I.      Introduction to Hypermedia Systems (2 hrs)

       Background; history; WWW; basic concepts; applications; overall model

II.     Mathematical Foundation to Multimedia Information Processing (2 Hrs)

        Fourier Transform, Discrete Cosine Transform

III.    Digital Audio (including Speech) (4 hrs)

        Audio fundamentals; PCM; MPEG audio; Speech to Text

IV.     Digital Images (3 hrs)

        Digital image concepts; GIF images; The JPEG compression standard

V.      Digital Video (3 hrs)

        Basic concepts; The MPEG1 compression standard; MPEG2 concepts

VI.     Text and Web Standards, and WWW (4 Hrs)

        WWW Model, SGML concepts, HTML, XML

VII.   Other Hypermedia Models (4 hrs)

        The Design & UI issues; Hyper-G model; Semantic Web

VII.   Architecture and Backend Issues (3 hrs)

        Scalability Issues; Copyright protection; Security

VIII.  The Web & the Future (1 hr)

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