| Recommended semester: 7th - 9th semester |
| Scope and form: Lectures and individual project (in groups of two) |
| Evaluation: Oral presentation and approval of reports
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| Examination: 13-scale |
| Previous course: 52421 |
| Prerequisites: 34230 / 52200 / 52201 / 02501 / 04250 |
| No credit points with: 52421 |
| Participant limitation: Max. 20 |
| Aim: To give the participants a good knowledge of the basic principles of data compression and methods for data compression. To enable the students to implement data compression algorithms. |
Contents: Introductory lectures about the basic principles and methods for data compression and examples of data compression tasks.
Some examples are:
- Predictive coding of images
- Recent methods for bi-level image coding
- Coding of data strings e.g. text
- Coding of images in the frequency domain (DCT and wavelets - JPEG 2000)
- Coding of speach and audio signals
- Coding of moving pictures and video objects
Midway, the students choose projects within the areas presented and adjusted to their prerequisites. |
| Contact: Søren Otto Forchhammer, building 371, (+45) 4525 3622, sf@com.dtu.dk |
| Department: 034 Research Center COM |
| Course URL: http://www.tele.dtu.dk/52421/ |
| Keywords: Data compression, coding, image coding, JPEG (2000), wavelets |
| Updated: 09-05-2001 |
