CS5262-Outline-2024

CS5262 Multimedia Networking and Systems, Spring 2024

Time: Wednesday 10:10-12:00; Thursday 11:10-12:00
Location: Delta 102
Instructor: Cheng-Hsin Hsu (chsu@cs.nthu.edu.tw)
Office: Delta 643
TA: I-Chun Huang (aaron410932@gmail.com)
TA Office: Delta 741
Office Hour: By appointment

Summary:

This course consists of two parts. In the first half, we will review the central concept of the broad area of multimedia and networking systems. By doing so, we make sure that all the students are ready to get into the second part, in which they will each study one of the cutting-edge multimedia networking systems, such as 3D content streaming to head-mounted displays, distributed extended reality games, machine-learning-enabled multimedia applications, and media-aware network elements. The goal is to have each student finish a research project/report at the end of the semester.

Course Description:

This course covers the latest research in the areas of networking and multimedia systems. Despite the basic concepts will be reviewed, the course is a graduate-level course. The course requires students to work on intensive term projects, which last throughout the whole semester (instead of 2 weeks before the semester ends). Students are expected to actively participate in code tracing activities, present their term project progress, and regularly turn in progress reports. At the end of the semester, each student (or team) should have a publishable technical report in order to pass the course.

The lectures will be given in English. All the reports must be written in English.

Textbooks:

Li, Drew, and Liu, Fundamentals of Multimedia, 3rd Ed., Springer, 2021 (available online on campus).
Kurose and Rose, Computer Networking: A Top-down Approach, 8th Edition, Person, 2022.
Giuseppe Valenzise, Martin Alain, Emin Zerman, and Cagri Ozcinar, Immersive Video Technologies, 1st Ed., Academic Press, 2022 (available online on campus).

References:

Students will search, print, read, and present the latest search papers under the guidance of the instructor.

Teaching Methods:

Lectures given by the instructors to review the basic concepts.
Book (Immersive Video Technologies) chapters presented by students.
Paper presentations given by students.
Participation in an international grand challenge (to substitute the mid-term exam).
Completion of the term projects (with final presentations and technical report to substitute the final exam).