General Information

INSTRUCTOR

Prof. K. N. (Kostas) Plataniotis

Office: GB 446
Tel: (416)946-5605
email: kostas@dsp.toronto.edu
URL: http://www.comm.toronto.edu/~kostas
Office Hours: Tuesday 3-4pm, Wednesday 4-5pm

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LECTURE HOURS

Wednesday, 3-4pm, SF1105
Friday 2-3pm, GB248

LABS

Section P0101
Friday 9-11 am, EA306

Section P0102
Tuesday 4-6 pm, EA306

There will be no laboratories during the first two weeks of classes.
 

Written lab reports will be handed in before 5pm on the Friday one week after the last day of lab (i.e. the last session for any assignment is on Friday 4-6pm, so the write up all labs is due on the the next Friday at 5pm). Hand in your reports in the box outside GB450 (FAR RIGHT SLOT ONLY).

Please ensure that you put your lab in the proper slot. The slots are labelled according to lab session code (i.e. P0101, P0102). Labs will be returned in the corresponding return bins making it easier for people to find their reports once they have been marked. Please try to keep the labs neat and in their proper bins so that people don't have a hard time finding them.
 

Lab Assignments

1. Color Image Processing - PostScript Format (112kB)Adobe PDF to follow.
2. DCT-Based JPEG Image Compression - PostScript Format(61kB) Adobe PDF (120 kB).
     Dates: Oct 9, Oct 12, Oct 16, Oct 19.
     Due: Oct 26.
2. DCT-Based JPEG Image Compression PART 2- PostScript Format(115kB),Adobe PDF(128kB).
     Dates: Oct 23, Oct 26, Oct 30, Nov 2.
     Due: Nov 9.
3. Subband Coding - Haar Wavelet Image Compression. PostScript Format(314kB)Adobe PDF(84kB).
     Dates: Nov 6, Nov 9, Nov 13, Nov 16.
     Due: Nov 23.
4. MPEG Video Coding. PostScript Format(190kB)Adobe PDF(205kB). Binaries for Lab 4(2.55MB)
     Dates: Nov 20, Nov 23, Nov 27, Nov 30.
     Due: Wednesday Dec 5.

T.A.'s

Peter Androutsos - oracle@dsp.toronto.edu (Coordinator) - Click here for a picture.

Karl Martin - kmartin@dsp.toronto.edu - Click here for a picture.

Additional TA information pending

TUTORIALS

Please note, there are no tutorial sessions scheduled for this course

MIDTERM

Wednesday November 7th, 3-4pm, SF1105 (written in-class)

REFERENCES

TEXTBOOK

V.Q. Shi, H. Sun
Image and Video Compression for Multimedia Engineering
Fundamentals, Algorithms and Standards
CRC Press, ISBN 0-8493-3491-8, 2000

ADDITIONAL REFERENCES

K.N. Plataniotis, A.N. Venetsanopoulos
Color Image Processing and Applications
Springer Verlag, ISBN 3-540-66953-1, August 2000

P. Symes
Video Compression Demystified
McGraw-Hill, 2001

A. Murat Tekalp
Digital Video Processing
Prentice-Hall, 1995

B.G. Haskell
Digital Video: An Introduction to MPEG-2
Chapman & Hall, 1997

J.L. Mitchell, W.B. Pennebaker, C.E. Fogg, D.J. LeGall
MPEG Video: Compression Standard
Chapman & Hall, NY

W.B. Pennebaker, J.L. Mitchell
JPEG: Still Image Compression Standard
Nostrand Reinhold, NY

John Miano
Compressed Image File Formats
Addison-Wesley, 1999

IEEE Signal Processing Magazine: Immersed in Multimedia (Special Issue)
IEEE, January 1999

IEEE Signal Processing Magazine: Transform Coding (Special Issue)
IEEE, September 2001

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course is a technically-oriented, upper-division engineering course. The main emphasis is on the theoretical basis for multimedia processing rather than multimedia application tools.

EVALUATION SCHEME

Grading will be based on written examinations (midterm and final) as well as several laboratory assignments.

 
Final Examination 45%
Midterm Test 35%
Laboratory Excercises 20%

OTHER NOTES

-- For all tests and examinations, the ONLY aids permitted will be a NON-PROGRAMMABLE calculator and a single 8.5'x11' aid sheet (two-sides, handwritten, no photocopying/photoreduction)

-- Everyone enrolled in the course is expected to attend all the lab sessions. The lab period will be devoted to discuss the labs, lab concepts, implementation issues and problems, etc. Students are expected to come prepared to the the lab and able to answer related questions.