Audio-Visual Compression
Course Syllabus - 2009
Lectures (in pdf):
Meeting 1: 
Reading Material
Singing Muscles (Galileo , March 2000)
Introduction to Psychoacoustics
(from: Intro. to Digital Audio Coding and Standards, Bosi & Goldberg)
Quantization and Waveform Coders
(from: A Practical Handbook of Speech Coders)
Digital Processing of Speech Signals (From: Rabiner & Schafer)
Resonance
Demonstration: The Tacoma Narrows Bridge
Meeting 2:
Meeting 3:
Meeting 4:
Meeting 5:
Hybrid
Coders
Analysis-by-Sythesis Coders
Audio
Coding: MPEG1&2 Related Paper: Numbers
& Notes (Galileo, March 2001)
Meeting 6:
Meeting 7:
Related Papers:
The Visual Perception of Images (Purdue Univ. VISE)
Sampling and Aliasing (In Hebrew - Open Univ.)
Aliasing and Vision (B.A Olshausen)
More and interesting related reading Material
1. Small and Big In Human brain (Galileo, Jan. 2002)
2. Seeing Colors (Galileo, Dec 2000)
4. Digital Camera (Galileo, Feb 2003)
Introduction to Image Compression
Meeting 8:
Concepts
of Image Compression
JPEG System
Watch a Matlab demo for DCT Compression: dctdemo.m
Meeting 9:
JPEG Modes
of Operation
JPEG
Syntax
Related papers:
Lossless Compression Review (Ilan Sutskover)
Demo Application: JPEGdump
Meeting 10:
JPEG H/W
example
JPEG
Lossless mode: LOCO
Related Papers: Lossless
Coding (A review by I. Sutskover, Technion)
Some explanations about Golomb Code
Demo Application: JPEG Bit Rate Control
Meeting 11:
The
DFT and the FFT
Meeting 12:
Pyramidal
Image Compression Related Paper: Burt & Adelson paper (1983)
FAX
Compression: G3/4, JBIG
Block
Truncation Coding
Fractal
Coding (IFS)
Morphological
Image Compression
Related Paper: Natural Fractals
From
Masa Acher, April 1999
(short version)
Fractal SW package
(evaluation copy) : Ultra Fractals
Meeting 13:
Intrtoduction to Wavelets
Related Paper: Introduction
to wavelets , by Amara Graps
Wavelets
Families
ZeroTree Coding
Using
Analog Devices ADV601
Meeting 14:
Introduction
to Video
Related Paper: The Invention of TV: The story of Philo Farnsworth
And the story in Hebrew... (By Y.Tanbrink)
The
People Behind the Invention of TV
Meeting 15:
H.261
Video Coding
Related Paper: H.263 short review (from 4i2i Communication)
MPEG-1
Video Coding
Meeting 16:
MPEG-2
Scalability
Error Resiliense and Concealment
MPEG-4
Video Coding
