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ELEC6221 Power Generation: Technology and Impact on Society

Module Overview

 The aims of the module are: 

  • To introduce the conventional technologies used for generating electricity
  • To develop awareness of the technical problems associated with operation of different types of power plants
  • To gain understanding of the complex systems involved in generation of electricity
  • To challenge the conventional views towards power generation industry
  • To get novel ideas supporting the sustainability of power generation

Aims & Objectives

Aims

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

  • To understand concepts about the production of electric power through different technologies
  • To become familiar with economical, ecological, political and management aspects of power generation
  • To appreciate environmental impact of power generation

Subject Specific Intellectual

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to:

  • To make a comprehensive comparison of possible solutions of power generation in particular circumstances
  • To predict efficiencies of gas turbine and steam plants
  • To suggest optimal emission control measures for gas turbine and coal-fired plants
  • To design cost-effective solutions based on combine heat and power (CHP) technology

Syllabus

Introduction to electricity generation, some environmental and political considerations

  • Short history of power generation industry
  • Politics of electricity
  • Size of the industry
  • Overview of energy generation technologies
  • Environmental effects of power generation

Thermodynamics for power plant cycle analysis

  • Review of thermodynamics basic concepts
  • Work and heat, internal energy and enthalpy, specific heats
  • Review of first and second law of thermodynamics, control mass and control volume
  • Thermodynamic availability analysis
  • Simple compressible substances and heating process of water at constant pressure
  • Ideal gas, mixture of ideal gases, real gases and incompressible liquids
  • 2T Heat engine and Carnot cycle

Coal fired power plants

  • Coal burning power plant technology
  • Steam power plant - Rankine cycle - energy analysis, irreversibilities, efficiency analysis and improvements (reheat and regeneration)
  • Boiler technology
  • Steam turbine technology
  • Generators
  • Emission control
  • Advanced coal burning power plant technology
  • Environmental effects of coal combustion
  • Cost of coal-fired electricity generation

Gas turbines and combined cycle power plants

  • Gas turbine power plant - Brayton cycle - energy analysis, irreversibilities, efficiency analysis and improvements (intercooling, reheat and regeneration)
  • Gas turbine technology
  • Advanced gas turbine technology
  • Combine cycle power plants
  • Gas-vapour power cycle - energy analysis
  • Environmental impact of gas turbines power generation
  • Cost of gas-fired electricity generation

Combine heat and power

  • Combine heat and power (CHP) technology
  • Environmental consideration of CHP
  • Cost of CHP

Nuclear power plants

  • Fundamentals of nuclear power technology
  • Nuclear reactors
  • Fusion vs Fision
  • Environmental implication of nuclear power
  • Cost of nuclear power

Renewable Energy Generation

  • Hydropower plants
    • Hydropower technology
    • Hydro sites
    • Dams and barrages
    • Turbines
    • Environmental consideration for hydropower technology
    • Cost of hydropower
    • Hydropower for peak load (energy storage)
  • Wind Power
    • Wind turbine technology
    • Predictability and reliability
    • Environmental aspects
    • Power quality
    • Cost of wind powe
  • Solar Energy
    • Solar energy conversion: photosythesis, thermal electrical conversion, photochemical conversion, photoelectrical conversion
    • Concentrating solar power
    • Photovoltaics
    • Environmental considerations
    • Cost of solar energy
  • Biomass
    • Biomass sources
    • Conversion processes (thermal, chemical, biochemical)
    • Environmental impact
    • Cost of biomass
  • Geothermal
    • Geothermal power plant types
    • Environmental impact
    • Cost of geothermal power
  • Tidal power
    • Conversion methods from tidal to electrical energy
    • Ecological impact and reliability
    • Cost of tidal power

Learning & Teaching

Learning & teaching methods

ActivityDescriptionHours
Lecture3 lectures per week36
Tutorialexample classes, 1 per week 12
Project supervisionGroup seminars on energy stratergies (3 seminars)4
Fieldwork2 tours to Marchwood Power Station (8 hours per tour)8

Assessment

Assessment methods

Depending on the cohort, coaches are needed to take students to Marchwood and to bring them back. The maximum group size for the tour is 22-24 students.

MethodHoursPercentage contribution
Business plan for energy generation-30%
Steam plant analysis-20%
Exam2 hours50%

Referral Method: By examination, with the original coursework mark being carried forward

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ELEC6220 Power Systems Analysis

Module Overview

Overview

  • To introduce fundamental concepts relating to the design, analysis, economics and management of modern electrical power systems.
  • To develop awareness of the technical problems associated with operation of such systems.
  • To gain analytical and numerical modelling skills for handling particular problems.
  • To introduce classification of grid users, load control and tariffs.

Aims and Objectives

  • Advanced concepts of operation of electrical power systems.
  • Elements of control of power systems
  • Economic and management aspect.

Aims & Objectives

Aims

  • Knowledge and Understanding

    • Advanced concepts of operation of electrical power systems.

    • Elements of control of power systems.

    • Economic and management aspect.

  • Intellectual Skills

    • Appreciation of the complexity of power systems.

    • Ability to analyse the performance of power systems.

  • Practical Skills

    • A range of analytical and numerical methods of analysis of power systems.

    • Ability to use commercial software for simulation.

  • General Transferable (key) Skills

    • Application of modern modelling techniques.

    • Ability to tackle problems of interdisciplinary nature.

Syllabus

Introduction

  • The evolution of electricity generation technologies
  • The evolution of environmental awareness
  • The size of the industry
  • The politics of electricity
  • Hierarchy of energy within the national economy

The utilization of electric power

  • Types of loads
  • Classification of grid users
  • Measurement of load
  • Load loss factor
  • Load control
  • Load forecasting
  • Tariffs

Power System Economics

  • Basic pricing principles
  • Supply-side and demand-side options
  • Load management and spot pricing
  • Electricity pricing
  • Charging for transmission and distribution services
  • Cost of generating electrical energy
  • Methods of determining depreciation
  • Importance of high load factor

Electricity markets

  • Electricity market structure
  • Market clearing
  • Social welfare
  • Market coupling

Power factor improvement

  • Causes and disadvantages of low power factor
  • Calculation of power factor correction
  • The most economical power factor
  • Power factor improvement equipment

Economics of power transmission

  • Economic choice of conductor size
  • Economic choice of transmission voltage
  • Most economical conductor size in a cable

Energy management system

  • Load-flow or power-flow computation
  • DC load-flow
  • Optimal power flow
  • State estimator

Control of transported and distributed power

  • Control of real power flows
  • Control of reactive power flows
  • Unified Power-Flow Controller
  • FACTS controllers in the distribution system

Future power systems

  • Renewable Energy
  • Decentralized or Distributed Generation
  • Power-Electronic Interfaces
  • Energy Storage
  • Blackouts and Chaotic Phenomena

Learning & Teaching

Learning & teaching methods

ActivityDescriptionHours
Lecture12

Assessment

Assessment methods

N/A

MethodHoursPercentage contribution
Coursework using ERACS software-50%
Exam2 hours50%

Referral Method: By examination, with the original coursework mark being carried forward

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ELEC2220 Control and Communications

Module Overview

To develop knowledge of the analysis of linear continuous-time systems. To introduce the basic analysis and design tools for electronic system control and communications engineering. To provide a comprehensive foundation for Part III/IV signal processing, communications and control courses.

Aims & Objectives

Aims

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

  • The principles of communications and control theory
  • Analogue and digital modulation
  • The techniques used to design and analyse the performance of control systems.

Subject Specific Intellectual

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to:

  • Apply time and frequency domain techniques for the analysis of linear systems of any order.
  • Analyse and design simple linear control and modulation systems.
  • Use MATLAB as a design and simulation tool.
  • Program control system design and analysis problems in MATLAB
  • Engage proficiently with the more advanced signal processing, communications and control courses
  • Understand the relevance of the frequency-domain analysis in engineering

Transferable and Generic

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to:

  • Use the control and communications point of view to analyse problems arising in other disciplines

Syllabus

Control (26 lectures):

  • Recap of the Laplace Transform and its properties, including initial and final value theorem
  • Differential equations and transfer functions
  • Characteristic equation
  • Block diagram notation
  • Use of Matlab and other CAD tools.
  • Feedback Control Systems
  • Open loop v closed loop
  • Stability
  • Sensitivity
  • Disturbance rejection
  • Transient response
  • Steady state error
  • Root Locus Analysis
  • Bode Plots
  • Gain and Phase Margin, Bandwidth
  • Estimation of system transfer functions
  • Stability in the Frequency Domain
  • Nyquist Stability Criterion
  • Gain and Phase Margin
  • Controller Design
  • Common control methodologies
  • PI, PD and PID, Pole placement, Pole-zero cancellation
  • Compensators, Phase Lead and Lead-Lag
  • Benefits and Disadvantages - the need for other control strategies

Communications (10 lectures):

Analogue modulation:

  • AM, DSBSC and SSB with tone modulation; transmission band width
  • FM; defining equations and simple waveforms, modulation index, bandwidth, capture ratio
  • Noise and distortion

Digital Modulation:

  • ASK, PSK, QPSK; constellation diagram
  • Pulse shaping, eye diagram
  • Demodulation and detection
  • Symbol and bit error probabilities
  • Comparison of analogue and digital modulation,
  • Software defined radio outlook

Learning & Teaching

Learning & teaching methods

ActivityDescriptionHours
Lecture36
Tutorial12
Specialist Lab9

Assessment

Assessment methods

MethodHoursPercentage contribution
Specialist control and comms labs-15%
Tutorial questions similar in form to those set in examinations-10%
Exam2 hours75%

Referral Method: By examination

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ELEC2212 Electromagnetism for Communications

Module Overview

The course presents the principles and applications of electromagnetic theory with examples in high-speed electronics, communications and electromagnetic compatibility, and provides an introduction to photonic engineering.

 

It covers the underlying mathematics of vector fields and Electromagentics required for communications. Course participants will become familiar with the most common methods of data transmission including short and long distance electronic interconnect, fibre optic interconnect and wireless interconnect.

Aims & Objectives

Aims

Knowledge and Understanding

 

Having successfully completed the module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the following:

 

A1 Vector differential calculus

A2 Maxwell's equations, their application and context

A3 Electromagnetic boundary conditions

A4 Interaction between electromagnetic waves, materials and interfaces.

A5 Electromagnetic wave propagation in free space and materials.

A6 Data transmission lines

A7 Waveguides and optical fibres.

A8. Antennas for transmitting and receiving electromagnetic waves

 

Intellectual Skills

Having successfully completed the module, you will be able to:

 

B1. Understand use of vector calculus to represent fields and waves

B2. Interactions between EM waves and matter and its application to communications (optical and wireless)

 

Subject Specific Skills 

Having successfully completed the module, you will understand:

 

C1 Electromagnetic theory

C2 Electromagnetic and electrostatic fields

C3 Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC)

C4 Basic Coherent and non-coherent optics

C5 Electromagnetic propagation and antennas

 

 

Employability/Transferable/Key Skills

Having successfully completed the module, you will be able to:

 

D1. Select and use appropriate interconnect for short and long distance communications.

Syllabus

Electromagnetism in industrial electronics: electromagnetic compatibility, the mobile phone and optical fibre communications

 

1.    Vectors, Vector fields, and Vector calculus

2.    Div, Grad, Curl,

3.    Divergence theorem, Stokes theorem.

4.    Maxwell's equations

5.    Coulomb's law and Gauss' Law

6.    Energy and momentum in electromagnetic fields

7.    Electrostatic dipoles and dielectrics

8.    Electromagnetic wave propagation in air, metal conductors, and dielectric materials.

9.    Electromagnetic spectrum.

10.Frequency dependent properties of metal transmission lines.

11.Skin-depth and impedance.

12.Reflection and refraction of light.

13.Use of total internal reflection for data transmission in optical waveguides, and fibres.

14.Frequency dependent properties of optical waveguides.

15.Convergence of electronic and optical data transmission for semiconductor devices.

16.Introduction to planar lightwave circuits, and silicon photonic devices.

17.Radiation and antennas for wireless communications.

Learning & Teaching

Learning & teaching methods

ActivityDescriptionHours
Lecture36
Specialist Lab3
Tutorial12

Assessment

Assessment methods

Students will receive feedback in-class during lectures and laboratory sessions. Feedback will be given after the courseworks are marked.

Demonstrators will help and advise students, as well as grading their work.

Students may contact the teaching team via email for advice and academic support.

MethodHoursPercentage contribution
Introduction to Fibre Amplifiers-5%
The first coursework for enhancing student understanding on general electromagnetism. -5%
The second coursework for enhancing student understanding on general electromagnetism. -5%
Exam2 hours85%

Referral Method: By examination, with the original coursework mark being carried forward

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ELEC6245 Wireless Networks

Module Overview

Aims and Objectives

 This course is intended to give students an outline of how wireless communication and computer networks work "above the physical layer". This includes the interoperability of wireless networks such as WiMax/GPRS and WiFi to provide WiFi on trains etc. How wireless sensor networks gather and report physical parameters including body sensor networks. We also look at the evolution of cell phone networks from GSM->GPRS->3G->LTE->"4G"

Aims & Objectives

Aims

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

  • Radio propogation - how it is helped and hindered by the environment., Protocols that allow the through routing of data out of a network of sensors., how resource wireless resources can be allocated,

Subject Specific Intellectual

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to:

  • How to make wireless sensor networks available as web services.

Transferable and Generic

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to:

  • Present work to orally and as a written report. Read and understand a technical specification and understand why things are done as they are.

Syllabus

Syllabus

  • Introduction: How to locate source material, read specifications and present material.
  • An introduction to GSM
  • GPRS/ 3G/ LTE/ "4G"
  • Bluetooth/ Bluetooth Low Energy/ Profiles/ security/ Service discovery
  • WLAN evolution
  • WiMAX security.
  • Wireless sensor networks, Zigbee, time synchronised networks.
  • Wireless Resource Allocation
  • Protocols. 
  • Digital TV/ Digital Radio

Learning & Teaching

Learning & teaching methods

ActivityDescriptionHours
LectureThe course is run primarily as a series of student led seminars for which individual students will give a talk of about 25 minutes. Topics are allocated in the first session. The first talk in each topic covered will serve as an introductory overview.24
TutorialThese are a series of short (~20minute) held with each coursework group to ensure that the specification is clear and that progress is satisfactory and that resources are available.12

Assessment

Assessment methods

MethodHoursPercentage contribution
Tutorial presentation-20%
A group coursework-70%
Coursework Presentation-10%

Referral Method: By set coursework assignment(s)

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ELEC6242 Cryptography

Module Overview

This module covers the mathematics, techniques, and applications of modern cryptography.

Aims:

  • This module gives a broad introduction into the subject of cryptography as it applies to electronic and computer systems
  • We will look at the history of code making and code breaking, and draw lessons for the future from the mistakes and successes of the past.
  • We will give a gentle introduction to the mathematics underlying modern cryptosystems.

Aims & Objectives

Aims

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

  • The historic struggle between code-makers and code-breakers
  • The broad categories of codes and ciphers, and appropriate uses for each

Subject Specific Intellectual

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to:

  • Perform simple mathematics appropriate to public-key encryption, and to cryptosystems based on polynomials over the binary numbers

Transferable and Generic

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to:

  • Use graduate-level literature to investigate areas of mathematics previously unfamiliar to you

Subject Specific Practical

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to:

  • Attack classical ciphers such as Vigenère, and LFSR-based stream ciphers
  • Select appropriate ciphers, cipher modes, and protocols for simple applications

Syllabus

  • Cryptography background
    • Vocabulary
    • History
    • Steganography
    • Simple codebreaking
    • Information: confusion and diffusion, entropy
    • One-time pads and their failures (Venona).
  • Mathematical background
    • Finite Abelian Groups
    • Finite Fields.
    • Groups based on integer multiplication
    • Discrete logarithms
    • Groups based on elliptic curve
  • Public and private key cryptography, shared secrets
  • Public key cryptosystems
    • RSA, ElGamal
    • Authentication
    • Signatures
    • Deniability
    • Identity-based cryptography
  • Private key cryptosystems
  • Stream ciphers: LFSR, RC4, and later.
  • Block ciphers: Feistel, Rijndael, and later
  • Cryptographic modes: ECB, CBC, GCM.
  • Cryptographic protocols, including TLS.
  • “Random numbers” and their weaknesses
  • Elementary cryptanalysis
  • Weaknesses in implementations
  • Hardware
  • Quantum cryptography

Learning & Teaching

Learning & teaching methods

ActivityDescriptionHours
Lecture36
Tutorial6
Demonstration or Examples SessionFormative assignment6

Assessment

Assessment methods

MethodHoursPercentage contribution
Cryptanalysis Investigation-20%
Exam2 hours80%

Referral Method: By examination

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ELEC6241 System on Chip Design Techniques

Module Overview

This module is designed to give students a borad understanding of the main principles required for system on chip design. The module will discuss the required design flow, and specific techniques for low power and reliable integration of cores into a complete System on Chip. Other advanced techniques such as timing analysis and asynchronous design will also be introduced. In addition, the module extensively covers hardware architectures and timing behaviours of fundamental computer arithmetic ciruits.

Aims & Objectives

Aims

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

  • Specify and design electronics systems on chip
  • Optimise the performance and power of electronics systems on chip
  • Verify a system design in terms of timing and functionality by constructing and applying appropriate tests
  • Undertake research into electronics design problems
  • Arithmetic datapath design

Syllabus

  • Introduction to IC Design
    • IC system design options
    • CMOS processing, layout and design rules
    • Stick diagrams
    • Static complementary gates
    • System design using standard cells
  • Timing Schemes in Digital Systems
    • Principles of Synchronous Design
    • Clock trees and clock management
    • Asynchronous Circuits
    • Design and implementation of Synchronisers
    • Metastability in Digital System
  • Design of large digital Systems
    • Fundamental concepts of datapath and controller
    • Circuit Power Consumption, design tradeoffs speed-power, introduction to low power circuit design
    • Design hierarchy
  • Architecture of Arithmetic  Datapath Blocks (Adders and Multipliers)
    • Comparision of standard designs
    • Complexity analysis
    • Delay analysis     

Learning & Teaching

Learning & teaching methods

ActivityDescriptionHours
LectureOne double lecture slot and one single lecture slot per week.36
Tutorialone single lecture slot per week.12

Assessment

Assessment methods

MethodHoursPercentage contribution
Exam2 hours100%

Referral Method: By examination

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ELEC3221 Digital IC and Systems Design

Module Overview

This module aims to provide a coherent introduction to digital VLSI design in CMOS, and  to give students a broad understanding of the main principles required for system-on-chip design. Advanced techniques such as timing analysis and asynchronous design will also be introduced. In addition, the module extensively covers hardware architectures and timing behaviours of fundamental computer arithmetic ciruits.

Aims & Objectives

Aims

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

  • The Principles of CMOS Digital Circuits
  • Power-reduction Techniques

Subject Specific Intellectual

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to:

  • Describe the principles of asynchronous circuits
  • Analyse the performance of synchronous systems
  • Describe architectures for Arithmetic Datapath Blocks

Subject Specific Practical

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to:

  • Design and layout simple digital CMOS logic gates

Syllabus

  • Introduction to IC Design
    • IC system design options
    • CMOS processing, layout and design rules
    • Stick diagrams
    • Static complementary gates
    • System design using standard cells
  • Timing Schemes in Digital Systems
    • Principles of Synchronous Design
    • Clock trees and clock management
    • Asynchronous Circuits
    • Design and implementation of Synchronisers
    • Metastability in Digital System
  • Design of large digital Systems
    • Fundamental concepts of datapath and controller
    • Circuit Power Consumption, design tradeoffs speed-power, introduction to low power circuit design
    • Design hierarchy
  • Architecture of Arithmetic  Datapath Blocks (Adders and Multipliers)
    • Comparision of standard designs
    • Complexity analysis
    • Delay analysis     

Learning & Teaching

Learning & teaching methods

ActivityDescriptionHours
LectureOne double lecture slot and one single lecture slot per week.36
Tutorialone single lecture slot per week12

Assessment

Assessment methods

MethodHoursPercentage contribution
L-Edit Gate Design-10%
Exam2 hours90%

Referral Method: By examination, with the original coursework mark being carried forward

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ELEC3219 Advanced Computer Architecture

Module Overview

This module covers the development of modern computer architectures for servers, workstations, hand-held devices, signal processing and embedded systems from the introduction of the four-stage RISC pipeline to the present day.

Aims

  • This module gives a broad introduction into the study of computer architecture as it applies to current electronic and computer systems
  • We will look at the history of specialist architectures and draw lessons for the present from the successes and failures of the past
  • We will investigate simulation techniques of use in developing and analysing modern architectures

Aims & Objectives

Aims

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

  • The evolution of modern computer architectures
  • The design decisions taken in modern architectures

Subject Specific Intellectual

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to:

  • Evaluate the likely performance of a proposed computer architecture
  • Outline the design of a computer system to meet a performance requirement

Transferable and Generic

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to:

  • Use graduate-level literature to expand your understanding of future architectures

Subject Specific Practical

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to:

  • Evaluate by simulation the performance of key architectural features

Syllabus

  • Evolution of hardware capabilities: density, speed, power, communications
  • Virtual memory, virtualised processors
  • The programming interface: instruction sets and memory models, compiler support
  • Memory Hierarchies: cache architectures
  • Branch prediction
  • Cache coherence
  • Instruction parallelism: pipeline optimisations, superscalar and out-of-order execution
  • Data parallelism: dataflow, vector, SIMD
  • Interconnects, buses and network-on-chip
  • Field-programmable gates array (FPGA) 
  • Thread parallelism: hyper-threading, latency hiding, multi-core
  • GPUs and other accelerators, Intel Phi
  • Architecture performance simulation

Learning & Teaching

Learning & teaching methods

ActivityDescriptionHours
Lecture36
Tutorial6
Demonstration or Examples SessionFormative assignments6

Assessment

Assessment methods

MethodHoursPercentage contribution
Computer architecture simulation-35%
FPGA architecture simulation-15%
Exam2 hours50%

Referral Method: By examination

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ELEC3218 Signal and Image Processing

Module Overview

Signal processing is an essential part of human life and of modern industrial systems. As humans we see and hear and process signals. This is the same in electronic systems: we sense and then process signals. We need to be able to understand these signals, sometimes to interpret them, sometimes to filter them and sometimes to develop systems to process them automatically. That is what this module is about, and we shall apply the processes to images and to music in continuous and discrete systems.

Aims & Objectives

Aims

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

  • Apply signal processing techniques to understand and analyse 1-dimensional and 2-dimensional signals

Subject Specific Intellectual

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to:

  • Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of frequency domain analysis and synthesis Be able to use basic techniques to process 1-dimensional signals Be able to implement standard approaches to process 2-dimensional images

Transferable and Generic

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to:

  • Apply signal and image processing in research and industrial environments

Subject Specific Practical

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to:

  • Understand the basic approaches in a technology fundamental to perception of signals

Syllabus

  • Statistical signal processing[rm1] 
  • Human audiovisual system
  • Continuous Fourier analysis, Fourier transform (FT). Amplitude and power spectrums for periodic and non-periodic signals. Power spectral analysis and cosine transform (CT)
  • Convolution, correlation and Fourier Transform
  • Analogue filter design
  • Sampling and aliasing
  • Discrete signal analysis and z transforms
  • Discrete FT (Fast FT – FFT; Discrete CT - DCT)
  • Digital filters and their design (FIR and IIR)
    • Random signals
    • Adaptive filtering
    • 2D FTs (difference between 2D and 1D, 2D DCT)
    • Mpeg (music) and jpeg (image) coding
    • Point and group image operators (and convolution)
    • Edge detection in images
    • Image shape extraction (Template matching, HT and correlation))
    • Shape extraction by evolution
    • Image filtering
    • Image restoration

Learning & Teaching

Learning & teaching methods

ActivityDescriptionHours
Lecture36
Tutorial
Demonstration or Examples Session

Assessment

Assessment methods

MethodHoursPercentage contribution
Exam2 hours100%

Referral Method: By examination

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