Multimedia Course Overview

Sistem Multimedia

Universitas Negeri Jakarta

MM Objectives
1. To provide an overview to the subject
2. To describe a number of fundamental concepts
3. To discuss the elements of multimedia systems
4. To explain the application of multimedia
5. To give a global structure of multimedia
• Multimedia data representation
• Multimedia data processing
• Multimedia data compression
• Multimedia data security
• Multimedia data transmission
• Multimedia mobile games
• Multimedia human computer interaction

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 What is Multimedia?

„ Multi- means many; much; multiple

„ Medium means:
„ An intervening substance through which something is transmitted or carried on
„ A means of mass communication such as newspaper, magazine, or television

„ Multimedia is the combinations of text, graphic art, sound, animation, video and other kinds
of elements.
„ When a viewer of a multimedia presentation is allowed to control what elements are
delivered
„ and when, it is interactive multimedia.
„ Multimedia is an inter-disciplinary subject because it involves a variety of different theories
„ and skills:
„ these include computer technology, hardware and software;
„ arts and design, literature, presentation skills;
„ application domain knowledge.

Overview of Multimedia Software Tools

• The categories of software tools briefly examined here are:

1. Music Sequencing and Notation

2. Digital Audio

3. Graphics and Image Editing

4. Video Editing

5. Animation

6. Multimedia Authoring

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 Multimedia Global Structure

Application domain — provides functions to

the user to develop and present multimedia
projects. This includes Software tools, and
multimedia projects development methodology.

System domain — including all supports for

using the functions of the device domain, e.g.,
operating systems, communication systems
(networking) and database systems.

Device domain — basic concepts and skill for

processing various multimedia elements and
for handling physical device.

Multimedia Global Structure

Multimedia and Computer Science:

– Graphics, HCI, visualization, computer vision, data compression, graph
theory, networking, database systems. Multimedia and Hypermedia
‰ Multimedia involves multiple modalities of text, audio, images, drawings,
animation, and video.

‰ Examples of how these modalities are put to use:

• Video teleconferencing.
• Distributed lectures for higher education.
• Tele-medicine.
• Co-operative work environments.
GRAPHIC
TEXT

VIDEO
AUDIO 6
ANIMATION
 What is a Multimedia System?

„ A system that involves:

„ generation
¾ production/authoring tools
„ representation ¾ compression and formats
„ storage ¾ file system design
„ transmission ¾ networking issues
„ search and retrieval
¾ database management
¾ server design, streaming
„ delivery

of multimedia
information
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Multimedia Computing

„ Multimedia systems involve some basic enabling techniques:

„ Multimedia data representation and compression.

„ Multimedia data processing and analysis.

„ Transmitting multimedia data through communication

networks.

„ Multimedia database, indexing and retrieval.

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 Challenges of Multimedia
Computing
„ Developing a successful multimedia system is non-trivial.

„ Continuous media types such as video need a lot of space to

store and very high bandwidth to transmit.
„ They also have tight timing constraints.
„ Automatically analyzing, indexing and organizing information
in audio, image and video is much harder than from text.
„ Multimedia involves many different research areas and needs
more complex and more efficient algorithms and hardware
platforms.

Linear VS Non-Linear

LINEAR
„ A Multimedia Project is identified as Linear when:
„ It is not interactive

„ User have no control over the content that is

being showed to them.

„ Example:
„ A movie

„ A non-interactive lecture / demo show

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 Linear VS Non-Linear

NON-LINEAR
„ A Multimedia Project is identified as Non-Linear when:
„ It is interactive

„ Users have control over the content that is being

showed to them.
„ Users are given navigational control

„ Example:
„ Games

„ Courseware

„ Interactive CD

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Hypermedia and Multimedia

• A hypertext system: meant to be read nonlinearly, by following
links that point to other parts of the document, or to other
documents (Fig. 1.1)

• HyperMedia: not constrained to be text-based, can include other

media, e.g., graphics, images, and especially the continuous
media – sound and video.

- The World Wide Web (WWW) — the best example of a

hypermedia application.

• Multimedia means that computer information can be represented

through audio, graphics, images, video, and animation in
addition to traditional media.

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Multimedia Application
„ Digital video editing and production systems.
„ Electronic newspapers/magazines.
„ World Wide Web.
„ On-line reference works: e.g. encyclopaedia, games,
etc.
„ Home shopping.
„ Interactive TV.
„ Multimedia courseware.
„ Video conferencing.
„ Video-on-demand.
„ Interactive movies.
„ ………
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 Importance of Multimedia

„ There are a number of fields where multimedia could

be of use. Examples are:-
„ Business

„ Education

„ Entertainment

„ Home

„ Public Places

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Importance of Multimedia

„ Business
„ Use and Applications

„ Sales / Marketing Presentation

„ Trade show production

„ Staff Training Application

„ Company Kiosk

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 Importance of Multimedia

„ Education
„ Use and Applications

„ Courseware / Simulations

„ E-Learning / Distance Learning

„ Information Searching

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Importance of Multimedia

„ Entertainment
„ Use and Applications

„ Games (Leisure / Educational)

„ Movies

„ Video on Demand

„ Online

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 Importance of Multimedia

„ Home
„ Use and Applications

„ Television

„ Satellite TV

„ SMS services (chats, voting, reality TV)

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Importance of Multimedia

„ Public Places
„ Use and Applications

„ Information Kiosk

„ Smart Cards, Security

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Group Discussion

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