Entry requirementsYou should have a first or upper-second class degree in Electronic Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related discipline; have good Java programming skills and have experience of DSP gained at Undergraduate degree level. Applicants with unrelated degrees will be considered if there is evidence of significant industrial experience. Applicants with lower-second class degrees may be considered if the undergraduate degree specialised in relevant subjects.
Academic titleMSc Multimedia Systems Technology
Course descriptionMSc
Programme description
One year full-time
Multimedia Systems Technology has been developed by staff in the renowned Multimedia and Vision (MMV) Research Group within Electronic Engineering. World class research in both this and the Centre for Digital Music (C4DM) has led to the development of this programme which focuses on new and emerging technologies associated with the ever expanding Multimedia industry.
Multimedia Systems Technology responds to a growing skills shortage in industry for engineers with a high level of training in multimedia technologies, and in particular to support broadcast, entertainment, surveillance, gaming, Internet, communications and consumer industries.
The programme will provide a core knowledge of multimedia theory and its implementation, in particular:
* Digital signal processing and multimedia communications
* Current digital multimedia technologies
* The convergence of different media, computer and communications and
* the social significance of this convergence.
Multimedia Systems Technology is intended both for graduates in a related discipline, who wish to enhance and specialise their skills in the area, and for industrialists with some experience of working with signal processing, who wish to obtain a formal qualification.
Programme outline
There are no optional modules. Enrolment onto a specific degree programme constitutes the specialisation and module choice.
Semester 1
* Fundamentals of Digital Signal Processing
* Advanced Transform Methods
* Internet Infrastructure
* Digital Broadcasting.
Semester 2
* Multimedia Systems
* Video and Image Processing
* Music and Speech Processing
* Multimedia Data Retrieval, Protection and Authentification
May-September
* Project.
Assessment
All students are required to take written examinations in May/June. To obtain an MSc, students must gain passes in six of the eight modules taken with an overall average of 50 per cent.
In addition to the above, the MSc requires that a satisfactory individual project should be completed. MSc students who do not pass the written examinations are only allowed to attempt the project after passing resit examinations the following May.