Class Time: W5W6 R8
Class Location: Delta Building Rm 217.

Instructor: Prof. Yi-Wen Liu       ywliu(at)ee.nthu.edu.tw
Instructor Office Hour: Thursday 10:30-11:30, 14:30-15:30, or by appointment.  

Class TAs:  翁偉昇, 柯翔俊, 何育澤  
TA Hours: Monday 7-9pm.  Location: CS/EE building Rm 315.

Textbook [NEW!]: Manolakis and Ingle (2011), Applied Digital Signal Processing, Cambridge University Press (新月圖書代理)  

Course Announcements:

• Grading policies and final project requirements are listed at the bottom of this page.

Week #	Date	Deadlines	Lectures (Wed)	Discussions (Thu)	Reading assignments
1	2/20,21		Course logistics. Introduction to DSP.	MATLAB Tutorial
2	2/27		Fourier representation of signals, the Discrete-Time Fourier Transform (DTFT)	[holiday]	Chap 4.
3	3/6,7		DTFT properties	Sampling of continuous-time signals	Chap 6.
4	3/13,14	HW#1	Lecture	Lecture
5	3/20,21		The Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT)	Lecture	Chap. 7
6	3/27,28		Computation of DFT	Quiz #1: Chap. 4,6,7	Chap. 8
7	4/3,4	HW#2 (audio filtering)	Holiday adjustment; will make up on Jun. 10	Spring break.
8	4/10,11		Transform Analysis of LTI systems	感測技術與平台淺介	Chap. 5
9	4/17,18			Possible project topics
10	4/24,25	HW#3 (spectrogram deciphering)		Special Event: Partner-seeking Party
11	5/1,2	Final project proposal	Filter Design: FIR	Special Topic I: Pattern recognition	Chap 10
12	5/8,9		Quiz #2: Chap. 5.	Invited Lecture I: 聯發科技林宗瑤處長
13	5/15,16		Filter design: FIR	Lecture	Chap 11
14	5/22,23	HW#4 (Car suspension simulation)	Filter Design: IIR	Lecture
15	5/29,30		Special Topic II: random signal processing	Special Topic III: Scientific Writing
16	6/5,6	Final report manuscript	Special Topic IV: DSP 實務經驗談 (黃元豪教授)	Quiz #3: Chap. 10,11, Special Topics I
17	6/10 (Mon)		Special Event: ICA conference sharing (evening class 7-9pm)
	6/12,13		Dragon Boat Festival (National Holiday)	Special Event: Final Presentation
Week18	6/20 (Thu)	Revised final report (Electronic File)			--

Grading Policies:

1. Your final grade will be letter-based (A+, A, A-, etc).
2. Percentage-wise, your final grade will comprise of 40% homework, 30% quizzes, 30% final project, and 3% in-class participation (total = 103%)
3. Four homework assignments will consist of paper-based exercises and computer-based problems.
4. Three quizzes will be given in class.
5. Final project will be letter-graded, based on combined performance of the final report (20%) and individual efforts demonstrated (10%).
6. Evaluation of in-class participation will be based on your attendance and engagement in group discussion as well as the instructor's overall impression. 
7. The following steps determine your final grade:
   • Your 4 homework grades will be averaged. --- (A)
   • Your 3 quizzes will be averaged. ---(B)
   • Your final-project grades will also be converted to numeric grade for the sake of weighted summation. ---(C)
   • Your in-class participation will be given according to attendance record and instructor's subjective evaluation. --- (D)
   • Then, a raw grade will be calculated based on the percentage described in Item 2 (40%, 30%, 30%, 3%).
   • The raw grades of the entire class will be ranked.
   • Your final grade will be determined according to your rank, instead of direct numeric-to-letter conversion. A student with a higher rank will receive a grade no worse than that a student with a lower rank receives. The grade boundaries will be solely determined by the teaching team after the ranking is calculated.
8.  [Tentative] Your final grade will be available on Jun. 21, contingent upon your compliance to a tight final-project schedule from June 6 to 20.

Final Project:

1. You are free to choose any topic related to signal processing for your final project, although we will make a few recommendations.

2. All projects need to be team work. All teams should have no more than 4 members. 2 or 3 will be ideal. A bigger team will be anticipated to accomplish more; your grade will be evaluated accordingly.

3. A proposal, a final-report manuscript (hard copy), and a revised final report (e-copy) will be due in the 11th, 16th, and the 18th week respectively. Based on the manuscript, up to 10 teams will be selected for final presentation. Whether or not your project is selected for presentation, you are required to consider reviewers' comments, revise your report, and turn in its final version by Sunday June 16.

4. Final presentation competition: A final presentation competition will be held in the format of a mini-symposium. Up to 10 teams will be selected to give a 10-minute presentation on June 13 in class. All enrolling students are invited to be judges. Four prizes will be given.