Multimedia Systems

Unit 1

Introduction: Concept of Multimedia, Media & data stream, main properties of multimedia system, Data stream characteristics &for continuous media Multimedia Applications, Hardware Software requirements, Storage Technologies: RAID, Optical Media.

Unit 2

Components of multimedia and file formats: Text, Basic sound concepts , MIDI , Speech ,Basic concept of Images, Graphics format ,Basic concepts of Video & animation, Conventional system, Computer based animation, Authoring Tools, Categories of Authoring Tools.

Unit 3

Compression Techniques: Lossless and Lossy compression, Run length coding, Statistical Coding, Transform Coding, JPEG, MPEG, Text compression using static Huffmann technique, Dynamic Huffmann Technique, Arithmetic Technique.

Animation: Introduction, Basic Terminology techniques, tweaning & morphing, Motion Graphics 2D & 3D animation

Unit 4

Multimedia Communication: Stream characteristics for Continuous media - Temporal Relationship - Object Stream Interactions, Media Levity, Media Synchronization - Models for Temporal Specifications - Streaming of Audio and Video - Jitter - Fixed playout and Adaptive playout - Recovering from packet loss - RTSP -- Multimedia Communication Standards - RTP/RTCP - SIP and H.263

Unit 5

Wireless Multimedia Communication: End to End QoS provisioning in Wireless Multimedia Networks - Adaptive Framework - MAC layer QoS enhancements in Wireless Networks - A Hybrid MAC protocol for 10 Multimedia Traffic - Call Admission Control in Wireless Multimedia Networks - A Global QoS Management for Wireless Networks

REFERENCES:

1. David Hillman, “Multimedia Technology & Applications”, Galgotia Publications, 2000

2. Nigel Chapman & Jenny Chapman, “Digital Multimedia”, Wiley Publications, 2000 2. D.P.