MU4091 Multimedia Compression Techniques Syllabus:

MU4091 Multimedia Compression Techniques Syllabus – Anna University PG Syllabus Regulation 2021

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

 To understand the basic ideas of compression algorithms related to multimedia components – Text, speech, audio, image and Video.
 To understand the principles and standards and their applications with an emphasis on underlying technologies, algorithms, and performance.
 To appreciate the use of compression in multimedia processing applications
 To understand and implement compression standards in detail

UNIT I FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPRESSION

Introduction To multimedia – Graphics, Image and Video representations – Fundamental concepts of video, digital audio – Storage requirements of multimedia applications – Need for compression – Taxonomy of compression Algorithms – Elements of Information Theory – Error Free Compression – Lossy Compression

UNIT II TEXT COMPRESSION

Huffman coding – Adaptive Huffman coding – Arithmetic coding – Shannon-Fano coding – Dictionary techniques – LZW family algorithms.

UNIT III IMAGE COMPRESSION

Image Compression: Fundamentals –– Compression Standards – JPEG Standard – Sub-band coding – Wavelet Based compression – Implementation using Filters – EZW, SPIHT coders – JPEG 2000 standards – JBIG and JBIG2 standards.

UNIT IV AUDIO COMPRESSION

Audio compression Techniques – law, A-Law companding – Frequency domain and filtering – Basic sub-band coding – Application to speech coding – G.722 – MPEG audio – progressive encoding – Silence compression, Speech compression – Formant and CELP vocoders.

UNIT V VIDEO COMPRESSION

Video compression techniques and Standards – MPEG video coding: MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 video coding: MPEG-3 and MPEG-4 – Motion estimation and compensation techniques – H.261 Standard – DVI technology – DVI real time compression – Current Trends in Compression standards.

TOTAL :45 PERIODS

COURSE OUTCOMES:

Upon Completion of the course, the students should be able to
CO1:Implement basic compression algorithms familiar with the use of MATLAB and its equivalent open source environments
CO2:Design and implement some basic compression standards
CO3:Critically analyze different approaches of compression algorithms in multimedia related mini projects.
CO4 : Understand the various audio, speech compression techniques
CO5 :Understand and implement MPEG video coding techniques.

REFERENCES

1. Khalid Sayood: Introduction to Data Compression”, Morgan Kauffman Harcourt India, Third Edition, 2010.
2. David Solomon, “Data Compression – The Complete Reference”, Fourth Edition, Springer Verlog, New York, 2006.
3. Yun Q.Shi, Huifang Sun, “Image and Video Compression for Multimedia Engineering, Algorithms and Fundamentals”, CRC Press, 2003.
4. Mark S. Drew, Ze-Nian Li, “Fundamentals of Multimedia”, PHI, 2009.