Objectives

From the Course Objectives an important goal is: read and understand research contributions ...; you will gain experience by reading the three CACM articles, by the in-class discussion relating to those, and by the videotape presentations and demonstrations of research systems.

This Unit has the following objectives, for students to be able to:

1. describe the basic methods used in the JPEG and MPEG standards for compression;

2. describe the model and architecture used for current DVI systems' software - AVK; and

3. be able to explain much of the key terminology that relates to multimedia.