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MAKAUT Syllabus
Introduction [2L]
Multimedia today, Impact of Multimedia, Multimedia Systems, Components and Its
Applications
Text and Audio [6L]
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
Image and Video (8L)
Image: Formats, Image Color 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.
Synchronization [4L]
Temporal relationships, synchronization accuracy specification factors, quality of service
Storage models and Access Techniques [(4L]
Magnetic media, optical media, file systems (traditional, multimedia)
Multimedia devices – Output devices, CD-ROM, DVD, Scanner, CCD
Image and Video Database [8L]
Image representation, segmentation, similarity based retrieval, image retrieval by color, shape
and texture; indexing- kd trees, R-trees, quad trees; Case studies- QBIC, Virage. Video
Content, querying, video segmentation, indexing
Document Architecture and Content Management [9L]
Content Design and Development, General Design Principles 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 Applications
Multimedia Applications [4L]
Interactive television, Video-on-demand, Video Conferencing, Educational Applications,
Industrial Applications,
Multimedia archives and digital libraries, media editors.
Recommended books:
Books:
1. Ralf Steinmetz and Klara Nahrstedt , Multimedia: Computing, Communications &
Applications , Pearson Ed.
2. Nalin K. Sharda , Multimedia Information System , PHI.
3. Fred Halsall , Multimedia Communications , Pearson Ed.
4. Koegel Buford , Multimedia Systems , Pearson Ed.
5. Fred Hoffstetter , Multimedia Literacy , McGraw Hill.
6. Ralf Steinmetz and Klara Nahrstedt , Multimedia Fundamentals: Vol. 1- Media Coding and
Content Processing ,
PHI.
7. J. Jeffcoate , Multimedia in Practice: Technology and Application , PHI.
8. Prabhat K. Andleigh & Kiran Thakrar , Multimedia Systems Design , PHI.
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Course Information
DAY 1
Course: Multimedia Technology
Relevant MAKAUT syllabus portion:
Introduction to Multimedia
Topics Covered:
Introduction to Multimedia
Prerequisites:
Basic idea about multimedia devices; text, audio, video file formats
Objectives:
Students can understand the utility of Multimedia in various applications.
Notes:
A. Components of multimedia:
• Video teleconferencing
• Telemedicine
1
Identify three novel applications of the Internet or multimedia applications.
Ans:
2
Briefly explain, in your own words, "Memex" and its role regarding hypertext.
Ans:
DAY 2
Course: Multimedia Technology
Relevant MAKAUT syllabus portion:
Introduction to multimedia
Topics Covered:
Multimedia Systems
Components and Its Applications
Notes:
Hypermedia and Multimedia: Ted Nelson invented the term "HyperText" around 1965.
Hypermedia is not constrained to be text-based. It can include other media, such as graphics,
images, and especially the continuous media - sound and video. Hypermedia can be
considered one particular multimedia application.
Examples of typical multimedia applications include: digital video editing and production
systems; electronic newspapers and magazines; the World Wide Web; online reference
works, such as encyclopedias; games; groupware; home shopping; interactive TV;
multimedia courseware; video conferencing; video-an-demand; and interactive movies.
1
What is hypermedia?
Ans:
2
How HTML and DHTML web pages or sites are generally viewed?
Ans:
DAY 3
Course: Multimedia Technology
Relevant MAKAUT syllabus portion:
Image and Video
Lecture 3 (60 minutes)
Topics Covered:
Image: Formats, Image Color Scheme, Image Enhancement
Prerequisites:
Basic idea about multimedia devices; text, audio, video file formats
Objectives:
Students will learn about image formats, image color schemes, analog and digital videos,
recording formats, transmission video signals
Notes:
A. Image Formats:
1. GIF (Graphics Interchange Format): The GIF standard is limited to 8-bit (256) color
images only.
2. JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group): The most important current standard for image
compression is JPEG. This standard was created by a working group of the Intemational
Organization for Standardization (ISO) that was infonnally called the Joint Photographic
Experts Group and is therefore so named. T
3. PNG (Portable Network Graphics): This standard is meant to supersede the GIF standard
and extends it in important ways.
4. GIF (Graphics Animation Files): A few dominant fonnats are aimed at storing graphics
animations (i.e., sedes of drawings or graphic illustrations) as opposed to video (i.e., series of
images).
B. Color models:
1. RGB Color Model for CRT Displays: We expect to be able to use 8 bits per color channel
for color that is accurate enough.
2. Subtractive Color - CMY Color Model: Instead of red, green, and blue primaries, we need
primaries that amount to red, green, and blue; we need to subtract R, G, or B. In the
subtractive CMY system, black arises from ,subtracting all the light by laying down inks with
C = M = Y = 1.
1
Briefly explain why we need to be able to have less than 24-bit color and why this
makes for a problem.
Ans:
2
Suppose we have a 5-bit grayscale image. What size of ordered dither matrix do we
need to display the image on a I-bit printer?
Ans:
DAY 4
Course: Multimedia Technology
Relevant MAKAUT syllabus portion:
Topics Covered:
Notes:
1. Component Video: Higher-end video systems, such as for studios, make use of three
separate video signals for the red, green, and blue image planes. This is referred to as
component video.
1
Which do you think has less detectable flicker, PAL in Europe or NTSC in North
America? Justify your conclusion.
Ans:
2
What is the advantage of interlaced video? What are some of its problems?
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DAY 5
Course: Multimedia Technology
Relevant MAKAUT syllabus portion:
Storage models and Access Techniques
Topics Covered:
Magnetic media, optical media, file systems
Objectives: Students will learn about history and description about mulimedia devices
Notes:
A. Magnetic Disk Storage: In this type of storage, data are represented as magnetic spots;
Magnetized spot = 1; Absence of a magnetized spot = 0.
B. Optical disks: Optical disks record data that can be read by optical beams. Optical disks
can record data at very high recording density. Compact disks (CD) and digital versatile disks
(DVD) are commonly used optical disks. The DVD disks are sometimes called digital video
disks. Optical disks can be classified as read-only disk, write-once disk, rewriteable disk, and
read-write disk according to the modification ability of the recording material.
1
What is PDA?
Ans:
2
Which are not typically part of a multimedia specification?
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DAY 6
Course: Multimedia Technology
Relevant MAKAUT syllabus portion:
Storage models and Access Techniques
Topics Covered:
Notes:
Optical tapes: Optical tapes are designed to maximize the storage capacity of a media unit.
Optical tapes record data on tapes using laser beams to maximize the recording density. Most
of the recording surface is wound and hidden using a tape form. Unlike magnetic tapes,
optical tapes record data in the transverse format. The tape moves horizontally and the optical
read/write head moves at the perpendicular direction to the tape moving direction.
1
Which purpose Genealogy software is used for?
Ans:
2
Which is not a technology likely to prevail as a delivery means for interactive
multimedia files?
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DAY 7
Course: Multimedia Technology
Topics Covered:
Content Design and Development, General Design Principles
Notes:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
</BODY>
</HTHL>
The HEAD describes document definitions, which are parsed before any document rendering
is done. These include page title, resource links, and meta-information the author decides to
specify. The BODY part describes the document structure and content. Common structure
elements are paragraphs, tables, forms, links, item lists, and buttons.
1
Define a document and a multimedia document. What is meant by document
architecture?
Ans:
2
What is markup? Distinguish between procedural markup and descriptive markup.
Ans:
3
Explain the meaning of the following in a DTD: <! ELEMENT X – O (Y+, Z+)>.
Ans:
DAY 8
Course: Multimedia Technology
Topics Covered:
Multimedia and Hypermedia Coding Expert Group (MHEG), Standard Generalized
Markup Language (SGML), Document Type Definition (DTD), Hypertext Markup
Language (HTML)
Notes:
Extensible Markup Language (XML): There is a need for a markup language for the WWW
that has modularity of data, structure, and view.
• XML Schema: A more structured and powerful language for defining XML data types
(tags). Unlike a DTD, XML Schema uses XML tags for type definitions.
• XSL: This is basically CSS for XML. On the other hand, XSL is much more complex,
having three parts: XSL Transformations (XSLT), XML Path Language (XPath), andXSL
Formatting Objects.
1
In relation to SGML, explain the role and utility of a DTD.
Ans:
2
Explain the following in relation to MHEG: object hierarchy, non-editability, macro-
facility.
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DAY 9
Course: Multimedia Technology
Relevant MAKAUT syllabus portion:
Topics Covered:
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
Prerequisites:
Objectives:
Students can understand the Text Representation, Audio Format.
Notes:
1
Explain the issues and problems in sound quantization.
Ans:
2
Describe different types of text representation.
Ans:
DAY 10
Course: Multimedia Technology
Relevant MAKAUT syllabus portion:
Audio: Basic Sound Concepts, Types of Sound, Digitizing Sound, Computer Representation
of Sound (Sampling Rate,Sampling Size, Quantization), Audio Formats, Audio tools, MIDI
Course Outcomes:
Topics Covered:
Basic Sound Concepts
Computer Representation of Sound
Prerequisites:
Objectives:
Student can understand how sound can be represented in digital medium.
Notes:
Ans:
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DAY 11
Course: Multimedia Technology
Relevant MAKAUT syllabus portion:
Course Outcomes:
Topics Covered:
Temporal relationships
Synchronization accuracy specification factors
Prerequisites:
Notes:
Ans:
Ans:
DAY 12
Course: Multimedia Technology
Relevant MAKAUT syllabus portion:
Quality of service
Course Outcomes:
Topics Covered:
Quality of service
Prerequisites:
Objectives:
Students are able to understand different types of temporal synchronization.
Notes:
In our architectural model multimedia data comes from live sources or from storage Digital
audio and video data have default content specications associated with them that specify the
sample size and rate for normal playback A timebased media editor may be used to create
complex presentations from simple content A player is used to browse and playback content
specied by the editor A user may control a players view parameters such as window size
and playback rate as well as quality parameters such as spatial and temporal resolution The
combination of content view and quality specications constitute a QOS specication When a
user chooses to begin a presentation the player needs to verify that a presentation plan
consisting of realtime tasks will satisfy the QOS specication A presentation plan is feasible
if guarantees can be obtained from a Resource Manager for the realtime presentation tasks
that transport and transform the multimedia data from storage or other data sources to the
system outputs
Ans:
DAY 13
Course: Multimedia Technology
Relevant MAKAUT syllabus portion:
Image representation, segmentation, and similarity based retrieval, image retrieval by color,
shape and texture
Course Outcomes:
Develop a sense of the capabilities and limitations of current image processing technology.
Lecture 5 (60 minutes)
Topics Covered:
Image Segmentation, Similarity Based Retrieval
Prerequisites:
Notes:
Image segmentation is useful in many applications. It can identify the regions of interest in
a scene or annotate the data. We categorize the existing segmentation algorithm into region-
based segmentation, data clustering, and edge-base segmentation. Region-based
segmentation includes the seeded and unseeded region growing algorithms, the JSEG, and
the fast scanning algorithm. All of them expand each region pixel by pixel based on their
pixel value or quantized value so that each cluster has high positional relation. For data
clustering, the concept of them is based on the whole image and considers the distance
between each data. The characteristic of data clustering is that each pixel of a cluster does
not certainly connective.
The basis method of data clustering can be divided into hierarchical and partitioned
clustering. Furthermore, we show the extension of data clustering called mean shift
algorithm, although this algorithm much belonging to density estimation. The last
classification of segmentation is edge-based segmentation.
We show the segmentation result of Lena image by using SRG. The sub-images are sorted
according to the size of cluster from large to small. The display order is from left to right and
from up to down. We only show the first 16 large clusters in
The segmentation result of Lena image using SRG.
DAY 14
Course: Multimedia Technology
Relevant MAKAUT syllabus portion:
Case studies- QBIC, Virage. Video Content, querying, video segmentation, indexing
Course Outcomes:
Topics Covered:
Video Content, querying, video segmentation, indexing
Prerequisites:
Objectives:
Students are able to understand the different .video processing technique.
Notes:
Higher-end video systems, such as for studios, make use of three separate video signals
for the red, green, and blue image planes. This is referred to as componellt video. This
kind of system has three wires (and connectors) connecting the camera or other devices
to a TV or monitor.
Color signals are not restricted to always being RGB separations. Instead, as we saw in
·Chapter4 on color models for images and video, we can form three signals via a
luminance chrominance transformation of the RGB signals - for example, YIQ or
YUV. In contrast, most computer systems use component video, with separate signals
for R, G, and B signals.For any color separation scheme, component video gives the
best color reproduction,since there is no "crosstalk" between the three different
channels, unlike composite video or S-video. Component video, however, requires
more bandwidth and good synchronization of the three components.
DAY 15
Course: Multimedia Technology
Relevant MAKAUT syllabus portion:
Course Outcomes:
Topics Covered:
Interactive television, Video-on-demand, Video Conferencing
Prerequisites:
Video Representation
Objectives:
Students are able to understand application of video.
Notes:
Video on Demand (VoD) is an interactive multimedia system that works like cable
Television, the difference being that the customer can select a movie from a large
video database. Individual customers in an area are able to watch different
programmes when they wish to, making the system a realisation of the video rental
shop brought into the home.
As the underlying technologies are relatively new, Video on Demand still lacks a
universal standardisation. Nevertheless, many research institutes and commercial
organisations have established de-facto standards and consequently, there are many
operational VoD-related services available today. Some of the key areas of today's
VoD-related applications are,
DAY 16
Course: Multimedia Technology
Relevant MAKAUT syllabus portion:
Course Outcomes:
Topics Covered:
Multimedia archives and digital libraries, media editors
Prerequisites:
Notes:
In the fast emerging and^evergrowing mist of information explosion, it is very difficult
to retrieve particular information without wasting the time.The computers and
telecommunication technologies have paved the way to the development of Information
Technology which involves use of computers and information systems for storing,
managing and accessing useful information in an optimized and organized way. So, to
cope up with the information needs of the 21st century end users, the traditional libraries
should be changed to Digital/Electronic libraries by providing Digitized Information
Services. Digital Information services can be provided only by collecting and
maintaining the digital resources of information like Computer Networks, CD ROMs,
Internet, Multimedia, Email, Electronic Texts and Journals.
Multimedia information technology and applications have advanced rapidly in recent
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P a g e Till today the information storage and retrieval process was through
Study Material, IEM, CSEaDepartment
single
media. But now in the era of information it is possible to integrate all. the media in a
single medium called as multimedia.Multimedia has the potential of new coming one of
the most powerful forms of searching for information, communicating ideas and
experiencing new concepts of any of communication or networking.
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