Course:CISC 451/651 Data Compression in Multimedia
Semester: Spring 2013
Professor: Paul D. Amer
Last updated: 4/8/2013

1. This schedule is TENTATIVE.
2. Assignments are due at the BEGINNING of class. Do NOT skip class to avoid a one day late penalty.

Day-Date (Class)
Topic
Assigned
Due
T-Feb 5 (1) Ch 1 - Introduction HW Ch1-2, Proj 0
Th-Feb 7 (2) Ch 2 - Number representation
T-Feb 12 (3) Ch 2 - Mathematical preliminaries for lossless compression
Th-Feb 14 (4) Ch 3 - Huffman coding, Proj 1 HW Ch3, Proj 1 Proj 0
T-Feb 19 (5) Ch 3 - Huffman coding
Th-Feb 21 (6) Ch 3 - Huffman coding; Ch 7 - Lossless image compression HW Ch7 HW Ch1-2
T-Feb 26 (7) Ch 7 - Lossless image compression; Facsimile; Proj 2 Proj 2
Th-Feb 28 (8) Ch 7 - Lossless image compression; Facsimile Proj 1, HW Ch 3
T-Mar 5 (9) Ch 4 - Arithmetic coding HW Ch4
Th-Mar 7 (10) Ch 4 - Arithmetic coding HW Ch 7
T-Mar 12 (11) Ch 4 - Arithmetic coding
Th-Mar 14 (12) Ch 5 - Dictionary techniques; HW Ch5 Proj 2
T-Mar 19 (13) Midterm (Ch 1,2,3,7,4) SPECIAL TIME-?? topics HW Ch 4
Th-Mar 21 (14) review midterm, Ch 5 - Dictionary techniques Proj 3 (optional)
T-Mar 26 (spring break - no class)
Th-Mar 28 (spring break - no class)
T-Apr 2 (15) Ch 5 - Dictionary techniques (substitute-Dr. Leighton)
Th-Apr 4 (16) Ch 5 - Dictionary techniques (substitute-Dr. Leighton) HW Ch8-9
T-Apr 9 (17) Ch 9 - Scalar quantization
Th-Apr 11 (18) Ch 9 - Scalar quantization Proj 4; HW Ch11 HW Ch 5
T-Apr 16 (19) Ch 11 - Differential encoding Proj 3 (optional)
Th-Apr 18 (20) Ch 11 - Differential encoding; Proj 4 HW Ch8-9
T-Apr 23 (21) Ch 14 - Subband coding, Haar Transform HW Ch14
Th-Apr 25 (22) Ch 14 - Subband coding, Haar Transform HW Ch 11
T-Apr 30 (23) Ch 13 - Transform coding HW Ch13
Th-May 2 (24) Ch 13 - Transform coding HW Ch 14
T-May 7 (25) Ch 13 - Transform coding; JPEG
Th-May 9 (26) Ch 18 - Video compression, MPEG Proj 4
T-May 14 (27) Ch 18 - Video compression, MPEG HW13
Th-May 16 10:30am 331 PRN Final Exam; (Ch 5,9,11,14,13,18) topics