ECE6255-sp10

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 ECE6255
Spring 2010

Instructor:
Dr. Chin-Hui Lee

Center for Signal and Image Processing
 

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Georgia Institute of Technology

Ofiice: Centergy One Room5180

 

Tel: (404) 894-7468

Fax: (404) 894-5692

Email: chl@ece.gatech.edu
 

Lecture Hours: MWF 13:05 – 13:55

• Syllabus 
• Class News: check the update often for
  announcements  
  • 1/11:
    First day of class

  • 1/13: Download speech tools: wavesurfer
  • 1/25: Project list
    posted and will be discussed on 1/27

  • 1/27: Dates for Quiz #1 and #2
    set

  • 2/4:   Solution to HW1
    posted

  • 2/10: Solution to HW2 posted
  • 2/11: Project proposal extended to 2/15
  • 3/3:   HW5 due on Monday, 3/8, because of the
    upcoming Prelim Exam

  • 3/12:
    HW6 due, HW 4-6 solutions for Q2 (on 3/17)
    given

  • 3/30:
    Download speech data for HW7 (instructions)

  • 4/7:   HW7 due on April
    12

  • 4/16: Project Report due by noon on May 6
    (Thursday)
• Lectures
  
  • 1/11: Lecture 1
    
    (Introduction)

  • 1/13: Lecture 2
    (Speech Tools)

  • 1/15: Lectures 3-4
    (DSP Essentials I & II)

  • 1/18: MLK Holiday (Probability Essentials, Optimization Essentials)  
  • 1/22: Lectures 5-6
    (Speech Sounds I & II)

  • 1/27: Lecture 7 (Project
    List)

  • 1/29: Lectures 8-10
    (Time-Domain Speech Processing
    I, II & III)

  • 2/5:   Lectures 11-12 (Sound Propagation in Vocal Tract
    I & II) 

  • 
    2/10: Quiz #1

  • 2/12: Lectures 13-15
    (Short-Time Fourier Transform
    I, II & III)

  • 
    2/19: Lectures
    16-18 (Homomorphic Speech Processing I, II & III)
    

  • 
    2/26: Lectures
    19-21 (Linear Prediction of Speech I, II &
    III)
    

  • 
    3/5:   Lectures 22-24 (LPC Implementaitons and Applications I, II &
    III)
    

  • 
    3/15: Lectures
    25-26
    (String Comparison and Dynamic Time Warping I &
    II)
    

  • 3/17: Quiz #2
  • 3/22-3/26: Spring Break
  • 3/29:
    Lecture 27 (Teaching Computers to Speak
    and Listen)

  • 3/31:
    Lectures
    28-29 (Automatic Speaker Recognition I
    & II)

  • 4/5:   Lectures 30-31 (Speech Coding I &
    II)

  • 4/9:   Lectures 32-33 (Speech Coding III &
    IV)

  • 4/14: Lectures
    34-35 (Speech Synthesis I & II)

  • 4/19: Lectures
    36-38 (Speech Recognition I, II &
    III)

  • 4/26-4/30: Project Presntations
• Homework
  • HW1
    (assigned 1/20, due 1/27, solution )
    

  • HW2 (assigned 1/27, due 2/3, solution)
    

  • HW3 (assigned 2/1, due 2/8, solution)
    

  • HW4 (assigned
    2/19, due 2/26, solution)
    

  • HW5 (assigned
    2/26, due 3/5, solution)
    
    

  • HW6 (assigned
    3/5, due 3/12, solution)
    
    

  • HW7 (assigned 4/2, due 4/12, solution)
  • HW8 (assigned 4/12, due 4/19, solution)
    
    
    
• Assignment
  • Check the weekly assignments in the posted lecture
    note

  • 
     
    
• Examinations: open books, notes, and computers (but no Matlab) 
  • Quiz #1
    (2/10)

  • Quiz #2
    (3/17)

  • Final Exam (5/5, all class materials)
    
• Speech Corpora and Tools
  
  
  • Download
    Speech Tools (Instructions)
• Textbooks
  • T. F.
    Quartieri: 
    • Discrete-Time
      Digital Speech Processing,
      Prentice Hall, 2002 (errata)
      
  • L. R. Rabiner and R. W.
    Schafer
    • Digital
      Processing of Speech Signals,
      Prentice Hall, 1978
• Project
  

• • Project List (Posted on 1/24
    ,
    project description due on 2/15)
    

  • Project Presentation on the week before the Finals
    (4/26 – 4/30) 
    

  • Project Report due at noon on 5/6
    (Demo can be arranged before the Finals Week)
    

       
           
    (L ast Update: April 17, 2010)