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This document provides an introduction to multimedia and covers topics such as the history of multimedia, why multimedia is needed, definitions of multimedia and related terms, examples of multimedia applications, and software tools used for multimedia.

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This document provides an introduction to multimedia and covers topics such as the history of multimedia, why multimedia is needed, definitions of multimedia and related terms, examples of multimedia applications, and software tools used for multimedia.

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Introduction

Madhat Alsoos, PhD

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Text Book
• “Fundamentals of Multimedia”, Ze-Nian Li and
Mark S.Drew, 3rd Edition, Springer 2021

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Outlines
• Introduction to media types (text, image, audio, video)
• Multimedia Representation and Storage
• Color images and videos
• Basics of Digital Audio
• Fundamentals Concepts of Videos
• Lossless Compression
• Lossless Media Compression
• Lossy Media Compression

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Why we need Media
• Better representation than text
– Speaking is faster than writing
– Listening is faster than reading
– Showing is clearer than describing
• A picture is worth a thousand words

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Why we need Media

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What is Multimedia
• Multi
– Many, much, multiple
• Media: medium
– A means to distribute and represent information
(Text, graphics, images, animation, voice, sound
and video)
• Multimedia
– To distribute and represent information coded as
(Text, graphics, images, animation, voice, sound
and video)
– By computer, smartphones, digital TV, … 6
What is Multimedia
• Applications that use multiple modalities,
including text, images, drawings (graphics),
animation, video, sound including speech, and
interactivity

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What is Multimedia
• Fields share multimedia area
– Graphics
– Visualization
– Human Computer Interaction(HCI)
– Computer Vision
– Data compression
– Networking
– Database systems

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What is Multimedia
• Examples
– Video teleconferencing
– Distributed lectures for higher education
– Co-operative work environments (edit a shared
document)
– Searching in (very) large video and image
– Augmented reality: placing computer objects into
scenes
– Interactive TV
– Video in demand
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History of Multimedia
• Newspaper: uses text, graphics, and images
• Motion pictures (1830’s): observe motion too
rapid for perception by the human eye.
• Wireless radio transmission (1895): Guglielmo
Marconi, at Pontecchio, Italy
• Television (20th century): video as a
commonly available medium

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History of Multimedia
• 1945: Hypermedia, Vannevar Bush wrote a
landmark article describing what amounts to a
hypermedia
• 1960: Hypertext
• 1989: World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee
invented the World Wide Web, Switzerland
• 1991: Apple Multimedia Lab
• 1991: MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 in 1990’s
• 1992: JPEG, then new JPEG2000 standard
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History of Multimedia
• 1993: HTML
• 1994: NetScape
• 1996: Internet Explorer
• 1996: DVD video
• 1998: Hand-held MP3 devices
• 2001: iPod
• 2003: Skype, free peer-to-peer voice over the
Internet
• 2005: Youtube
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History of Multimedia
• 2006: twitter, 2012 allow uploading up to 6s video
• 2007: iPhone, 2008 first android powered phone
• 2010: Netflix, a DVD rental service provider
• 2010: Instagram
• 2012: HTML5, improve HTML with support for the
latest multimedia features
• 2013: Sony released its PlayStation 4
• 2016: Oculus Rift (virtual reality headset)
• 2020: Sony released its PlayStation 5
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Hypermedia and Multimedia
• Hypertext
– System meant to be read nonlinearly, by following
links

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Hypermedia and Multimedia
• Hypermedia
– Not constrained to be text-based
– Can include other media, e.g., graphics, images,
sound and video
• Multimedia
– means that computer information can be
represented through audio, graphics, images,
video, and animation in addition to traditional
media (text and graphics).

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Multimedia Software Tools
• Music
– Cakewalk (Pro Audio)
– Macromedia Soundedit
• Digital Audio
– Adobe Audition (Cool Edit)
– Sound Forge
• Graphics and Images
– Adobe Illustrator
– Adobe Photoshop
– Adobe Fireworks 16
Multimedia Software Tools
• Video Editing
– Adobe Premiere
– Adobe After Effects
– Final Cut Pro (by Apple)
– CyberLink PowerDirector
• Animation
– DirectX & OpenGL
– 3D Studio Max
– Maya
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Multimedia Software Tools
• Multimedia Authoring: creating a complete
multimedia presentation, including interactive
user control
– Adobe Flash
– Adobe Director
– Adobe Dreamweaver
– Adobe Authorware
– Silverlight

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