Communication and Media Engineering

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Multimedia Web Technologies

Prerequisite

relational and object-relational databases

SQL

at least one programming language, e.g. Java

UML, Entity-Relationship modelling

principles of computer networks

internet protocols

authentication in computer networks

Computer technology, computer networks and cryptography

 

 

Teaching methods Lecture
Learning target / Competences

The students will learn to understand how to design and implement multimedia web applications. They will know the concepts for a secure data transmission and storage and to be able to apply them.

Duration 1
Hours per week 6.0
Overview
Classes 90 h
Individual / Group work: 120 h
Workload 210 h
ECTS 7.0
Requirements for awarding credit points

Written exam K120

Credits and grades

7 Credits, grade 1 ...5, K120

Responsible person

Prof. Dr. rer. pol. Volker Sänger

Recommended semester 3
Frequency Every 2nd sem.
Usability

Master's degree program CME and MuK (Master Medien und Kommunikation)

Lectures

Anonymity and Surveillance-Security, Privacy & Anonymity on the Internet

Type Lecture
Nr. M+I413
Hours per week 2.0
Content
  • IT-Security
  • Internet Forensics
  • Anonymity and Pseudonymity
  • Linkability, Unobservability, Privacy
  • Anonymizer, Digital Mixing, Remailer
  • Darknet, Overlay Networks
  • TOR, Affiliate Systems

 

Literature
  • https://www.torproject.org
  • https://geti2p.net
  • https://www.privacy-handbuch.de/
  • https://www.anonym-surfen.de
  • AN.ON: Technischer Hintergrund von JAP. http://anon.inf.tu-dresden.de/JAPTechBgPaper.pdf
  • Reporters Without Borders (Organisation): Internet access barred aswave of new legislation threatens freedom of Information. http://en.rsf.org/russia-internet-access-barred-as-wave-of-01-11-2012,43627.html.
  • Clarke, Ian: The Philosophy behind Freenet. https://freenetproject.org/philosophy.html.
  • Chaum, David: Untraceable Electronic Mail, Return Addresses, and Digital Pseudonyms. (1981). https://mirror.robert-marquardt.com/anonbib/cache/chaum-mix.pdf
  • Clarke, Ian; Sandberg, Oskar; Toseland, Matthew; Verendel, Vilhelm: Private Communication Through a Network of Trusted - Connections: The Dark Freenet. PET 2010. https://freenetproject.org/papers/freenet-0.7.5-paper.pdf.
  • Federrath, Hannes; Golembiewski, Claudia: Speicherung von Nutzungsdaten durch Anonymisierungsdienste im Internet. In: Datenschutz und Datensicherheit 28/8 (2004), 486-490. http://epub.uni-regensburg.de/7349/1/FeGoDuD2004.pdf
  • I2P Techincal Introduction. http://www.i2p2.de/techintro.html

 

Next Generation Internet

Type Lecture
Nr. M+I408
Hours per week 2.0
Content

 

Internet Architecture (principles and critical discussion of changes)

IPv6

Content Distribution in the Internet (CDNs, P2P systems, Information Centric Networking)

Multimedia communication (new transport protocols, congestion control, quality-of-service

 

Literature

 

  • J. F. Kurose, K. W. Ross: Computer Networking -- A Top-down Approach Featuring the Internet. Pearson, 2013.
  • additional articles and books are presented in the lecture

 

 

Multimedia Databases

Type Lecture
Nr. M+I405
Hours per week 2.0
Content

 

  • Goals and principles of Multimedia Databases
  • Meta Data, Features, Segmentation, Query Types, Similarity
  • Image Databases, Content Based Retrieval, Semantic Gap, Deep Learning, Data Structures, Images in Oracle, Analysis of wellknown applications like Google Goggles, Pinterest
  • Audio Databases, Music Retrieval, Shazam, Audio in Oracle
  • Video Databases, Video Features, Data Structures, Netflix, Video in Oracle
  • Text Databases
  • All Types of Media in one Database

 

 

 

Literature
  • L. Dunckley: Multimedia Databases - An Object-Relational Approach, Addison Wesley, 2003
  • Blanken, H.M.; de Vries, A.P.; Blok, H.E.; Feng, L. (Eds.): Multimedia Retrieval, Springer-Verlag, 2007 (ebook: http://www.springer.com/computer/database+management+&+information+retrieval/book/978-3-540-72894-8

  • S. Rüger: Multimedia Information Retrieval. Morgan & Claypool, 2010
  • D.G. Lowe: Distinctive Image Features from Scale-Invariant Keypoints, International Journal of Computer Vision, 60, 2, pp. 91-110, 2004
  • A. Wang: An Industrial-Strength Audio Search Algorithm. In ISMIR Procceedings, Baltimore 2003
  • J. Sivic and A. Zisserman: Efficient Visual Search for Objects in Videos. Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 96, pp. 548-566, 2008
  • R. Baeza-Yates and B. Ribeiro-Neto: Modern Information Retrieval - the concepts and technology behind search. ACM Press, 2. Edition, 2011
  • A. Géron: Neural Networks and Deep Learning, O’Reilly, 2018. ebook

 

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