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COMP3419: Graphics and Multimedia (2020 - Semester 2)
| Unit: | COMP3419: Graphics and Multimedia (6 CP) |
| Mode: | Normal-Day |
| On Offer: | Yes |
| Level: | Senior |
| Faculty/School: | School of Computer Science |
| Unit Coordinator/s: |
Dr Cai, Tom
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| Session options: | Semester 2 |
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| Campus: | Camperdown/Darlington |
| Pre-Requisites: | COMP2123 OR COMP2823 OR INFO1105 OR INFO1905. |
| Brief Handbook Description: | This unit provides a broad introduction to the field of graphics and multimedia computing to meet the diverse requirements of application areas such as entertainment, industrial design, virtual / augmented reality, vision-based multimedia analytics, digital healthcare, intelligent media management, social multimedia and remote sensing. It covers both the underpinning theories and the practices of computing and manipulating digital media including graphics / image, audio, animation, and video. Emphasis is placed on principles and cutting-edge techniques for multimedia data processing, content analysis, media retouching, media coding and compression. |
| Assumed Knowledge: | Programming skills |
| Lecturer/s: |
Dr Cai, Tom
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| Timetable: | COMP3419 Timetable | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| T&L Activities: | Tutorial: Students are expected to attend all scheduled online Zoom tutorials. Independent Study: Students are expected to undertake prescribed reading and practical work besides understanding lecutre contents. |
Learning outcomes are the key abilities and knowledge that will be assessed in this unit. They are listed according to the course goal supported by each. See Assessment Tab for details how each outcome is assessed.
(4) Design (Level 3)| Assessment Methods: |
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| Assessment Description: |
Lab Checkpoints: weekly online lab exercise submission; Assignment-1a & -1b: multimedia computing; Assignment-2: object detection and recognition project; Final Exam: non-invigilated, open-book, online final exam. |
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| Policies & Procedures: | IMPORTANT: School policy relating to Academic Dishonesty and Plagiarism. In assessing a piece of submitted work, the School of Computer Science may reproduce it entirely, may provide a copy to another member of faculty, and/or to an external plagiarism checking service or in-house computer program and may also maintain a copy of the assignment for future checking purposes and/or allow an external service to do so. Other policies See the policies page of the faculty website at http://sydney.edu.au/engineering/student-policies/ for information regarding university policies and local provisions and procedures within the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies. |
| Note on Resources: | NO assigned text. However, lecture & lab notes and suggested readings provide a sufficient coverage over all materials. Lecture and lab notes are given during the lecture and lab sessions. Details of specific unit of study readings are given on the course website. Other resources and material may be specified through the unit of study web page. |
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Course Goals
This unit contributes to the achievement of the following course goals:
| Attribute | Practiced | Assessed |
| (5) Interdisciplinary, Inclusiveness, Influence (Level 3) | No | 0% |
| (4) Design (Level 3) | No | 25% |
| (3) Problem Solving and Inventiveness (Level 3) | No | 0% |
| (2) Engineering/ IT Specialisation (Level 3) | No | 50% |
| (1) Maths/ Science Methods and Tools (Level 3) | No | 25% |
These goals are selected from Engineering & IT Graduate Outcomes Table 2018 which defines overall goals for courses where this unit is primarily offered. See Engineering & IT Graduate Outcomes Table 2018 for details of the attributes and levels to be developed in the course as a whole. Percentage figures alongside each course goal provide a rough indication of their relative weighting in assessment for this unit. Note that not all goals are necessarily part of assessment. Some may be more about practice activity. See Learning outcomes for details of what is assessed in relation to each goal and Assessment for details of how the outcome is assessed. See Attributes for details of practice provided for each goal.
