Course Catalog 2008-2009 Basic Basic Pori International Postgraduate Open University |Degrees|     |Study blocks|     |Courses|

Course´s person responsible

Ireneusz Defee

Implementations

	Lecture times and places	Target group recommended to
Implementation 1	Per 4 : Tuesday 10 - 12, TB219 Wednesday 10 - 12, TB219

Requirements

Final examination, exercises and assignment.

Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning

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Objectives

Reviewing problems related to human information processing system and their relation to multimedia signal processing. Introducing selected signal processing methods for multimedia information extraction and handling.

Content

Content	Core content	Complementary knowledge	Specialist knowledge
1.	Human perceptual input-output system and its properties, multimodal integration. Theories of higher-level human cognitive processing. Selected pattern processing methods based on compression techniques. Multimedia database retrieval. Media interfaces, visual and acoustical input. MPEG-7 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 for 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

Evaluation criteria for the course

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.

Assessment scale:

Numerical evaluation scale (1-5) will be used on the course

Study material

Type	Name	Author	ISBN	URL	Edition, availability, ...	Examination material	Language
Lecture slides	"Multimedia Signal Processing"	Irek Defée					English

Prerequisites

Correspondence of content

More precise information per implementation

	Description	Methods of instruction	Implementation
Implementation 1		Lectures Excercises Practical works	Contact teaching: 0 % Distance learning: 0 % Self-directed learning: 0 %

Last modified	19.01.2009
Modifier	Kirsi Järnström