Introduction to Media Engineering (DMET 501)
Offered By:
Media Engineering and Technology Faculty
Description
Introduction to Media Engineering (DMET501) is designed to provide students an introduction to the principles and practice of Multimedia Systems. The term multimedia generally means using some combination of text, graphics, animation, video, music, voice, and sound effects to communicate. In order to achieve a complete and balanced view on multimedia engineering field, this course is organized into three broad parts: multimedia presentation and authoring, multimedia data compression and multimedia communication and retrieval. The first part discusses the most important data representations for multimedia applications, addressing digital image, computer graphics, video, animation and digital audio. It also highlights the most commonly used authoring metaphors and tools. The second part introduces different multimedia data compression algorithms, examining their roles in making modern multimedia systems possible. The third part presents the network technologies and protocols that make interactive multimedia. This part gives the students the basics of telecommunication, network requirements, quality of services and content-based retrieval.