CSC 8321 - Multimedia Systems

4 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: CSC 4220/6220 Computer Networks.
Description
This course covers state of the art on multimedia systems. Course materials consist of a mix of background knowledge, current practice and advanced research. The course is roughly divided into two parts. The first part provides an introduction to networked multimedia systems, including the basics on multimedia compression, and multimedia networking, as well as relevant multimedia applications on video streaming, virtual reality, cloud gaming and video conferencing. The second part presents standalone multimedia systems, discussing the background knowledge on multimedia operating systems, multimedia analysis and multimedia interaction, as well as corresponding multimedia applications on augmented reality and autonomous vehicles/drones.