Introduction to basic procedures of representation and processing of multimedia signals, and the technologies of modern multimedia communications which ensure a high quality of multimedia signal.

Knowledge about the basic approaches to processing of multimedia signals, ways of compression of multimedia signals and basic techniques of objective and subjective evaluation of the quality of multimedia signals in communication networks and end multimedia applications and devices. Additional outcome is the skills of designing multimedia systems, processional knowledge and skills in selecting, analyzing and automatic control of multimedia system.

Multimedia communications: models, user and network demands, multimedia terminals. Formation and representation of audio and video signals. Visual and acoustic perception of video and audio signals. Audio-visual integration. Processing of multimedia signals: analysis, interpolation, extraction of characteristic features, adaptive filtering, estimation and quality enhancement, techniques of audio and video coding, watermark, speech, audio and video streaming, multimedia processors. Distributed multimedia systems and their application: interactive TV, video on demand, hypermedia applications. Multimedia communication standards. Multimedia communication systems networking. Networks with universal multimedia access. Determining the quality of service in multimedia communications based on parameters of transmission of multimedia streaming and decoding information in end multimedia applications and devices.

Lectures, auditory and computer practice.