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EE 504 B Signals and Systems

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EE 504 B

SIGNALS AND SYSTEMS


Application Areas
• Control
• Communications
• Signal Processing
Control Applications
• Industrial control and automation (Control
the velocity or position of an object)
• Examples: Controlling the position of a valve
or shaft of a motor
• Important Tools:
– Time-domain solution of differential
equations
– Transfer function (Laplace Transform)
– Stability
Communication Applications
• Transmission of information (signal) over a
channel
• The channel may be free space, coaxial cable,
fiber optic cable
• A key component of transmission:
Modulation (Analog and Digital
Communication)
Digital Modulation
• Used in CDs, digital cellular service, digital
phone lines and computer modems.
• Advantages:
– Can be encrypted
– Electronic routing of data is easier
– Digital storage faster
– Multimedia capability
Signal Processing Applications
• Signal processing=Application of algorithms to
modify signals in a way to make them more useful.
• Goals:
– Efficient and reliable transmission, storage and
display of information
– Information extraction and enhancement
• Examples:
– Speech and audio processing
– Multimedia processing (image and video)
– Underwater acoustic
– Biological signal analysis
Multimedia Applications
• Compression: Fast, efficient, reliable
transmission and storage of data
• Applied on audio, image and video data for
transmission over the Internet, storage
• Examples: CDs, DVDs, MP3, MPEG4, JPEG
• Mathematical Tools: Fourier Transform,
Quantization, Modulation
JPEG Example
43K 13K 3.5K

• JPEG uses Discrete-Cosine Transform (similar


to Fourier Transform)
Biological Signal Analysis
• Examples:
– Brain signals (EEG)
– Cardiac signals (ECG)
– Medical images (x-ray, PET, MRI)
• Goals:
– Detect abnormal activity (heart attack,
seizure)
– Help physicians with diagnosis
• Tools: Filtering, Fourier Transform
Biometrics

• Identifying a person using physiological


characteristics
• Examples:
– Fingerprint Identification
– Face Recognition
– Voice Recognition
Audio Signal Processing
• Active noise cancellation: Adaptive filtering
– Headphones used in cockpits
• Digital Audio Effects
– Add special music effects such as delay,
echo, reverb
• Audio signal separation
– Separate speech from interference
– Wind sound from music in cars
Filtering Example
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