Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Study Cycle: Graduate
SUBJECT
| MIC0013 | Multimedia Applications over the Web |
| Teaching Staff in Charge |
Lect. COBARZAN Claudiu, Ph.D., claudiu cs.ubbcluj.ro |
| Aims |
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Provide an introduction to multimedia and multimedia support on the web. Familiarize the students with the main audio-video formats and codecs. Provide basic information on multimedia streaming. Introduce W3C standards intended to provide multimedia support on the web. Present main APIs in high-level programming languages supporting multimedia applications development. Provide information on the use of multimedia metadata and on the management and protection of intellectual property rights. |
| Content |
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1. Introduction into multimedia
2. Audio-video formats, video codecs 2.1 MPEG-1, 2, 4 (DivX, XVid, FFMpeg, VideoLan) 2.2 H.264 3. Streaming and signaling protocols 3.1 RTP/RTCP - Real Time Protocol 3.2 RTSP - Real Time Streaming Protocol 3.3 SDP - Session Description Protocol 3.4 SIP - Session Initiation Protocol 4. Audio-Video Players 4.1 FFMpeg mplayer 4.2 VLC - VideoLan player 5. W3C standards for multimedia support 5.1 HTML support for multimedia 5.2 SMIL - Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language 5.3 VoiceXML 5.4 SSML - Speech Synthesis Markup Language 6. Multimedia presentations on the web 6.1 SMIL presentations 6.2 Adobe FLASH 6.3 Action Script 7. Multimedia Metadata - MPEG-7 8. Multimedia Proxy-Caches 9. Multimedia support in high-level programming languages 9.1 JMF - Java Media Framework 9.2 .NET framework support 10. IPMP (Intellectual Propriety Management and Protection, MPEG-21) |
| References |
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1. Ian S. Burnett (Editor), Fernando Pereira (Editor), Rik Van de Walle (Editor), Rob Koenen (Editor), The MPEG-21 Book, Wiley, 2006, ISBN: 978-0-470-01011-2
2. Mohammed Ghanbari, Standard Codecs: Image Compression to Advanced Video Coding, IEE, 2003, ISBN: 0-85296-710-1, 978-0-85296-710-2 3. Harald Kosch , Distributed Multimedia Database Technologies Supported by MPEG-7 and MPEG-21, CRC Press, ISBN: 978-0-8493-1854-2, 978-0-203-00933-8 4. B. S. Manjunath (Editor), Philippe Salembier (Editor), Thomas Sikora (Editor), Introduction to MPEG-7: Multimedia Content Description Interface, Wiley, 2002, ISBN: 978-0-471-48678-7Provide 5. Fernando C. Pereira, Touradj Ebrahimi, The MPEG-4 Book, Prentice Hall PTR, 2002, ISBN:0130616214 6. Colin Perkins, RTP - Audio and Video for the Internet, Addison-Wesley, 2003, ISBN 0-672-32249-8 7. Iain Richardson, Video Codec Design: Developing Image and Video Compression Systems, Wiley, 2002, ISBN: 978-0-471-48553-7 8. ***, World Wide Web Consortium (www.w3c.org) 9. ***, MPEG home page (www.chiariglione.org/mpeg/) |
| Assessment |
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The final mark will be computed as a weighted mean as follows: 60% evaluation of a personal web based software application, 40% evaluation of a short paper presenting technical aspects of the implemented software solution. |
| Links: | Syllabus for all subjects Romanian version for this subject Rtf format for this subject |