Department of Computer Science and Technology

Course pages 2018–19

Digital Signal Processing

Part III/MPhil students taking only part 1 (as part of Computer Music):

Part III/MPhil students taking both parts:

Assignment sheets will be published here during the week before the deadline.

Submission page on University of Cambridge Moodle VLE

  • Written take-home assignment about part 1, comprising 20% of the total mark. Due: Monday 18 February, 16:00
  • Three programming assignments, each comprising 10% of the mark.
  • Individual implementation project with 8-page written report, topic agreed with and supervised by lecturer, comprising 50% of the mark. Report due: Monday 29 April, 16:00

    Some example project ideas:

    • Detection and relative phase measurement of GPS signals
    • Reconstruction of displayed text from electromagnetic emissions of an HDMI video cable
    • Separation of two voices from a two-channel audio recording using independent component analysis (cocktail-party problem)
    • Implementation and evaluation of the Remez exchange algorithm
    • Implementation of an offline decoder for some radio communications protocol.
    • Estimation of antenna position (“hyperbolic navigation”) from measuring the phase difference of three radio-time signals (e.g. MSF, DCF77, BBC LF radio data)
    • Implementation of a detector for double JPEG compression
    • Implementation of a basic spread-spectrum radar