Course info

Authors: G. Brunetti, T. Di Giacomo, C. Joslin, L. Moccozet, N. Thalmann, F. Vexo.

Level: Basic.

Prerequisites: None.

Description: The course treats the history of the MPEG standards, the specific standards MPEG-4, MPEG-7, MPEG-21, the humanoid animation standard H-ANIM, the STandard for the Exchange of Product (model) data (STEP), the Scalable Vector Graphics standard SVG, the Virtual Reality Modeling Language VRML, the extensible 3D graphics standard X3D, and the extensible markup language XML.

Literature:
A. Walsh, M. Bourges-Sévenier, MPEG-4 Jump-Start, Prentice Hall, January 2002.

1. Ebrahimi, F. Pereira, The MPEG-4 Book, Prentice Hall, July 2002.
2. Pandzic, R. Forchheimer, MPEG-4 Facial Animation: The Standard, Implementation and Applications, John Wiley & Sons, October 2002.
3. Manjunath, P. Salembier, T. Sikora, Introduction to MPEG-7: Multimedia Content Description Language, John Wiley & Sons, June 2002.
4. Kosch, Distributed Multimedia Database Technologies Supported by MPEG-7 and MPEG-21, Auerbach Pub, November 2003.
5. Carey, G. Bell, The Annotated VRML 2.0 Reference Manual, Addison-Wesley Pub Co, June 1997.
6. Walsh, M. Bourges-Sévenier, Core Web3D, Prentice Hall, September 2000.
7. Geroimenko, C. Chen, Visualizing Information Using SVG and X3D, Springer Verlag, October 2004.
8. Cagle, M. Bierman, SVG Programming, Apress, July 2002.
9. Campesato, Fundamentals of SVG Programming: Concepts to Source Code, Charles River Media, September 2003

Format: Mostly slides in pdf-format.

Course material

Course material is in e-Room.