Selected Topics in Communications Engineering
Institutes:
This seminar is jointly organized by the Institut für Nachrichtentechnik and the Institute of Communication Systems.
Tutors:Matthias Schrammen, Sebastian Nagel, Christian Rohling, and Maria Meyer
Type: Seminar with 3 or 4 SWS
Content:
In this seminar, advanced topics of communications technology and information transmission will be discussed. The focus will be on recent developments as well as aspects of system realization.
Organization:
Participating students work out different topics and present these in talks of about 25 minutes. Apart from the scientific and technical topics, the seminar also emphasizes on presentation skills. These are addressed in a Presentation Workshop which is held early in the semester. This workshop also provides an introduction into the technical topics of the seminar.
Requirements:
Fundamental knowledge of communications engineering, e.g. from the lectures "Kommunikationstechnik", "Information Theory and Source Coding", "Informationsübertragung" or "Signals, Systems and Communication". The number of participants is limited to 16.
Materials: Starting material for the literature research will be provided.
Language: German / English
Dates
Introduction and topic assignment will take place on Wednesday, October 28th 2020 at 1:30pm online. A formal registration in the RWTHonline system is required.
Presentation Workshop:
Friday, 06.11.2020 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Lecture:
Wednesday, 09.12.2020 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Tuesday, 15.12.2020 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Wednesday, 16.12.2020 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Tuesday, 22.12.2020 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
All dates stated above are compulsory.
Topic in summer term 2020: "Scene Analysis for Audio-Visual Content"
- Wind Noise Mitigation for Active Noise Cancellation Headphones
- Localizing Sound Sources in a Binaural Scene
- Multiple Sound Source Localization and Counting using Microphone Arrays
- Acoustic Scene Classification in Smart Homes
- ...
Topic in Winter term 2019/20: "Signal Modelling for Audio-Visual Communication"
- Learning Latent Representations of Speech
- Spherical Harmonics-Based Description of Sound Fields
- Compressed Sensing-based Image or Video Coding
- Guided Image Colorization with Learned Deep Priors
- ...
Topic in Summer term 2019: "Machine Learning for Audiovisual Processing"
- Neural Networks in Binaural Sound Source Localization
- Speech Synthesis with Tacotron
- Recurrent Neural Networks for Reference Frame Prediction
- Point Cloud Classification and Segmentation
- ...
Topic in Winter term 2018/19: "Efficient Data Representation and Sparse Models for Audio-Visual Communication"
- Sparsity in Room Impulse Response-Modelling
- Feature Engineering for Machine Learning in the Speech Domain
- Dictionary Learning for Image Compression
- Compression and Quantisation of Neural Networks
- ...
Evaluation
Summer term 2020:
Global grade: 1,3
Seminar Concept: 1,3
Supervision during Lecture and Elaboration: 1,3
Selected_Topics_in_Communications_Engineering_SS20.pdf
Winter term 2019/20:
Global grade: 1,4
Seminar Concept: 1,4
Supervision during Lecture and Elaboration: 1,3
Selected_Topics_in_Communications_Engineering_WS19.pdf
Summer term 2019:
Participants of the evaluation: 18
Global grade: 1.5
Seminar Concept: 1.5
Supervision during Lecture and Elaboration: 1.5
Selected_Topics_in_Communications_Engineering_SS19.pdf
Winter term 2018/19:
Participants of the evaluation: 17
Global grade: 1.4
Seminar Concept: 1.5
Supervision during Lecture and Elaboration: 1.4
Selected_Topics_in_Communications_Engineering_WS18.pdf
Summer term 2018:
Participants of the evaluation: 16
Global grade: 1.3
Seminar Concept: 1.2
Supervision during Lecture and Elaboration: 1.3