CSC 361 & 661 -- Digital Media
Spring 2002

Dr. Jennifer Burg & Dr. Yue-Ling Wong


Dr. Yue-Ling Wong Dr. Jennifer Burg
Reynolda 225 Calloway 314
758-3922 758-4465
ylwong@wfu.edu burg@cs.wfu.edu
CSC 361/661 Web page CSC 361/661 Web page
Homepage Homepage
Office hours:
3-4 W or by appointment
Office hours:
12-1 T/Th, 10-11 W, or by appointment

Syllabus: http://www.cs.wfu.edu/~burg/Courses/Spring02/CSC361-661/syllabus/CSC361Syllabus.htm

Schedule (Also see Dr. Burg's web page for Dr. Burg's sessions):

1-15 Tue Wong & Burg Overview & pre-test
1-17 Thu Burg definition and history of multimedia, overview of multimedia software, analog vs. digital representations, sampling and quantization, sampling error, Nyquist theorem, resolution and bit depth, standards and standardization organizations, file types
1-22 Tue Burg vector vs. bitmapped graphics, file types, sampling, quantization, resolution, and bit depth revisited in the context of image, file sizes
1-24 Thu Wong Instructions for accessing software
Scanning
1-29 Tue Burg encoding and compression, run-length encoding, Huffman codes, LZW compression
1-31 Thu Burg jpeg compression, discrete cosine transform
2-5 Tue Burg ''
2-7 Thu Burg color representation, RGB, indexed color, CMYK, YUV
2-12 Tue Wong Photoshop 6 - #1 - overview of interface, hands-on photo retouching tutorial
2-14 Thu Burg Exam I
2-19 Tue Wong Photoshop 6 - #2 - examine histogram, color table, layer mask, clipping group, selection tools, channels, etc., examine some examples
2-21 Thu Wong Photoshop 6 - #3 - filters
Vector-based software - Freehand 10 - #1 (Assignment on Freehand due on 2-26)
Demo some Director games and the Director chess game assignment, part of which requires Freehand and Flash
2-26 Tue Wong Vector-based software - Flash 5 - #1 (Assignment on Freehand and Flash: design of a game board and two game pieces; complete by 3-7 but do not need to hand in)
2-28 Thu Burg sound waves, sampling and the Nyquist theorem revisited in the context of sound, Nyquist frequency, sound file types and sizes, standardization organizations
3-5 Tue Wong Director 8.5 - #1- overview of interface, animation
3-7 Thu Wong Director 8.5 - #2 - introduction to Lingo, hands-on building a chess game, Director assignment (due 3-26)
3-12 Tue -- Spring Break Week
3-14 Thu -- Spring Break Week
3-19 Tue Wong Director 8.5 - #3 - Lingo, continue building a chess game, using video & sound
3-21 Thu Wong Director 8.5 - #4 - multiuser server & 3D in Director; Director assignment on multiuser server (CSC 661 students only; due 3-28)
3-26 Tue Wong & Burg
OOP in Director bandwidth related to file types, sound compression, transforms, including FFT
3-28 Thu Wong Sound processing with CoolEdit and Acid
4-2 Tue Burg digital encoding of analog video, codecs and file types, MPEG encoding, variable bit rate, watermarking
4-4 Thu Burg ''
4-9 Tue Wong Using a digital video camera and processing video (Adobe Premiere) & DVD authoring; video/DVD assignment (due 4-18)
4-11 Thu -- out of town for a meeting
4-16 Tue Burg bandwidth issues with regard to video, HDTV and digital TV, network transfer of multimedia files
4-18 Thu Burg ''
4-23 Tue Wong & Burg Exam II
4-25 Thu Wong & Burg Student Project Presentation
4-30 Tue Wong & Burg Continue Student Project Presentation. Tie up loose ends. Review for final.