Laboratory Course  

News:

Note the change of starting date for the course. The course will start on Thursday, February 14th, 2008.

Content

During the winter term 2007/2008 the Lehrstuhl für Informatik 6 offers the laboratory course Speech- and Image Processing for the main studies. The course covers the implementation of basic methods of speech and image recognition using the programming language C/C++. Currently the following topics are planned:
  • image object recognition:
    • Gaussian single and mixture distributions
    • Simple image classification
    • Application of the image object recognition software of the chair

  • automatic speech recognition
    • Introduction to the speech recognition software of the chair
    • Signal processing: Cepstrum-analysis
    • Acoustic modeling: Hidden Markov Models, Expectation Maximization training
    • Search: Linear search, analysis of the search space
    • Language modelling: Extraction of vocabulary, construction of a language model

Requirements

Participants should have passed their Vordiplom/Bachelor and must have attended at least one of the lectures "Speech Recognition", "Digital Processing of Speech and Image Signals", or "Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks".
Practical experience with the programming language C/C++ is helpful.

Schedule

The first meeting takes place on Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 10:00h in the seminar room 6124 of Lehrstuhl für Informatik 6. The course itself will take place as a block at the end of the lecture period.

The lab course begins on Thursday, February 14, and ends on Thursday, February 28, 2008. Each day will start with a meeting at 10:00 in the seminar room of Lehrstuhl für Informatik 6 (room 6124), where the solution to the last exercise will be discussed and the exercise of the day will be handed out. Presence on the introductory meetings is mandatory. The exercises have to be solved before the next morning's meeting.

Week 7
  • Thur-Fri: Image processing (Philippe Dreuw "dreuw@i6...")
    Week 8
  • Mon-Tues: Signal analysis (Jonas Lööf "loof@i6...")
  • Wed-Fri: Acoustic model training (Christian Plahl "plahl@i6...")
    Week 9
  • Mon-Tues: Connected digit recognition (Christian Plahl "plahl@i6...")
  • Wed-Thur: Language modelling (Sasa Hasan "hasan@i6...")

    Among others the goal of this lab course is to introduce candidates for research supplementals (a.k.a. "hiwi-jobs") and diploma works to the methods applied at Lehrstuhl für Informatik 6.

    Registration

    Candidates must register using the online registration form. The registration will be open from Monday, June 11, 2007 until Friday, June 24, 2007.

    Assignment

    The course is assigned to applied computer science or as specialization.

    Recurrence

    This course will be repeated each winter term.

    Enquiries

    Enquiries concerning the organization of the lab course may be sent to Jonas Lööf, Lehrstuhl für Informatik 6, Phone: 80-21621.

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