Multimedia Communications Lab Course

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Lecturer: Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Rudolf Rabenstein
Supplements: Dipl.-Ing. Andreas Weinlich
Appointment Lecture: Do 14:00-18:00, 6.13
Credit Points: 2,5 ECTS
Language of the course: English, German

Content

The Multimedia Communications Lab Course offered by the Chair of Multimedia Communications and Signal Processing is intended mainly for students enrolled for EEI, IuK, CME, or CE who already attended the lecture Image and Video Compression or will attend it in the same term. During the course each group of students implements a complete hybrid video codec for storage of moving images, inspired by concepts of the MPEG standards, and analyzes its properties. Knowledge of Matlab is helpful but not mandatory.

Registration

Registration is obligatory for participating in this lab course. You can inscribe in the course management system mein campus from March 1. As the number of participants is limited to 30 students, early registration is advised!

The first meeting will be held on April 19 at 2 pm. Groups will be assigned and an introduction to the lab course will take place. In addition, the first lab experiment of "Introduction to MATLAB" will also take place. Attendance is mandatory throughout the lab course!

Dates

The course takes place thursdays at 14:00 hrs in room 6.13:

Day Experiment
04/19/2012 Preliminary discussion, Group Assignment, MATLAB Introduction
04/26/2012 Huffman coding (1)
05/03/2012 Huffman coding (2)
05/10/2012 Quantization
05/24/2012 Motion estimation
05/31/2012 Motion compensation
06/14/2012 Transform coding, intra coding (1)
06/21/2012 Transform coding, intra coding (2)
06/28/2012 Videocodec (1)
07/05/2012 Videocodec (2)
07/12/2012 Subjective video test
07/19/2012 Evaluation and presentation of results

Script

The script in english language will be available for download on StudOn until the start of the laboratory course. A german version is not available anymore, however the assistance during the course is bilingual. A printed version of the script will be handed out at the first meeting for free (funded by tuition fees).