  Digital video pervades daily life. Mobile video, digital TV, and digital
cinema are now ubiquitous, and as such, the field of Digital Video Processing
(DVP) has experienced tremendous growth. Digital video systems also permeate
scientific and engineering disciplines including but not limited to astronomy,
communications, surveillance, entertainment, video coding, computer vision, and
vision research. As a consequence, educational tools for DVP must cater to a
large and diverse base of students. Towards enhancing DVP education we have
created a carefully constructed gallery of educational tools that is designed
to complement a comprehensive corpus of online lectures by providing examples
of DVP on real-world content, along with a user-friendly interface that
organizes numerous key DVP topics ranging from analog video, to human visual
processing, to modern video codecs, etc. This demonstration gallery is
currently being used effectively in the graduate class ``Digital Video'' at the
University of Texas at Austin. Students receive enhanced access to concepts
through both learning theory from highly visual lectures and watching concrete
examples from the gallery, which captures the beauty of the underlying
principles of modern video processing. To better understand the educational
value of these tools, we conducted a pair of questionaire-based surveys to
assess student background, expectations, and outcomes. The survey results
support the teaching efficacy of this new didactic video toolset.
