Announcing the offering of Real-time Video Analysis (CMSC 191: Special Topic) for the 1st Semester 2008-2009.

Description

The course is an introduction to digital image processing with special emphasis on real-time processing of image sequences directly coming from camera hardware. This image sequence is a large river of data, requiring very efficient methods that can process the data faster than its arrival.

Announcing the offering of Introduction to VoIP (CMSC 191: Special Topic) for the 1st Semester 2007-2008.

Description

Voice over IP (VoIP), which integrates voice in the data network, promises a lot of advantages: lower operational costs, greater flexibility, and a variety of enhanced applications in the network. This course will provide a thorough introduction to this technology to help students understand how it works and give them hands-on laboratory sessions, which can give them an edge after they graduate. The students will be introduced to the basics of telephony, VoIP protocols (H.323, SIP, MGCP, etc.), Quality of Service (QoS), security issues of VoIP and many more. Students could also expect to find interesting problems as topics for their Special Problem.

Announcing the offering of Web Engineering (CMSC 191: Special Topic) for the 2nd Semester 2006-2007.

Description

Continuation of the Special Topic offered 2nd Semester 2005-2006 (Designing and implementing usable, accessible, standards-driven, user-centric websites and web-based information systems) with in-depth topics geared towards designing and managing (as opposed to programming and implementing) web application development projects; Usability reports, project plans, content maps, flow charts, wireframes, site maps, contents checklist, presentation strategy, maintenance strategy, development process, deliverable's impact on the project.

Announcing the offering of Document Image Analysis (CMSC 191: Special Topic) for the 2nd Semester 2006-2007.

Description

When we hear of document images, the first thing that might come to mind is optical character recognition (OCR). Document image analysis is much more than OCR, it involves the automatic interpretation of documents like maps, engineering drawings, musical scores, checks, forms, handwritten documents, etc, and analyzing their types, formats, layouts, characters and other features. The course will give the student an introduction to the interesting world of Document Images and the techniques for understanding them. Student will read research articles and work on programming exercises.

Announcing the offering of Image Sequence Processing (CMSC 191: Special Topic) for the 1st Semester 2006-2007.

Description

This course will introduce the students to methods for manipulating, analyzing, and extracting useful information from image sequences. The methods will be taught in the context of useful applications. Students could expect to find interesting problems as topic for their SP.

Topics

Announcing the offering of Design and Implementation of Usable and Accessible Websites (CMSC 191: Special Topic) for the 2nd Semester 2005-2006.

Description

Designing and implementing usable, accessible, standards-driven, user-centric websites and web-based information systems; Usability and accessibility issues; Using the W3C standards for XHTML and CSS; Survey of different open source content management systems; and Implementation of a standards-driven web-based information system under the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) platform.

Announcing the offering of Forensic Computing (CMSC 191: Special Topic) for the 2nd Semester 2005-2006.

Description

The use of procedure-centric approaches to the study of cyber-attack prevention, planning, detection, and response with the goals of counteracting and conquering hacker attacks by logging malicious activity and gathering court-admissible chains-of-evidence using various forensic tools that reconstruct criminally liable actions at the physical and logical levels; The Philippine E-Commerce Law.