Description:
The purpose of this course is to present a comprehensive description of
video systems and video compression at the graduate level.
This course will emphasize the analysis and design of analog and digital
video signals and systems. The course will start with characteristics of
basic analog video systems including bandwidth constraints,
color encoding, and composite signal formation.
Digital video concepts will then be presented.
A comprehensive description of digital video compression techniques will
then be presented. Compression methods will begin with intraframe coding
approaches with particular emphasis on JPEG. The MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 video
compression standards will be presented along with issues relative to
motion estimation and prediction and video transmission.
Low bit rate approaches such as H.261 and H.263+ will also be discussed.
The new standards JPEG2000, MPEG-4, and MPEG-7 will also be presented in detail.
Applications will include video streaming. video servers,
transmission systems, high definition television, multimedia systems,
and videoconferencing systems.
Grading: There will be one mid-term exam and course
projects. There will not be a final exam.
The grade will be determined by:
Mid-Term Exam: 40%
Course Projects: 60%
Homework:
Homework will be assigned, but will not be collected or
graded.
Course Projects:
The course projects will consist of several short homework-like
projects involving the processing of digital video.
One large course project will be assigned in the last six weeks of the
term. More detail about the projects will be announced later.
VISE Lab:
This course will use the
Video and Image Systems Engineering
Laboratory (VISE) for course demos and projects.
Tentative Course Outline
Course Projects
Project 1
Project 2
Project 3
Final Project
Text:
A. M. Tekalp, Digital Video Processing
Prentice-Hall, 1995.
We will also use many papers from the literature.
References:
Several journal papers and other handouts will distributed in class.
Other reference material is available by following this
link.
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Professor Edward J. Delp