Fall 2003

EE 424 Lecture Schedule

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Lecture Schedule
Click on the appropriate week to obtain a list of the topics and text sections covered.
Last updated 11/18/2003 .

Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6  | Week 7 

Week 8  |  Week 9  |  Week 10  |  Week 11  |  Week 12  |  Week 13  |  

Week 14  | Week 15  | Week 16

Week 1 (8/26/2003)

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Reading:  1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4: pg. 9-19 only, 1.4.3
Chapter 1: 
What happens to the spectrum of an analog signal when it is sampled.
Sampling theorem
Anti-aliasing filters
Sampling of sinusoids
System response to complex sinusoids, complex sinusoid notation
Reconstruction

Week 2 (9/2/03)

Monday is a University holiday for Labor day
Introduction to time-windowing and the DFT and FFT - notes in class
Reading:  2.1, 2.3, 2.4; pg. 478 (last paragraph) - 479; Chapter 3 (review):  pg. 98-101, 103-111, 115-119.
Chapter 2: 
Quantization
D/A Converters
A/D Converters
Quick review of Discrete linear systems theory
linearity
time-invariance
impulse response
Finite and Infinite impulse response
Convolution
Stability and Causality
Chap. 3 review in class will be brief
Overview of linear properties as displayed in class are here.

Week 3 (9/9/03)

Introduction to Image Processing 
general processing schemes
edge detection in a nutshell
difference filters
Min-Max sharpening transform and Sobel edge detector
DCT and JPEG; Powerpoint slides on DCT and JPEG
Some example of images on the web Image processing notes

Week 4 (9/16/03)

Homework 2 due 9/16 at beginning of class
Image Processing 
DCT and JPEG; Powerpoint slides on DCT and JPEG
text from Image and Video Compression Standards, Bhaskaran and Konstandtinidas
edge detection in a nutshell
difference filters

Week 5 (9/23/03)

FIR and IIR and convolution, Ch. 4 pg. 124-129; 135-141, 149-163.
Thursday Sep. 25, Quiz 1 through Sep. 18 material only

Week 6 (9/30/03)

Quiz 1:    Sep. 30.  Handed back Tuesday, Oct. 7.
Finish FIR, IIR.  Z Transforms:  definition, regions of convergence.  Chap. 5.1-5.2.

Week 7 (10/7/03)

Causality and Stability.  Chapter 5.3.
Spectrum and its relationship to poles and zeros Chap. 5.4
Inverse Z transforms.  Repeated poles, complex conjugate poles.  Chap. 5.5.

Week 8 (10/14/03)

Finish Chap. 5

Week 9 (10/21/03)

Tuesday, Oct. 21:  Quiz 2.
Steganography slides.
 

Week 10 (10/28/03)

Chapter 6: Transfer Functions, pg. 217-223; 226-228; 232-238; 246-247; 258-263.

Week 11 (11/4/03)

Chap. 6.

Week 12 (11/11/03)

Finish Chap. 6.

Week 13 (11/18/03)

Ch. 8:  pg. 321-328; 388-396, 398-402
Waveform generation; noise reduction and signal enhancement.

  11/24/03    Thanksgiving Break

Week 14 (12/2/03)

12/2/03    Last lecture; hand out Quiz 4, take home.  Return Quiz 4 by beginning of class Thursday Dec. 4.
12/4/03    Start Web page presentations

Week 15 (12/9/03)

Finish Web page presentations.

Week 16 (12/17/02)

Optional Final Exam:    Wed., Dec. 17, 9:45-11:45 a.m.  Comprehensive, will replace lowest quiz score if it is better than lowest quiz score.  It is closed book and you are allowed 2 crib sheets.  (If you take the final, you throw away your worst 2 quiz/final scores; if you don't take the final you throw away your one worst quiz score.)
Exam Week: please pick up assignments and grade during exam hour.

Last updated 18 Nov 2003