Teaching of Multimedia Information Processing & Communications

多媒体通信是指语音、图像、音频、视频和计算机生成的图形和数据的集成处理和通信。为了让学生为这一快速发展的技术做好准备，电气工程系正在建立一个新的多媒体实验室，配备了一些多媒体个人电脑，视听设备以及必要的网络和外围设备。该实验室用于一个新的实验室课程名为多媒体信息处理和通信，它为学生提供了动手的经验，以获取，处理和语音，图像和视频的通信，以及多媒体文件的创建。本课程具有跨学科性质，是电气工程、计算机工程和计算机科学专业高年级学生的选修课。实验室的设施也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/硕士联合项目包括在因特网上建立原型电视会议和视频点播系统。 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方案，并提供了这些学科之间的协同作用。这种发展的成功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因特网主页，其中载有所有开发的课件和有关出版物。

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.