CSE  228: Multimedia Systems

Announcement:

• Please bring a blue book (one is enough) with you when you take the cse228 final exam.
• Link to class project
• The class room for tomorrow's class (May 22) will be changed to AP&M 4301
• The office hours have been changed starting immediately after the lecture.
• For the first question in the first homework (color representation), if you answer three color representations correctly and give a reasonable comparison among them, but don't get a full point. You can contact the professor or TA and we will regrade it.
• April 29: The midterm exam is scheduled on May 6. You are required to bring a blue book (available at the bookstore) with you and show up in the class on time
• April 16: Two additional clarifications for the first homework (1) question 3.2.1/3.2.2: The program you write should do both quantization and DCPM and output should be DPCM encoded sequence; and (2) question 3.2.2: You can assume that the starting value is encoded separately from the difference values.

Course Information

Instructor

P. Venkat Rangan (venkat@cs.ucsd.edu)
AP&M 5151

 

Lectures

TuTH 3:30pm - 4:50 pm

Office hours

  AP&M 5151, TuTh 6:30pm-7:30 pm or by appointment (Update !)

 

Room Allocation

WLH 2208

 

Important Date

Homework 1    April 24, 2003 (solution !)

          Midterm           May 6, 2003 (solution !)

Homework 2    May 29, 2003 (solution !)

          Final                 June 5 (in class)

Grading Policy

20 points: 1st homework

20 points: 2nd homework

25 points: 1st midterm

30 points: final

15 points: project presentation (a student can, therefore, get a total of 10 points extra above 100 points, to improve his/her grade substantially).

 

Reference books (not required textbooks):

Multimedia Communication Systems: Techniques, Standards, and Networks by D. A. Milovanovic, Zoran S. Bojkovic, Dragorad A. Milovanovic, Kamisetty Ramamohan Rao (Prentice Hall, 2002)

Networked Multimedia Systems, Concepts, Architecture and Design, by S. V. Raghavan and S. K. Tripathi, Prentice Hall, 1998

Multimedia programming: objects, Environments and Frameworks, by S. J. Gibbs and D, C. Tsichritzis, Addison Wesley and ACM Press, 1995

http://www.mpeg.org. It deals with MPEG 1,2,4,7, mp3,ac3, etc.

'Mpeg Video : Compression Standard (Digital Multimedia Standards Series)' by by Joan L. Mitchell (Editor), William B. Pennebaker (Editor), Chad E. Fogg.

 

Lecture Schedule for April (will get completed/refined/revised as we progress through the course)

Miscellaneous

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