Course details

Processing of Multimedia Signals

IMSD Acad. year 2011/2012 Winter semester 5 credits

Current academic year

Elements of acoustic and visual perception. Image and acoustic data, objective and subjective quality. Properties of biomedical image data. Special methods of multimedia signal processing: image, audio- and video data, particularly processing, enhancement and analysis of image data. Methods and standards of lossless and lossy compression of image, audio and video data.

Guarantor

Jan Jiří, prof. Ing., CSc. (UBMI)

Language of instruction

Czech

Completion

Credit+Examination

Time span

  • 26 hrs lectures
  • 26 hrs pc labs

Department

Department of Biomedical Engineering (UBMI)

Subject specific learning outcomes and competences

Basic knowledge on particularly biomedical multimedia data characteristics, their perception, processing, analysis, transmission and archiving, in information systems and with respect to Internet applications.

Learning objectives

Gaining basic knowledge on multimedia signals and data, used in medicine, their relation to perception, corresponding technical characteristics, methods of processing, analysis and preparation for archiving or communication via data networks.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Knowledge of elements of digital signal processing.

Study literature

  • V.K. Madisetti, D.B. Williams: The Digital Signal Processing Handbook (chapts: Digital Audio Communications, Speech Processing, Image and Video Processing), CRC Press & IEEE Press, 1998
  • R.J. Schalkoff: Digital Image Processing and Computer Vision, J.Willey & Sons 1989
  • A.N. Netravalli, B.G. Haskell: Digital Pictures Representation, Compression and Standards. Plenum Press, 1995
  • S.J. Sangwine, R.E.N. Horne: The Colour Image Processing Handbook. Chapman & Hall, 1998
  • V. Bhaskaran, K.Konstantinides: Image and Video Compression Standards (2nd ed.), Kluwer Acad. Publishers, 1997
  • B. Furth, J. Greenberg, R. Westwater: Motion Estimation Algorithms for Video Compression. Kluwer Acad. Publishers, 1997
  • Jan, J.: Číslicová filtrace, analýza a restaurace signálu (druhé rozšířené vydání), VUTIUM Brno 2002
  • A.K. Jain: Fundamentals of Digital Image Processing. Prentice Hall 1989
  • M. Šonka, V. Hlaváč, R.D. Boyl: Image Processing, Analysis and Machine Vision, 2nd ed. PWS Boston 1998
  • A.C. Luther: Principles of Digital Audio and Video. Artech House Boston 1997
  • Levický, D.: Multimediálne telekomunikácie. Elfa Košice, 2002
  • Jan, J.: Medical Image Processing, Reconstruction and Restoration. CRC Publ., 2005

Syllabus of lectures

  1. Multimedia signals and data, definitions and properties
  2. Theory of multidimensional signals and systems - original domain and frequency domain
  3. Multidimensional unitary transforms and their properties
  4. Models of psychophysiology of human sight and hearing
  5. Properties of biomedical image data (X-ray, CT, MRI, SPECT, PET)
  6. Enhancement of images - contrast and colour transforms, geometrical transforms
  7. Enhancement of images - sharpening and noise reduction. Principles of image restoration
  8. Basics of image analysis - segmentation, texture analysis, time-development and motion analysis
  9. Particularities of acoustic signal processing
  10. Principles of multimedial data compression
  11. Image and video data compression, properties and parameters
  12. Acoustic data compression, properties and parameters

Progress assessment

They are defined by the garantor at the beginnig of semester.

Controlled instruction

Computer labs.

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