ECE5415

Video communications ( 6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL)

Leader: K K Pang

Offered:
Not offered in 2006.

Synopsis: Digital image and video formats; redundancy in images; quantisation and predictive coding; motion compensation; transform coding; hybrid coding; visual psychophysics; vector quantisation; entropy or Huffman coding; sub-band coding; international standards: JPEG, JPEG2000, H.261/H.263,MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4.

Assessment: Examination (3 hours): 70% + Laboratory and assignment work: 30%

Contact Hours: 26 lectures, 26 hours of practice classes and laboratory classes

Prohibitions: ECE4415