ECE 160 - Spring 2011

Schedule: Tuesday, Thursday 3:30-4:45pm, Buchanan 1920

Announcements:

03-30-2011: Classroom changed to Buchanan 1920.
03-30-2011: First Discussion session will be on Tuesday, 04-05-2011.
04-06-2011: HW1 due on Tuesday, April 12.
04-09-2011: Project 1 deadline on Tuesday, April 12.
04-13-2011: HW2 due on Tuesday, April 19.
04-13-2011: Project 2 deadline April 26-29.
04-18-2011: TA2 office hours changed to Friday, 1-4pm.
04-24-2011: No Lectures on 26th and 28th April.
04-26-2011: Project 2 demo during Discussion Hour:
Show the demo in the tool you used for composing music.
04-29-2011: Project3 tool information: Anima8tor(Windows), Blender(MAC, Linux Windows)
Anima8tor: http://www.anim8or.com/main/index.html
Blender: http://www.blender.org/ (Tutorial available online: http://gryllus.net/Blender/3D.html)
05-03-2011: Midterm rescheduled on Thursday, 05-05-2011.
05-11-2011: No discussion on Thursday, 05-12-2011(ideas already discussed in previous discussions)
Please send email to you TA if you need to discuss anything !!!
Project 3 demo this week 05/16 - 05/20(Discussion/Thursday or Office Hours/Friday): TAs will look for
the image in tool environment. Please make arrangements to show the Blender/Anim8or environment.
Project 4 demo during week 05/30 - 06/03(In Discussion/ or Office Hours): Your animation is not required
to have audio, but you can make it look like Project 1 by putting audio in background/transitions(in any
video editing tool to earn maximum marks !!!). Please make arrangements to show your video in 3D tool environment.

Office Hours:

Tuesday and Thursday, 2:00pm - 3:15pm, HFH, Room 2164

Discussion Session & Office Hours:

TA1: Abhinav Anand
abhinav_anand@umail.ucsb.edu
Discussion: Thursday, 9:00-9:50am, NH 1109
Office Hours: Friday, 1:00-4:00pm, ECI Lab, HFH

TA2: Nitin Chhabra
nitinchhabra@umail.ucsb.edu
Discussion: Tuesday, 5:00-5:50pm, 387 Room 103
Office Hours: Friday, 1:00-4:00pm, ECI Lab, HFH

Course Information:

Introduction to multimedia and applications, including WWW, image/video databases and video streaming.
Covers media content analysis, media data organization and indexing (image/video databases), and media data
distribution and interaction (video-on-demand and interactive TV).

Grading:

Homework Assignments, 20%
Projects, 50%
Midterm Exam, 10%
Final Exam, 20%

Text:

Multimedia Systems,Algorithms, Standards and Industry Practice, Parag Havaldar and Gerard Medioni, Course Technology,
Cengage Learning, 2010, 1-4188-3594-3

ECE160 Lecture Notes(course webpage)

Project Submission:

Demonstrate your project to TAs in the TA office hours. As a backup, you can create a dropbox account, download and
install dropbox client in your computer and copy your final demo file (avi,mpeg etc) there. Right click on the file and copy
the link given in dropbox->Copy Public Link. You can send this link to TAs for accessing your file and see the demo.