Course Overview

Many society areas use computational applications in order to manipulate different media types, in a integrated fashion or not. The information volume generated by those applications and the need for inter-media synchronization make necessary to use coding techniques as well as standards to guarantee efficiency and interoperability. The knowledge about those techniques and standards are essential for graduated students develop research in the Multimedia area.

Learning Achievement

The goal of this course is to present multimedia fundamentals, approaching important issues regarding different media types and coding methods. It is also in the scope to analyze features and limitations of available tools, applications and systems. After the course we expect the student to be capable to discuss recent related research topics.

Competence

Course prerequisites

Grading Philosophy

The final grade will be obtained calculating a weighted average among exams, projects and seminars.

Course schedule

Mutimedia definition. Introduction to digitization. Compression of different media types. Basic compression techniques. Spatial and temporal coding.Standards. Multimedia segmentation and adaptation. Multimedia authoring.

Course type

Online Course Requirement

Instructor

Maria da Gra_a Campos Pimentel, Rudinei Goularte, Marcelo Garcia Manzato

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