ECE 415Multimedia Communications
- Faculty
- Engineering
- Last listed
- Spring 2020
No longer offered. It was in Waterloo’s course catalog since at least Winter 2020 (as far back as Open Data goes) to Spring 2020. It isn’t in the 2024–25 or later calendars.
In the course catalog from Winter 2020 to Spring 2020; Open Data has no classes for it in that time.
Overview of multimedia communications system, digital representation of multimedia signals, introduction to multimedia coding theory, entropy, rate distortion function, Huffman coding, arithmetic coding, run-length coding, Lempel-Ziv coding, quantization, Lloyd-Max algorithm, JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) compression, hybrid video coding, MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group) 4 and H.264 coding standards, HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding), rate control, RTP (Real-time Transport Protocol), error control coding, unequal error protection, error concealment, multimedia security, watermarking. [Offered: W]
Requirements, as last listed
Prereq: Level at least 4A Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering or Biomedical Engineering or Mechatronics Engineering or Nanotechnology Engineering or Software Engineering or Systems Design Engineering
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