Course Title Multimedia Systems

Course Code SEng5091

CP 5 (2hrs Lecture, 3hrs Laboratory)
Module Title Multimedia and Graphics
Module Number 09
Pre-requisites None
Year V
Semester I
Status of Course Compulsory
Instructor Mekuria Gemechu Tufa
mekuria.gemechu@wku.edu.et
ICT Building, first floor
Course Description

The course explores multimedia technologies; multimedia storage models and structures; data
models and interfaces; multimedia information systems; video/audio networking; media
synchronization; image computing and information assimilation; conferencing paradigms and
structured interaction support.

Learning Outcomes

Up on the completion of the course the students will be able to:

 Describe digital multimedia data characteristics, format and models

 Demonstrate multimedia data compression techniques
 Describe the nature and type of multimedia storage
 Demonstrate the design and architecture of multimedia database
 Demonstrate indexing and organizing techniques of multimedia
Course Contents

Duration (Week) Topic

Week 1 & 2 Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1. Overview of multimedia and multimedia systems
1.2. Why multimedia
1.3. Types of media
1.4. Application areas
Week 3 & 4 Chapter 2: Multimedia Basics and Representation
2.1. Digital multimedia characteristics
2.2. audio formats and MIDI
2.3. Image formats and color models
2.4. video formats and color models
Week 5, 6, 7 & 8 Chapter 3: Multimedia Data Compression
3.1. Compression with Loss and Lossless
 3.2. Huffman Coding
3.3. Entropy Coding
3.4. Adaptive Coding
3.5. Dictionary-based coding (LZW)
Week 9 & 10 Chapter 4: Storage of Multimedia
4.1. Basics of optical storage technologies
4.2. Compact disc (CD)
4.3. Digital versatile disc (DVD)
Week 11, 12& 13 Chapter 5: Multimedia Database System
5.1. Design and Architecture of a multimedia database
5.2. Indexing and organizing multimedia data
Week 14 & 15 Chapter 6: Multimedia Data Retrieval
6.1. Multimedia content representation
6.2. Similarity measures during searching
6.3. Retrieval performance measure
6.4. Query languages
6.5. Query expansion mechanism
Summary of Teaching Learning Methods

The course will be delivered in the form of lectures, demonstration, student presentations, group

Discussions, and individual and group project works.

Assessment Methods: - As per BIT academic regulation

References

1. Ralf Steinmetz and KlaraNahrstedt, Multimedia Fundamentals: Media Coding and

Content Processing; Prentice Hall,

2. ZeNian Li and M. S. Drew, Fundamentals of Multimedia, Prentice Hall, 2004.

3. G. Lu, Multimedia Database Management Systems, Artech House, 1999.

4. K.R. Rao, Zoran S. Bojkovic, Dragorad A. Milovanovic; Multimedia Communication

Systems; Prentice Hall, 2002.

5. Issac V. Kerlow, The Art of 3D Computer Animation and EffCP (3rded). Wiley, 2004