Gerald Friedland is the Director of Audio and Multimedia Research at the International Computer Science Institute, a private lab affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley, where he is currently leading a group of multimedia researchers.
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1. Introduction 2. Multimedia: a definition 3. Elements of multimedia computing 4. Introduction to sensors 5. Sound 6. Light 7. Multimedia documents 8. Multimodal integration and synchronization 9. Multimedia systems 10. The human factor 11. Fundamentals of compression 12. Lossy compression 13. Advanced perceptual compression 14. Speech compression 15. Multimedia information retrieval 16. Signal processing primer 17. Multimedia content analysis 18. Content analysis systems 19. Content and context 20. Future topics.
