Name of Subject  : MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS (7 CS 5)

Unit

Contents

Introduction to Multimedia, Multimedia Information, Multimedia Objects, Multimedia in business and work.

Convergence of Computer, Communication and Entertainment products and Stages of Multimedia Projects,

Multimedia hardware, Memory & storage devices, Communication devices, Multimedia software's, presentation

I

tools, tools for object generations, video, sound, image capturing, authoring tools, card and page based authoring

tools.

II  Multimedia Building Blocks Text, Sound MIDI, Digital Audio, audio file formats, MIDI under windows environment

Audio & Video Capture.

Data Compression Huffman Coding, Shannon Fano Algorithm, Huffman Algorithms, Adaptive Coding, Arithmetic

Coding Higher Order Modeling. Finite Context Modeling, Dictionary based Compression, Sliding Window

III

Compression, LZ77, LZW compression, Compression, Compression ratio loss less & lossy compression.

Speech Compression & Synthesis Digital Audio concepts, Sampling Variables, Loss less compression of sound,

IV

loss compression & silence compression.

Images: Multiple monitors, bitmaps, Vector drawing, lossy graphic compression, image file formatic animations

Images standards, JPEG Compression, Zig Zag Coding, Multimedia Database. Content based retrieval for text and

images, Video: Video representation, Colors, Video Compression, MPEG standards, MHEG Standard Video

V