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Lecture type	Total
Lectures	40
Exercises	5
Laboratory exercises	15

* Load is given in academic hour (1 academic hour = 45 minutes)

Multimedia technologies and systems; architecture and applications. Multimedia signal sources. Fundamentals of compression and coding. Speech signal, modeling and analysis. Parametric models; speech coding standards. Speech synthesis and recognition. Audio signal. Psychoacoustic model, audio coding principles and standards. Human visual perception model. Image formats, coding, and standards. Video signal and its properties. Spatial, time and subjective redundancy. Video compression standards. Storage, processing and transmission of multimedia content. Hardware and software implementations. Integration of multimedia content; synchronization. Multimedia systems and tools.

1. Fundamentals of Multimedia; Z. N. Li, M. S. Drew; Prentice Hall; 2004; ISBN: 978-0130618726
2. Multimedia Fundamentals, Volume I: Media Coding and Content Processing; R. Steinmetz, K. Nahrstedt; Prentice Hall; 2002; ISBN: 978-0130313997
3. Image and Video Compression for Multimedia Engineering: Fundamentals, Algorithms, and Standards; Y. Q. Shi, H. Sun; CRC Press; 2008; ISBN: 978-0849373640

Enrollment:
Passed: Algorithms and Data Structures

Elective course for module Computer Engineering
Elective course for module Electronic and Computer Engineering
Full time study course for module Information Processing and Multimedia Systems
Elective course for module Wireless Communications