Adv. MM

 

CSE 410/510 – Advanced Multimedia Networking Seminar

Winter 2016

 

This course is a seminar course on recent advances in multimedia networking.  Students are expected to be somewhat familiar with basic multimedia concepts such as JPEG, MPEG, video streaming, and image adaptation mechanisms.  Furthermore, students are expected to know basic networking concepts such as TCP/IP.   Terms like congestion control should not be completely foreign to you. 

 

Course Objectives: Upon completing the course, the student will:

be familiar with multimedia systems design and implementation;

be familiar with systems support issues for multimedia applications;

be familiar with low-power video sensor technologies and their implementation

 

The course consists of two main parts (themes):

 

Part 1 - Student presentations (more on next page)

 

In the first part of the course will consist of students presenting papers from the literature (with my guidance during the class).  Each student will be responsible for presenting one or more paper groups (depending upon how many people sign up for the course).  The current list of paper groups can be found on the web site.

 

Part 2 – Research projects

 

Depending upon how many people are signed up for the course, we will work (as a whole) on an interesting research project with each student contributing a portion of the overall system.  It is my expectation that the student will spend 6-12 hours per week working on the project pieces.  There will be no other assignments in the class.  As a result of this, the quality and depth of research in the project will be the primary driver of the grade.

 

Instructor Information

Wu-chi Feng

wuchi@cs.pdx.edu

 FAB 150

 Office Hours:

 T/R 10:00 – 11:00 am

 

Class Information     

T/R 8:15 – 9:50 am

 FAB 40-06 

 http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~wuchi/Teaching/510

 

Text (Optional)

Readings in Multimedia Computing and Networking

Kevin Jeffay, HongJiang Zhang

Morgan Kaufmann Publishers

ISBN: 1558606513

 

 

Student Presentations

 

Each paper group consists of a set of related research papers on a given topic, one person  (the paper group leader) will be responsible for presenting the paper group to the rest of the class.  For each paper group, there will be responsibilities for the group leader and the rest of the class.

 

The paper group leader will be responsible for the following:

  1. Reading all the papers in the paper group thoroughly
  2. Presenting the paper group (and relevant background) to the class.  The instructor will help guide the discussion during class.
  3. Discussion points that need to be covered

The rest of the class will be responsible for the following:

  1. Reading one of the papers of the group.
  2. Writing a half page to one-page summary of the paper.  Be sure to include what you think the problems are with the area and what are some interesting research problems to pursue based on it.

Grading

Grades will be based on class participation, class presentations, and paper reports.