Telecommunication and internet networks carry traffic, most of which is multimedia content, with rapid growth from year to year. In this course students will study the characteristics, generation and processing of various types of multimedia signals, including: image, video, sound and their combination. In addition, compression principles will be studied from aspects of information theory and signal theory, as well as modern coding techniques. Various modern encoding and compression methods used in various applications are also discussed, including: JPEG, JPEG2000, MPEG-1/2/4, mp3.