Nº
1902
DATE: CALL
PRICE NIS: 1270 + VAT
DURATION: 1 Day
Course Overview: This seminar will cover technical aspects of MPEG-2 and MPEG-4. These standards made interactive video on CD-ROM, DVD and Digital Television possible. Will introduce digital video, as well as Intra-Frame and Inter-Frame, discuss Audio Compression, and streaming, provide a Standards Overview, and strategic summary.
Who should attend?
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System designers or potential users of multimedia distribution systems
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Engineers that develop either CATV systems or Satellite based DVB systems
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People involved in designing multimedia distribution and interactive applications over the Internet
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Engineers involved in the design of multimedia components or high-speed data communications systems and want to have better view of the full picture.
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Other people who want to establish knowledge as a complementing background for activities in other fields of interest.
Prerequisities:None
Course Outline:
1. Introduction
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General compression (Text, Frames, Video)
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Compression Standards
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Encoder structure
2. Spatial Compression (Intra-Frame)
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Transform to frequency domain (DCT)
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Coefficients Prediction
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Quantization
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Entropy coding: VLC (Huffman) and Run-length
3. Temporal Compression (Inter-Frame)
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Motion estimation and frame types
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Suboptimal solutions for ME
4. GOP Structure
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I, P, B
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Bits distribution
5. Code Hierarchy
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Scene
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Frame
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Slice
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Mb & block
6. Rate model control
7. Audio Compression
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The Psycho-Acoustic effect
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Masking
8. MPEG-2 and MPEG-1
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Introduction
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Profiles & Levels
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MPEG-1 / MPEG-2 and interlacing
9. Broadcasting & MPEG-2
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MPEG-2 System
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Program Stream and Transport stream
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DVB-world (PSI / SI)
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DVBCAmechanisms
10. Advanced techniques for compression
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Statistical multiplexing
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Dual compression
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Pre processing
11. New compression standards - intro
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MPEG-4 part 2
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MPEG-4 part 10
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WM9
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H.26x family
12. Format/rate conversion
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The challenge heterogeneous environment
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Transrating & transcoding
13. Summary
14. Annex: