1. Introduction to Multimedia
1.1 Overview
1.2 Objects and Elements of Multimedia
1.3 Applications of Multimedia
1.4 Multimedia Systems Architecture – IMA, Workstation, Network
1.5 Types of Medium (Perception, Representation-..)
1.6 Interaction Techniques
1.7 I/O devices - Salient features (Electronic Pen , Scanner, Digital Camera,
Printers, plotters), Storage Media (Jukebox, DVD), Multimedia Databases.
2. Text & Digital Image
Text
2.1 Visual Representation, Digital Representation.
2.2 File Formats: RTF, TIFF.
2.3 Compression Techniques : Huffman Coding, RLE, CCITT group 3 1D
Digital Image
2.4 Digital Image Representation (2D format, resolution) Types of Images
(monochrome, gray, color), examples of images (X-Ray, fractal, synthetic,
acoustic).
2.5 File formats: BMP, JPG
2.6 Compression Techniques: fundamentals (coding, interpixel and psychovisual
redundancies),Types – lossless and lossy, Lossless Compression
Algorithms– Shannon-Fano, CCITT group 4 2D, Lossy Compression
Algorithm – JPEG
3. Digital Audio
3.1 Basic Sound Concepts: computer representation of sound,
3.2 File Formats – WAV, MPEG Audio
3.3 Compression: PCM, DM, DPCM
4. Digital Video
4.1 Digitization of Video, types of video signals ( component, composite and Svideo),
4.2 File Formats: MPEG Video, H.261
4.3 Compression: MPEG
5. Multimedia Network Communication and Representation
5.1 Quality of Service
5.2 Multimedia over IP ( RTP, RTSP, RTCP,RSVP)
5.3 Representation- Authoring systems and user interface
6. Multimedia Security
6.1 Requirements and properties
6.2 Mechanisms – Digital Signatures, Steganographic methods
6.3 Sample applications – unidirectional distributed systems, information
systems and conference systems
