Spring 2015 CE40-342 Multimedia Systems

Sharif University of Technology

Department of Computer Engineering
Course Syllabus
CE40-342: Multimedia Systems
Spring 2015: Saturday & Monday: 9:00-10:30: CE, Room 101.

“This world is just too wonderful to be described by words, that's why there is Multimedia...”

Instructor Hamid R. Rabiee

Office: CE-804
Phone: 66166683
Email: rabiee@sharif.edu
URL: http://sharif.edu/~rabiee/

TA Ali Yadegari, Email: ayadegari@ce.sharif.edu, Office: DML, CE-803

Fariborz Mafakheri, Email: mafakheri@ce.sharif.edu , Office: DML, CE-803

Course http://ce.sharif.edu/courses/93-94/2/ce342-1/
Website

Objective To make the senior level undergraduate students acquainted with the fundamental concepts of
multimedia and multimedia systems in emerging multimedia value added services.

Textbook We will mostly use class handouts and lectures. Therefore, text books could be used as a reference.
Z-N. Li, M.S. Drew, Fundamentals of Multimedia, Pearson Prentice Hall Upper Saddle River, NJ,
2004.

Other 1. Parag Havaldar, Gerard Medioni, Multimedia Systems: Algorithms, Standards, and
Reference Industry Practices, Cengage Learning, 2010.
Books 2. R. Steinmetz and K. Nahrstedt, Multimedia Fundamentals: Media Coding and Content
Processing, Prentice Hall, 2002.
3. K. R. Rao, Z. S. Bojkovic and D. A. Milanovic, Multimedia Communication Systems:
Techniques, Standards and Networks, Prentice Hall, 2002.
4. R. Steinmettz and K. Nahrstedt, Multimedia: Computing, Communications and
Applications, Prentice Hall, 1995.

Grading There will be Homework, Weekly Quizzes, Critical Reading, Mid-Term and Final Exam. The grade
Policy will be determined as:

Quiz 15% Lowest quiz will be dropped

Homework 15% MATLAB is required
Critical Reading 10%
Mid-Term Exam 30%
Final Exam 30%

Prerequisites Signals & Systems.

Course The course includes fundamental concepts of multimedia, Speech, Image and Video processing
Description including international standards. Fundamentals of multimedia systems design, multimedia
networks, multimedia search engines and emerging multimedia value added services.

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Tentative Topic Readings HW
Course Overview of the Course Handout -
Outline Introduction to Multimedia Handout -
Starting Review of Signals and Systems Handout -
Monday Entropy Coding Handout HW#1
Bahman 20th Speech I (PCM, Sampling) Handout -
There would
Speech I (PCM, Quantization, DPCM) Handout HW#2
be a Quiz
Speech II (ADPCM, Spectrogram, Formant) Handout -
every
Speech II (LPC, CELP, Vector Q.) Handout -
Monday.
Color Space Handout HW#3
Image I (Acquisition and Representation) Handout -
Image II (Enhancement) Handout -
Image III (Compression, JPEG) Handout HW#4
Video I (Video Systems) Handout
Video II (Video Coding, MEMC) Handout HW#5
Video III (Video Coding Standards) Handout -
Handout Critical Reading Paper
Video IV (MPEG7, MPEG 21)
Assigned
Midterm Exam - Midterm Exam
MM System Design Issues Handout -
Multimedia Networks I Handout HW#6
Multimedia Networks II Handout -
Wireless Multimedia Handout HW#7
Multimedia Applications I Handout -
Multimedia Applications II Handout HW#8
3D Technologies, I Handout -
Handout Critical Reading
3D Technologies, II
Report Due

Tentative HW# Home Work Title

Homework 1 Digitizing Audio Signals – Changing Sampling Rates
2 Signal Compression: Audio & Speech
3 Image Processing Tools
4 Color Concepts
5 Image Compression
6 Analog & Digital Video
7 Video Compression
8 Video Conferencing

Course a) Homework Problems

Regulations Homework problems will be handed out on Tuesdays and will be due two weeks later,
before the beginning of lectures. The problems will cover the following week materials so
do not expect to cover the whole problem set related materials right after the release. There
will be some simple Programming Projects using MATLAB. There will be learning
materials and classes on how to use MATLAB for problem solving. Course policy for late
submission is mentioned below:
50% of the whole point for delivery up to three days after the deadline.
25% of the whole point for delivery up to one week after the deadline.
Do not even think of submission after more than one week delay.
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b) Quizzes and Exams

Each Sunday there will be a quiz, at the beginning of the lectures. Each quiz will cover the
facts discussed in the previous week, so use your Fridays to study!

c) Problem Solving Classes

The problem solving classes are an integral component of the course. Attendance at
recitation is very important.

d) Statement on Collaboration, Academic Honesty, and Plagiarism

We encourage working together whenever possible on; homework, working problems in
tutorials, and discussing and interpreting reading assignments. Talking about the course
material is a great way to learn.
Regarding homework, the following is a fruitful (and acceptable) form of collaboration;
discuss with your classmates possible approaches to solving the problems, and then have
each one fill in the details and write her/his own solution independently. An unacceptable
form of dealing with homework is to copy a solution that someone else has written.
We discourage, but do not forbid, use of materials from prior terms that students may have
access to. Furthermore, at the time that you are actually writing up your solutions, these
materials must be set aside; copy-editing from other’s work is not acceptable. At the top of
each homework you turn in, we expect you to briefly list all sources of information you
used, except known course materials like Text Book, Lectures, etc. A brief note such as
“Did homework with ABC and ABD in study group” or “Looked at old solution for
Problem 4” would be sufficient. Besides the morality issues, it will help TAs on grading
your hand outs.
There will be a zero tolerance policy for Cheating/Copying HW’s. The first time you are
caught, you will receive a zero for the task at hand. If you are caught for a second time, you
will fail the course.
In general, we expect students to adhere to basic, common sense concepts of academic
honesty. Presenting another's work as if it were your own, or cheating in exams will not be
tolerated.

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