Lehrstuhl für Informatik IV

Communication and Distributed Systems

Multimedia Systems

Prof. Otto Spaniol and Mesut Güneş

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 Lecture Structure

1 Properties of Multimedia
2 Audio
3 Images and Graphics
4 Video and Animation
5 Data Compression
6 Optical Storage Media
7 Multimedia Operating Systems
8 Multimedia File Systems
9 Multimedia Communication Systems
10 Multimedia Database Systems
11 Synchronisation
12 Hypermedia and Documents
13 Multimedia User Interfaces
14 Abstractions for Programming
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 Literature

Books
– Steinmetz, Nahrstedt, Multimedia: Computing, Communications and Applications,
Prentice Hall, 1995
– Steinmetz, Nahrstedt, Media Coding and Content Processing, Prentice Hall, 2002
– Steinmetz, Nahrstedt, Multimedia Technologie, Grundlagen, Komponenten und
Systeme, Springer Verlag, 2000
– Delgrossi, Design of Reservation Protocols for Multimedia Communication,
Kluwer, 1996
– Froitzheim, Multimedia Kommunikation, dpunkt, 1997

Magazines
– Multimedia Systems, ACM/Springer
– Multimedia Magazine, IEEE

Course Webpage
– http://www-i4.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/

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