ANSWERS TO THE RESPECTIVE QUESTIONS ARE DUE ON 5/4/2012 INSTRUCTIONS: ATTEMPT QUESTIONS ASSIGNED TO YOU ONLY. 1.

Discuss how a basic MIDI message is structured. (056591) 2. In what ways can MIDI be used effectively in multimedia applications, as opposed to strictly musical applications? (047008) 3. How can MIDI be used with modern data compression techniques? Briefly describe how such compression techniques may be implemented.(056742) 4. What are the key distinctions between multimedia data and more conventional types of media? (052414) 5. What key issues or problems, does a multimedia system have to deal with when handling multimedia data?(056922) 6. What is the distinction between lossless and lossy compression? What broad types of multimedia data are each most suited to? (056117) 7. Give one example of compression algorithm for each class.(056186) 8. What features of MIDI make it suitable for controlling software or hardware devices? (049297) 9. How does MPEG audio compression achieve critical band approximation? (046912) 10. Discuss 3 coding methods in MPEG audio coding that exploit different perceptual characteristics of the human ear when hearing? (054966) 11. What are the main differences between the target media for JPEG and GIF compression? (008328) 12. List six broad classes of digital audio effect. Give an example effect of each type of the effects. (056636) 13. What is the YIQ colour model and why is this an appropriate colour model used in conjunction with compression such as JPEG and MPEG. (047151) 14. Discuss the differences between analog and digital signals. (046485) 15. What is the basic idea of dithering? For the given 2x2 dither matrix, briefly describe the ordered dithering algorithm, . (055713)

16. Give three colour models other than RGB/CMYK and give a practical application in which that model is used. (055836) 17. Discuss the capabilities in authoring tool should posses. (053320) 18. In the context of 2D image creation and manipulation tools (e.g adobe photoshop), what are layers and why are they used? (056555) 19. Explain the process one would need to go through to get video from an analog source to a digital video file suitable for distribution on the web. (056610) 20. Explain the concept of video and video display. Discuss the details of frame rate vs scan rate.(046570) 21. Discuss three pattern substitution based compression algorithm. (056194) 22. Discuss the basic concept used in defining an information theoretical approach to data compression and give a practical implication of the concept. (052850) 23. Briefly outline the MPEG-4 structured audio standard. (046657) 24. Briefly describe the cause of frequency masking in the human auditory systems and suggest how it can be overcome.(052150)