Course Introduction:                                            

D Digital TV (DTV) is the umbrella term used to describe the new digital television system adopted by the FCC in December 1996; DTV is a technology, and HDTV is just one subset of the DTV.

DURATION

5 days

COURSE CONTENTS

Day 1

Digital Video/Image coding fundamentals and practice

• Conceptual approach to image data compression:
• Image data quantization:
• Uniform/nonuniform quantization
• Project: Uniform quantizer design,
• Prediction of image data:
• Predictive coding – DPCM
• Correlation reduction, prediction error, histogram
• Project: Linear predictor design
• Transform of image data:
• Transform coding – FDCT, Quant, Dequant, IDCT
• Project: Generation of DCT function,
• Project: Image transform using DCT,
• Project: Quantization of DCT coefficients,
• Project: Quantization errors
• Entropy coding – Entropy, Huffman, Arithmetic:
• Concept of entropy
• Project: Calculation of Entropy,
• Huffman encoding principles
• Project: Huffman coding practice,
• Arithmetic encoding principles

Project: Arithmetic coding practice,

Day 2

Digital Video Coding Standards

• Overview of MPEG-1, -2 video coding:
• MPEG-1 video coding (DCT, ME_MC, Quant, VLC)
• MPEG-2 video coding
• MPEG audio coding
• Pre and post processing for video coder
• Motion estimation and motion compensation:
• Project: Implement interpolation and decimation,
• Project: Implement Full and simplified motion search,
• Project: Half-pel motion vector
• Overview of MPEG-4 visual standard
• MPEG-4 profiles and levels:
• MPEG-4 Visual Reference Software:
• Project: Simulation of MPEG-4 using Microsoft_fdam sw in Console mode,
• Project: Implement MFC_based codec,
• Play and display the YUV data using PlayYUV() function
• Generate the MPEG-4 bitstream using function MPEG4Encode()
• Coding techniques in Simple profile,
• I-VOP
• P-VOP
• Short header
• Compression efficiency tools (4MV,UMV,IntraP)
• Transmission efficiency tools (VP,DP,RVLC)
• Project: SP coding tools analysis written in SP.ppt,
• MPEG-4 Simple Profile flow,
• Project: Verify input data
• Project: Padding procedure
• Project: DCT, Quantization and Its Inverses

 

Day 3

Advanced Video Coding Standards

• H.264/MPEG-4 Part-10 AVC(Advanced Video Coding)
• Overview of H.264 standard
• Project: H.264/AVC JM software in Console mode,
• H.264/MPEG-4 Part-10 AVC(Advanced Video Coding)
• Temporal scalability
• Spatial scalability
• Quality(Fidelity) scalability
• Inter-layer prediction(motion, texture, residual)
• SVC profiles
• SVC verification tests
• Comparative results
• Project: JSVM (Joint Scalable Video Model) ver. 9.12 software for the Scalable Video Coding (SVC)

 

Day 4

Digital Broadcasting standards(I)

• The ATSC DTV Systems
• Video compression and decompression
• DTV audio encoding and decoding
• DTV transport system
• Understanding ATSC/MPEG syntax tables
• DTV program and system information protocol
• DTV satellite transmission
• DTV data broadcasting
• IPTV and Internet Video
• The Internet protocol
• Characteristics of IPTV
• Business models
• Constructing an IPTV network
• Video compression
• Maintaining video quality and security
• Bandwidth management
• Set Top Boxes

 

Day 5

Digital Broadcasting standards(II)

• DVB digital television standards
• Video and audio coding
• System information
• Required tables
• Transmission format for DVB-T, DVB-C, DVB-S, DVB-H
• Conditional access
• Mobile multimedia broadcasting standards
• Fundamentals of DVBH broadcasting
• Video streaming over DVBH
• Transport and timeslicing mechanism
• Modulation schemes