Team Project --- ELEC 431 --- Spring '03



Team projects are an integral part of this course.  In teams of three
to five, you can investigate DSP applications in speech processing,
image processing, digital communications, or any other fascinating
area where signals need to be processed and analyzed.  Three key words
for the project are TEAMWORK, CREATIVITY, and FUN!

Project Timeline

1. January 14 - February 24

Search signal processing literature, textbooks, and Internet 
for interesting project ideas.  For example, have a look at

        IEEE Signal Processing Magazine 

	C. S. Burrus, J. H. McClellan, A. V. Oppenheim, T. W. Parks,
        R. W. Schafer, H. W. Schuessler, Computer-Based Exercises for 
        Signal Processing using MATLAB 5, Prentice Hall, 1998

	Signal Processing Information Base (SPIB) 
		http://spib.rice.edu/spib.html

Possible project topics include:

	Spectrum Analysis
	Adaptive noise cancellation
	Image processing
	Speech enhancement
	Radar signal processing
	Biomedical signal processing 
	Digital communications
	Data compression
	Wavelet transforms
	Pattern recognition
	Neural networks
	Medical imaging
	System identification

2. Week of February 23


Meet with team members and develop a project proposal.
The proposal should clearly state the DSP application
involved in the project, methods of analysis and
design that will be needed for the project, and an outline
of the project objectives (a Matlab implementation of
a DSP algorithm is required).

3. March 3

Teams turn-in a written project proposal, including description of
required research, Matlab implementations, analysis methods, and
project objectives.

4. March 3 - April 25

Teams work together to fulfill the objectives specified in the
proposal. 


5. April 23

Poster Session (50% of grade)

5. April 25

Teams complete Web report documenting the theoretical background,
methods employed, practical application results, plus a breakdown of
each team members role.  The report must be written in HTML and be
available on the WWW. For example, your team's web-site might
contain several pages providing:

	Main web-page with project description
	and links to additional information
	such as

	Introduction and Background Information

	Description of Project Research

	Matlab Simulations and Computer Experiments

	Conclusions and Possible Future Work

If you build on a previous project, you must reference it and state explicitly what value you have added. 

The report is worth 50% of the project grade.