Prerequisite: ECE 535 and 642.

Description:Coding, transport, and modeling of digital video signals; digital coding of waveforms with emphasis on compression techniques for video signals, transform coding including DCT and rate distortion theory for images, subband/wavelet coding of images, treatment of video signals for different television formats, colorimetry and motion estimation/compensation, general characterization of video traffic, modeling of variable bit rate video codecs, transport protocols for video and multimedia, network-delay compensation for video over ATM, VBR video flow control, discussion of applications ranging from HDTV/TV over ATM, digital HDTV for terrestrial broadcast, to videoconferencing/desktop multimedia over LAN/WAN.

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