Course Outline

• Fundamentals
• Introduction of international standards
• Image coding: DCT/subband/VQ
• Image coding: JPEG
• Video coding: ITU-T H.261, H.263, H.263 Version 2
• Video coding: ISO MPEG-1, MPEG-2
• MPEG audio coding
• ITU-T speech coding: G.72x
• MPEG-4 Video
• Systems: ITU-T H.320, H.323, H.324, etc.
• Systems: MPEG-1, MPEG-2
• MPEG-4 Systems
• Multipoint data conferencing: T.120
• Networking issues: error resilience, network characteristics, Quality of Service (QoS)
• Error resilience in video codecs: H.26x and MPEG
• Multimedia over IP: Multicast, RTP/RTCP, packetization, streaming
• Multimedia over ATM
• Multimedia over wireless/mobile networks

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