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CSCI 3162: Digital Media

Lectures: TR, 10:05-11:25, McCain 1116
Instructor: Dirk Arnold
Office hours: by appointment or whenever my door is open
Forum: click here
Important dates: midterm test: Feb. 21, in class (review)
final exam: Apr. 17, 12:00-14:00 (review)
From the calendar: This class covers technical aspects of digital media, including images, video, and sound. Topics covered include digital representation, processing, compression, and multimedia generation.
Textbook: cover Z.-N. Li and M. S. Drew,
Fundamentals of Multimedia,
Prentice Hall, 2003.
Recommended reading: cover N. Chapman and J. Chapman,
Digital Multimedia, 3rd edition,
Wiley, 2009.
cover J. Burg,
The Science of Digital Media,
Prentice Hall, 2009.
cover J. G. Proakis and D. K. Manolakis,
Digital Signal Processing, 4th edition,
Prentice Hall, 2007.
Grading: Assignments (40%), midterm test (20%), final exam (40%)
Assignments: Assignment 1; due February 7, in class (xyz.mat, baboon.ppm, memorial.mat)
Assignment 2; due February 19, in class (piano.wav)
Assignment 3; due March 19, in class
Assignment 4; due April 4, 10:00am , no extensions
Slides: 1. Introduction
2. Matlab Basics
3. Digital Image Basics
4. Colour
5. Tone Mapping
6. Digital Audio Basics
7. Digital Video Basics
8. Lossless Compression
9. Signal Basics
10. Sampling and Quantisation
11. Discrete-Time Systems
12. Frequency Analysis of Continuous-Time Signals
13. Frequency Analysis of Discrete-Time Signals
14. Frequency-Domain Analysis of LTI Systems
15. Sampling and Reconstruction
16. The Discrete Fourier Transform
17. Deconvolution
18. Audio Compression
19. Image Compression
20. Video Compression