EEL6935: Syllabus

EEL 6935 - ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING

Summer 2000

Instructor: John G. Harris
Office: NEB 453
Phone: (352) 392-2652
Email: harris@cnel.ufl.edu
Homepage: http://www.cnel.ufl.edu/analog/harris.html
Office hours: Tues, Weds, Thurs at 2pm

Prerequisite: EEL5701

Class Meeting: Tues-Thursday, periods 3,4 (11 am) in Larsen 310

Class Homepage: http://www.cnel.ufl.edu/analog/courses/EEL6935

Required textbook: There is no appropriate textbook for this course, instead we will handout copies of papers and book chapters throughout the semester.

Reference Books:

• Hearing (Handbook of Perception and Cognition, 2nd Edition) by Brian C.J. Moore (Editor), Academic Press; ISBN: 0125056265, 1995.
• Fundamentals of Acoustic Signal Processing by Mikio Tohyama and Koike Tsunehiko, Academic Press; ISBN: 0126926603, 1998.
• Signals, Sound, and Sensation (Modern Acoustics and Signal Processing) by William M. Hartmann, Springer Verlag; ISBN: 1563962837, 1998.
• Acoustics and Psychoacoustics by David Howard, James Angus, Butterworth Heinemann; ISBN: 0240516095, 2000.
• Physics of Sound by Richard E. Berg, David G. Stork (Contributor), Prentice Hall; ISBN: 0131830473, 1995.
• The Master Handbook of Acoustics by F. Alton Everest, Tab Books; ISBN: 0830644377, 1994.
• From Sound to Synapse: Physiology of the Mammalian Ear by C. Daniel Geisler Oxford Univ Press; ISBN: 0195100255, 1998.

Course Overview:
This course studies human hearing within a signal processing framework. The human auditory system will be contrasted with manmade systems composed of microphones, noise suppression, signal processing, filter bank models, etc. Finally, some amount of classical acoustics will be studied to better understand the signal processing problems inherent in sound processing by man or machine. Major course topics include:

1.

Physics of sound

• sound propagation, absorption and reverberation
• transduction with the human ear and microphones

2.

Front-end processing

• cochlea structure and function
• filter banks and other engineering models

3.

Psychoacoustics and models

• loudness perception and intensity
• frequency analysis and masking
• temporal integration and temporal resolution
• pitch perception

4.

Sound localization and adaptive beamforming

5.

Classical acoustics and reverberation

6.

Precedence effect and echo cancelation

Applications: Ideas from this course have applications in improved speech/audio coding, enhancement and other processing algorithms as well as in a wide variety of signal processing tasks involving acoustic signals.

Tentative Grade Determination:
1/3 Homework, 1/3 Midterm Project, 1/3 Final Project

Last date of modification: 5/16/00