Overview of multimedia communications system, digital representation of multimedia signals, introduction to multimedia coding theory, entropy, rate distortion function, Huffman coding, arithmetic coding, run-length coding, Lempel-Ziv coding, quantization, Lloyd-Max algorithm, JPEG compression, hybrid video coding, MPEG 4 and H.264 coding standards, rate control, RTP, error control coding, unequal error protection, error concealment, multimedia security, watermarking. [Offered W] Prereq: ECE 318; Level at least 4A Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering
