Course Schedule:

2: Color in Image and Video

Chapters 3 (Li and Drew)

3: Graphics and Image Data Representation

Chapters 3 (cont) and 4 (Li and Drew)

4:Image Data Representation (cont)

Chapter4 (cont) (Li and Drew)

5: Fundamental concepts in Digital Video

Chapter 5 (Li and Drew)

6: Fundamental concepts in Digital Audio

Chapter 6 (Li and Drew)

7:Lossless Compression Algorithms

Chapter 7

8: Lossless Compression Algorithms (cont), Lossy Compression algorithms, Image Compression Standards

Chapter 8, 9 (Li and Drew)

9: Image Compression Standards(cont), Basic Video Compression Techniques

Chapter 9, 10 (Li and Drew)

10: Basic Video Compression Techniques (cont).

Chapter 10 (Li and Drew)

11: MPEG Video Coding I - MPEG - 1

Chapter 11 (Li and Drew)

12: MPEG 2, Video Coding II H.264

Chapter 12 (Li and Drew)

13: Video Coding (cnt) (MPEG - 4, 7 and Beyond) , Basic Audio compression techniques, MPEG Audio compression

Chapter 12, 13, 14(Li and Drew)

Out of town (Washington, DC)

14: Introduction to Networked Games

Introduction to Computer Networks (with implications for Multimedia)

Chapter 5 (Steinmetz and Nahrstedt) - Wired

15: Introduction to Computer Networks (with implications for Multimedia) (cont)

Do Nintendo handhelds play nice? An analysis of its wireless behavior
Adam Lusch, Adele Fleury, Surendar Chandra, Netgames 2007

16: Do Nintendo handhelds play nice? An analysis of its wireless behavior, Adam Lusch, Adele Fleury and Surendar Chandra. In 6th ACM Annual Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games (Netgames '07), September 19-20, Melbourne, Australia (PDF, video)

Transcoding Characteristics of Web Images, Surendar Chandra, Ashish Gehani, Carla Schlatter Ellis and Amin Vahdat, In ACM/SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking 2001 (MMCN'01), January 2001 (PDF)

Out of town to HotMobile, Santa Cruz, CA

Out of town to USENIX FAST, San Francisco, CA

17: Experimental Analysis of DCT-Based Approaches for Fine-Grain Multi-Resolution Video. Jie Huang, Wu-chi Feng, Jon Walpole, Wilfried Jouve. SPIE/ACM Multimedia Computing and Networking 2005, Jan. 2005. [PDF]

Mosaicing videos to stream over multiple independent channels, Chris Boehnen, Allison Regier, Deborah Thomas, Surendar Chandra and Patrick Flynn. In the 17th ACM workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio & Video (NOSSDAV '07), June 4-5, 2007, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA (PDF)

18: Introduction to Operating Systems (with implications for Multimedia)

Process scheduling

19: Multimedia Operating Systems (cont)

Chapter 3 (Steinmetz and Nahrstedt)

Mid term

20: Quality of Service

Chapter 2 (Steinmetz and Nahrstedt)

21: QoS (Cont) Media Server

Chapter 4 (Steinmetz and Nahrstedt)

22: Media Server (cont).

Experimentation and analysis - 1 - Media server

24: Network Quality of Service

Chapter 6.4, 6.5 (Steinmetz and Nahrstedt)

 

25: Group communication

Chapter 7 (Steinmetz and Nahrstedt)

Synchronization

Chapter 8 (Steinmetz and Nahrstedt)

26: Synchronization (cont)

Chapter 8 (Steinmetz and Nahrstedt)

27: Zhenyu Yang, Wanmin Wu, Klara Nahrstedt, Gregorij Kurillo and Ruzena Bajcsy, Enabling Multi-party 3D Tele-immersive Environments with ViewCast, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMCCAP). [pdf]

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

Experimentation and analysis - 2 - Video collaboration systems

29: 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

30: SensEye: A Multi-tier Camera Sensor Network
Purushottam Kulkarni, Deepak Ganesan, Prashant Shenoy and Qifeng Lu.
Proceedings of ACM Multimedia, Singapore, November 2005. (PDF)

Experimentation and analysis - 3 - Video sensor networks and video game (http://www.alientrap.org/nexuiz/information.php)

32: Y.-F. Chen, Y. Huang, R. Jana, H. Jiang, M. Rabinovich, J. Rahe, B. Wei, and Z. Xiao. Towards Capacity and Profit Optimization of Video-on-Demand Services in a Peer-Assisted IPTV Platform. Multimedia Systems Journal. (PDF)

Travel to Portland, no class

33:A Long-Term Study of a Popular MMORPG
Wu-chang Feng, Debanjan Saha, David Brandt, Netgames 2007

An Analysis of WoW Players' Game Hours
Pin-Yun Tarng, Kuan-Ta Chen, Polly Huang, Netgames 2008

34: Wu-chang Feng, Wu-chi Feng, "On the Geographic Distribution of On-line Game Servers and Players", in Proc. of NetGames 2003, May 2003

Game server selection for multiple players, Gargolinski, S., St. Pierre, C., and Claypool, M. Netgames 2005

35: Stealth Measurements for Cheat Detection in On-line Games
Wu-chang Feng, Ed Kaiser, Travis Schluessler. Netgames 2008.

Game Bot Identification Based on Manifold Learning
Authors: Kuan-Ta Chen, Hsing-Kuo Kenneth Pao, Hong-Chung Chang, Netgames 2008.

Experimentation and analysis - 4 - Networked video games