MASTERS: A Virtual Lab on Multimedia Systems for Telecommunications, Medical, and Remote Sensing Applications

Author

Alexiadis, Dimitrios S. ; Mitianoudis, Nikolaos

Author_Institution

Sch. of Sci. & Technol., Int. Hellenic Univ., Thermi, Greece

Volume

56

Issue

2

fYear

2013

fDate

May-13

Firstpage

227

Lastpage

234

Abstract

Digital signal processing (DSP) has been an integral part of most electrical, electronic, and computer engineering curricula. The applications of DSP in multimedia (audio, image, video) storage, transmission, and analysis are also widely taught at both the undergraduate and post-graduate levels, as digital multimedia can be encountered in most human daily activities. In this paper, a virtual lab on multimedia systems for telecommunications, medical, and remote sensing applications is presented; consisting of 20 graphical user interfaces, it can support teaching activities for various DSP concepts. The virtual lab developed was used as a teaching companion for a post-graduate course on multimedia content management, to enhancing student comprehension of the material taught; it has been made freely available for similar educational or research purposes.

Keywords

biomedical education; computer aided instruction; computer science education; electronic engineering education; graphical user interfaces; multimedia computing; remote sensing; signal processing; teaching; telecommunication engineering education; DSP; MASTERS; computer engineering curriculum; digital multimedia; digital signal processing; electrical engineering curriculum; electronic engineering curriculum; graphical user interface; medical application; multimedia content management; multimedia system; post-graduate course; remote sensing application; teaching activity; telecommunication application; virtual lab; Encoding; Graphical user interfaces; Image coding; Multimedia systems; Streaming media; Transform coding; Transforms; Demonstration; digital signal and image processing; interactive education; multimedia; visualization;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Education, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9359

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TE.2012.2210224

Filename

6257505