Exams

Exams will be held during the regular lecture hour. Exams will be closed-book. You will be permitted one sheet of 8.5x11 paper, with handwritten notes on both sides. Calculators and computers are not allowed.

  • On-line section: if you’re in the online section, we will proctor you via zoom. The exam will be made available to you, on Gradescope, at the start of the exam hour. One of the course staff will watch you over zoom while you take the exam, then you’ll photograph your answers, and upload the result to Gradescope.

  • Conflict exam: if you have a time conflict, please make arrangements at least one week prior to the regular exam.

  • The order and structure of this course varies quite a lot from year to year, so past exams are a much less reliable study guide than the homework. Nevertheless, past exams will be made available to you on this page.

Exam 1

Exam 1 was held Tuesday September 28, in class. Here is the exam, and its solutons:

Topics will include basically everything that was covered on HW1, MP1, HW2, and MP2, i.e., Z transforms, LPC, image filtering, and the Lucas-Kanade algorithm. Here is a practice exam (it is about three times the length of the real exam):

The practice exam includes three new questions, plus questions re-used from these past exams: 2014 Exam 1 problems 3, 4, 2014 Exam 3 problem 1, 2015 Exam 2 problem 3, 2016 Exam 3 problem 3, 2018 Exam 1 problem 3, 2019 Practice Exam 2 problems 5, 7, 8, 2019 Exam 2 problems 2, 5, 7, and ECE 537 2009 problem 7(a).

Exam 2

Exam 2 was held Tuesday November 2, in class. Here is the exam, and its solutons:

Topics included basically everything that was covered on HW3, MP3, HW4, and MP4, i.e., Bayesian classifiers, multivariate Gaussians, Gaussian mixture models, principal components analysis, and hidden Markov models. Here is a practice exam (it is about five times the length of the real exam):

The practice exam is based on questions from these exams: 2019 Exam 1 problem 5 (solutions), 2018 Exam 1 problems 4-6 (solutions), 2017 Exam 1 p. 1(b), 2-4 (solution), 2016 Exam 1 problems 4-5 (solution), 2015 Exam 1 problem 2 (solution), 2014 Exam 1 problems 1-2, 2016 Exam 2 p. 1, 3-5 (solution), 2015 Exam 2 p. 1, 4, 2014 Exam 2 problems 2-5, 2019 Exam 3 problem 1 (solution), 2017 Exam 3 problem 3 (solution), 2014 Exam 3 problem 5 (solution).

Final Exam

The final exam will be held December 13, from 8:00-11:00. Here is the exam, and its solutons:

Here is a practice exam, containing sample questions from the last third of the course:

The practice exam is based on questions from these exams: