Multimedia computing

Multimedia computing is a discipline of computer science that deals with multimedia data. The term multimedia is defined more strictly than in everyday language.

About the term "multimedia"

In research and teaching, an application-oriented view of multimedia is chosen, which emphasizes the multimodality and interactivity of the media offer. A distinction is therefore made between simple monomodal media and print media .

Teaching and research topics (selection)

Coding and compression of multimedia data such as images, videos, audios etc.
Multimedia databases
Multimedia semantics
Quality of Service
Digital audio , digital video , digital photo
Media production
E-learning or multimedia learning
Multimedia servers and networks
Media sharing and distribution

Education

In German-speaking countries, the discipline is known and represented as media informatics . All subjects of the course can be regarded as congruent, whereby the scientific tradition of computer science places the computer itself more in focus, while computer science, as the science of information processing, sees the computer more as a work tool, for example to test and confirm hypotheses.

While multimedia computing is mostly taught as a specialization in the USA, media informatics can be a complete course of study in Europe. The first university to offer such a course in Germany was Furtwangen University in 1990 . Previously, there was also only the option to specialize in a regular computer science course .

Conferences and journals

ACM multimedia
ACM Multimedia Systems Conference
ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval
SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking
IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo
IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia

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Fundamentals of Multimedia - Ze-Nian Li, Mark S. Drew, Jiangchuan Liu (Springer 2014, 2nd Edition)

Individual evidence

↑ Fundamentals of Multimedia, p. 3

[1] Fundamentals of Multimedia, p. 3