Course Instructor: Francisc Iacob

Syllabus:

The course contains four important parts: audio processing, images, video and multimedia authoring. For the first domain digital audio data representation is discussed, audio waves, PCM, sampling rate and aliasing, quantization and quantization error, audio dithering, noise formation, nonlinear quantization, frequency analysis, statistical analysis.

Digital audio processing chapter presents MIDI specification, dynamic processing, audio restoration, audio processing software, digital audio filters, audio filters design, digital audio compression.

The chapter "Digital processing of speech" introduces aspects of phonetic representation of speech, production models for speech, short time speech analysis, speech spectrogram, homomorphic speech analysis.

Part two dedicated to images deals with image representation and description (boundary descriptors, regional descriptors, relational descriptors).

In object recognition are discussed decision-theoretic methods (matching, optimum statistical classifiers, neural networks) and structural methods (matching shape numbers, string matching, syntactic recognition of strings, syntactic recognition of trees). The course makes a brief overview of steganography.

The chapter "Digital video" discusses digital video data representation, video standards, digital video resolution and bandwidth, digital video processing and motion estimation.

The last part refers to the multimedia authoring, making a brief presentation of Adobe Director and Lingo syntax elements.