ECE ECE160: Multimedia Systems
Spring Quarter 2003
Edward Chang
| Introduction | Lecture Outline | Projects | Prerequisites | Text Books | Class Resources |

Introduction

Introduction to multimedia and applications, including WWW, image/video databases, video on demand, and digital TV. The 2003 version of the course will focus on media content analysis (e.g., image and video classification), media data organization and searches (image and video databases), and media data distribution (video on demand and digital TV).

Lecture Time/Location

Wednesday 1:00pm - 3:50pm 406 #216
(We swap the lab hours with the lecture hours.)

Office Hours/Location

Wednesday 4:00pm - 5:00pm Engineering-1 #3163

Lecture Outline

Course Outline (HTML).

Teaching Assistant

Beitao Li
beitao@engineering.ucsb.edu
Engineering-1 #2164
Office Hours: Tuesday 1:00pm - 3:00pm

Last Year's Homework/Projects

Homework #1 due on 4/23

Project #1 due on 4/30

Homework #2 due on 5/7

Midterm due on 5/21

Homework #3 due on 6/4

Project #2 due on 6/10

Prerequisites

Having good programming skills and creativity.

Text Books

Computer Vision, A Modern Approach, D. Forsyth and J. Ponce (optional)
The Science of Art, M. Kemp (optional)
The Elements of Statistical Learning, T. Hastie, R. Tibshirani, and J. Friedman

Grading

Midterm: 20%

Projects: 80%

Resources

    DTV Pointers(Courtesy of Milton Chen)
    Signal Processing Pointers(Courtesy of Robert Gray)