ELEC-827
Multimedia Signal
Compression
Winter 2009
Class Schedule
Tuesday 1:30-4:30 p.m. WLH 616
Instructor
Geoffrey Chan
E-mail: chan [at] post [dot] queensu [dot] ca
Tel: 613 533-2939
Office: WLH-517
Course Description
Study of multimedia information processing with particular focus on multimedia signal compression for communications and storage. Applications of multimedia compression functionalities abound, including point-to-point and multipoint communications over heterogeneous networks (e.g. wireless and Internet networks), and multimedia content generation, distribution, and playback in consumer and commercial products and services. Course topics include: major lossless and lossy compression techniques for coding speech, audio, image, video, and scanned documents; the latest multimedia standards, their compression, system, and transport layers; current research problems in multimedia communications such as scalable coding, transcoding, media streaming, source-channel coding, error robustness, concealment, etc.
Textbook
Sayood, K., "Introduction to Data Compression", 3rd edition, Morgan Kaufmann, 2006.
Course Structure
This course is devoted to studying the techniques, algorithms, practice, and research frontiers of multimedia signal compression. The textbook serves to cover basic coding techniques and overview the core techniques in popular compression standards. As the field evolves rapidly, course material also draws from other sources: survey and research papers, and standard documents. Grading is based on homeworks, tests, and a project. Students taking this course should have prior exposure to probability and random variables, information and communications theory, and digital signal processing. Basic proficiency in computer programming is necessary.
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario