Dr Andrew Scott G7VAV
MBCS, MIET, Member ACM, Member IEEE
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Senior Lecturer [D35]

School of Computing
    and Communications
InfoLab21
Lancaster University
Lancaster, LA1 4WA
United Kingdom
 
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CSc 366: Multimedia Computing
The course looks at the emergence of multimedia; the nature of multimedia; media formats; the impact of multimedia on related technologies: workstations/ PDAs, operating systems, storage servers; support for distributed multimedia applications: related communications and distributed computing technologies; user interface issues; multimedia programming: synchronisation issues, media frameworks, component based programming. Content management, IPR management, media security, and water marking.
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Recommended Textbooks
Chapman and Chapman
Nigel Chapman, Jenny Chapman,
Digital Multimedia
John Wiley & Sons, 20 Feb 2009, Paperback: 732 pages, ISBN: 978-0470512166
Steinmetz and Nahrstedt
Ralf Steinmetz, Klara Nahrstedt,
Multimedia Systems
Springer, 11 Mar 2004 Hardcover/ Paperback/ Kindle: 466 pages ISBN: 978-3540408673
Mauthe and Thomas
Andreas Ulrich Mauthe, Peter Thomas,
Professional Content Management Systems: Handling Digital Media Assets
Wiley Blackwell, 29 Jan 2004 Hardcover/ Kindle: 330 pages ISBN: 978-0470855423
Cox et al
Ingemar J. Cox, Matthew L. Miller, Jeffrey A. Bloom, Jessica Fridrich, Ian Kalker,
Digital Watermarking and Steganography, 2nd Edition,
Morgan Kaufmann, 28 Dec 2007 Hardcover/ Kindle: 624 pages ISBN: 978-0123725851
JPEG Encoder
JPEG Codec and image processing tool written in C# for multimedia course
It's a fun exercise to write the classic coders used in compression systems:
Huffman, Arithmetic, LZ77, and LZW.
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