Course Catalog 2009-2010 International Basic Pori International Postgraduate Open University |Degrees|     |Study blocks|     |Courses|

Person responsible

Ioan Tabus

Implementations

	Lecture times and places	Target group recommended to
Implementation 1	Per 1 : Tuesday 10 - 12, TB214 Thursday 12 - 14, TB224 Thursday 12 - 14, TB223

Requirements

Final examinaion and a homework assignment

Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning

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Learning outcomes

Student will learn about various signal compression methods and how to select proper methods for signal compression tasks at hand.

Content

Content	Core content	Complementary knowledge	Specialist knowledge
1.	Lossless techniques for data compression.
2.	Text compression.
3.	Lossless and lossy image compression.
4.	Speech and audio compression.

Evaluation criteria for the course

Course is graded on the basis of answers to exam questions. Very good grade is obtained when exam questions are correctly answered and homework is accepted. Course acceptance threshold is approx. half of the maximum exam points. By volunteering to show exersice solution will be prized with increasing the exam result by one grade if the threshold is passed.

Assessment scale:

Numerical evaluation scale (1-5) will be used on the course

Study material

Type	Name	Author	ISBN	URL	Edition, availability, ...	Examination material	Language
Lecture slides		Ioan Tabus			http://www.cs.tut.fi/~tabus/SC.html		English
Other literature	"Signal Compression"	Ioan Tabus					English

Prerequisites

Additional information about prerequisites
Either SGN-1107 or SGN-1200 is required.

Correspondence of content

More precise information per implementation

	Description	Methods of instruction	Implementation
Implementation 1		Lectures Excercises Practical works	Contact teaching: 0 % Distance learning: 0 % Self-directed learning: 0 %

Last modified	09.09.2009
Modifier	Ioan Tabus