MAT Courses

MAT 200C: Survey of Media Technology and Engineering

UCSB, Winter Quarter, 2008                      COURSE OVERVIEW PDF

Logistics

Instructor: Stephen T. Pope
TA: Ami Amar Course Web page URL: http://www.create.ucsb.edu/200C
 
Format: 2 lectures and 1 lab/discussion per week

Meeting Times: Lecture: Mon/Wed 11:00 - 12:50
                          Lab: Fri 11:00-12:50
 
Meeting Place: Music 2215 (CREATE class room)

Materials

Readings book and presentation slides (both at the UCSB book store)
Couse web site (you're looking at it)
Course mailing list (see here)
Requirements
1-2 hours required reading per week: see the reader
Short (20 minute) topical presentation with advanced readings
Short (8-10 pages) paper: survey or summary of advanced readings
Software project: implementation of a program related to the readings

Overview

MAT 200C "Survey of Media Technology and Engineering" is a broad survey/reading course that covers topics as diverse as computer architecture and haptics. The goal is to cover all those areas related to multimedia application development that are not covered in the other MAT core courses. As such, this leaves us with a broad range of both theoretical and practical issues related to multimedia perception, communication and information theory, processor and computer design, representation of signals and events, networking hardware, signal processing, and applications.

Topics

Multimedia Technology and Engineering
0. Introduction and review
1. Computer engineering: hardware and information
2. Media data, signals, and symbols
3. Data models, representations, and formats
4. Digital manipulation of media signals
5. Media I/O devices and HCI
6. Applications in arts, entertainment, education
7. In-class presentations

Skills to be Developed

Downloads

Web Links

Related Web Courses

  • Aberystwyth Media Theory Course
  • WPI Computer Graphics Course
  • WPI Information Engr. Course
  • CCRMA Musical Acoustics Course

    • Graphics Formats

  • Graphics File Formats Page
  • Graphics/Media Formats
  • GFF FAQ
  • PostScript Guide

    • Media and Networks

  • Multimedia Networking References
  • RTSP frequently asked questions
  • Multimedia Networking Products
  • A Survey of Distributed Multimedia Research, Standards and Products
  • OS and Network support for quality of service guarantees

    • SMIL & CORBA

  • SMIL Home
  • SMIL Info
  • SMIL Tutorial
  • OMG: CORBA Home
  • CORBA for beginners
  • D. Schmidt's CORBA Page
  • RT CORBA Research

    • Sound SW

  • SOX Source
  • SOX Source
  • SOX Directory Tree
  • NAS Source
  • PTF NAS Description
  • NAS Directory Tree
  • Physical Modeling
  • PM Tutorial from CCRMA

    • Spatial Sound

  • Ultimate Spatial Audio Index
  • Spatial Sound at GaTech
  • Tools and Widgets for Spatial Sound Authoring
  • NWU Spatial Sound
  • Two Dimensional Spatialization of Sound
  • CATT-Acoustic / The FIReverb Suite
  • Lake Technology Limited
  • SiS200 Ambisonics
  • MTG: Ambisonics Home Page
  • MTG: Hyper Dense Transducer Arrays
  • MN Library Main Index of Documentation and Downloads
  • Ambisonic.Net

    • Data Compression

  • Image Compression Thesis
  • Data Compression Page
  • UCB MPEG Page
  • MP3 Info
  • MP3 Encoder Review

    • Graphics Topics

  • Ray Tracing
  • Distributed Ray Tracing
  • History of Computer Graphics
  • Virtual Environments
  • U. Bath Advanced Graphics Course

    • Computer Architecture

  • MIT Computer System Architecture
  • Stanford Computer Architecture and Organization
  • UC Berkeley Computer Architecture
  • U. Indiana Computer Architecture

    • Xerox PARC History

  • Xerox STAR Retrospective
  • The Smalltalk-76 Programming System
  • Alan Kay: The Computer "Revolution" Hasn't Happened Yet!
  • Symposium on the work of Douglas Engelbart
  • Videos of the December 1968 NSL/Augment Demo

    • VE, Telepresence, I/O

  • Virtual Environments
  • Haptic Interfaces
  • The Dive Home Page
  • On The Net Resources in Virtual Reality
  • The VRML Repository
  • comp.lang.vrml FAQ
  • WEB3D Consortium
  • EON Reality, Inc. Home
  • Kaiser Electro-Optics
  • VRML_related References (Standards)

    • Streaming examples

            RealAudio (http://www.real.com)
            MP3 off the Web (http://www.mp3.com/)
            NAS source code (~stp/music/nas)
            SMIL Examples (http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/)
                    (http://www.helio.org/products/smil/tutorial/)
                    (http://smw.internet.com/smil/smilhome.html)

    To learn to read C, do a Web search on "C Tutorials" or look at

            http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~bartlett/C.html
            http://www.cyberdiem.com/vin/learn.html
            http://einstein.drexel.edu/courses/Comp_Phys/General/C_basics/c_tutorial.html
            http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~crummer/CTutorial.html

    Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format

    http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/Overview.htm8
    http://www.adobe.com/svg/

    Holophonics:

    http://www.futuremedia.org/Media/imedia/retailing/orion/holoph.html
    http://www.etail.com/holophonics/index.html
    http://www.ingsoc.com/waters/info/sounds.html
    http://www.sweetwater.com/insync/word.tpl?find=Holophonics

    Binaural:

    http://www.binaural.com/index.html
    http://www.binaural.com/binlink.html

    Sony Surround Headphones

    http://www.sel.sony.com/SEL/consumer/ss5/home/accessories/virtualdolbyrtmdigitalheadphones/index.shtml

    Qsound:

    http://www.qsound.com/
    http://www.3dsoundsurge.com/features/articles/QSound.html

    (Surround) sound formats

    http://www.mtsu.edu/~smpte/table.html
    http://timefordvd.com/tutorial/SurroundSound.shtml
    http://www.openhere.com/tech1/multimedia/sound/formats/
    http://home.sprynet.com/~cbagwell/audio.html

    Dolby digital

    http://www.dolby.com/digital/ddfuture.html

    DTS

    http://www.dtsonline.com/

    SDDS

    http://www.sdds.com/

    (Sound) Physical Modeling

    http://www.harmony-central.com/Synth/Articles/Physical_Modeling/
    http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/~jos/pmupd/pmupd.html


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