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COMP4405: Digital Media Computing
2025 unit information
Digital media data such as audio, image, videos, graphics, and 3D are increasingly becoming indispensable for big data driven computing applications in many domains, such as social media, public security, education, commerce, entertainment, and healthcare. This unit aims to bring students the essential knowledge on digital media, various computing techniques and tools on digital media processing and analysis, and many cutting-edge digital media applications such as VR/AR and Internet of Things (IoT) enabled new media. It will help students build practical computing skills for digital media driven applications and utilise learned knowledge to produce creative and media rich solutions to real world problems.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Engineering
| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Computer Science |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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DATA3888 or COMP3888 or COMP3988 or CSEC3888 or SOFT3888 or ENGG3112 or SCPU3001 |
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Corequisites:
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None |
| Prohibitions:
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COMP5405 or COMP5114 or COMP9419 |
| Assumed knowledge:
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A major in a computer science area. Experience with programming skills as covered in INFO1113 or COMP2123 or COMP2823 or INFO1105 or INFO1905 or other similar units |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. explain multimedia processing and analysis techniques widely used in general scenarios
- LO2. have developed basic project management and team coordination skills in a small group for completing a project
- LO3. perform prototype design for a given task
- LO4. explain the digitization of media data (e.g., image, video, and audio) in terms of acquisition and storage
- LO5. perform the practice of processing and analysing on digital media data with specific techniques
- LO6. reflect on the state-of-the-art digital media driven applications
- LO7. perform solution design for a given task
- LO8. perform derivation of technical solutions for processing and analysing digital media data and practical programming to implement the solutions.
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| Session | MoA ? | Location | Outline ? |
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Semester 1 2025
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Normal evening | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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