CS414: Multimedia Systems

Course Syllabus

Supplemental Readings

 

Week 1	W   January 17	Introduction [ppt]
	F   January 19	Perception of Images and Audio [ppt] The Eye, Ear, Color, Perspective - how this translates to a discrete components.
Week 2	M  January 22	Images [ppt] Representation
	W  January 24	Images and Audio [ppt] Sampling Theorem, Aliasing, Reconstruction
	F   January 26	Images and Audio [ppt]
Week 3	M  January 29	Images Filters: Edge detection, non-photorealistic rendering [ppt] (Read up to p. 45 in the Shannon and Weaver book.)
	W  January 31	Images [ppt] Compression, JPEG, GIF (Matlab problem set should be submitted by midnight before this class.)
	F   February 2	MPEG [ppt]
Week 4	M  February 5	Images and Audio - Applications [ppt]
	W  February 7	Images and Audio - Applications [ppt]
	F   February 9	Guest Lecturer: Braden Kowitz, Google Braden spent three years working at Beckman on data visualization, eye-tracking, and clustered virtual reality. At Google since 2005, he has led the interaction design on Google Trends, Google Spreadsheets, and Google’s application hosting service.
Week 5	M  February 12	Entropy, Noise Information Theory [ppt]
	W  February 14	no class
	F   February 16	Entropy, Noise Information Theory [ppt] Huffman encoding
Week 6	M  February 19	Entropy, Noise Information Theory, Error Correction [ppt] Arithmetic encoding
	W  February 21	Class Discussion Review homework, discuss potential projects.
	F   February 23	Z-Transforms, Poles-Zeros (Homework #4 should be submitted by midnight before this class.)
Week 7	M  February 26	Fourier Series, Convolution [ppt]
	W  February 28	Class Discussion (cont), Color, Web Design, Networking Into [ppt]
	F   March 2	The Network  -  a media history [ppt]
Week 8	M  March 5	MM Transport and Quality of Service [pdf] [ppt] (Homework #5 should be submitted by midnight before this class.)
	W  March 7	MM Process Management  [ppt] (Homework #6 should be submitted by midnight before this class.)
	F   March 9	MM File Management [ppt] (Have chapters 1, 2, and 3 read in the "Multimedia Systems" book for  this class.)
Week 9	M  March 12	Synchronization [ppt] (Have chapters 4, 5, and 6 read in the "Multimedia Systems" book for  this class.)
	W  March 14	Digital Rights Management, Midterm Review [ppt]
	F   March 16	MIDTERM
Week 10	M  March 19	Spring Break
	W  March 21	Spring Break
	F   March 23	Spring Break
Week 11	M  March 26	Interactive Media: active and passive
	W  March 28	Task Centered User Interfaces [ppt] (Half page project proposals due by midnight before this class.)
	F   March 30	Low Fidelity Prototyping [pdf]
Week 12	M  April 2	Inhabiting Physical Space [ppt]
	W  April 4	Communication Interfaces [ppt] (Have Chapters 1, 4, and 5 from the "Multimedia Applications" book read before this class.)
	F   April 6	Quantitative Analysis [ppt]
Week 13	M  April 9	Group Project Discussion - Design, the User [ppt] (Half page project proposals version 2.0 due by midnight before this class.)
	W  April 11	Vinton Cerf Talk
	F   April 13	Group Project Discussion - goms and action analysis [ppt]
Week 14	M  April 16	Group Project Discussion - Walkthroughs, Wizard of Oz  [ppt]
	W  April 18	Group Project Discussion - in class work
	F   April 20	Group Project Discussion  - in class work
Week 15	M  April 23	Group Project Discussion - in class work
	W  April 25	Group Project Discussion - in class work
	F   April 27	Group Project Discussion - in class work
Week 16	M  April 30	Group Project Discussion - in class work
	W  May 2	Final Project Presentations  (Papers due on Finals Day)