Other topics that may be covered in class
Date Lecture Topics Suggested Readings Additional material
29 Aug 2011 Introduction: Representing Sounds and Images

[slides]

Tom, Dick and Mary discover the DFT [pdf]

Vetterli's tutorial on Wavelets [pdf]

Time Frequency Representations [pdf]
1 Sep 2011 Introduction to Linear Algebra

[slides]
6 Sep 2011 Introduction to Linear Algebra II

[slides]
13 Sep 2011 DSP refresher: data parameterization

[slides]

 		  Additional DSP notes [link]
15 Sep 2011 Eigen representations: Eigenfaces

[slides]

 		Short tutorial

[link]

 Paper describing Eigenfaces

[pdf]

Tutorial with Matlab code

[link]
20 Sep 2011 Detecting faces in Images

[slides]

 		Viola Jones classic paper [pdf] Excellent list of Face recognition papers

[link]
22 Sep 2011 Expectation Maximization

[slides]

 		Self contained tutorial

[link]

 Jeff Bilmes tutorial

[link]

Variants of EM

[link]
27 Sep 2011 No class
29 Sep 2011 Probabilistic Latent Component Analysis

[slides]
4 Oct 2011 Guest Lecture: Prof. Alan Black

Speech Synthesis

[slides] 		Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis

[pdf]

 Instructions for building a talking clock in your voice

[link]
6 Oct 2011 PLCA / LVA 2

[slides]
11 Oct 2011 Shift-Invariant Decompositions

[slides]
13 Oct 2011 Guest Lecture: Prof. Fernando de la Torre

Component Analysis

[slides] 		Tutorial paper on PCA

[pdf]

 Another tutorial

[pdf]

 Original paper on ICA

[pdf]
18 Oct 2011 Clustering

[slides]

 		Andrew Moore's tutorial on K-means clustering

[link]
20 Oct 2011 Clustering II

[slides]
10 Nov 2011 Guest Lecture: Prof. Marios Savvides

Biometrics: Iris

[slides] 		  How Iris Recognition Works

[link]

How the Afghan Girl was Identified

[link]