introduction to multimedia technology - computers, communication and entertainment
framework for multimedia system, M/M devices, presentation devices and the user
interface, M/M presentation and authoring. [15%]
Digital representation of sound and transmission, brief survey of speech recognition and
generation, digital video and image compression, JPEG image compression standard,
MPEG motion video compression, DVI technology, timbered media representation and
delivery. [20%]
M/M software environments, limitations of workstation operating systems, M/M system
services, OS support for continuous media applications, media stream protocol, M/M file
system and information representation system, and data models for M/M and hypermedia
information. [20%]
Application of M/M, intelligent M/M system [15%]
Desktop VR, virtual reality OS, distributed virtual environment system, virtual
environmental displays and orientation tracking, visually coupled systems requirements,
intelligent VR software systems.[20%]
Applications of environments in various fields such as medical entertainment,
manufacturing, business, education etc.[10%]