Introduction, multimedia information representation, multimedia networks, multimedia applications, Application and networking terminology, network QoS and application QoS, Digitization principles,.Text, images, audio and video.
Text and image compression,, compression principles, text compression- Runlength, Huffman, LZW, Document Image compression using T2 and T3 coding, image compressionGIF, TIFF and JPEG
Audio and video compression, audio compression – principles, DPCM, ADPCM, Adaptive and Linear predictive coding, Code-Excited LPC, Perceptual coding, MPEG and Dolby coders video compression, video compression principles.
Video compression standards: H.261, H.263, MPEG, MPEG 1, MPEG 2, MPEG-4 and Reversible VLCs, MPEG 7 standardization process of multimedia content description, MPEG 21 multimedia framework.
Notion of synchronization, presentation requirements, reference model for synchronization, Introduction to SMIL, Multimedia operating systems, Resource management, process management techniques.