CS448a: Experiments in Digital Television

Tentative Schedule

Jan 5: Organizational Meeting

Jan 10: History of TV and Possibilities of DTV (Pat & Serge)

History of TV

Future Vision of TV

Jan 12: Standards (Pat)

Basic Television Technology

Formats, Aspect Ratios, and Interlacing

Analog and Digital Standards

Principles of MPEG-1 and MPEG-2

Jan 17: Martin Luther King Day (no classes)

Jan 19: MPEG-4 (Pat)

Overview of MPEG-4 Visual Coding and Systems

Layered video

Structured video

Meshed video

Jan 24: DTV Infrastructure: from standards to startups (Milton)

Jan 24: CDI and KICU digital television station tour

Jan 26: Project Brainstorming (All)

Linux OpenSource DTV Receiver

Image-Based Rendering Extensions: Video Panoramas, Transmission of 3D Environments

Distributed Classrooms and Lecture of the Future

Jan 31: Datacasting, Web-based TV enhancements (Serge)

Feb 2: Image-Based Rendering (Pat)

Feb 4: Project Proposals Due

Feb 7: Projects Design Review 1

Feb 9: Projects Design Review II

Feb 14: Project Working Group Meetings

Feb 16: Debate: Will TV become interactive?

Pro: yes

Xin, Jie, Max, Feng

Con: no

Jim, Nathan, Svetoslav

Feb 21: President's Day (no classes)

Feb 23: Debate: Will television and computers converge or diverge?

Pro: converge

Calvin, Shrish, Seeman, Chen Li

Con: diverge

Ben, Ephraim, Derek

Feb 28: Speaker

Mar 1: Debate: Will 2-way broadband infrastructure eliminate wireless broadcast?

Pro: 2-way broadband will take over

Yu Ping, Colin, Kigen

Con: wireless broadcast will survive and flourish

Rama, David, Bryan

Mar 3: Final Deliverables Due

Mar 6: Speaker

Mar 8: Project Working Group Meetings

Mar 17: Final Project Demonstrations 3

Transmission from KICU/INTEL