Multimedia Systems
 
  1. Aug 22: Course logistics and introduction to multimedia (Chapter 1: Fundamentals of Multimedia) (PDF, PPT)
  2. Aug 24: Graphics and Image Data Representation and Color in Image and Video (Chapter 3 and 4: Fundamentals of Multimedia) (PDF, PPT,Video,GoogleVideo)
  3. Aug 29: Fundamental Concepts in Video (Chapter 5: Fundamentals of Multimedia) (PDF, PPT,Video, GoogleVideo)
  4. Aug 31: Basic Video Compression Techniques (Chapter 10: Fundamentals of Multimedia) (PDF, PPT,Video, GoogleVideo)
  5. Sep 5: MPEG Video Coding - MPEG-4, MPEG-7 (Chapter 12: Fundamentals of Multimedia) (PDF, PPT,Video, GoogleVideo)
  6. Sep 7: (Home work project 1 due) Basics of Digital Audio (Chapter 6: Fundamentals of Multimedia) (PDF, PPT,Video, GoogleVideo)
  7. Sep 12: (Home work assignment 1 due) Quality of Service (Chapter 2: Multimedia Systems) (PDF, PPT,Video, GoogleVideo)
  8. Sep 14: Multimedia Operating Systems (Chapter 3: Multimedia Systems) (PDF, PPT, Video, GoogleVideo)
  9. Sep 19: Media Server (Chapter 4: Multimedia Systems) (PDF, PPT, Video, GoogleVideo)
  10. Sep 21: Media Server (Chapter 4: Multimedia Systems - cont) and Networks (Chapter 6.4 and 6.5: Multimedia Systems) (PDF, PPT, Video, GoogleVideo)
  11. Sep 26: Synchronization (Chapter 8: Multimedia Systems ) (PDF, PPT, No video. Lost battery for wireless microphone and so you’d have to lipread. Sorry!!)
  12. Sep 28: (Home work project 2 due) Synchronization (Chapter 8: Multimedia Systems - cont) (PDF, PPT, Video, GoogleVideo)
  13. Oct 3: Group communication (Chapter 7: Multimedia Systems) (PDF, PPT, Video, GoogleVideo)
  14. Oct 5: Midterm
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  16. Oct 10: Özden, B., Rastogi, R., and Silberschatz, A. Architecture issues in multimedia storage systems. SIGMETRICS Perform. Eval. Rev. 25, 2 (Sep. 1997), 3-12. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/262391.262394 (PDF, PPT, Video, GoogleVideo)
  17. Oct 12: (Course project proposal due) Cherkasova, L. and Gupta, M. Analysis of enterprise media server workloads: access patterns, locality, content evolution, and rates of change. IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw. 12, 5 (Oct. 2004), 781-794. (PDF) DOI= http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TNET.2004.836125 (PDF, PPT, Video, GoogleVideo)
  18. Fall break (Oct 14-22)
  19. Oct 24: Travel: ACM Multimedia. Guest lecture by William Acosta.
  20. Gummadi, K. P., Dunn, R. J., Saroiu, S., Gribble, S. D., Levy, H. M., and Zahorjan, J. Measurement, modeling, and analysis of a peer-to-peer file-sharing workload. In Proceedings of the Nineteenth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (Bolton Landing, NY, USA, October 19 - 22, 2003), 314-329. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/945445.945475
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  22. Oct 26: (Class cancelled. Stuck in CVG airport) Zimmermann, R., Pawar, M., Desai, D. A., Qin, M., and Zhu, H. High resolution live streaming with the HYDRA architecture. Comput. Entertain. 2, 4 (Oct. 2004), 16-16. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1037851.1037876
  23. Oct 31: Ott, D. E. and Mayer-Patel, K. 2004. Coordinated multi-streaming for 3D tele-immersion. In Proceedings of the 12th Annual ACM international Conference on Multimedia (New York, NY, USA, October 10 - 16, 2004). MULTIMEDIA '04. ACM Press, New York, NY, 596-603. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1027527.1027669 (PDF, PPT, Video, GoogleVideo)
  24. Nov 2:  Prof. Klara Nahrstedt’s visit to department. Attend colloquium. In the class, we will discuss:
  25. Baker, H. H., Bhatti, N., Tanguay, D., Sobel, I., Gelb, D., Goss, M. E., Culbertson, W. B., and Malzbender, T. 2005. Understanding performance in coliseum, an immersive videoconferencing system. ACM Trans. Multimedia Comput. Commun. Appl. 1, 2 (May. 2005), 190-210. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1062253.1062258 (PDF, PPT, Video, GoogleVideo)
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  27. Nov 7: Travel: OSDI. Class will be a video conference.
  28. Liu, X., Corner, M., and Shenoy, P. SEVA: sensor-enhanced video annotation. In Proceedings of the 13th Annual ACM international Conference on Multimedia (Hilton, Singapore, November 06 - 11, 2005), 618-627. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1101149.1101290 (PDF, PPT, Video, GoogleVideo)
  29. Nov 9: (Home work 2 due) Feng, W., Kaiser, E., Feng, W. C., and Baillif, M. L. Panoptes: scalable low-power video sensor networking technologies. ACM Trans. Multimedia Comput. Commun. Appl. 1, 2 (May. 2005), 151-167. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1062253.1062256 (PDF, PPT, Video, GoogleVideo)
  30. Nov 14: (Course project status report due) Kulkarni, P., Ganesan, D., Shenoy, P., and Lu, Q. SensEye: a multi-tier camera sensor network. In Proceedings of the 13th Annual ACM international Conference on Multimedia (Hilton, Singapore, November 06 - 11, 2005), 229-238. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1101149.1101191 (PDF, PPT, Video, GoogleVideo)
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  32. Nov 16: Jie Huang, Wu-chi Feng, Jon Walpole, Wilfried Jouve. Experimental Analysis of DCT-Based Approaches for Fine-Grain Multi-Resolution Video. SPIE/ACM Multimedia Computing and Networking 2005, Jan. 2005. [PDF] (PDF, PPT, Wu-Chi PPT from Wu-chi, Video, GoogleVideo)
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  34. Nov 21:Feng, W., Chang, F., Feng, W., and Walpole, J. 2005. A traffic characterization of popular on-line games. IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw. 13, 3 (Jun. 2005), 488-500. DOI= http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TNET.2005.850221 (ACM) and Mark Claypool and Kajal Claypool. Latency and Player Actions in Online Games, Communications of the ACM, Volume 49, Issue 11, Pages 40-45 (Nov 2006) DOI=  http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1167838.1167860 (PDF, PPT, No video capture. The camcorder complained about moisture in tape and asked me to remove the tape. Next, it asked to be shutdown for an hour. I have no idea why there is moisture inside the camcorder!! I attempted a audio capture from powerpoint. Powerpoint only recorded a 22 minute lecture - the actual class was 75 minutes!!)
  35. Thanks giving (Nov 23)
  36. Nov 28: Gargolinski, S., St. Pierre, C., and Claypool, M. 2005. Game server selection for multiple players. In Proceedings of 4th ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Network and System Support For Games (Hawthorne, NY, October 10 - 11, 2005). NetGames '05. ACM Press, New York, NY, 1-6. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1103599.1103616 (PDF, PPT, Video, GoogleVideo)
  37. Nov 30: Claypool, M. 2005. On the 802.11 turbulence of Nintendo DS and Sony PSP hand-held network games. In Proceedings of 4th ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Network and System Support For Games (Hawthorne, NY, October 10 - 11, 2005). NetGames '05. ACM Press, New York, NY, 1-9. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1103599.1103618
  38. Dec 5: Final project presentation and course wrapup
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  40.  Interesting papers:
  41. Sripanidkulchai, K., Ganjam, A., Maggs, B., and Zhang, H. 2004. The feasibility of supporting large-scale live streaming applications with dynamic application end-points. In Proceedings of the 2004 Conference on Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols For Computer Communications (Portland, Oregon, USA, August 30 - September 03, 2004). SIGCOMM '04. ACM Press, New York, NY, 107-120. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1015467.1015480
  42. Reddy, A. L., Wyllie, J., and Wijayaratne, K. B. 2005. Disk scheduling in a multimedia I/O system. ACM Trans. Multimedia Comput. Commun. Appl. 1, 1 (Feb. 2005), 37-59. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1047936.1047941
  43. Wanghong Yuan, Klara Nahrstedt, Sarita Adve, Douglas L. Jones and Robin H. Kravets. GRACE-1: Cross-Layer Adaptation for Multimedia Quality and Battery Energy. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. Volume 5, No 7, July 2006. DOI=http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TMC.2006.98
  44. Yuan, W. and Nahrstedt, K. 2006. Energy-efficient CPU scheduling for multimedia applications. ACM Trans. Comput. Syst. 24, 3 (Aug. 2006), 292-331. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1151690.1151693
  45. Last updated: Tuesday, November 28, 2006
 
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