Teaching of Multimedia Information Processing & Communications

多媒体通信是指对语音、图像、音频、视频以及计算机生成的图形和数据进行集成处理和通信。为了让学生为这项快速发展的技术做好准备，电工系正在建立一个新的多媒体实验室，配备一些多媒体个人计算机、视听设备以及必要的网络和外围设备。本实验室用于一门名为多媒体信息处理和通信的新实验室课程，该课程为学生提供语音、图像和视频的获取、处理和通信以及多媒体文档创建的实践体验。这门课程本质上是跨学科的，是为电气工程、计算机工程和计算机科学专业的大四学生开设的选修课。该实验室的设施还可用于多媒体通信领域的高级项目和其他本科生/研究生研究项目。计划中的高级/硕士联合项目包括通过互联网建立视频会议和视频点播系统的原型。目前，该部门在电信和图像处理方面拥有非常强大和活跃的教育和研究计划。多媒体实验室的增加加强了这些项目，并在这些学科之间提供了协同效应。这种发展的成功程度可以通过学生和雇主的反馈来评估。为了能够迅速和广泛地传播这一经验，该项目正在建立一个互联网主页，其中包含所有开发的课件和相关出版物。

Multimedia communications refers to integrated processing and communications of voice, image, audio, video, and computer generated graphics and data. In order to prepare the students for this fast evolving technology, the Department of Electrical Engineering is setting up a new Multimedia Laboratory, equipped with a number of multimedia personal computers, audiovisual equipment, and necessary networking and peripheral devices. This laboratory is used for a new laboratory course titled Multimedia Information Processing and Communications, which provides students with hands-on experience to the acquisition, processing, and communications of voice, image, and video, as well as multimedia document creation. Being interdisciplinary by nature, this course is offered as an elective course for senior students majoring in electrical engineering, computer engineering, and computer science. The facilities in the laboratory can also be used for senior projects and other undergraduate/graduate research projects in the area of multimedia communications. Planned senior/master's joint projects include building prototype video conferencing and video-on-demand systems over the Internet. Currently, the department has very strong and active educational and research programs in Telecommunications and Image Processing. The addition of the Multimedia Laboratory strengthens these programs and provides a synergy among these disciplines. The success of this development can be evaluated by feedback from students and employers. To enable fast and broad dissemination of the experience, the project is establishing an Internet homepage that contains all the developed courseware and related publications.