ELEC 260: Continuous-Time Signals and Systems

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ELEC 486: Multiresolution Signal and Geometry Processing (With C++)

Do you want to learn the C++ programming language or improve your C++ programming skills? Do you want to learn OpenGL, the industry standard library for high-performance 2-D and 3-D computer graphics (which is used on everything from mobile phones and notebook computers to high-end graphics workstations)? Are you interested in digital signal processing (e.g., audio, image, video processing or 3-D computer graphics? If you answered "yes" to any of the preceding questions, then you may be interested in taking ELEC 486 as an elective in either third or fourth year.

For more information on ELEC 486, please visit the course web page: http://www.ece.uvic.ca/~mdadams/courses/wavelets.



Accessing Course Materials

Some of the downloadable course materials associated with this web page may be stored in a protected area. In order to access protected course materials, you will need to know the appropriate username and password to use for the web server. If you are taking the course, you should know the correct username and password (which were announced during the first lecture). Note that this username and password are not the ones for your Netlink/faculty/departmental account.

Instructor

Dr. Michael Adams
E-Mail: mdadams (append "@ece.uvic.ca" for the complete address)
Office: EOW 311

For more sordid details about the instructor look here.

Course Outline

The course outline is distributed in hardcopy form during the first lecture. The course outline is also available via the following link:

Office Hours

My office hours, as determined during the first lecture, are as follows: (I do not have office hours during reading break.)

Tutorial

The number of tutorial sections varies from term to term with enrollment. The time and location for each of the tutorial sections is indicated on the course outline handout.

Important Dates

The dates of the midterm exams can be found on the course outline handout.

The submission deadlines for assignments in the course are as follows:

Coursepack

The coursepack is a required reference for the course and consists of two documents:

  1. the textbook for the course (referred to as the "coursepack textbook")
  2. the lecture slides for the course
The coursepack is available from the University Bookstore.

The following documents relate to the coursepack:

The coursepack textbook is essentially a modified version of the following textbook:

This textbook, from which the textbook in the coursepack was derived, has a web site, which can be found at: The preceding web site contains resources that are potentially of interest to students in this course. In particular, the web site provides the most recent edition of the textbook as an e-book in PDF format. (Please note, however, that this e-book is NOT identical to the version of the textbook appearing in the coursepack.) Also, the web site has a Google-Groups mailing list that students can join in order to receive announcements regarding new editions of the textbook. All students are encouraged to join the Google Group for the textbook.

Optional Textbook

The coursepack serves as the required text for the course. If an additional source of information for the material covered in the course is desired, the following optional text is recommended:

At least one copy of the optional text is available on reserve in the library. Some additional information regarding the optional text and its relationship to the material covered in the course is explained in the following handout:

Assignments

Unless explicitly indicated otherwise, all assignments are to be submitted using the drop box (which should either be located near ELW B356 or near the ELW 2nd-floor elevator). Late assignments will not be accepted and will receive a mark of zero.

For those of you who have not yet been able to obtain a copy of the coursepack from the bookstore, here is a copy of the Appendix A problems:

The assignments problem sets are given on the following handouts:

Some other assignment-related downloads are as follows:

The solutions for the assignments submitted to date are as follows:

Midterm Exams

The midterm exams have been scheduled as indicated on the course outline handout, which was distributed during the first lecture of the term.

Final Exam

If you are looking for additional sources of practice problems, you may find the following online resources helpful:

Miscellaneous Handouts and Downloads

Computer Laboratory Resources

Some of the assignment problems require the use of the MATLAB software. Students should be able to access MATLAB on the computers in the following labs:

It may also be possible to gain access to MATLAB on the computers located at the various Student Computing Facilities sites around campus. For more information, refer to the SFG web site. Please note that, even if MATLAB is available on these machines, it is not known whether all of the necessary toolboxes are installed on these systems. Therefore, standard disclaimers apply (mileage may vary, batteries not included, void where prohibited by law).

Feedback on Course/Teaching

Feedback on the course and teaching is always most welcome! The instructor will never hold any of your comments against you, but please be constructive in your criticism. Several options are available for providing feedback. You can provide feedback through:

MATLAB Resources

Below are locally cached versions of a few MATLAB manuals from Mathworks. These manuals are also available from the Mathworks web site.

Links

The following links are directly related to course material:

The following links are indirectly related (and mostly related to digital signal processing):