18-751/FALL 1999/CHEN

Course Schedule
Week #1
M Aug 23
Probability concepts, random variables
W Aug 25
Random vectors.Multivariate Gaussian.
Week #2
M Aug 30
Fundamentals of random processes
W Sept 1
Cont.
Week #3
M Sept 6
NO CLASS (Labor Day)
W Sept 8
Gaussian processes, Poisson processes, etc.
Week #4
M Sept 13
NO CLASS
W Sept 15
Markov processes, hidden Markov models, Viterbi algorithm
Week #5
M Sept 20
Cont.
W Sept 22
Moment analysis: correlation and covariance, Karhunen-Loeve transform
Week #6
M Sept 27
Cont.
W Sept 29
Frequency-domain descriptions.Power density spectrum.White noise.
Week #7
M Oct 4
Special topics.Review.
W Oct 6
MID-TERM EXAM
Week #8
M Oct 11
NO CLASS (Mid-Semester Break)
W Oct 13
Random fields.Markov random fields.Application to image processing.
Week #9
M Oct 17
Linear systems and random processes
W Oct 20
Cont.
Week #10
M Oct 25*
Estimation: Maximum likelihood, minimum-variance estimate
W Oct 27*
Bayes estimation: MAP, mean-square, and linear mean-square
Week #11
M Nov 1
Cont.
W Nov 3
Linear prediction
Week #12
M Nov 8
Wiener and Kalman filtering
W Nov 10
Cont.
Seminars
Week #13
M Nov 15
Cont.
W Nov 17
Spectrum estimation
Week #14
M Nov 22
Complex random processes and vector random processes
W Nov 24
NO CLASS (Thanksgiving Break)
Week #15
M Nov 29
Special topics.Review.
W Dec 1
FINAL EXAM