Study Material
The study material in the Audiovisual
Communication course is mainly the book (in Portuguese):
- Livro ‘Comunicações Audiovisuais:
Tecnologias, Normas e Aplicações’, IST Press, 2009
- Introduction: Cap.
1
- Basics on Digital AV Representation: Cap. 5
- Photographic Imaging: Sec. 8.3
- Videotelephony and
Videoconference: Sec. 9.1, 9.2,
9.3, 11.3 (breve)
- Digital Video Storage: Sec. 3.3, Sec.
7.1-7.5, 9.4, 11.6
- Digital Television: Sec. 9.5,
11.7
o
Advanced Multimedia Coding: Sec. 9.8
However, for non
Portuguese speakers there are other materials:
- Theoretical lectures slides
Note: As many of
the figures in these slides are have obtained from publications of many
experts, many thanks should go to them!
- Laboratory guides
·
Basic support texts (beyond the material above):
- Videotelephony
and Videoconference
- Digital
Audiovisual Storage
- Digital
TV
- Advanced
Video Coding
- Overview of the H.264/AVC video coding standard
- Video coding with H.264/AVC: tools,
performance, and complexity
- Overview
of the scalable video coding extension of the H.264/AVC standard
- Overview of the stereo and
multiview video coding extensions of the H.264/AVC standard
- Overview
of the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) Standard
- Comparison of the Coding Efficiency of Video
Coding Standards – Including High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC)
- 3D
Video Systems
- Additional
support texts
- Basics
- Digital
Imaging
- Videotelephony
and Videoconference
- Digital
TV
- A guide to MPEG fundamentals and protocol
analysis
- The ATSC digital television system
- ATSC video and audio coding
- Satellite direct-to-home
- DVB-the family of international standards for
digital video broadcasting
- Terrestrial DVB (DVB-T): a broadcast technology
for stationary portable and mobile use
- DVB-S2: the second generation standard for
satellite broad-band services
- DVB-H: digital broadcast services to handheld
devices
- Technologies for DVB services on the Internet
- The DVB multimedia home platform (MHP) and
related specification
- Advanced
Multimedia Coding
- Metadata
and MPEG-7
- MPEG-7: the generic multimedia content
description standard
- Overview of the MPEG-7 standard
- MPEG-7: overview of MPEG-7 description tools
- The MPEG-7 visual standard for content
description—an overview
- Overview of MPEG-7 audio
- MPEG-7 systems: overview
- An overview of the MPEG-7 description
definition language (DDL)
- Future
- Interesting
content