Office hours: Tuesday 1:30pm -- 3:30pm; ED609

Teaching Assistant: 劉峻利 Chun-Li Liu, ED422, ringo.cl.liu@gmail.com

Course Description:
This course introduces the basic theory and various techniques used in multimedia compression. It covers both lossless and lossy coding but with a higher percentage on the latter. We emphasize on the funda-mental principles of the compression techniques used for different types of data such as speech, audio, image and video. Also covered briefly are popular compression standards such as JPEG and MPEG.

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Text book:
Class notes.
K. Sayood, Intro. to Data Compression, 3rd Ed., Morgan Kaufman, 2006.

Recommended Readings::
(1) J.-R. Ohm, Multimedia Communication Technology, Springer, 2004.
(2) Y. Q. Shi, H. Sun, Image and Video Compression for Multimedia Engineering, 2nd ed, CRC Press, 2008.
(3) D. Salomon, Data Compression: The Complete Reference, Springer, 2007.

Grading:
Homework: 35 % (~3 HW Sets (10%) + 2 Computer (25%))
Final Examine: 30% (2 hours, closed book, two pages of (one-sided) A4 notes)
Term Project: 35% (15 mins each person; two persons as a group select a topic from a given list)

Backgorund:
Signals and Systems, Commu. Systems, Digital Image Proc.

Contents:
* Syllabus

Homework Assignments:
(1) HW1 (Due: Oct.13)
HW1 Solutions
(2) computer HW2 (Due: Oct.24)
iid data; markov data
(3) HW3 (updated:10/27) (Due: Nov.3)
HW3 Solutions

Reference Readings:
(1) Pearlman Chapter