Eastern Mediterranean University
CMPE-581 Modeling Multimedia Systems –
Spring 2023/2024 – Prof. Dr. I. AYBAY
Course Objectives:
Multimedia systems have become very popular after 1990's, and extensive software has been developed for multimedia. However, there is a lack of formalism in modeling multimedia systems. Furthermore, the affects of network parameters on distributed and/or real-time multimedia systems are not studied well.
The aim of this course is to analyze various recent issues related with multimedia systems, focusing on the modeling of real-time multimedia systems and networking.
Course Contents: (tentative)
- Introduction to multimedia
- Sending multimedia information on digital networks
- Digital representations of multimedia information ( Storage, audio, video, common data formats, signals, A-D conversion, sampling, quantization)
- Distributed multimedia systems
- Coding and audio-data-video compression methods
- Distributed multimedia applications over computer networks and the Internet ( TCP/IP, network architectures, multimedia requirements )
- Synchronization of multimedia presentations, temporal synchronization models for interactive multimedia system
- Video-on-Demand systems
- Wireless systems and multimedia
Term Projects:
Proposals to be submitted by: March 1, 2024
Intermediate Reports and short presentations due: week of midterms (March 25-29, 2024)
Final presentations are due: last week of classes
Final Reports are due: end of first week of final exams.
For detailed term project information, please refer to the labs page
Grading:
Term Project %50, Final Exam %50.
Text-book :
Instead of a text-book, recently published papers shall be used. Some reference books will stated in class.
