SGN-3106 Digital Video Processing (4 cr)

 

 

Lecturers:        Moncef Gabbouj (Office TF 406) and Dr. Roberto Castagno (Nokia)

Lectures:         Period 3, Room TB 223, Mondays 14.00-16.00 and Wednesdays 14:00 – 16.00

 

Assistant:      MSc. Petri Hirvonen (Office TF 308)

                        Exercises homepage

                        Group 1: Mondays 8-10 in TC303 and on Wednesdays 8-10 in TC407

                        Group 2: Mondays 12-14 in TC303 and on Wednesdays 10-12 in TC407

                        

NOTE: There are two exercises every week (exception: week 4.1.-10.1.).

Both exercises have two "identical" groups.
You can participate in one or both of the two exercise groups, no registration is required.

 

First Lecture:                     Monday 4 January 2010

First Exercise:                   Monday 11.1.2010 in TC303

 

Exam Dates: 16 Feb 2010, 9.00 - 12.00, Make-up 29 March 2010, 9.00 - 12.00

 

Description:  Fundamentals of digital video and video signal processing.

 

Textbook:

Yao Wang, Jörn Ostermann and Ya-Qin Zhang, Video Processing and Communications, Prentice Hall, 2002.

 

Other references:

R.J. Clarke, Digital Compression of Still Images and Video, Academic Press, 1995;

A. Murat Tekalp, Digital Compression of Still Images and Video, Prentice Hall.

 

Course Outline and Lecture Material (only for students participating in the course, a user name and psswd are needed)

1. Introduction and Imaging
2. Still Image Coding
3. Motion
4. Entropy Coding
5. From JPEG to JPEG2000
6. Video Coding
7. The H.261 specification in PDF format is attached in the file below. This file can be used only for the educational purposes of this course. For other uses, the specification should be downloaded from the ITU web site. Please verify if you might benefit from the offer to download 3 ITU-T specifications for free at: http://ecs.itu.ch/cgi-bin/ebookshop.
   The H.261 Specification
8. Error and resilience
9. Video segmentation
10. Video in multimedia