Multimedia System
MIE 215
Semester: Three Full Marks: 100
Credit Hour: 4 Internal: 40
Final Exam: 60
General Objectives:
This course covers three main objectives on multimedia system these are devices,
systems and applications.
Specific Objectives:
To make students learn about concept of multimedia devices
To make students aware about multimedia applications,
To make students learn with various compression techniques,
To make students aware with various video and animation technique
COURSE CONTENTS
Unit 1: Introduction 5 Hrs
Global structure of Multimedia, Medium, Multimedia system and properties
Unit 2: Sound / Audio System 6 Hrs
Concepts of sound system, Music and speech, Speech Generation, Speech
Analysis, Speech Transmission.
Unit 3: Images and Graphics 6 Hrs
Digital Image Representation, Image and graphics Format, Image Synthesis ,
analysis and Transmission.
Unit 4: Video and Animation 8 Hrs
Video signal representation, Computer Video Format, Computer- Based
animation, Animation Language, Methods of controlling Animation, Display of
Animation, Transmission of Animation.
Unit 5: Data Compression 10 Hrs
Storage Space, Coding Requirements, Source, Entropy and Hybrid Coding, Lossy
Sequential DCT- based Mode, Expanded Lossy DCT-based Mode, Hierarchical
mode, Video and Audio Encoding, Audio and still Image Encoding.
Unit 7: User Interfaces 6 Hrs
Basic Design Issues, Video and Audio at the User Interface, User- friendliness as
the Primary Goal.
Unit 8: Abstractions for programming 6Hrs
Abstractions Levels, Libraries, System Software, Toolkits, Higher Programming
Languages, Object –oriented approaches.
Unit 9: Multimedia Networks communications and applications 8 Hrs
Quality of multimedia data transmission, Multimedia over IP, Multimedia over
ATM networks
Unit 9: Multimedia Application 5 Hrs
References:
1. Multimedia: Computing, Communications and Applications, Ralf Steinmetz and
Klara Nahrstedt, Pearson Education Asia
2. Multimedia Communications, Applications, Networks, Protocols and Standards,
Fred Halsall, Pearson Education Asia
3. Multimedia Systems, John F. Koegel Buford, Pearson Education Asia
