The tentative schedule is given below.
Deadlines: All the assignments, programming projects, and technical reports (including proposal, mid-term drafts, and final reports) are all due at 10:00 a.m. on Fridays. Assignments and reports (hardcopies) must be turned in in-person before the Friday lecture. Students should also submit their reports (in PDF) and programming projects (as tar or zip files) via emails to the instructor. The received timestamp of cs@nthu SMTP server must be before 10 a.m. on Fridays.
Late submissions lead to the following penalty. Within 24 hrs, 10%; between 24 and 48 hrs, 30%, between 48 and 120 hrs, 50%. Submissions after 120 hrs will not be graded.
| Week | Topic | Wednesday | Friday | Deadline (before the Friday lecture starts) |
| 1: Sep 12 |
Introduction QoS in IP Networks |
Introduction, QoS for Networked Multimedia Systems [KR08, Ch. 7], slides |
QoS for Networked Multimedia Systems [KR08, Ch. 7] |
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| 2: Sep 19 |
QoS in IP Networks |
QoS for Networked Multimedia Systems [KR08, Ch. 7], slides |
QoS for Networked Multimedia Systems [KR08, Ch. 7] |
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| 3: Sep 26 | Image Representation | No lecture |
QoS for Networked Multimedia Systems [KR08, Ch. 7] |
Assignment 1 |
| 4: Oct 3 |
Image Compression and Color Models |
Image Representation [Burg09, Secs. 1.1-1.4], slides | Color Model [Burg09, Secs. 2.1-2.4, Sec. 2.6], slides | |
| 5: Oct 10 |
Digital Image Compression [Burg09, Secs. 1.5-1.7, Sec 3.10], slides |
Basics of Video Coding [Burg09, Sec. 7.4], [SC07, Sec. 2.1-2.3], slides | Proposal | |
| 6: Oct 17 | Video Coding |
Basics of Video Coding [Burg09, Sec. 7.4], [SC07, Sec. 2.1-2.3] |
Proposal presentation, 15 min per student |
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| 7: Oct 24 |
Video Coding |
Basics of Video Coding [Burg09, Sec. 7.4], [SC07, Sec. 2.1-2.3] and Video Compression – From Concepts to the H.264/AVC Standard | Basics of Video Coding [Burg09, Sec. 7.4], [SC07, Sec. 2.1-2.3] and Video Compression – From Concepts to the H.264/AVC Standard |
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| 8: Oct 31 | Video Quality Metric |
Self-prepared materials, slides |
Self-prepared materials and Resource Allocation for Multihomed Scalable Video Streaming to Multiple Clients |
Programming project 1 (RTP+RTSP) |
| 9: Nov 7 | Scalable Video Coding | Overview of the Scalable Video Coding Extension of the H.264/AVC Standard, slides | Overview of the Scalable Video Coding Extension of the H.264/AVC Standard, two-hour session (to make up the time) | |
| 10: Nov 14 | Error Concealment and Mitigation | No lecture |
Error Concealment and Mitigation [SC07, Sec 2.4], two-hour session (to make up the time), slides |
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| 11: Nov 21 | Special Topic: Mobile Cloud Gaming, slides | Modeling of Packet Losses in the Internet and Measurement Study [SC07, Sec. 8.1-8.4], slides | Assignment 2 | |
| 12: Nov 28 | No lecture (conference travel) | No lecture (conference travel) | ||
| 13: Dec 5 | Internet Characteristics | Media On Demand and Live Broadcast [SC07, Secs. 14.1-14.3, 14.5], slides |
Student Presentation: Yu-Rui 1. A Survey of User Behavior in VoD Service and Bandwidth-Saving Multicast Streaming Schemes 2. A Dynamic Stream Merging Technique for Video-on-Demand Services over Wireless Mesh Access Networks |
Technical report draft (mid-term checkpoint) |
| 14: Dec 12 | Internet Characteristics | Media On Demand and Live Broadcast [SC07, Secs. 14.1-14.3, 14.5] |
Student Presentation:Ting-An 1. SIP-Based Context Distribution: Does Aggregation Pay Off? 2. A Globally Overlaid Hierarchical P2P-SIP Architecture with Route Optimization |
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15: Dec 19 |
Optimized Multimedia Streaming |
Network-Adaptive Media Transport [SC07, Sec. 10], slides |
Student Presentation: Sheriffo 1. Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP: Standards and Design Principles 2. An Experimental Evaluation of Rate-Adaptive Video Players over HTTP |
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16: Dec 26 |
3D and Steroscope Video |
Peer-Assisted Rendering in Networked Virtual, a talk given by Prof. Ooi from National University of Singapore.
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Student Presentation: Yu-Sian 1. Subjective Quality Assessment of Scalable Video Coding: A Survey 2. Objective Video Quality Assessment Methods: A Classification, Review, and Performance Comparison 3. (Optional) Optional: Towards a New Quality Metric for 3-D Synthesized View Assessment |
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17: Jan 2 |
No lecture, week of final exam |
Programming project demos, at EECS 224. |
Programming project 2 (Peer-to-Peer Streaming) |
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18: Jan 9 |
No lecture, week of final exam |
Final presentation + demo (15 min) |
Final technical report |