Proj No.

Title Summary

A3048S Environmental-Friendly Approach in Making Noise Sounds Better In this project, we look into a novel way on how we can use a psychoacoustic signal processing approach to make annoying environmental noise sounds more peaceful and less annoying. Students will have an opportunity to test the effectiveness of using different sound to mask out environmental noise and come up with a study on how these maskers impact the listening preference in different environment. This is a software project and students must have a strong interest in audio recording and processing sound tracks for subjective testing. A/P Chong Yong Kim (Loc:S1-B1c-97, Ext: 4535)

Supervisor

Co-Supervisor A/P Gan Woon Seng (Loc:S2-B2b-68, Ext: 4538) Lab EEE3 - Digital Signal Processing Lab (Loc: S2-B4a-03)

Single/Group: Single ISP/RI/SMP?: Proj No. Title Summary A3050S Selective Focusing Sound via Time Reversal Signal Processing Method Time Reversal Signal Processing (TRSP) is a new and hot topic nowadays. TRSP method is very effective in scattering, multipath or complex environment. TRSP is applied to many fields such as acoustic, imaging, electromagnetic, communication etc. The eigenvalue and corresponding eigenvector structure of the Time Reversal Operator (TRO) provides information about the scattering scenario (environment) under study. By performing eigenvalue decomposition (EVD) of the TRO and using the time reversal array (TRA) to transmit signals produced by particular eigenvectors, selective focusing of point-like scatterers becomes possible. In the project, the theory and simulation for selective focusing sound will be developed to match the state of the art in industry. Besides, it is potential and interesting project for students that want to do research or study postgraduate in the future. A/P Chong Yong Kim (Loc:S1-B1c-97, Ext: 4535)

Supervisor

Co-Supervisor A/P Gan Woon Seng (Loc:S2-B2b-68, Ext: 4538) Lab EEE3 - Digital Signal Processing Lab (Loc: S2-B4a-03)

Single/Group: Single ISP/RI/SMP?: Proj No. Title Summary B3047 Motion JPEG Based Surveillance System JPEG as one of the most popular and widely adopted image compression standard, is known to exhibit blocking artifacts at low bit rates. Thus, the allowable compression is bounded by the tolerable degradation of the specific application. This project involves the development of a motion JPEG based surveillance system with one of

the most popular digital signal processor from Texas Instruments. An alternative coding scheme that employs a subband coding approach will be utilized in this project, while permitting higher image compression with lesser perceptible distortions. In addition, many interesting new features that are previously not found in the JPEG standard will be investigated and integrated into this project. Student can look forward in gaining valuable experience in embedded system development. Supervisor A/P Chong Yong Kim (Loc:S1-B1c-97, Ext: 4535)

Co-Supervisor A/P Gan Woon Seng (Loc:S2-B2b-68, Ext: 4538) Lab EEE3 - Digital Signal Processing Lab (Loc: S2-B4a-03)

Single/Group: Group ISP/RI/SMP?: Proj No. Title Summary ISP (Texas Instruments Singapore (Pte) Ltd) B3049 Video Surveillance System JPEG as one of the most popular and widely adopted image compression standard, is known to exhibit blocking artifacts at low bit rates. Thus, the allowable compression is bounded by the tolerable degradation of the specific application. This project involves the development of a motion JPEG based surveillance system with the latest ADI embedded processor. An alternative coding scheme that employs a subband coding approach will be utilized in this project, while permitting higher image compression with lesser perceptible distortions. In addition, many interesting new features that are previously not found in the JPEG standard will be investigated and integrated into this project. Student can look forward in gaining valuable experience in embedded system development. A/P Chong Yong Kim (Loc:S1-B1c-97, Ext: 4535)

Supervisor

Co-Supervisor A/P Gan Woon Seng (Loc:S2-B2b-68, Ext: 4538) Lab EEE3 - Digital Signal Processing Lab (Loc: S2-B4a-03)

Single/Group: Group ISP/RI/SMP?: Proj No. Title Summary ISP (Analog Devices) B3073S Building a full-fledged surround sound/3D audio sound system using VisualAudio This project allows the students to program the latest 3D surround sound effects, virtual surround sound effects and head-related transfer functions onto the latest digital audio engine from Analog Devices. Students will use a graphical interface (VisualAudio) to control settings of the audio system and experience the changes on-the-fly. They can even hook up their MP3 players to the audio engine to create a new listening experience.

Student needs to love music and like to experiment with audio effects. They have to perform some hardware interface to existing speakers system. Supervisor A/P Gan Woon Seng (Loc:S2-B2b-68, Ext: 4538)

Co-Supervisor A/P Chong Yong Kim (Loc:S1-B1c-97, Ext: 4535) Lab EEE3 - Digital Signal Processing Lab (Loc: S2-B4a-03)

Single/Group: Single ISP/RI/SMP?: Proj No. Title Summary ISP (Analog Devices Inc) B3074S Intelligent Audio Control in Home Entertainment Digital audio is introducing a bold new sound in consumer audio and home theater systems. Several factors are converging to bring highend, surround sound audio to mass market buyers: the rise of the DVD and BluRay, new formats for multichannel audio, and widespread use of digital signal processors (DSPs) in audio systems. This project looks into the exciting area of using signal processing to enhance the performance of surround speakers. This system automatically measures and corrects the acoustics of the multichannel sound system for the specific room where the system is being set up, compensating for non-ideal room acoustics, loudness of program and speaker response. Potentially, there are several companies who are keen to commercialize this product. A/P Gan Woon Seng (Loc:S2-B2b-68, Ext: 4538)

Supervisor

Co-Supervisor A/P Chong Yong Kim (Loc:S1-B1c-97, Ext: 4535) Lab EEE3 - Digital Signal Processing Lab (Loc: S2-B4a-03)

Single/Group: Single ISP/RI/SMP?: Proj No. Title Summary ISP (Analog Devices Inc) B3075S Active Sound Control in Automobile This project looks into a novel way of controlling the noise sources in an automobile and turns them into perceptually-pleasant noise sources. A multiple channel active noise control system is proposed to control the noise in the car enclosure. Microphone and car speaker are set up to pick up error signals, process them (equalization and noise shaping) using common sound control tools (LabVIEW) running in notebook. The processed signals are played back by the sound system in the car via NI COMPACT RIO. There are two phases to this project: (i) student capture the noise signature in the automobile, and (ii) perform simulation and processing in the notebook before porting to the sound system. A/P Gan Woon Seng (Loc:S2-B2b-68, Ext: 4538)

Supervisor

Co-Supervisor A/P Chong Yong Kim (Loc:S1-B1c-97, Ext: 4535)

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EEE3 - Digital Signal Processing Lab (Loc: S2-B4a-03)

Single/Group: Single ISP/RI/SMP?: Proj No. Title Summary ISP (National Instruments) B3076 Implementing High Performance Audio Processing in FPGA This project is to utilize Xilinx DSP software and hardware tools to implement high resolution audio processing for home entertainment applications. The final outcome from this project is to be able to demonstrate the filter using Xilinx hardware board running the implementation off from the FPGA directly with live input and output. Students can create several interesting audio effects over multi-channel audio streaming. A/P Gan Woon Seng (Loc:S2-B2b-68, Ext: 4538)

Supervisor

Co-Supervisor A/P Chong Yong Kim (Loc:S1-B1c-97, Ext: 4535) Lab EEE3 - Digital Signal Processing Lab (Loc: S2-B4a-03)

Single/Group: Group ISP/RI/SMP?: Proj No. Title Summary ISP (Xilinx Pte Ltd) B3077S Power Management for Portable Media Devices In this project, we look into the power management schemes (like variable frequency and variable voltage) to reduce the power consumption of the latest TI DSP (C5509) equipped with power management features. As power management is one of the most important consideration in todays portable audio player, phone with MP3 playback, and others, this project will investigate the power consumption in the audio processing algorithms that are used in these devices. A/P Gan Woon Seng (Loc:S2-B2b-68, Ext: 4538)

Supervisor

Co-Supervisor A/P Chong Yong Kim (Loc:S1-B1c-97, Ext: 4535) Lab EEE3 - Digital Signal Processing Lab (Loc: S2-B4a-03)

Single/Group: Single ISP/RI/SMP?: Proj No. Title Summary ISP (Texas Insruments Pte Ltd) B3078S Video Transcoding for Different Displays To facilitate the efficient use of storage space or bandwidth, compressed videos are generally used. Transcoding of video content in discrete cosine transform (DCT) domain are developed primarily to minimize computation associated to decompression and compression

for spatial techniques. One important application can be to up-sample standard definition (SD) video content for displaying on high definition (HD) TVs. The latest Digital Video Kit from Texas Instruments is selected for the project development. This kit consists of an integrated harddisk, remote controller and many connectivity options. Students can look forward to investigate and implement a high end video transcoding unit. Supervisor A/P Gan Woon Seng (Loc:S2-B2b-68, Ext: 4538)

Co-Supervisor A/P Chong Yong Kim (Loc:S1-B1c-97, Ext: 4535) Lab EEE3 - Digital Signal Processing Lab (Loc: S2-B4a-03)

Single/Group: Single ISP/RI/SMP?: Proj No. Title Summary ISP (Texas Instruments) B3079S Rapid prototyping of digital media processing applications This project will use the latest National Instruments Labview tools and link up with the Analog Devices Blackfin development board to develop several signal processing applications. A block-set approach in programming the embedded processor is provided (by National Instruments) in this project to speed up the development of this project. Many interesting and interactive DSP based applications, such as 3D audio, virtual surround, adaptive noise cancellation, line enhancer, and DTMF detection are planned in this project. Student will have fun building up these applications and tested their algorithms on real-world signal/data. This project aims to illustrate the usage of the versatile graphical programming tool (LabVIEW Embedded) to carry out fast prototyping of digital media processing applications. A/P Gan Woon Seng (Loc:S2-B2b-68, Ext: 4538)

Supervisor

Co-Supervisor A/P Chong Yong Kim (Loc:S1-B1c-97, Ext: 4535) Lab EEE3 - Digital Signal Processing Lab (Loc: S2-B4a-03)

Single/Group: Single ISP/RI/SMP?: ISP (National Instruments)