Compression and Transmission of Multimedia Signals

Course title: Compression and Transmission of Multimedia Signals

Code: 3ФЕИТ10Л019

Number of credits (ECTS): 6

Weekly number of classes: 3+1+1+0

Prerequisite for enrollment of the subject: None

Course Goals (acquired competencies): The student will acquire theoretical and practical knowledge of techniques and standards of coding (compression) of speech, audio, image and video signals, digital television, techniques and protocols for streaming of multimedia signals, video conference and video surveillance.

Total available number of classes: 180

Course Syllabus: Lossless compression: Huffman coding, arithmetic coding and dictionary based techniques (Lempel-Ziv coding). Vocoder methods for speech coding: LPC, CELP etc. Transform coding, subband coding, wavelets. Image coding, techniques and standards. Coding of audio signals. MPEG audio coding: MP3, AAC, HE-AAC, xHE-AAC. Video coding: MPEG1, MPEG2, H261, H263, H.264/AVC, H.265/HEVC. Digital television: terrestrial, cable, satellite. IPTV. Content Providers and Content Delivery Networks. Caching. OTT (Over The Top) providers and services. Internet television. Video streaming. Live streaming. Video conference and telepresence. Real time streaming protocols. HТTP based streaming protocols. MPEG-DASH. Video surveillance and applications. Transmission of multimedia signals over 4G and 5G mobile systems. Caching: theoretical foundation, network architecture, femtocaching, cashing in D2D networks.

Literature: