Time and Place: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:30-10:50, 1015 ECEB
Texts
- Material you need to know for the exams will be on the slides. Some additional useful references are on reserve for this course at the Grainger Engineering Library. Others will be listed here, if specific questions come up in class.
- Matlab Tutorial, Python Tutorial.
- Multi-Band Excitation Vocoder, D.W. Griffin and J.S. Lim
- A Tutorial on Hidden Markov Models and Selected Applications in Speech Recognition, L.R. Rabiner
Instructors
- Professor: Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, jhasegaw (Office Hours: Thursdays, 11:00-12:00, 5034 ECEB)
- Teaching Assistants: Daniel Gonzalez, Leda Sari, and Yijia Xu (Office Hours: Mondays 18:00-19:00 and Tuesdays 17:00-18:00, 5034 ECEB, starting Tuesday September 11)
Grading
- Points are allocated to the two types of assignments:
- 50%: exams (equally weighted), covering material on the lecture slides, including facts and sample problems worked there.
- 50%: labs (equally weighted).
- Grade cutoffs are approximately as follows, where mu=class average, sigma=standard deviation.
- min(90%, mu+0.25sigma): A-, min(94%, mu+0.5sigma): A, min(99%, mu+1.5sigma): A+
- min(75%, mu-sigma): B-, min(80%, mu-0.75sigma): B, min(85%, mu): B+
- min(60%, mu-2.25sigma): C-, min(65%, mu-2sigma): C, min(70%, mu-1.25sigma): C+
- min(45%, mu-3sigma): D-, min(50%, mu-2.75sigma): D, min(55%, mu-2.5sigma): D+
Collaboration Policy
Labs may be written in groups of one, two, or three students. Each group should work independently of every other. Only one of the three should submit the assignment. The assignment should list all authors.
Different groups should not work together. You will lose points if any part of your code or text is identical to that of any other group, or identical to any source on line. Exception: you may download and use code from any on-line source as long as it doesn't cause any important part of the signal processing or machine learning exercise to become trivial. If you are not sure, ask us.
Late Homework and Conflict Exams
Late homework is accepted, up to seven days late, with a 10% per day penalty. This is a multiplicative penalty, i.e., one day late receives up to 90%, two days can get up to 81%, three days can get up to 72.9%, and so on. Homework more than seven days late will not be accepted.
Homework extensions are not given for any reason of any kind, ever. For this reason we strongly advise you to plan to submit your homework early; that way, if a disaster occurs, you will be able to cope.
Conflict exams will be available if you have another exam or an emergency.