Course: CIS451/651 Data Compression in Multimedia
Professor: Paul D. Amer
Semester: Spring 2013
Title: Project 0 - Multimedia Objects and Extending Web Browsers
Goals:
- to become (more) familiar with various multimedia object types
- to become (more) familiar with a web browser/editor that will be used during
the semester to manipulate multimedia objects
- to learn how to extend a browser so it can handle new multimedia object
types
- to become (more) familiar with a commercial compression program
- to provide the instructor with information on how to contact you
Tasks:
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Browse my home page and the course web pages
- (10 pts) Design your own CISC451/651 introduction web page; include (at least) the
following items:
- picture of yourself (may be omitted if you object)
- at least 20 example objects (or pointers to objects) of different multimedia
types as done in www.cis.udel.edu/~amer/CISC651/example.multimedia.objects.page.html
- You may not copy and use objects from any of my web pages. (You may use objects of the same types as objects on my web pages.)
- For each object in your web page, explicitly indicate its encoding in the web page.
(e.g., gzip'ed GIF, huffman-encoded compressed text)
- Please email me objects of types that you feel are important and do not
appear on my web page (potential extra credit)
- Include at least two object types that your browser originally was
unable
to decode, for which you had to download and install a plug-in or add-on or application
extended your browser for those two object types. Make sure your page CLEARLY indicates which objects you extended your browser to handle.
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Your browser must be able to decode all of the objects on your page, even if that means
your browser opens other applications on the machine to do so.
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(submit) Email me the URL.
In your email, please include your: phone numbers (cell and home) and email address in case I need to contact you during the semester.
Be sure your web page is accessible.
- (5 pts) Do Section 1.4, Projects and Problems 1
- as test files, use the
20 example objects on your web page
- (submit) a table showing each file's name, type, original size, compressed size, and compression ratio
- (submit) name of commercial compression program you used (e.g., gzip)
- (submit) of the four categories: text, video, images, audio, explain which category did you predict in general would compress best? Did it?
Notes:
Unlike all other course projects, FOR THIS PROJECT ONLY
students are permitted and even encouraged to work together helping learn how to extend
a browser. However, as a final result, every student should produce
his/her own web page containing different objects.