School of Information Technology & Engineering

Course Name: MULTIMEDIA COMPUTING L T P C 3 0 0 3 Course Code: 05MSEE13 Aim The subject aims to introduce multimedia computing & communications covering various building blocks such as hardware, software, operating systems and DBMS. Objectives At the end of the course students would be able to use multimedia computing hardware, software tools multimedia authoring and design process. Introduction 9 Hours Branch-overlapping Aspects of Multimedia, Content, Global Structure, Multimedia- Media and Data Streams, Medium, Main Properties of a Multimedia System, Traditional Data Stream Characteristics, Data Streams Characteristics for Continuous Media, Information Units. Sound /Audio 9 Hours Basic Sound Concepts, Music, Speech, Image and Graphics- Basic Concepts, Computer Image Processing, Introduction to Optical Storage Video and Animation 9 Hours Basic Concepts, Television, Computer-based Animation, Data Compression-Storage Space, Coding Requirements, Source, Entropy, and Hybrid Coding, Some Basic Compression Techniques-JPEG, H.261, MPEG, DVI Multimedia Operating Systems 9 Hours Introduction, Real-time, Resource Management, Process Management, File Systems, Additional Operating System Issues, System Architecture, Multimedia Communication Systems- Application Subsystem, Transport Subsystem, Quality of Service and Resource Management Multimedia Database Systems 9 Hours Data Analysis, Data Structure, Operations on Data, Integration in a Database Model, Introduction to Hypertext, Hypermedia, Document Architecture, SGML, ODA, MHEG, A Reference Model for Multimedia Synchronization, Multimedia Applications- Media Preparation. Media Composition, Media Integration, Media Communication, Media Consumption, Media Entertainment Text Book:

1. Ralf Steinmetz and Klara Mahrstedt, "Multimedia computing, communications and Applications", Pearson Education Asia, 1st reprint – 2001.

Reference Book: 1. K. Rao, "Multimedia Communication Systems: Techniques, Standards, and Networks", Prentice Hall, 2002.