Assignment Specifications Extracted from the Learning Guide
Prepare a report of 3000 words on a modern application of digital multimedia communications. The application should be of significant value. Possible topics are:
– Multimedia real-time video streaming
– Multimedia communications in eHealth
– Multimedia communications via modern networks, such as wireless sensor networks, cognitive radio networks or Internet of Things. Note that one type of networks should only be included.
– Multi-user video conferencing
– High efficiency video coding and its applications
– Machine learning in multimedia communication systems
A student must choose one of the above topics for the report. The written contents of the report can be divided into
Introduction, Main Report Body and Conclusion.
The Main Report Body should consist of three parts:
Application itself
– Multimedia techniques and/or technology used in the application
– Communication techniques and/or technology used in the application
Basic source coding techniques which are already covered in the unit materials of this unit should not be covered
in details in the report. Multimedia techniques and technology may include the acquisition of the multimedia, and
should include the coding of the acquired multimedia, communication technology, such as techniques, devices, protocols and/or standards used in the application. Similarly, basic communication techniques, protocols and standards,
and those which are already covered in the unit materials of this unit should not be covered in details in the report.
Multimedia communication technologies, protocols and standards to be covered in lectures include basic data compression techniques, JPEG, JPEG2000, MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4, H.261, H.263, RTP, RTCP, SIP, STP, SDP,
and RSVP. Detailed materials in an assignment submission, which overlap lecture materials in general and the listed
protocols in particular, may not be counted. However, detailed materials of these protocols and standards may be
included in the report if these materials are not already covered in the lectures.
In summary, the report should at least cover the application part, the multimedia part of the application, and the
communication part of the application. These three parts must belong to the same application area. There should
be balance, in contents as well as in details, in the coverage of these three parts in the report.
The 3000 words are for the report contents only. Although the amount of words is small, words used in the front
cover, table of contents, references, diagrams, and tables, etc., are not counted.
Students are expected to do their own literature research and any reference used must be quoted at the end of the
whole report. A small amount of direct quoting of sentences and small paragraphs, properly quoted and referenced,
from literatures may be used in the report to refer to other people’s statements and to initiate discussions or descriptions in the report. However, the report should mostly be written by the student’s own words, with reference to the
literatures if necessary. Too much direct quoting in the report will be penalized, in a sense that it will reduce the effective amount of the student’s contributions to the report. Please note that Turnitin, an originality checker, is to be used to report on the amount of written contribution from the student to the submitted report. A report must only be submitted for this unit only. Tables and diagrams should be used to organize data, and should be drawn by the students. Direct copying of tables and figures from literatures may be ignored. Any sources of data must be referenced. References, tables and diagrams (properly captioned) should NOT be placed in the main body of the report. Instead they should be placed at the end of the report. Students should avoid simply listing a large number of points in point-format in the description part of the report. A list of points, which is effectively a table, may be marked as such. Given the word limit of 3000 specified in the assignment, materials written too far beyond this word limit may not be marked. More details about this assignment will be placed on vUWS for this unit during the Session.
Resources: Library resources, especially relevant IEEE Transactions and Magazines via IEEE Xplore: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/home.jsp
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