Laboratory Course  

Content

During the winter term 2009/2010 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

Schedule

The first meeting takes place on Thursday, November 5th, 2009 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 Tuesday, February 16th, and ends on Tuesday, March 2nd, 2009. 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.

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

    Documents (Access only permitted within the RWTH domain)

    It is recommended to review the appropriate lecture notes and slides from corresponding courses:
    • Handout for introductory session of Practical Course  
    • Speech Recognition, lecture slides    
    • Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks, lecture notes    
    • Statistical Methods in Natural Language Processing, lecture slides    

    Requirements

    Participants must have passed their Vordiplom/Bachelor and should 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.

    Registration

    Candidates must register using the online registration form. The registration will be open from Monday, June 15, 2009 until Sunday, June 28, 2009.

    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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