Course Outline & Lecture Notes

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Course Plan [2-page] (Feb. 23, 2005)

I. Video Streaming over the Internet & Wireless Networks

I.1 Overview of Video streaming: Technologies & Challenges [2-page] [6-page] (Feb. 23, 2005)

I.2 Review of Video Compression Techniques: JPEG, H.26x & MPEG [2-page] [6-page] (Mar. 7, 2005)

I.3 Introduction to current network infrastructure [2-page] [6-page] (Mar. 15, 2005)

I.4 Wireless video delivery [2-page] [6-page] (Apr. 14, 2005)

I.5 Resource allocation for real-time video transport

II. End-to-end QoS for Video Transport over Networks

II.1 End-to-end QoS for video delivery [2-page] [6-page] (Apr. 26, 2005)

II.2 Error control for compressed video: error resilience coding & error concealment [2-page] [6-page] (Apr. 26, 2005)

II.3 Multiple description coding (MDC) for multipath video transport [2-page] [6-page] (May 19, 2005)

II.4 Feedback of rate and loss information [2-page] [6-page] (May 12, 2005)

III. Video Adaptation for Heterogeneous Networks

III.1 Overview of video adaptation [2-page] [6-page] (May 19, 2005)

III.2 Video transcoding [2-page] [6-page] (May 31, 2005)

III.3 Scalable coding [2-page] [6-page] (June 7, 2005)

III.4 Bitstream switching

IV. Emerging Technologies for Networked Video Applications

IV.1 Distributed video coding

IV.2 Video content protection

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