Indicative contents

• Basic Revision, Linear Systems, Transfer functions, Z Transforms, the discrete Fourier transform, FFT, FIR and IIR filters design, and basic theory of random processes, Least Mean Square (LMS) filter and Recursive Least Square (RLS) filter
• Fast Algorithms Cyclic Convolutions, Radix-2 fast Fourier transform (FFT), Radix-4 algorithm, Split-Radix algorithm, Goertzel algorithm
  Transforms for Multimedia Applications DCT (Discrete Cosine Transform) - Orthogonal transforms, correlation properties, discrete cosine transform, fast DCTs and integer cosine transform.
• Wavelet Transform - Multirate systems, wavelet basis and scaling function, continuous and discrete wavelet transforms, dyadic structure, multi-resolution analysis, pyramid algorithm, wavelet filters, realization and application examples.
• Video Algorithms and Coding Critical issues and fast algorithms for image coding and motion picture processing, motion estimation, and compression. Realization aspects on video compression, standards, such as JPEG and MPEG, and essence of video-conferencing systems.
• Speech and Audio Coding Basics of Speech and audio, Linear Prediction Model, Realization of speech processing & synthesis algorithms, Audio Compression and Psycho acoustic Model, and AC3 and voice part of MPEG standard.
• DSP System Design and Realization Techniques, Arithmetic issues, pipelining, memory hierarchy, Harvard architecture and parallel processor realizations, Current digital signal processors (such as TMS320, BF5xx, or ARM families), porting issues of speech/audio algorithms to DSP Processor, Optimization techniques

Module Resources

• Essential reading
  1. Course notes
• Recommended Reading
  1. Rulph Chassing “DSP Applications Using C and the TMS320C6x DSK” Wiley, 2002
  2. Naim Dahnoun; “DSP Implementation Using TMS320C6000 DSP Platform”; Prentice Hall, 2001
  3. Ralf Steinmetz, Klara Nahrstedt: “Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications”, 1st edition, Pearson education Asia, ISBN: 81-7808-319-1, 2001
  4. Fred Halsall: “Multimedia Communications”, 2000