Created as part of the Master of information Technology and Master of Applied Information Technology Units - 2009

This unit has been updated as part of a 2009 review and comparison of data with current Handbook, Syllabus + and Callista data.

07/12/2017 - Unit disestablished at FEC 5/17 Item 7.3.

This unit is one of four core units in the Digital Communication Specialisation and the Multimedia Systems Specialisation in the Master of Information Technology (MIT) and Master of Applied Information Technology (MAIT). It is also available as an elective in all FIT Masters. This is a level 5 specified elective unit in the Master of Digital Communications (offered by FIT) and MTC (offered by Engineering). FIT5012 replaced CSE5302 in the Master of Digital Communications, a cognate degree offered by the Faculty of IT.

It builds upon assumed prerequisite knowledge gained at an undergraduate level in the Bachelor of Computer Science (BCompSci). Specifically in: Networks and Data Communications (FIT1005/2008 or equivalent); programming; algorithms; and in the theory of computation.

This unit provides graduates with advanced knowledge about an exiting area within the field of digital communications, namely coding and compression techniques for video and other digital communications. In addition, coding and compression is an active area of research within the Faculty, and this unit (and the other MDC courseware units) contribute to the Faculty's research-teaching nexus.

At the completion of this unit students will:

• understand the fundamental concepts, theory and techniques of audio-visual signal coding and compression;
• understand the nature of psycovisual/psychoacoustic redundancy found in natural audio-visual signals represented digitally;
• understand the requirements and issues involved in transmission of digital audio/visual signals;
• recognise the complexity versus performance trade-offs for audio-visual compression;
• be familiar with standards for representing audio-visual data digitally
• design and implement compression algorithms using hardware and/or software.

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This unit enables students to acquire knowledge on the fundamental concepts, theory and techniques of digital image, video and audio signal coding, quantisation, motion estimation and compensation, vector quantisation and variable-length coding techniques. It also covers the international standards for audio-visual compression, including JPEG, H.26X and MPEG.

On-campus

Examination (3 hours): 50%; In-semester assessment: 50%

6

2 hrs lectures/wk, 2 hrs tutorials/wk

FIT

MAT4003.

For MAIT students, FIT9017, FIT9018, FIT9019, FIT9030, FIT9020 and FIT4037

Knowledge of how to program in a C/C++ environment

Ann Nicholson