1, pp. 123-134, Jan. 2005

¡± Wireless Video [2-page] [color] (01/05/2011)

M. Etoh and T. Yoshimura, ¡§Advances in Wireless Video Delivery,¡¨ Proc. IEEE, vol. 93, no. 1, pp. 111-122, Jan. 2005

¡± Error Control in Video Streaming [2-page] [color] (01/05/2011)

¡± Cross-Layer Video Adaptation

Reference project topics: here

Recommended Readings of coding standards :

JPEG: G. K. Wallace, ¡§The JPEG still picture compression standard,¡¨ Commun. of the ACM, vol. 34, pp. 31-44, Feb. 1992.

H.261: M. L. Liou, ¡§Video telephony as an ISDN application,¡¨ IEEE Commun. Magazine, vol. 28, pp. 30-38, Feb. 1990.

H.263: N. Färber, B. Girod, and E. Steinbach, ¡§Performance of the H.263 video compression standard,¡¨ J. VLSI Signal Processing, no. 17, pp. 101-111, 1997.

H.263+: G. Côté, B. Erol, G. Gallant, and F. Kossentini, ¡§H.263+: Video coding at low bit rates,¡¨ IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Technol., vol. 8, no. 7, pp. 849-866, Nov. 1998.

MPEG-4: Document: ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 N2502, FDIS of ISO/IEC 14496-2, ¡§Generic coding of audio-visual objects: Part 2- Visual,¡¨ (MPEG-4), Nov. 1998.

MPEG-4 FGS: W. Li, "Overview of fine granularity scalability in MPEG-4 video standard," IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Technol., vol.11, no.3, pp.301-317, Mar 2001.

JPEG-2000: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 1 N1646R, FCD, ¡§JPEG2000 Image Coding System,¡¨ Mar. 2000.

JPEG-2000: D. Taubman, ¡§High performance scalable image compression with EBCOT,¡¨ IEEE Trans. Image Processing, vol. 9, no. 7, pp. 1158-1170.

MPEG-7: S.-F. Chang, T. Sikora, and A. Puri, ¡§Overview of the MPEG-7 standard,¡¨ IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Technol., vol. 11, no. 6, pp. 696¡V702, June 2001.

H.264: T. Wiegand, G. J. Sullivan, G. Bjontegaard, and A. Luthra, ¡§Overview of the H.264/AVC video coding standard,¡¨ IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Technol., vol. 13, no. 7, pp. 560¡V576, July 2003.

SVC: H. Schwarz, D. Marpe, and T. Wiegand, ¡§Overview of the scalable extension of the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC Video coding standard,¡¨ IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Technol., vol. 17, no. 9, pp. 1103¡V1120, Sept. 2007.

Reference Software:

H.261 H. 261 reference software and document (RM8)

MPEG-2: MPEG-2 reference software (TM5)

H.263+: H. 263+ reference software and document (TMN8)

MPEG-4: Microsoft (July 3rd 2000 Version 2 FPDAM1-1.0-000703 Version 2.2.0), MoMuSys (FPDAM1 (Version 2) 1.0)

JPEG-2000: JPEG-2000 source code (Kakadu_V2.2.3 from D. Taubman)

H.264:

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