CSE408 midterm prep

What is multimedia?

Give examples of MM data

  • combinations of text, sound, images, animation, graphics

Discuss a multimedia system you use on one of the following platforms: mobile phone, home PC, TV, Social media, streaming video, etc.

  • Ex: a web-based video editor that lets anyone create a new video by editing, annotating and reminxing videos on the cloud
  • Searching very large video and image databases for target visual objects, using semantics of objects

Explain three state of the art MM research topics

  • Mutiple views: allowing photo-realistic (video-quality) synthesis of virtual actores from several cameras or from a single camera under different lighting
  • Digital fashion: aims to develop smart clothing that can communicate with others such enhanced clothing using wireless communication
  • 3D motion capture: used for multiple actor capture so that multiple real actores in a virtual studio can be used to automatically produce realistic animated models with natural movement