The final project consists of an independent study or programming project. The independent study project consists of research in psychoacoustics (e.g. temporal masking vs. simultaneous masking, pitch and critical bands excitations, binaural hearing), digital audio processing (e.g. analysis and comparison of different time to frequency mapping implementations), audio quality measurements (e. g. subjective vs. objective audio quality measurements), or application of audio codecs (analysis of different coding technologies and their applications). The programming project consists of the design and implementation of a simple audio codec. Groups of up to three students are recommended for the programming projects.
Requirements for the final project include a written proposal (one page) by the fourth week of the quarter, a written report by the ninth week of the quarter, and a presentation of the report by the end of the quarter. The aim of the report should be to fully document your study, project methodology and results. The written report is due by 5pm on Friday March 7, 1997. The final project presentations will take place on Friday March 14th, 1997.