Multimedia is a new concept emerged in the recent times. This technology is currently

being widely used in web pages, motion pictures and interactive presentations,

animation etc. Multimedia has made a significant impact in training/education, business

presentations, public information access etc. This course intends to introduce and

expose multimedia technology and various factors and features of authoring software. It

will also help in making the internet application richer in content and presentation.

Introduction to Multimedia, Multimedia Information, Multimedia Objects, Multimedia

in business and work. Convergence of Computer, Communication and Entertainment

products, Stages of Multimedia Projects, Multimedia hardware, Memory & storage

devices, Communication devices, Multimedia softwares, presentation tools, tools for

object generations, video, sound, image capturing, authoring tools, card and page based

authoring tools.

Multimedia Building Blocks: Text, Sound MIDI, Digital Audio, audio file formats,

MIDI under windows environment Audio & Video Capture.

Data Compression Huffman Coding, Shannon Fano Algorithm, Huffman Algorithms,

Adaptive Coding, LZ77, LZW compression, Compression, Compression ratio lossless

& lossy compression.

Speech Compression & Synthesis: Digital Audio concepts, Sampling Variables, Loss

less compression of sound, loss compression& silence compression.

Images: Multiple monitors, bitmaps, Vector drawing, lossy graphic compression, image

file formats, animations, Images standards.

Video: Video representation, Colors, Video file formats, Compression, MPEG

standards, MHEG Standard Video Streaming on net, Video Conferencing, Multimedia

Broadcast Services, Indexing and retrieval of Video Database, recent development in

Multimedia.

1. Tay Vaughan, “Multimedia, Making IT Work”, McGraw Hill.

2. Buford, “Multimedia Systems”, Addison Wesley.

3. Mark Nelson, “Data Compression Hand Book”, BPB.

4. Sleinreitz, “Multimedia System”, Addison Wesley.