Multimedia and Internet

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Tutor:

Supervisor:

Department of Computer Systems

Synopsis:

The course will cover principles and technologies for processing and network transmission of multimedia data. Lectures will include application areas of networked multimedia, transmission formats, codecs, technologies for acquisition and reproduction of multimedia data and technologies for distributed collaboration using networking and immersive visualization.

Requirements:

BIE-MGA (Multimedia and Graphics Applications) recommended

Syllabus of lectures:

1. Multimedia and their applications

2. Network support for multimedia transmission

3. Data formats and standardization

4. VoIP and videoconferencing

5. Streaming

6. Protection, compression and encryption

7. Acquisition, transmission and reproduction of video

8. Acquisition, transmission and reproduction of audio

9. Stereoscopy, immersive and collaborative environments

10. Visualization and visual analytics

11. Hardware and software pro multimedia processing

12. Measuring of multimedia services

Syllabus of tutorials:

1. Getting familiar with laboratory facilities, signing up to projects

2. Work on projects, consultations

3. Work on projects, consultations

4. Work on projects, consultations

5. Project presentations

6. Project presentations

Study Objective:

Students will learn and practice principles and technologies for processing and network transmission of multimedia data. Lectures will cover transmission formats, codecs, technologies for acquisition and reproduction of multimedia data and technologies for distributed collaboration using networking and multimedia.

Study materials:

RFC 3550 - „RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time Applications“,

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3550.

RFC 4175 - „RTP Payload Format for Uncompressed Video“,

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4175.

Al Kovalick, "Video Systems in an IT Environment, Second Edition:

The Basics of Professional Networked Media and File-based Workflows",

Focal Press, 2009, ISBN 0240810422.

Kevin R. Fall, W. Richard Stevens, "TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1:

The Protocols (2nd Edition)", Addison-Wesley Professional, 2011,

ISBN 0321336313.

Gary R. Wright, W. Richard Stevens, "TCP/IP Illustrated, Vol. 2:

The Implementation", Addison-Wesley Professional, 1995, ISBN 020163354X.

W. Richard Stevens,, "TCP/IP Illustrated, Vol. 3: TCP for Transactions,

HTTP, NNTP, and the UNIX Domain Protocols", Addison-Wesley Professional,

1996, ISBN 0201634953.

Colin Perkins, „RTP: Audio and Video for the Internet“, Addison-Wesley

Professional, 2003, ISBN 0672322498.

Iain E. Richardson, „The H.264 Advanced Video Compression Standard“,

Wiley, 2010, ISBN 0470516925.

Note:

Further information:

https://edux.fit.cvut.cz/courses/MI-MGA/

No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans: