Course Outline & Lecture Notes

 

(The lecture notes are zipped and encrypted using Winzip, please contact Prof. Lin for the password for decrypting the files)

 

0.            Multimedia Services and Applications  [2-page][6-page] (9/18/02)

1.            Video basics and Video coding fundamentals [2-page][6-page] (9/18/02)

2.            Lossless Compression [2-page][6-page] (9/27/02)

3.            Lossy Compression: Quantization [2-page][6-page] (10/03/02)

4.            Discrete Cosine Transform [2-page][6-page] (10/06/02)

5.            JPEG [2-page][6-page] (10/11/02)

Recommended reading: G. K. Wallace, “The JPEG still picture compression standard,” Commun. of the ACM, vol. 34, pp. 31-44, Feb. 1992.

6.            Motion Compensated Prediction [2-page][6-page] (10/17/02)

7.            H.261 [2-page][6-page] (10/22/02)

Recommended reading: M. L. Liou, “Video telephony as an ISDN application,” IEEE Commun. Magazine, vol. 28, pp. 30-38, Feb. 1990.

Software: H. 261 reference software and document (RM8)

8.            MPEG-1 [2-page][6-page] (10/28/02)

9.            MPEG-2 [2-page][6-page] (10/29/02)

Software: MPEG-2 reference software (TM5)

10.       H.263, H.263+, H.26L [2-page][6-page] (11/15/02)

Recommended readings :

N. Faerber, B. Girod, and E. Steinbach, “Performance of the H.263 video compression standard,” J. VLSI Signal Processing, no. 17, pp. 101-111, 1997.

G. Côté, B. Erol, G. Gallant, and F. Kossentini, “H.263+: Video coding at low bit rates,” IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Technol., vol. 8, no. 7, pp. 849-866, Nov. 1998.

Software: H. 263+ reference software and document (TMN8)

11.       Other Compression Techniques: VQ, Wavelet, and Fractal [2-page][6-page] (11/28/02)

12.       MPEG-4 [2-page][6-page] (12/26/02)

Document: ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 N2502, FDIS of ISO/IEC 14496-2, “Generic coding of audio-visual objects: Part 2- Visual,” (MPEG-4), Nov. 1998

Software: Microsoft (July 3rd 2000 Version 2 FPDAM1-1.0-000703 Version 2.2.0), MoMuSys (FPDAM1 (Version 2) 1.0)

13.       Scalable Coding [2-page][6-page] (1/14/03)

14.       MPEG-7 [2-page][6-page] (1/14/03)

15.       JPEG-2000

Recommended reading: D. Taubman, “High performance scalable image compression with EBCOT,” IEEE Trans. Image Processing, vol. 9, no. 7, pp. 1158-1170.

Document: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 1 N1646R, FCD, “JPEG2000 Image Coding System,” Mar. 2000.

Software: JPEG-2000 source code (Kakadu_V2.2.3 from D. Taubman)

16.       MPEG-4 AVC/H.264

 

Download Winzip v8.0 freeware (1.2Mb)

Download Acrobat Reader 4.05 to read PDF files (7Mb)

 

Resources (documents, software, and papers)

 

Tools:

H.263 codec & player [OptiPixPlux.exe] [Manual]