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 Description

This course is a survey of audio digital signal processing fundamentals and applications. Topics include sampling and quantization, analog to digital converters, time and frequency domains, spectral analysis, vocoding, digital filters, audio effects, music audio analysis and synthesis, and other advanced topics in audio signal processing. Implementation of algorithms using Matlab and dedicated DSP platforms is emphasized.

Course Information

Credits: 4
Lectures: 9:40-10:55 AM on Tuesdays and Thursdays in CSB 601
Recitations: 10:30-11:30 AM on Wednesdays in CSB 616, Website
Lab: Hopeman 202 (several labs will be scheduled later this semester.)

Prerequisites: ECE 241 or other equivalent signals and systems courses, ECE 114, and basic Matlab programming.
Textbook: Parts of the following textbooks will be used. Electronic versions of all books are freely available online or through the UR library website.

Reference books: The following books are helpful for the Matlab and DSP board assignments.

Instructor: Zhiyao Duan
Office: CSB 720
Phone: 585-275-5302
Email: zhiyao.duan (at) rochester.edu
Office hour: 4-5 PM on Wednesdays and by appointment

Recitation Instructor: Tre DiPassio <TreDiPassio (at) rochester.edu>

TAs and Office Hours:
Neil Zhang <yzh298 (at) ur.rochester.edu>, 4-6 PM on Mondays in CSB 426
Mojtaba Heydari <mheydari (at) ur.rochester.edu>, 3:30-5:30 PM on Fridays in CSB 418
Tre DiPassio <TreDiPassio (at) rochester.edu>, 10:30-11:30 AM on Wednesdays in CSB 616