Opinto-opas 2005-2006

SGN-5016 MULTIMEDIA SIGNAL PROCESSING, 4 cr
MULTIMEDIA SIGNAL PROCESSING

Person responsible
Professor Irek Defée

Lecturers
Irek Defée, Professor, room TF316, irek.defee@tut.fi

Lecture room and time
Per IV: Tuesday 10 - 12, TB214
Per IV: Wednesday 10 - 12, TB214

Implementation rounds
Implementation 1
  Period 1 Period 2 Period 3 Period 4 Period 5 Summer Language of instruction
Lecture - - - 4 h/week - - In English only
Exercise - - - 2 h/week - - In English only
Assignment - - - 24 h/per - - In English only
Exam   In English only
(Academic Calender 2005-2006)

Objectives
Getting acquainted with problems related to human information processing system. Knowledge of selected signal processing methods for multimedia information extraction and information handling.

Contents
Content Core content Complementary knowledge Specialist knowledge
1. Human perceptual input-output system and its properties, multimodal integration. Theories of higher-level cognitive processing. Intelligent and conscious systems, problems and debate. Visual and acoustical pattern processing and recognition methods. Media interfaces, visual and acoustical input. MPEG-7 standard. Advanced image, video and audio compression. MPEG-4 full multimedia standard. Multimedia content security and watermarking methods.  Human sensory system and brain operation  Cognitive science 
2. Image processing methods for multimedia processing  Image processing methods  Advanced image processing 
3. Histogram and eigenfaces multimedia database retrieval  Image compression  Signal and video compression 
4. MPEG-7 standard  Advanced signal, video and audio processing  Markup languages, XML 
5. Selected problems in multimedia information handling  Advanced signal processing  Cryptography 

Requirements for completing the course
Final examination, exercises and assignment.

Assessment criteria
Course is graded on the basis of answers to exam questions. Very good grade is obtained when exam questions are correctly answered and exercises are done. Course acceptance threshold is half of the maximum exam points. Volunteer and personal bonus work is prized with increasing the exam result by one grade if the threshold is passed.

  • Used assessment scale is numeric (1-5)
  • Study material
    Type Name Author ISBN URL, edition, availablitity... Exam material Language
    Lecture slides "Multimedia Signal Processing" Irek Defée     Yes  English 

    Prerequisites
    Number Name Credits M/R
    SGN-1106 Introductory Signal Processing 3 Mandatory
    SGN-1200 Signal Processing Methods 4 Mandatory
    SGN-1250 Signal Processing Applications 4 Recommendable

    Additional information related to prequisites
    Either SGN-1106 or sgn-1200 is required.

    Correspondence of content
    8004053 Multimedia Signal Processing

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    Last modified 02.02.2005
    Modified byAntti Niemistö