bullet Course Description: ENEE408G is an introductory course on multimedia signal processing bringing real-world design experience to students using state-of-the-art multimedia software and hardware.  Each week there will be one 75-min lecture and three-hour design lab (see below).  Lectures will provide basic theories and principles on multimedia compression, processing, communications, security, and recognition.

 
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Lab Design Projects:  There are four design labs elements on fundamental multimedia issues employing the state-of-the-art technologies on digital image, video, audio processing and speech recognition.  

 
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Design Project 1: [ I ]  Image Processing and Digital Photography

Color coordinates, visual perception, image enhancement & compression, and digital photograph.

 
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Design Project 2: [V]  Digital Video and Multimedia Communications

Video capturing, motion estimation/compensation, video codec, content-based indexing and database, scene change detection, and video conferencing.

 
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Design Project 3: [ S ] Speech Processing and Recognition

Speech analysis, coding, synthesis, recognition, and speech-enabled human-computer interface.

 
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Design Project 4: [ A ] Digital Audio and Information Security

Perceptual audio compression, watermarking, synthetic audio, and digital rights management.

 
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Final Design Project:  This is a team-based project on designing and implementing multimedia signal processing systems. Each student team will emulate a high-tech company that will

 
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develop ideas of a multimedia product and decide on system specifications,

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partition and coordinate the design tasks within the team,
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implement, test, and document the design, and
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demonstrate and market the product.

 

bullet Prerequisite: ENEE425 or 420 or with instructor’s approval; and programming skills in MATLAB and C/C++.

 

bullet Time and Place

 
bullet Lecture: 11:00am - 12:15 pm, Wednesday, CSI 1122
bullet Lab (1):  9am ~ 12pm, Friday, AVW 2446 (Section 0102)
bullet Lab (2):  1pm ~ 4pm, Friday, AVW 2446 (Section 0101)

 
bullet Instructor:

Prof. Min Wu, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
Office: 2457 A. V. Williams, (Tel) 301 - 405 - 0401
minwu@eng.umd.edu, 

Office Hours: 3:30pm - 5:00pm, Wednesday, or by email appointment

bullet TA

Hung-Quoc Lai, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
laiquoc@hotmail.com 

Office Hours: 5:00pm - 7:00 pm, Thursday, AVW 2446 (Jasmine Lab)

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Grading

Four Design Projects *

42%

Final Team Project 45%
Quizzes and Class Participation 13%

            * The grade of design project 4 [A] weights 12% of the final grade. The grade of project 4 includes 8% for technical elements and 4% on the engineering ethics.  This part consists of an ethics essay (follows Part IV: Digital Rights Protection of Multimedia and related Ethics Issues for Engineers) and an ethics assignment (follows Ethics in Engineering session on Wednesday 04/04).

 

bullet Academic Integrity

Academic dishonesty will not be tolerated. The University Code of Academic Integrity, which can be found at http://www.inform.umd.edu/CampusInfo/Departments/JPO/  prohibits students from committing the following acts of academic dishonesty: cheating, fabrication, facilitating academic dishonesty, and plagiarism. Academic dishonesty in this class includes outright copying on homework; however, discussing homework problems and exchanging tips is permissible and also encouraged. If there are any take-home exams, discussing the material with anyone, inside or outside of the class, is considered academic dishonesty. Instances of academic dishonesty will be referred to Office of Judicial Programs.