ICT Innovation, Digital Media Technology (DMT) – (M.Sc.)

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Specialisations for Digital Media Technology (DMT) in the second year

Hypermedia - Aalto University

The hypermedia specialization focuses on linked data and Web-based services. The students will acquire skills to develop advanced Web-based services both on user interface and data level. The topics covered include information retrieval techniques, Web service programming, declarative Web services, semantic Web and Web service techniques. The specialization area is linked both to Smart Spaces and Future Media and Content Delivery thematic areas. In Smart Spaces, linked data can be used to integrate information coming from different sensors and devices, while Web technologies allow the adaption of the service user interfaces to different devices. Web technologies are commonly used in online media services, while linked data allows the integration of different services together.

Media Processing and Communications - KTH Royal Institute of Technology

The media processing and communications specialization focuses on the processing of audio, images, video, and immersive visual data for telecommunication applications. The courses emphasize the principles of digital signal processing and digital communications as well as their specific applications. Students that choose this specialization will learn about enabling technologies for communicating digital media. This will prepare them to contribute to new technology for better telepresence, smarter mobile media, and future immersive networked experience.

Medical Imaging - 3TU - TU Delft

The student will be introduced to the techniques for acquiring medical images (CT, MRI), of processing these images, to reconstruct 3D models, and to apply these techniques for medical diagnosis, planning and operative support. The student will be introduced to frameworks for medical visualisation and will be able to built systems for comparative visualisation of multimodal data to support visual analysis.

Media Communications Services -Budapest University of Technology (BME)

This specialization focuses on communications and delivery networks, systems, enabling technologies and platforms for providing media services. New generation telecommunications networks, in particular wireless and mobile networks will be dealt with, with specific emphasis on quality of service provisioning and streaming media delivery over heterogeneous access networks. Broadband media communication systems (digital broadcasting systems) will be covered, with focus on interactive services and on convergence of traditional and Internet-based media services. Courses on enabling technologies and service delivery platforms, notably the IMS or IP Multimedia Subsystem, security aspects of media delivery and content delivery networks, including p2p content delivery will be offered.Theoretical material will be accompanied with demos and laboratory measurements based on the unique laboratory infrastructure of the relevant departments of BME and of its Mobile Innovation Center.Students who will complete this specialization will obtain a thorough understanding of the state-of-the-art technologies of media communications and will be capable of designing media communications services as well as operating media delivery systems.

Virtual Environments - LITE - University College London (UCL)

UCL offers a specialisation in Virtual Environments with courses focused on the technical aspects of virtual reality systems as well as the underlying technologies. Students will be trained in the current state-of-the-art concerning all aspects of virtual environments: design and implementation of virtual environments, advanced computer graphics, and visual computing. Elective course will be offered to cover multimedia, machine vision, and interaction aspects. The UCL Department of Computer Science is particularly renowned in this area and the courses will be taught by world-leading researchers. Students will be benefitting from the available facilities, such as an immersive CAVE-like display system, head-mounted and 3D displays, haptic input devices, 3D scanners, multi-touch tables, motion tracking systems, etc. The specialisation falls into the thematic area of Smart Spaces, where the use of virtual and mixed reality will improve the quality of telepresence and thus reduce the need for physical travel. Virtual environments also enable shared virtual collaborative spaces, a likely avenue in Future Media and Content Delivery.

Innovation & Entrepreneurship Minor

The Basics Course is the introduction on the topic through business administration and economy with a focus on innovation and entrepreneurship. It gives students the basic knowledge on marketing, strategy, finance, HRM, IP Management, economics, organization and project management and builds the base for the Business Development Lab Course.

The Business Development Lab Course builds upon the Basic Course and offers students to conduct a full- fledged Business Development Project. During this module, students – working in teams - learn about diverse aspects of innovation and entrepreneurship while working on their own business plan. A number of entrepreneurs and practitioners hand-over readily applicable experiences and knowledge in parallel to academic lectures.

The student teams comprise students from different disciplines (Business, Engineering, Humanities, IT) and are supervised by experiences business and technical coaches. This module ends with a Business Plan presentation to an audience of professionals, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, business angels, and academics.

The content and structure of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship minor is developed in collaboration with established European business schools.

Summer & Winter Schools and Camps

All students take part in an EIT ICT Master School kick-off and a joint summer programme.

Summer and winter schools support each individual study programme with a multidisciplinary and international dimension, and create a clear EIT ICT Labs joint touch to our education. A set of thematic oriented camps with integrated technical and business focus are organized in co-operation with research and business activities.

They summer and winter schools bring together various stakeholders in our eco-system at EIT ICT Labs. Integrated competitions and camps on innovation aspects provide focused hands-on experience for our students, young faculty and post-docs.

Accreditation

NVAO independently assesses the quality of higher education in Flanders and the Netherlands. All of TU Delft’s educational programmes are accredited by NVAO and therefore meet the European quality standards. Alongside the national accreditation system, many of TU Delft’s education programmes are recognized as substantially equivalent to the best programmes in the USA by the American Board of Engineering & Technology (ABET).

Funding details

For the most highly ranked admitted students (as a minimum 30%), we will provide fee waivers. EIT ICT Labs has also reserved funding for scholarships covering personal expenses on the level of 9000 Euro per year and student, however a formal decision by the European Commission is pending in this matter.