Schedule and Assignments

Below is our master schedule, with pointers to all reading assignments, lecture overheads,¹ and homework/lab assignments for the course.

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To obtain printable versions of the assignments and solutions from off-campus locations, you can use commands such as

scp you@ccrma-gate.stanford.edu:/usr/ccrma/web/html/courses/421/hw/hw1/hw1.pdf .
scp you@ccrma-gate.stanford.edu:/usr/ccrma/web/html/courses/421/hw/hw1/hw1sol.pdf .

• Week 1 - Course Intro
  • Music 421 Overview (this document)
  • Verify that you have had adequate prior exposure to elementary spectrum analysis, digital filter analysis, and signal modeling.
  • Read the first 25 pages of Chapter 1 of Spectral Audio Signal Processing (SASP) entitled
    ``Spectrum Analysis of Sinusoids.'' (up through ``The Rectangular Window'')
  • HW#1

• Week 2 - Fourier Review
  • First three sections of Appendix B of SASP entitled ``Cont./Discrete Fourier Transforms'' (16pp)
  • First 16 pages of Appendix C of SASP entitled ``Spectrum Analysis Windows''²
    (up through ``Blackman-Harris Window Family'')
  • First section of Appendix H of SASP entitled ``Examples in Matlab and Octave''
  • HW#2³

• Week 3 - Spectrum Analysis Windows, Optimal Window Design by Linear Programming
  • Remainder (20pp) of Appendix C of SASP entitled ``Spectrum Analysis Windows''
  • Section F.12 on optimal window design of SASP (14pp)
  • HW#3
  • Remainder of Chapter 1 of SASP entitled ``Spectrum Analysis of Sinusoids.'' (26pp)
  • Supplementary - FIR Digital Filter Design
    • First 40 pages of Appendix F of SASP entitled ``FIR Digital Filter Design'' (up through ``Optimal FIR Digital Filter Design'')

• Week 4 - Sinusoidal Spectrum Analysis
  • HW#4
  • Chapter 2 of SASP entitled ``Spectrum Analysis of Noise.'' (22pp)

• Week 5 - Noise Spectrum Analysis
  • HW#5
  • Chapter 3 of SASP entitled ``Time-Frequency Displays'' (12pp)
  • Supplementary Reading: Appendix of SASP entitled ``Statistical Signal Processing''

• Week 6 - The Short Time Fourier Transform and Time-Frequency Displays
  • Chapter 5 of SASP entitled ``Overlap-Add STFT Processing'' (37pp)
  • SDIF Handout (3pp)
  • HW#6

• Week 7 - Overlap-Add FFT Processors
  • Finish Chapter 5 of SASP entitled ``Overlap-Add STFT Processing'' (37pp)
  • Start Chapter 6 of SASP entitled ``Filter Bank View of the STFT'' (24pp)
  • HW#7

• Week 8 - Filter-Bank Summation (FBS) and Overlap-Add (OLA) Duality
  • Finish Chapter 6 of SASP entitled ``Filter Bank View of the STFT'' (24pp)
  • Chapter 7 of SASP entitled ``Downsampled STFT Filter Banks'' (14pp)
  • First 4 pages of Chapter 8 of SASP entitled ``STFT with Modifications'' (up to ``OLA and FBS Duality Review'')
  • Start reading Chapter 4 of SASP entitled ``Spectral Modeling Synthesis'' (30pp)
  • HW#8
  • Supplementary Handout: Frequency Domain Interpretation of COLA
  • Supplementary Lecture: Spectral Modeling by Linear Prediction

• Week 9 - Spectral Modeling Examples: Vocoders, Additive Synthesis, Sinusoidal Modeling, Cross Synthesis, Spectral Envelopes by Cepstral Smoothing or Linear Prediction
  • Finish reading Chapter 4 of SASP entitled ``Spectral Modeling Synthesis'' (30pp)
  • Section 7.3 of SASP entitled ``Vocoders'' (8pp)
  • Section 7.5 of SASP entitled ``PARSHL'' (22pp)
  • Supplementary Lecture on Chirplets
  • Supplementary Reading:
    • Spectral modeling book chapter by Levine and Smith (PDF)
    • John Chowning's PowerPoint presentation on FM synthesis and related topics
    • Derivation of FM spectrum
    • Sections pertaining to Gaussian chirps in Appendix D of SASP entitled
      ``Gaussian Function Properties''
    • Time-Scale Modification (TSM) lecture overheads

• Week 10 - Applications, Related Topics, Project Presentations
  • Supplementary Lecture: Multirate, Polyphase, and Wavelet Filter Banks
  • Supplementary Reading: Chapter 9 of SASP entitled ``Multirate Polyphase Filter Banks'' (42pp)
  • Supplementary Reading: Chapter 10 of SASP entitled ``Wavelet Filter Banks'' (10pp)

• Final Exam - Wednesday, June 11, 2008, 12:15-3:15 PM, CCRMA Classroom (as usual).
  The exam will cover
  • Homework/lab assignments
  • Assigned reading (not including ``supplementary'')
  • The exam will be closed book, except that you may bring an 8.5" by 11" sheet of paper, covered front and back with notes.
  • No calculators allowed (you shouldn't need one).
  • Practice Questions