Representation of Multimedia Data, Concept of Non-Temporal and Temporal Media, Multimedia Presentations, Synchronization. Compression of Multimedia Data, Basic concepts of Compression, Audio Compression Introduction to Speech and Audio Compression, Multimedia System Design, General Purpose Architecture for Multimedia Processing, Operating System support for Multimedia, Data, Resource Scheduling with real-time considerations, File System, I/O Device, Management, Delivery of Multimedia data, Network and Transport Protocols, QoS issues, RTP and RSVP, Video- conferencing and video-conferencing standards, Overview of Voice over IP, Multimedia Information Management, Multimedia Data base Design, Content Based Information Retrieval, Image Retrieval, Video Retrieval, Overview of MPEG-7.