ELEC 542 - Digital Audio and Video Systems Design

Dr. Thanh Tran
tttran at ece dot rice dot edu or thanh.tran at ti dot com
Duncan Hall 2019, 713.348.3978
Office Hours: By appointment only.

Marco F. Duarte
duarte at rice dot edu
Duncan Hall 3038, 713.348.2256

Tuesday and Thursday 1:00-2:15PM, Martel Hall 101.

ECE 302 (Linear Systems) and ECE 431 (Digital Signal Processing).

Course Outline and Slides

1. Basics of Television, week of 1/18
2. Analog Video Fundamentals, week of 1/25
3. Digital Video Fundamentals, week of 2/1
4. Guest speaker – Dr. Alan Gatherer, CTO of Wireless Infrastructure at TI, 2/1
5. Elements of Acoustics & Analog Audio, week of 2/8
6. Guest speaker – Dr. Dennis Buss, VP of SiTD at TI, 2/15 at 12:00PM
7. Analog Audio Design Fundamentals, week of 2/22
8. Digital Audio Fundamentals, week of 2/24, 2/29
9. Midterm Review & DSP project discussion 3/1
10. Midterm 3/3
11. Spring break 3/7
12. Guest speaker – Gene Frantz, Principle Fellow at TI, 3/15
13. KHOU Broadcast Facility Tour, 3/18 (no class on 3/17)
14. Digital Signal Compression, 3/24
15. Digital Signal Compression, week of 3/29
16. DSP architectures, week of 4/5
17. Computers, Multimedia and Television, 4/12
18. Advanced Television Concepts (HDTV and PVR), week of 4/19
19. Project presentation, week of 4/26
20. Final Exam handout on 4/28
21. Final Exam and project report due back on 5/3

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Optional Textbooks

•  Charles Poynton, Digital Video and HDTV Algorithms and Interfaces, Morgan Kaufmann.
•  V. Bhaskaran and K. Konstantinides, Image and Video Compression Standards, Kluwer Academic Publishers.
•  K. Pohlmann, Principles of Digital Audio, McGraw-Hill

Grading

•  DSP or Matlab Project: 30%
•  Midterm: 30%
•  Final: 30%
•  Homework & Project Report: 10%

Homeworks

Number	Date Assigned	Date Due	PDF file
No. 1	January 20	January 27	Download PDF
No. 4	February 20	March 1	Download PDF

Project Requirements

Students will be divided into teams to work on digital signal processing projects. At the completion of the project, each team is required to present the result to the entire class and each member of the team is required to prepare a 4-page IEEE style report. Failing to complete the project and the report by the end of the semester will result in receiving a zero grade for the project.

Project Description (PDF File)

Project Teams

Team 1: Dave Chen, Saheel Sutaria and Ning Kang
Team 2: Paul Rodriguez, Justin Mintzer and Adrian Valenzuela
Team 3: Chris Flesher, Michael Chang and Ken Fisher

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