Perception and Multimedia Computing

This module aims both to build on the skills and competences developed in the technical modules in the Creative Computing Programme at level 4, and on the critical and creative awareness fostered in the Introduction to Creative Practice module; and to provide knowledge and skills to be used in exploratory fashion in the Intermediate Creative Practice and in the students own creative practice in general. It will provide students with a detailed appreciation of human visual and audio perception, allowing them to explain for themselves the limitations of their own sensory gamut, and to be able to exploit similarities and differences between observer?s perceptual systems. The students will learn the fundamentals of signal processing and systems, including a programming language suited to the signal processing domain, and how they are applied in typical multimedia applications; the students will then be shown how to combine these signal processing techniques with an understanding of perception to produce multimedia information retrieval systems.