This course covers the aspects of multimedia database, indexing and retrieval. It involves the comprehensive coverage on issues and current technologies in multimedia database management systems (MMDBMS). The course starts with a discussion on the main characteristics and requirements of multimedia data. It then describes general design issues of multimedia database management systems to meet these characteristics and requirements. It also discusses the techniques for the indexing and retrieval of audio, images, and video.

This course covers the aspects of multimedia database, indexing and retrieval. It involves the comprehensive coverage on issues and current technologies in multimedia database management systems (MMDBMS). The course starts with a discussion on the main characteristics and requirements of multimedia data. It then describes general design issues of multimedia database management systems to meet these characteristics and requirements. It also discusses the techniques for the indexing and retrieval of audio, images, and video.

This course introduces to students concepts, guidelines and practices in digital video production. The course will discuss characteristics of digital video data and information; demonstrate all phases in video production phases, and identifying aspects of managing video technology in conveying multimedia information.

This course is designed to expose students to technologies and current issues related to the Internet literacy. Focus is given to the present and future issues of the internet technology and services as well as privacy and security issues. Discussions on related topics and issues will be conducted, in which students will be performing some case studies. Students are required to access extra knowledge and information from updated resources such as journal, newspaper, and others.

The course is designed to equip students with knowledge and skills of the recent wearable and mobile related technology. It includes topics related to wearable computing, augmented reality, ubiquitous computing, mobile multimedia, sentient computing, body-worn sensors, affective computing, computational clothing and accessories, and wireless Internet and application.

Generally this course will expose the student to theory, aesthetical values and knowledge needed to design and develop a computer game application. There are few important topics that will be discussed such as theory, computer games elements, computer game technology, principal and management of computer game design and development, and various issues in the computer game industry.

This course is designed to equip students with knowledge and skills of the recent virtual reality (VR) technology. It is includes topics related to understand the technology aspect and to use the VR software. It also emphasizes topics on VR hardware and applications. In addition, it also discusses issues on the impact of VR to the society and the future.

In this course the students will gain an understanding of the methods, tools and procedures of software engineering. Methods covered include a wide range of activities such as software process, project management, system and software requirements analysis, design, development, component engineering, configuration management, quality assurance, testing and maintenance of software. Industry standard system modelling and specification notations will be discussed throughout the course.

Mobile devices markets are expected to continue to grow. More new and excited features, application and content keep pushing mobile technology further. The needs for more exciting application solutions to improve current state of the art mobile technology. Mobile application development is the set of processes and procedures involved in writing software with consideration for limited resources computing devices. In this course, students will learn how to design, develop and test mobile applications using state of the industry methodology and technology. Topics covered will include mobile operating systems and development environments, input modalities and user interfaces for mobile devices, power management issues for mobile devices, sensor's and wireless mobile networking, location-aware and other context-aware services. Upon completion of the course, students will be able to design, develop, and test applications for mobile devices.