Educational guide 2023_24 Escola de Enxeñaría de Telecomunicación

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
Introduction to audiovisual compression and coding.	Human perception, redundancy and importance. Compression standards history. Analysis and description of spatial/temporal video structure.
Video coding.	Video compression standards: MPEG 1, 2 & 4; H.261, H.263, H.264 (AVC), H.264 extensions, introduction to HEVC (H.265, MPEG-H part 2).
Audio coding.	Audio compression standards: MPEG 1, 2, 4 (MP3, AAC).
Advanced audiovisual description.	MPEG7. Advanced audiovisual description. Multimedia content management. Information retrieval.
Practical content.	Each year, two practical work assignments will be done on themes related with theory contents.