Presentation

In today’s world the vast majority of signals are represented in a digital form, i.e. representing the signals by sequences of symbols or numbers. The current computational power of digital devices ranges from cell phones to supercomputers  and makes possible the digital processing of audio and speech signals, communication signals, biomedical signals/images, sonar and radar signals, seismic signals, etc. In this course we will review theory of digital signal analysis and processing, including the fundamental digital signal processing algorithms. We continue our coverage reviewing the fundamentals of Digital Signal Processors (DSPs) and some other hardware devices used in this area including microprocessors, field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and digital signal controllers. We will conclude the course with a discussion of the current applications and advances in this area.

Course Coordinator

Germán Hernández

Associate professor at the Systems and Industrial Engineering Department of the National University of Colombia-Bogotá.

German received a BSc Computer Systems Eng, a MSc. in Mathematics and a MSc in Statistics form the National University of Colombia. Also received a Ph.D. and  MSc in  Computer Science form the University of Memphis, TN, USA.  His main area of interest is algorithmics with emphasis in analysis and application of randomized and evolutionary algorithms.

Guest Speakers

Oliver Manette

Post-doctoral Researcher at CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.

Olivier  obtained his BSc in  Cellular Biology-Neurosciences and his MSc and PhD in Cognitive Scieneces from the Uiversité Pierre & Marie Curie, Paris VI, Paris. His main area of research is computational modeling and processing of neuronal and cortical signals and its applications. Before his current appointment at CNRS he was awarded a Marie Curie fellowship at the University of Örebro in Sweden working in biologically inspired learning applied to robotics.

Henry Moreno

Associate professor at the Electrical and Electronics Department of the National University of Colombia-Bogotá and Chair of the Electronics Department at the Colombian School of Engineering.

Henry received a BSc Computer Systems Eng, and MSc in Telecommunications Eng. from the National University of Colombia. Also received a  BSc in Electronic Eng. and Specialist in Mobile/Cellular Phone Networks from  the Capital Distric University Francisco Jose de Caldas in Bogotá. His main interest is  the developing of  practical applications and products based on DSPs.

Eduardo Romero

Associate professor attached to the Telemedicine Centre of the Medicine School of the National University of Colombia-Bogotá. He leads both the Bioingenium research group and the Biomedical Engineering postgraduate program.

Eduardo obtained his diploma as a Medical Doctor from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and a Magister in Electrical Engineering from the Universidad de los Andes in 1995. He obtained his PhD in Biomedical Sciences from the Université Catholique de Louvain in 2000. Between 2000-2002 he worked as a Senior Researcher at the Communications and Remote sensing laboratory (UCL - Belgium), in the group of Medical Images. During 2003 he was with the group of chemical sensors at the Centro Nacional de Microelectrónica (CNM - Spain). . His main interests are the Medical images, augmented reality, artificial intelligence and graphic computation.

Teaching Assistants

Dominik Makowski

Master of Science Engineer in Electronics and Telecommunication, Poznan University of Technology