Multimedia Computing Systems

Multimedia Computing has been one of major research areas to bring the advanced computer and communication technologies within our daily lives. This course is devoted to presenting and exploring technological and artistic advancements and innovations in the field of multimedia. Several interesting contemporary research problems will be presented for interactive discussions. A number of novel solutions from active researchers will be introduced in the class to encourage the participating students in learning the creative way of thinking. From these precious experiences, class attendants may apprehend the significance of originality and render professional judgments.

The outline of this course in Fall 2002 is briefly itemized in the following:

System Support for Multimedia Data

Slides: Introduction, MMOS.

Compression Techniques

Slides: Compression.

Video Delivery and Reliability

Slides: Streaming.

Multimedia Database Technologies

Slides: Decision Estimation, Index Mechanism.

Reading Assignments (Critical Reviews):

Requirement Items in reviews:

	Problem Statement:
	Proposed Methods:
	Assessment of the Proposed Methods:
	Possible Improvements:

"Bandwidth Allocation in a Self-Managing Multimedia File Server," Due: Oct. 4.

"Efficient and Scalable On-Demand Data Streaming Using UEP Codes", Due: Nov. 25.

"Support Vector Machine Active Learning for Image Retrieval", Due: Dec. 16.

Term Papers: Due: Jan. 13.

	Given a topic of your choice related to the multimedia processing, a term paper is required to include the background introduction, the techniques in question, the justification of these schemes, etc.
	The term paper will be presented on Dec. 30.

Presentation Schedule: on Dec. 30

Final Exam: an open-book comprehensive exam, scheduled on Jan. 6

Grading:

	Four Critical Reviews: 40%.
	Presentation (Peer Reviews): 20%
	Term Paper: 20%
	Final Exam: 20%