Applied Signal Processing

Projects,  to be handed in before February 15.


  1. Data Compression


Read chapter 27 of Smith (http://www.dspguide.com/ch27.htm).


  1. Describe some important data compression schemes.

  2. Give a number of commonly used formats for 2-dimensional images. Describe the use of these formats, and how much the compression is that can be realized with them.

  3. Write a code that makes a movie using a set of about 100 images using the MPEG-2 format. See http://www.bretl.com/mpeghtml/mpeg2vc1.HTM for the definition of this format.

  4. Are there codes available novadays more efficient than MPEG-2? Give details.


See for the definition of the JPEG format http://www.jpeg.org and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG .
For a JPEG tutorial click here.