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CS384M: Multimedia Systems

Instructor: Harrick M. Vin

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Course Description

General Information

Course Title: CS384M: Multimedia Systems
Instructor: Professor Harrick M. Vin
Course Details: Offered in Fall 1996, Unique number: 47815
Time and Place: MW 5:00 - 6:30, Taylor Hall 2.106


Prerequisites

Graduate standing and familiarity with basic concepts in computer networks and operating system design.


Synopsis

CS 384M is a course in advanced systems covering both theoretical and practical issues in designing multimedia systems. Topics to be covered include introduction to multimedia systems, digital video compression techniques, operating system support for digital audio and video, as well as network and transport protocols for multimedia. An emphasis will be placed on current design issues and research topics.


Textbook

A collection of recent research articles will be made available by the instructor.


Course Requirements

The instructor will introduce basic concepts on each of the topics. This will be followed by in-class discussions on related papers in a question-answer format. Students will be expected to understand, describe, and critique the research contributions of papers. Additionally, each student will be expected to carry out a semester-long implementation project.

Grades will be determined by a project, examinations, and class participation.


Office Hours for Harrick Vin

Tuesday 4:00 - 5:30, TAY 4.115B
By appointment: Phone: 471-9732, E-mail: vin@cs.utexas.edu


Teaching Assistant

Mr. Prashant J. Shenoy
Office Hours: W 3:30 - 5:00, TAY 2.148
By appointment: E-mail: shenoy@cs.utexas.edu


Reading List: Fall 1996

The course packet cntaining a copy of all the papers in the reading list will be available from Monday, September 9, 1996 from Speedway Copying , located in Dobie Mall, 2025 Guadalupe, Austin, TX 78705. Their phone number is (512) 478-3334. Please call them to make sure that the package is ready before you go over.

Video Compression

  1. R. Steinmetz, ``Data Compression Techniques in Multimedia computing - Principles and Techniques'', ACM Multimedia Systems, Vol. 1, Pages 166-172, 187-204, 1994
  2. G.K. Wallace, ``The JPEG Still Picture Compression Standard'', Communications of the ACM, Vol. 34, No. 4, Pages 31-44, April 1991.
  3. D. Le Gall, ``MPEG: A Video Compression Standard for Multimedia Applications'', Communications of the ACM, Vol. 34, No. 4, Pages 46-58, April 1991.
  4. T. Chiang and D. Anastassiou, ``Hierarchical Coding of Digital Television'', IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 32, pp. 38-45, May 1994



Multimedia Storage Servers


Network Architectures For Multimedia


Operating System Support For Multimedia

  1. G. Coulson, A. Campbell, P. Robin, G. Blair, M. Papathomas, and D. Shepherd, ``The Design of a QoS-Controlled ATM-Based Communications System in Chorus, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 13, No. 4, Pages 686-699, May 1995
  2. P. Druschel, M.B. Abbott, M. Pagels, and L. Peterson, ``Analysis of I/O Subsystem Design for Multimedia Workstation'', In Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Video and Audio, San Diego, Pages 289-301, November 1992.
  3. R. Govindan and D.P. Anderson, ``Scheduling and IPC Mechanisms for Continuous Media'', Proceedings of 13th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, Pacific Grove, CA, Pages 68-80, October 1991
  4. P. Goyal, X. Guo, and H.M. Vin, ``A Hierarchical CPU Scheduler for Multimedia Operating Systems'', In Proceedings of the Second Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementations (OSDI'96), Seattle, Washington, October 1996



Application: Multimedia Conferencing

  1. H.M. Vin, P. T. Zellweger, D. C. Swinehart, and P. Venkat Rangan, ``Multimedia Conferencing in the Etherphone Environment'', IEEE Computer, Vol. 24, No. 10, Pages 69-79, October 1991
  2. S. McCanne and V. Jacobson, ``vic: A Flexible Framework for Packet Video'', In Proceedings of the ACM Multimedia'95, San Francisco, CA., Pages 511-522, November 1995

Harrick Vin
Sun Sep 8 13:47:47 CDT 1996