Assessment

Continuous-assessment dates will be published on Campus Virtual. Specific deadlines might change, only when necessary. Any such modification will always be communicated to students through Campus Virtual.

Subject assessment (out of 10 points) will be carried out as follows:

• Practical activities, 3 points. Developed in group of 2. As part of continuous assessment, these activities consist in a set on small practicums, with the purpose to apply the theoretical compression concepts presented by the faculty during the lectures. These exercises will take place during the sessions. All practical activities will have the same weight. Minimum mark to pass subject 1.5 points.

• Exercise resolutions, 3 points. This is and individual task. As part of continuous assessment, short exercises must be solved. All exercises will have the ssame weight. Minimum mark to pass subject 1.5 points.

• Oral presentation, 4 points. This is an individual task. It consists of delivering an oral presentation about a specific topic. The choice of the topic will be discussed and agreed upon in the class, selecting topics from a list provided by the faculty staff or by the students themselves. In addition, the presenter will have propose an exercise that the other students will have to answer. The presenter will also have to correct and grade the answers. On the other hand, the audience must ask 3 questions (at least) during the presentations. A preliminary list of tentative topics includes:

  o Shannon Fano Coding
  o Huffman Coding
  o Elias Coding
  o Arithmetic Coding
  o Golomb Coding
  o Asymmetric Numeral System Coding
  o JPEG
  o Wavelet Transform. Haar Wavelet Transform
  o Index Coding
  o Embedded encoding of zero-tree wavelet coefficients (EZW)
  o Set partitioning in hierarchical trees (SPIHT)
  o Set partitioning embedded block coder (SPECK)
  o Lower-Tree Wavelet (LTW)
  o JPEG-2000
  o CCSDS-122.0
  o Context-Adaptive Lossless Image Coder (CALIC)
  o Low Complexity Lossless Compression for Images (LOCO-I)
  o Multi-component CALIC (M-CALIC)
  o CCSDS-123.0
  o CCSDS-123.1
  o Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP
  o Audio Compression FLAC

Minimum mark to pass subject 2 points and minimum assistance of 80% in this activity.

• Recovery test, 6 points. Those students that will not have a final mark (Practical activities + Exercise Resolutions + Oral Presentation) equal or greater than 5 they will have the opportunity to recover (get a 5 or higher) through a recovery test. Recovery test covers material from the practical activities and exercise resolutions. It will consist mainly of exercises in the style of those worked on during the course; a smaller part will consist of more theoretical questions. If the recovery test + oral presentation mark is not equal or superior than 5 will not pass the subject.

An overall grade of 5 or higher is required to pass the subject. A "non-assessable" grade cannot be assigned to students who have participated in any of the individual partial tests or the final exam. In order to pass the course with honors, the final grade must be a 9.0 or higher. Because the number of students with this distinction cannot exceed 5% of the number of students enrolled in the course, this distinction will be awarded to whoever has the highest final grade. In case of a tie, partial-test results will be taken into consideration. No special treatment will be given to students who have completed the course in the previous academic year.

During the sessions, the solved exercises will be reviewed, which will allow the students to review the grades.

It is important to bear in mind that no assessment activities will be permitted for any student ata different date or time to that established, unless for justified causes duly advised before the activity and with the lecturer’s previous consent. In all other cases, if an activity has not been carried out, this cannot be re-assessed.

Students who do not pass the grade for not achieving at least one of the minimum grades will be graded with a 4.

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.