MULTIMEDIA TECHNOLOGY AND APPLICATION

CREDITS - 03

1. Introduction : Multimedia today, Impact of Multimedia, Multimedia Systems, Components and its Applications.

2. Text and Audio : Text: Types of Text, Ways to Present Text, Aspects of Text Design, Character, Character Set, Codes, Unicode, Encryption; Audio: Basic Sound Concepts, Types of Sound, Digitizing Sound, Computer Representation of Sound (Sampling Rate, Sampling Size, Quantization), Audio Formats, Audio tools, MIDI.

3. Image and Video : Image: Formats, Image Colour Scheme, Image Enhancement; Video: Analogue and Digital Video, Recording formats and Standards (JPEG, MPEG, H.261) Transmission of Video Signals, Video Capture and Computer based Animation.

4. Synchronization : Temporal relationships, synchronization accuracy specification factors, quality of service.

5. Storage models and Access Techniques : Magnetic media, optical media, file systems (traditional, multimedia)

6. Multimedia devices : Output devices, CD-ROM, DVD, Scanner, CCD

7. Image and Video Database : Image representation, segmentation, similarity based retrieval, image retrieval by colour, shape and texture: Indexing k-d trees, R-trees, Quad trees; Case Studies : QBIC, Virage, Video Content querying, video segmentation, indexing.

8. Document Architecture and Content Management : Content Design and Development, general Design Principles.

9. Hypertext : Concept, Open Document Architecture (ODA), Multimedia and Hypermedia Coding Expert Group (MHEG), Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML), Document type Definition (DTD), Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) in Web Publishing, Case study of Application.

10. Multimedia Application : Interactive television, Video-on-demand, Video Conferencing, Educational Applications, Industrial Applications, Multimedia archives and digital libraries, media editors.

Reference Books :

1. Multimedia Literacy by Fred Hoffsteller, McGraw Hill.

2. Multimedia Fundamentals : Vol. 1-Media Coding and Content Processing by Ralf Steinmetz and Klara Hahrstedt, PHI.

3. Multimedia in Practice : Technology and Application by J. Jeffcoate, PHI.

4. Multimedia Communications by Fred Halsall, Pearson Ed.