ECE 551: Digital Signal Processing II (Fall 2025)

Course Schedule (Subject to Adjustment)

Time Topics Reading Materials
Week 1:
8/25 - 8/29
Overview of Digital Signal Processing and Its Applications
Review of Basic Signal Processing Concepts
Applied Digital Signal Processing
Week 2:
9/1 - 9/5
No class 9/1 (Labor Day)
All-Pass Systems and Minimum-Phase Systems
Group Delay and Minimum Energy Delay
Proakis. Chp 5.4-5.5
Oppenheim, Chp 5
Tutorial by P. Kabal pdf
Week 3:
9/8 - 9/13
Signal Modelling and System Identification
Pade's, Prony's, Shank's
Week 4:
9/15 - 9/19
Linear Predictive Modelling
Multichannel Sampling by Papoulis
Week 5:
9/22 - 9/26
Digital Rate Conversion
Multi-rate Signal Processing
Midterm 1 (Thursday, 9/25 TBD)
No class Thursday
Week 6:
9/29 - 10/3
Noble Identities and Polyphase Representation
Multi-rate Digital Filter Bank
Week 7:
10/6 - 10/10
2-Channel Multi-rate Filter Bank
Quadrature Mirror Filters (QMF)
Conjugate Quadrature Filters (CQF)
Week 8:
10/13 - 10/17
Time-frequency analysis and Uncertainty
Week 9:
10/20 - 10/24
Window Fourier transform (STFT and Wavelet Transform)
Wavelet Transform
Week 10:
10/27- 10/31
Midterm 2 (Tuesday, 10/28 TBD)
No class Tuesday
Harr wavelet and Daubechies wavelets
Random Signal Introduction
Week 11:
11/3 - 11/7
ARMR Model
Yule-Walker Equation (Augmented Normal Equation)
Week 12:
11/10 - 11/14
Levinson-Durbin Algorithm
Relationship between Levinson-Durbin and Lattice Structure
Week 13:
11/17 - 11/21
Direct Form I, Direct Form II and Lattice Form
Optimal Forward / Backward Linear Prediction
Adaptive Filtering: Wiener Filter and Its Applications
Fall Break:
11/24 - 11/28
Week 15:
12/1 - 12/5
LMS Algorithm by Bernard Widrow
SVD-Based Linear Predictive Modelling
Week 16:
12/8 - 12/12
SVD and Stability Analysis, ICA, PCA, CCA
No class Thursday
Final Exam:
12/15 - 12/18
Final Exam (Tuesday, 12/16, 8:00am-11:00am)