Università Roma Tre

Introduction to Multimedia: Historical overview, multimedia representations, software tools, authoring tools.
Basics of Image Formation: Camera and lenses, digitization, image formation, basic camera models and
geometry. Standard image formats. Colors in images and videos.
Multimedia compression basics: Lossless Compression: Variable length coding, Dictionary based coding.
Basics for Lossy Compression: Fourier Transform, Discrete Cosine Transform. Application to image
compression (JPEG compression)
Video Processing: Fundamental concepts of video, image and video compression, MPEG video coding,
MPEG4, 7, and beyond.
Audio Processing: Basics of digital audio, quantization and transmission of Audio. Audio compression, Audio
MPEG.
Multimedia vs. communication
Quality of Service
Human factors in Multimedia communication
• Multimedia applications: content-based retrieval in digital libraries: case studies

P. Havaldar and G. Medioni “Multimedia Systems – Algorithms, Standards and Industry Practices”, Cengage Learning – 978-1-4188-3594-1
Ohm, Multimedia Communication Technology, Springer, ISBN: 978-3-642-62277-9 (Print) 978-3-642-18750-6 (Online)