Exams and Grading

Test Dates

Midterm 1: February 19 (Thursday) in class!
- Spring 15 exam 1
- Spring 15 exam 1 Solutions

Spring 14 exam 1 (Solutions)
Spring 14 conflict exam 1 (Solutions)

Midterm 2: April 09 (Thursday) in class!
- Spring 15 Exam 2 (Solutions)
- Spring 14 Exam 2 (Written Solutions (contains a mistake), printed solutions)
Midterm 3: May 11 (Monday), 7 - 10pm, location TBD!
- Spring 14 Exam 3 (Solutions)

Homework Grading Scheme

There are 7 MPs, worth a total of 50 percent of your grade
“Best 6.5/7” plan: your final grade of MPs is the sum of 6 highest MPs, plus 0.5 times the lowest one.
If you hand in homework late, without a good reason for doing so, your score will be reduced 10 percent each day from deadline.

Exam Grading Scheme

There are 3 exams, worth a total of 50 percent of your grade
“Best 2.5/3” plan: your final grade of exams is the sum of 2 highest exams, plus 0.5 times the lowest one.

Useful Matlab Tutorial MP1 (due February 03)MP2 (due February 17)MP3 (due March 03)MP4 (due March 17)MP5 (due April 07)MP6 (due April 21)MP7 (due May 05)

Office Hours:
Friday 4-5:30pm, 3001 ECEB

Theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms. Wole Soyinka

ECE 417 (Multimedia Signal Processing) covers characteristics of speech and image signals; important analysis and synthesis tools for multimedia signal processing including subspace methods, Bayesian networks, hidden Markov models, and factor graphs; applications to biometrics (person identification), human-computer interaction (face and gesture recognition and synthesis), and audio-visual databases (indexing and retrieval). Emphasis on a set of MATLAB machine problems providing hands-on experience. Prerequisite: ECE 310 and ECE 313.