education and research in the center for signal and image processing

Education and Research

in the

Center for Signal and Image Processing

http://www.eedsp.gatech.edu/

Center for Signal and ImageImage Processing Center for Signal and Image Processing

2

CSIP Summary

• Our Ph.D. graduates have impact worldwide in DSP education and research

• Distinguished faculty – 18 faculty (8 IEEE Fellows)– Co-authors of over 25 books on DSP

• Over 80 current Ph.D. students

• Located on third floorof GCATT building250 14th St., NW

• Support from Georgia Research Alliance has provided outstanding well equipped labs.


CSIP Faculty

• Yucel Altunbasak

• David V. Anderson

• Thomas P. Barnwell

• Mark A. Clements

• Faramarz Fekri

• Monson H. Hayes

• Joel R. Jackson

• Fred Juang

• Aaron Lanterman

• Chin Lee

• Vijay K. Madisetti

• Francois Malassenet

• James H. McClellan

• Russell M. Mersereau

• Ronald W. Schafer

• Douglas B. Williams

• G. Tong Zhou


Past and Present Funding

• Industry: Texas Instruments, Intel, BAE Systems, Hewlett-Packard, Mathworks, National Semiconductor, Analog Devices, Lucent, Harris, Hughes, Prentice-Hall

• Federal: NSF, U.S. Army, DARPA, ONR, NASA,MPO

• State: Georgia Research Alliance

• Private Foundation: John and Mary Franklin Foundation

• Industrial partners: Texas Instruments Leadership University Program and Hewlett-Packard Labs


Current Research Areas - I

• Robust automatic speech recognition• High-quality low-bit-rate speech coding for voice

over IP networks• Noise and reverberation removal• Music analysis and synthesis• Compressed-domain processing of audio• Multi-scale sinusoidal modeling• Microphone array processing• Chaos in wireless communication systems• Space-time coding and OFDM• Compensation for selective fading effects• Automated analysis of video• Face recognition


Current Research Areas - II

• Target tracking in video• Synthetic Aperture Radar imaging• Target tracking/localization from acoustic sensors• Rapid prototyping• Automated measurement and modeling of behavior

in biological systems• “Intelligent Environments”• Automatic storage and retrieval of speech and

Audio-visual speech recognition• Speech-driven facial animation• Video streaming with error concealment and MDC• Graphics streaming for the Internet


Current Research Areas - III

• Video indexing for a smart VCR• Super-resolution of video• Buried mine detection• Blind separation of speech signals• Image-based graphical rendering• Segmentation of cardiac MRI images• Compensation of nonlinear power amps.• DSP for hand-held communication devices• Image interpolation for digital color cameras• Finite field wavelet transforms and applications to

error control coding and cryptography• Video compression• Application of multimedia processing in education


Graduate Courses

• ECE-2025 Intro to Signal Processing• ECE-3075 Random Signals (required)• ECE-4270 DSP

• Oppenheim and Schafer (the DSP Bible)

• ECE-4271 DSP Applications• MATLAB projects (sampling of grad courses)

• ECE-4273 DSP using ASICs• ECE-4006 Real-Time DSP Implementation

• Program DSP Boards in C• Real-time audio, speech or video projects• Algorithms and architectures for DSP


Graduate Courses

• ECE-6250 Advanced Digital Signal Processing

• ECE-6254 Statistical Digital Signal Processing and Modeling Signal Modeling, Optimum Filters, and Power Spectrum Estimation.

• ECE-6255 Digital Processing of Speech Signals

• ECE-6258 Digital Image Processing

• ECE-6271 Adaptive Filtering

• ECE-6272 Fundamentals of Radar Signal Processing

• ECE-6273 Methods of Pattern Recognition with Application to Voice special application section for automatic speech recognition and related signal processing.

• ECE-6276 DSP Hardware Systems Design algorithms on programmable processors, multiprocessors, and ASICs.

• ECE-6277 DSP Software Systems Design

• ECE-6279 Spatial Array Processing

• ECE-6500 Fourier Techniques and Signal Analysis

• ECE-7251 Signal Detection and Estimation

• ECE-7252 Advanced Signal Processing Theory

education and research in the center for signal and image processing

Documents