CSCI 3280
Introduction to Multimedia
(2026 Term 2)
Computer Science & Engineering
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Teaching Staff
Lecturer:
Prof. Cheng, Yu (chengyu@cse.cuhk.edu.hk)
Office: SHB 919
Office hour: Wed 2:30-4:30pm (by appointment)
TAs:
Zhang Jihai (jihaizhang@link.cuhk.edu.hk)
Office: SHB 904� Tao Yeyao (yeyaotao@link.cuhk.edu.hk)
Office: SHB 117
Lectures and Tutorials
Lectures
We 12:30PM - 1:15PM LSB LT2
Th 8:30AM - 10:15AM LSB LT5
Tutorials
We 10:30AM - 11:15AM LHC 104
(No tutorial for the first 3 weeks.)
Homepage: https://majordavidzhang.github.io/CSCI3280/
Newsgroup: Piazza
Language: English
Course References
Semi-Textbook:
“Fundamentals of Multimedia”�by Ze-Nian Li and Mark S. Drew, Prentice Hall, 2004
References: (In order of importance)
“Multimedia Communication: Applications, Networks, Protocols and Standards” �by Fred Halsall, Addison Wesley
“Digital Compression for Multimedia”, �by Jerry D. Gibson, Tony Berger, David Lindbergh and Richard L. Baker, Morgan Kaufmann, 1998
Technical papers, online document, ...
Grading
2 x 15% Two programming assignments�
30% Project
40% Final Exam (written exam, close-book, the date will be announced later)
Course Content
Communication
Storage
Compression
Modeling
Representation
Not Covered
Storage Media (optional)
- Magnetic media
- RAID, Optical disks
- Block placement and admission control
Network Communications (not covered)
- Recommend you to take a network course�CSCI4430
- Techniques for transferring huge data volume
Course Outline
Goal:
1) Multimedia representation, modeling and compression
2) How to build a multimedia system
3) Help your future research and career
Time | Content |
Jan.7 - Jan.15 | Introduction: 1) course overview; 2) multimedia applications; 3) media types; 4) challenges and research issues |
Jan.21 - Feb.5 | Text representation: basic representation, embedding and more |
Feb. 11 - Mar. 11 | Visual representation: image (2D & 3D), video and more |
Course Outline
Time | Content |
Mar.12 - Mar.25 | Audio representation: digital audio, music, speech, etc. |
Mar.26 - Apr.3 | Data compression I: Huffman, Arithmetic, LZW, JPEG, etc |
Apr.4 - Apr.9 | Data compression II: video coding, AI for compression |
Apr.15 - Apr.16 | Multimedia storage, how to build a multimedia system |
Important Issues