Simon Fraser University
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Course Outlines

Fall 2018 - ENSC 424 D100

Multimedia Communications Engineering (4)

Class Number: 6689

Delivery Method: In Person

Overview

  • Course Times + Location:

    Sep 4 – Dec 3, 2018: Mon, Wed, 12:30–2:20 p.m.
    Burnaby

  • Exam Times + Location:

    Dec 6, 2018
    Thu, 3:30–6:30 p.m.
    Burnaby

  • Prerequisites:

    ENSC 380 or MSE 280 and a minimum of 80 units.

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

This course covers the technical basis for multimedia communications systems. The main topics are as follows: methods for audio and visual signal compression and processing; the communications requirements of multimedia systems, such as synchronization, quality of service and bandwidth; the architectures and protocols associated with multimedia communications networks.

COURSE DETAILS:


Objectives:

  • Understand key ideas behind multimedia signal acquisition
  • Understand key ideas behind multimedia signal compression, such as sampling, transform, prediction, quantization, and entropy coding
  • Become familiar with image and video coding standards: JPEG, JPEG2000, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.246, HEVC
  • Understand key ideas behind multimedia communications: streaming, interaction, error control
  • Be exposed to some of the latest trends in multimedia signal processing, such as deep learning

Calendar: This course covers the technical basis for multimedia communications systems. The main topics are as follows: methods for audio and visual signal compression and processing; the communications requirements of multimedia systems, such as synchronization, quality of service and bandwidth; the architectures and protocols associated with multimedia communications networks.  

Labs: There will be several software-based laboratory projects assigned during the semester. These are normally intended for MATLAB implementation, but other languages such as Python and/or C/C++ may be used    

Homework: Assigned (bi)weekly.

Grading

  • Assignments 20%
  • Midterm 40%
  • Final Project 40%

Materials

REQUIRED READING:

K. Sayood, Introduction to data compression, Fifth edition, Morgan Kaufmann, 2018. ISBN 978-0-12-809474-7

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