Multimedia Information Processing
COSC-289
Department of Computer Science
Georgetown University

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Course Description:

"Multimedia" essentially refers to "means of communications through multiple media". Although human-to-human communications are essentially multi-sensory and multi-modal, until recently, human-computer communications have been largely text-based. The rapid development in last 20 years has enable technologies for multi-modal communications to become a reality.

This course introduces the concepts, issues, design, implementation, standards and applications of multimedia technologies. The media to be considered include text, digital audio, digital image, digital video, and their integration. The course covers basics and applications of analog and digital media. It discusses the characteristics, mathematical foundation, compression and processing of digital multimedia data including: audio, image (JPEG) and video (MPEG). It also covers standards in digital multimedia data such as MP3, JPEG, MPEG as well as the environment in which digital multimedia data are used, including multimedia architecture, indexing and retrieval, hypermedia and WWW. At the end of this course, students should have the expertise and competence to design, implement and deploy multimedia systems.

You can find past year course projects here .
Prerequisites:
  • COSC 160 Data Structure
  • or COSC 150 Advanced Programming
  • or permission from the instructor
Time and Location:

Class: TR 1230-145pm. Location: ICC 213.
Office hours: Tuesday 2-3pm. Location: St Mary's 338.

Instructor: Grace Hui Yang
Textbooks:

Multimedia Computing. Gerald Friedland and Ramesh Jain. Cambridge University Press. 2014.

multimedia computing

Here is the online link to this book. It is on Amazon too !

Other Readings:

Selected papers or book chapters will be available online before lectures.

Grading: Homeworks 50%, Midterm exam 20%, Final exam 30%.
Policies: Homework submission and Late homework policy: All homeworks should be submitted through Blackboard. Homeworks are due midnight on the due date. Three late days in total are allowed without penalty for the entire semester. For instance, you may be late by 1 day on homework 1 and be late for homework 3 for 2 days. Once the three-late-dates are used, you will be penalized according to the policy below:
  • a penalty of 50% will be applied for homework submitted within the next 24 hours.
  • zero credit will be assigned after that.
All homeworks (even with zero credit) must be turned in order to pass the course.

Integrity policy: All experimental results turned in must be true. No copying/cheating is allowed. Please check Georgetown's Honor system.

Syllabus
Wk Date Class Readings Slides Deadlines
1. 8/28 Introduction Chap. 1, 2, 9 slides HW1 out.
2. 9/2, 9/4 Multimedia Systems; Digital Representation Chap. 3, 4, 6 slides
3. 9/9, 9/11 Digital Representation Chap. 6, 5 HW2 out.
4. 9/16, 9/18 Compression Chap. 11
5. 9/23, 9/25 Compression Chap. 12 HW3 out.
6. 9/30, 10/2 Digital Image Chap. 13
7. 10/7, 10/9 Digital Image Chap. 13
8. 10/14, 10/16 Midterm Exam HW4 out.
9. 10/21, 10/23 Digital Video Chap. 13
10. 10/28, 10/30 Digital Video Chap. 16
11. 11/4, 11/6 Digital Audio Chap. 5, 14
12. 11/11, 11/13 Retrieval Techniques Chap. 15 HW5 out.
13. 11/18, 11/20 Retrieval Techniques Chap. 16
14. 11/25 Retrieval Techniques Chap. 17
15. 12/2, 12/4 Hypermedia and WWW Chap. 18, 19, 20 HW5 due
16. TBD Final exam Location: TBD
Past Year Projects: The Design
Past Year Projects: The Deliverables