151036380 NETWORK MULTIMEDIA TECHNOLOGY ( 3 Crd.Hrs )

This is an introductory graduate level course on multimedia systems and technologies. It is multi-disciplinary in nature and covers broad areas of Multimedia Information and Entertainment Systems, Digital Signal Processing Technologies for Multimedia, Multimedia File Processing Systems and Multimedia Communication Systems. The topics covered in the Multimedia Information and Entertainment Systems include video conferencing, web-casting/web-seminars, virtual reality systems, MP3 music files, video-on-demand, bandwidth-on-demand and the convergence of computers, communications, and entertainment products. In the Digital Signal Processing Technologies for Multimedia part of the course, the students are introduced to the key concepts of Audio, Image and Video