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Multimedia Systems - COMP9519
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Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
 
 
School:  School of Computer Science and Engineering
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Postgraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.125 (more info)
 
 
Contact Hours per Week: 4
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: COMP2011 or COMP2711 or COMP9024, 12uc level 3 or level 4 (for undergrads), or enrolment in MIT program 8684 or GradCert program 7344.
 
 
Session Offered: See Class Timetable
 
 
Fee Band: 2 (more info)
 
 

Description

Multimedia Systems covers the key principles, techniques and applications of multimedia technology. Students who complete this course will have experience with:
- Basic concepts of image/video coding technology and compression standards.
- Basic concepts of internet streaming media.
- Fundamentals of multimedia content description and presentation.
- Fundamentals of content based image and video retrieval techniques.
- Basic knowledge of multimedia database systems - indexing, browsing and retrieval.

Students will also achieve familiarity at an introductory level with examples of audio, image and video processing techniques in multimedia systems.

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