The learning process will be based on the following 3 types of activities:

LECTURES OF THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS

• During these sessions in the classroom, the contents of the subject will be presented and discussed. The student will be provided with digital materials, impressions, and bibliographical references. They will be active discussion in which progress will be made in a constructive manner through the identification of the main objectives, giving answers and proposed solutions as the subject evolves. All materials will be identified on the Charon website (http://caronte.uab.cat)

PROBLEM-SOLVING SEMINARS

• In these activities, students will delve into the analysis of multimedia standards, identifying their main characteristics. Therefore, the students will study the white papers of the different standards and will edit their own technical reports, developing the professional technical document creation capacities in technical English.
• The set of exercises will be oriented in a constructive way, and thus the students will begin first with simple technical documents, to finish with qualitative and quantitative analysis. The delivery of all proposed reports will be mandatory.

PRACTICUM SESSIONS

• During the practice sessions, students will code multimedia applications that will allow them to implement and manipulate the parameters of MPEG encoders and Cloud Computing services. With this approach, the students will integrate the knowledge acquired in the theoretical and problem sessions. They will use tools that will allow them to obtain the quantitative and qualitative results for the realization of the reports.
• There will be 6 practice sessions that will be carried out in our laboratories in groups of 3 people.
• Attendance to class of practices is COMPULSORY. Any fault must be communicated by email to the responsible teacher BEFORE the end of the corresponding session and must be justified with written evidence. Otherwise, the practice part will be suspended.

The practicum deliveries consist of:

• Multimedia applications with digital compression libraries in images and video.
• Creation of transformation filters in both images and video
• Automatic detection of scene changes in videos
• Creation of a multi-media application using cloud computing platforms

Annotation: within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.

This subject does not provide for the single assessment system.

The evaluation of the student will take place in a continuous process that will consider the evaluations of the deliveries by the teacher (distributed throughout the subject) and the discussions carried out during the theoretical sessions, problems, and practices.

ALL deliveries are compulsory and consist of:

1. REPORTS of the problem-solving lectures:

• Delivery of Report 1 (P1) (15%) - Individual
• Delivery of Report 2 (P2) (15%) - Individual
• Delivery of Report 3 (P3) (20%) - Individual
• Delivery of Report 4 (P4) (20%) - Group
• Delivery of Report 4 (P5) (30%) - Group

2. Reports of presential practicum sessions:

• Delivery of Session 1 (S1) - Group
• Delivery of Session 2 (S2) - Group
• Delivery of Session 3 (S3) - Group
• Delivery of Session 4 (S4) - Group
• Delivery of Session 5 (S5) - Group
• Delivery of Session 6 (S6) - Group

S = (S1 + S2 + S3 + S4 + S5 + S6) / 6

3. Exam on the theoretical contents

Final exam (EF)

There will be a mid-course theoretical exam. Students who need to recover or improve their grade will be given a final opportunity to do so at the end of the academic period.

The FINAL MARK will be calculated as follows:

FINAL MARK = 0.3 * EF + 0.3 * R + 0.4 * S

• The minimum grade in the three evaluation parts is 5.
• A 4.5 (fail) will appear in the student's file in case the calculation of the final grade is equal to or greater than 5, but the minimum grade is not reached in any of the evaluation activities.
• Positive contributions in the discussions will round up the decimals. To qualify for the \"Matricula d'Honor\" (with honors) it is necessary to have a participative attitude in the class discussions.
• Students who have passed practices, problems, or the theoretical contents in the previous year can validate them with a 5.
• In the case of missing a mandatory delivery, both of the 5 problems and 6 practices, the corresponding part will be failed.
• The non-presentation to the final exam (EF) implies a "no evaluable" in the student's file.
• Granting a grade with honors is the decision of the faculty responsible for the subject. The regulations of the UAB indicate that MH can only be granted to students who have obtained a final grade equal to or greater than 9.00. It is only possible to grant up to 5% of MH of the total number of students enrolled.

Finally, there will be an extraordinary test that will allow students to recover (get a 5) in the theory part in case of having failed the final exam during the exams week (EF), the date of which will be proposed by the School. There will also be the possibility of recovering the part of problems before the final theory exam (the second exam); in this case, all the problems missing before the date will have to be delivered and will opt, in the case of having everything right, to an approved (5) in each delivery.

All laboratory practice sessions are mandatory.

All exams will be adjusted according to the School's calendar. The dates of continuous evaluation and delivery of works will be published on the website Caronte (http://caronte.uab.cat) and may be subject to programming changes for reasons of adaptation to possible incidents; Caronte will always inform on these changes, since it is understood that the Charon website is the usual mechanism for exchanging information between teachers and students.

For each evaluation activity, a place, date and time of revision in which the student can review the activity with the teacher will be indicated. In this context, claims may be made on the activity grade, which will be evaluated by the faculty responsible for the subject. If the student does not show up in this review, this activity will notbe reviewedlater.

Without prejudice to other disciplinary measures deemed appropriate, and in accordance with current academic regulations, irregularities committed by a student that may lead to a variation of the grade will be scored with a zero (0). For example, plagiarizing, copying, letting copy, etc., an evaluation activity, will imply suspending this evaluation activity with a zero (0). The evaluation activities qualified in this way and by this procedure will not be recoverable. If it is necessary to pass any of these evaluation activities to pass the subject, this subject will be suspended directly, without the opportunity to recover it in the same course.

In the event of failing the subject, the grade for the passed parts will be saved for the following course.

Uses of AI. In this subject, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies is allowed as an integral part of the development of the work, provided that the final result reflects a significant contribution of the student in the analysis and personal reflection. The student must clearly identify which parts have been generated with this technology, specify the tools used and include a critical reflection on how these have influenced the process and the final result of the activity. The lack of transparency in the use of AI will be considered a lack of academic honesty and may lead to a penalty in the grade of the activity, or greater sanctions in serious cases.