The course looks at how digital media is encoded, compressed and presented in a computerised environment and how media content can be processed in order to provide more information about it, automatically annotate or classify it, or make it easier to find or handle. The module exposes various discussions in all aspects from the basics of human perceptions over media presentation, coding and digitisation and compression to advanced media processing. Students are encouraged to understand the underlying mathematical principles and how they are being used within coding and different media processing schemes. Fundamental module types such as images, audio and video will be covered in the module.
Students will gain an understanding of how digital media is encoded in the digital domain: how they are presented on computers, laptops, smartphones and other devices. The basic principles of automatic content processing and how additional information can be generated through processing video, audio and images will be learnt.