ENEE739M: Advanced Topics in Signal Processing -- Multimedia Communications and Information Security

Course Goals:

Multimedia communications and information security have been very active research areas in both academia and industry since the mid-1990s. They have begun to have a significant impact on many aspects of our society and are expected to continue playing important roles in the information era.  R&D in these areas requires knowledge and integration of subjects ranging from physical-layer communications to multimedia signal processing and from network communications to cryptography. This special topics course intends to help students

• build a knowledge foundation in the areas of multimedia communication and information security from a signal processing perspective, and
   
• understand the state-of-the-art technologies and the latest research problems in these areas.
   

Course Prerequisites:

• At least two core courses in communication and signal processing (ENEE620, 621, 624, 721).
   
• ENEE631 (Digital Image and Video Processing) or equivalent.
   

Textbooks:

[Required]

M-T. Sun and A.R. Riebman (ed.): Compressed Video over Networks, Signal Processing and Communications series,  Marcel Dekker, Inc., 2000.

[Recommended]

*  Y. Wang, J. Ostermann, Y-Q. Zhang: Video Processing and Communications, Prentice Hall, 2001

*  I. Cox, M. Miller, J. Bloom: Digital Watermarking, Morgan Kaufman Publishers, 2001.

*  M. Wu, B. Liu: Multimedia Data Hiding, preprint, to be published by Springer-Verlag, 2002.

References:

*  L.C. Washington, W. Trappe: Introduction to Cryptography with Coding Theory, Prentice Hall, 2001.

*  A. Puri and T. Chen (ed.): Multimedia Systems, Standards, and Networks, Signal Processing and Communications series,  Marcel Dekker, Inc., 2000.

*  Recent research papers on multimedia communication and information security

Core Topics and Course Structure:

• Part-I  Preliminaries (4 lectures)
   
     1.1  Review of basic signal processing of digital audio, image, and video signals
  
     1.2  Review of video and audio compression and coding standards
  
     1.3  Review of communication basics
   
• Part-II  Multimedia Communications (10 lectures)
  
     2.1  Rate-distortion theory for advanced multimedia coding
   
     2.2  Scalable coding
  
     2.3  Joint source-channel coding
   
     2.4  Error resilient communications over network and wireless channels
  
     2.5  Streaming audio and video over Internet and wireless networks
   
• Part-III  Information Security: A Signal Processing Perspective (8 lectures)
  
     3.1  Review of classic cryptographic tools: encryption and authentication
  
     3.2  Multimedia data hiding and digital watermarking for the purpose of intellectual 
            property protection, authentication, and rights management
  
     3.3  Secure multimedia multicast from a signal processing perspective
   
• Part-IV  Survey and project presentations by students (Final 2-3 weeks)
   

Optional Topics:

• Multiple description coding
    
• Network resource estimation and allocation for high-bandwidth real-time video
   
• On-going standardization effort for digital rights management (MPEG-21 and MPEG-4 IPMP)
   

Grading Method:

• Survey paper and presentation: 30%
   
• Final Project: 55%
   
• Class participation: 15%