Important Notice

Due to COVID-19, all activities of this class will be moved to online settings starting on 3/16/2020. Lectures, recitations, and office hours will all be through Zoom, at the same time as before. Check your email for meeting IDs. HWs 6-8 will be changed from DSP board implementations to MATLAB Simulink simulations. Stay healthy and safe!

Course Calender/Schedule (Subject to Change)

Week Day Date Topic Speaker Reading Assigned Due
1 Thu Jan 16 Introduction Zhiyao DASP: Ch. 1, 2.1.1;
Matlab tutorial; Probability review

Final project

HW0 (Matlab Review)
2 Tue Jan 21 Quantization Zhiyao DASP: Ch. 2.1.2-2.2 HW1 (Quantization)
2 Thu Jan 23 Dither Zhiyao DASP: Ch. 2.3
Lipshitz (1992): Quantization and Dither
3 Tue Jan 28 Sampling Theorem Zhiyao DASP: Ch. 3.1
3 Thu Jan 30 Oversampling, Delta-Sigma Modulation Zhiyao Aziz (1996): Sigma-Delta Converters HW2 (ADC) HW1
4 Tue Feb 4 Fourier Transforms Tre SASP: Fourier Transforms and Theorems    
4 Thu Feb 6 Fourier Transforms cont. Zhiyao SASP: Spectrum Analysis, Windows HW2 (due Sat)
5 Tue Feb 11 Windowing, Zero Padding Moji SASP: Time-Frequency Displays HW3 (Phase vocoder)
5 Thu Feb 13 Short-time Fourier Transform Zhiyao SASP: Applications of the STFT
6 Tue Feb 18 Source-filter Model Zhiyao DAFX: Ch. 8.1-8.2.2
6 Thu Feb 20 LPC, Cepstrum Zhiyao DAFX: Ch. 8.2.3-8.3 HW4 (Source filter modeling) HW3 (due Sat)
7 Tue Feb 25 Machine Learning for Audio Zhiyao Muller (2015): Dynamic Time Warping  
7 Thu Feb 27 Machine Learning for Audio Zhiyao  
8 Tue Mar 3 Digital Filters Zhiyao DAFX: Ch. 2 HW5 (Audio Machine Learning) HW4
8 Thu Mar 5 Digital Filters Zhiyao  
9 Tue Mar 10 NO CLASS: Spring Break
9 Thu Mar 12 NO CLASS: Spring Break
10 Tue Mar 17 NO CLASS: Extended Spring Break due to COVID-19 Prepare for online teaching and learning through Zoom and Panopto
10 Thu Mar 19 NO CLASS: Extended Spring Break due to COVID-19   Prepare for online teaching and learning through Zoom and Panopto    
11 Tue Mar 24 Physical Modeling Zhiyao HW6 (Physical modeling) HW5, Project Proposal
11 Thu Mar 26 Physical Modeling cont.
 Zhiyao DASP Ch. 6.1-6.2;
12 Tue Mar 31 Room Simulation and Reverberation Zhiyao Schroeder_1961; Schroeder_1962 HW7 (Reverberation)
12 Thu Apr 4

Room Simulation and Reverberation cont.;
Spatial Effects

 Zhiyao DAFX Ch. 5.1-5.4 HW6
13 Tue April 7 Filter Structures Zhiyao   HW8 (Spatial Audio)
13 Thu April 9 Dynamic Range Control Zhiyao DASP Ch. 7.1-7.4   HW7
14 Tue April 14 Modulation Effects, Adaptive Effects Zhiyao DAFX Ch. 3, Ch. 9  
14 Thu Apr 16 Beat Tracking Zhiyao Bello (2005): Onset Detection
Ellis (2007): Beat Tracking		   HW8
15 Tue Apr 21 Pitch Tracking Zhiyao DAFX: Ch. 9.2.3-9.2.4  
15 Thu Apr 23 Intro to MIR Zhiyao   Project Update (Zoom Presentations)
16 Tue Apr 28 Closing Remarks Zhiyao
17 Thu May 7 Project Zoom Presentations (10:00AM-12:20PM US Eastern Time) Students   Final Report and Slides (due 0:00AM Fri)