Techniques
A four day course to be held at the University of Surrey, Guildford.
2nd-5th September 1996.
This course will be introduced by Professor Josef Kittler, a leading
academic in the field of Vision, Speech and Signal Processing, who heads
one of the largest Research Groups in this area in the United Kingdom. The
course lecturers are members of the group which has developed strong links
with industry and enjoys an international reputation.
The University of Surrey has unique expertise in this field and is
currently running an MSc course in Multimedia Technology and Systems. We
are also involved in several international projects for development of
novel video coding standards (MPEG-4), multimedia for distance learning and
speaker verification.
Contact Person : Patricia Yehia, Phone: 01483 25 9837, Fax 01483 34139
Course Organizer: Miroslaw Bober, Phone: 01483 25 9836, Fax 01483 34139
Course Objectives
- Provide attendees with a global overview of
state-of-the-art in the area of
.
- Discuss the principles of techniques used in Multimedia Systems.
- Audio: formats and coding, text synthesis, speech recognition.
- Video: coding, formats, current standards: H.263, MPEG-1,
MPEG-2.
- Computer graphics.
- Give attendees a hand-on experience with multimedia
browsers, World-Wide-Web, Java, Virtual Reality Modeling Language.
- Give attendees an overview of hardware required for
multimedia applications.
- Provide attendees with an insight into Multimedia Databases.
Each candidate will have a chance to design his own WWW page, encode a
short video in H.263 standard and experiment with a simple database of
marine creatures.
Fun with Multimedia
Program: Day One
Introduction to
Technologies
- Current and emerging Multimedia Services and Tools
- Industrial context
- Course overview
World Wide Web Technologies
- The languages of Web: HTML, Virtual Reality, JAVA
- Web viewers: Mosaic, Netscape and VRML viewers
- Publishing on the Web - a practical guide to page design
on the Web
Digital Multimedia media: Image (I)
- Digital representations of Images, colour representation
- Image formats PGM, PPM, GIFF, TIFF
- Principles of Image Compression Techniques & Standards
Hands-on Experimental lab with World World Web
Program: Day Two
Digital Multimedia media: Video (I)
- Digital representation of Video
- Principles of Video Coding and Compression Techniques
- Basic still image coding techniques: DCT, Vector
Quantisation, Wavelets, Fractals
Digital Multimedia media: Audio
- Speech compression and coding, Speech Recognition
- Text to Speech
Digital Multimedia media: Video (II)
- Motion Estimation and Segmentation
- Hybrid Codecs, H.261, H.263, MPEG-1, MPEG-2
- Region-based and Object-based coding
Experimental Lab - Image and Video coding
Program: Day Three
Creating 3D Graphics
- Principles of 3D Graphics
- Interactive Graphics
- Simple animation
Hard ware for Multimedia
- Personal Computer and Workstation configurations
- JPEG Compression boards, MPEG boards, CD drives,
Cameras
- DSP boards as a platform for complex applications
Recording and Display Technologies for Multimedia Applications
- Recording Technologies
- Displays
Creating 3D Graphics - Practical experience
Program: Day Four
Multimedia databases
Hands - on - practice with database search
Novel Multimedia Techniques
- Speaker verification
- Learning systems
Questions and discussion
Cost
The price per person which includes coffee, lunch, tea and printed
course notes is
- £895 standard rate.
- £850 before 2nd August
As an educational institution we do not charge VAT.
Useful Information
Meet the staff!
Other links
Small Print
The University reserves the right to cancel any course on the grounds of
insufficient numbers or other reasons outside our control. In the event of
cancellation by the University, a full refund will be given.
In the event of cancellation by a delegate, a refund of 75% will be given
provided written notice is received two weeks prior to the event. If less than
this notice is received, a refund of 50% will be given.
A.Stoddart@ee.surrey.ac. uk
March 1996
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