ICS 2303 MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS (Contact hours: 45)

Prerequisites: ICS 2102

Purpose
Develop interactive multimedia applications which combine audio, video, text, animation, and
still images that can be delivered from CD-ROM to LAN, from Internet to the Intranet.

Learning outcomes
At the end of this course, the student should be able to;

1. Build applications using authoring tools.

2. Develop creative expressions using digital technology.

3. Evaluate theoretical aesthetics, perceptual possibilities and technical information with state-
of-the art equipment.

4. Create and support multimedia productions.

Course description
Basic sound and video formats, compression, image and geometry based model creation, stereo
displays, immersion, texture mapping, VRML and virtual environments. Components of
multimedia systems, Basic formats of multimedia components, (animation).

Course outline
Week Topic Sub-topics
1 Introductions  Concepts central to Multimedia
to Multimedia  Evolution of Multi-media discipline
2 Data, domains,  Data and applications
and  Categorization of data
applications  Data acquisition
 Ontology creation
 Produced video documents: Semantic index, Content, Recording
the scene, Layout
3 Data  Categorization of multimedia descriptions
representation  Basic notations
 Audio representation
 Image representation
4  Video representation
 Text representation
5 Similarity.  Perceptual similarity
 Layout similarity
 Semantic similarity
6 CAT 1

1
7 Multimedia authoring  Introduction
& Indexing Tools  Pattern recognition methods
8  Statistical methods
 Dimensionality reduction
 Invariance
9 CAT 2/ Assignments Hand-in
10 Data mining  Classification learning
 Association learning
 Clustering
11 Group work Presentations
12 Recap  Issues in the course unit
13 & Summative Evaluation
14

Teaching Methodology
Lectures, tutorials, practical

Instructional Materials /Equipment

Computer Laboratory, laboratory manuals, application software, overhead presentation
equipment

Course Assessment
Continuous assessment 30% and end semester examination 70%

Textbooks for the course

1. The 3G IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS): Merging the Internet and the Cellular Worlds"
by Gonzalo Camarillo, Miguel-Angel García-Martín (John Wiley & Sons, 2006, ISBN 0-
470-01818-6)
2. "The IMS: IP Multimedia Concepts and Services" by Miikka Poikselka, Aki Niemi,
Hisham Khartabil, Georg Mayer (John Wiley & Sons, 2006, ISBN 0-470-01906-9)
3. "IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) Handbook" by Mohammad Ilyas (Editor), Syed A.
Ahson (Editor) (CRC Press, 2008, ISBN 1420064592)
4. J. Stoer and R. Bulirsch. Introduction to Numerical Analysis. Springer-Verlag, second
edition, 1993.

Journals for the course

1. Journal of Object Oriented Programming.
2. Association for Computing Machinery.
3. Association for Computing Machines: Operating Systems Transactions.
4. An International Journal of Systems & Applications in Computer Graphics.

Textbooks for further reading

2
 1. Multimedia systems, John F. Koegel Buford, ISBN 0201532581, 9780201532586.
2. Handbook of Internet and multimedia systems and applications, Borivoje Furht, Publisher
CRC Press, 1999. ISBN 0849318580, 9780849318580

Journals for further reading

1. IEEE Computer Society
2. Operating Systems Journal.
3. Microsoft Systems Journal.
4. ACM Transactions on Graphics.