E6880: Topics in Signal Processing (Media Representation)

Syllabus

Class Date	Session	Topics/Chapters Covered	HW/Project Assigned	HW/Project Due
Jan. 21	1	Introduction: media representation, theory and practice, introduction to Flavor.
Jan. 28	2	Information Theory fundamentals: entropy, relative entropy and mutual information.	Assignment 1
Feb. 4	3	The asymptotic equipartition property, entropy rates.
Feb. 11	4	Huffman coding.
Feb. 18	5	Lempel-Ziv coding, still color images and the GIF format.	Assignment 2	Assignment 1
Feb. 25	6	Coding with distortion, rate distortion functions, transform coding.
Mar. 4	7	Still color image coding using JPEG.	Assignment 3	Assignment 2
Mar. 11	8	Predictive coding, motion compensation.	Prog. Project
Mar. 18	-	NO CLASS
Mar. 25	9	MPEG-1 and MPEG-2.	Assignment 4	Assignment 3
Apr. 1	10	Scalability and MPEG-2
Apr. 8	11	Wavelets, FlashPix.
Apr. 15	12	Object-based representations and MPEG-4.		Assignment 4
Apr. 22	13	Multiplexing, Systems Layers (MPEG, JavaMedia)
Apr. 29	14	Presentation of projects		Prog. Project
May 13	-	Final

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