CS420, Graphics File Format and Data Compression Techniques Fall 2004 (take2), Ken Greenebaum

Due to Dr Folsom's sudden illness I will be teaching the remainder of the class. To both make up for the lost third week and to accomodate my own material we will be deviating from Dr Folsom's syllabus. Please check back for details.

Please see me after class or schedule office hours via email.
(NOTE: Please use my keng@sworks.com email address)

Items of interest:

• Final Exam: 12/13 6:00-7:30PM
• 6:00PM 12/8/04 Seattle SIGGRAPH meeting (in Plato): 2D's Not Dead: Starting an animation studio using in-house software and open-source tools with DigiPen graduate Robert Quattlebaum
• Get published! I need Windows, LINUX, and OS X, developers, testers, and web-designers to help with the CD-ROM accompanying the upcoming Audio Anecdotes Volume3. email if you would like to help (or know someone you would like to volunteer).

Lectures:

• 09/27
• 10/04
• 10/11
• 10/18
• 10/25 Color Matching, MidTerm Review
• 11/01 MidTerm, Predictive Filtering, Vector Formats
• 11/08 Compression recap, Lossy Intro, detector models
• 11/15 JPEG
• 11/22 MPEG
• 11/29 MPEG Layer-3 Audio
• 12/06 Wavelets, Fractal Compression, Steganography

Assignments: (please submit via email only; due before lecture)

• HW1 (re-submit by 10/4/04)
• HW2 (re-submit by 10/4/04)
• HW3 (due 10/4/04)
• HW4 (due 10/11/04)
• HW5 (due 10/18/04)
• HW6 (due 10/25/04)
• No new HW, please study for mid-term, and complete reading!
• HW7 (due 11/08/04)
• HW8 (due 11/15/04)

Readings: (Symes is an optional text, Audio Anecdotes is available in library)