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Feasible LID Systems: Transfer Functions and Stability

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MICRO-311(b): Signals and systems II (for SV)

Ce cours aborde la théorie des systèmes linéaires discrets invariants par décalage (LID). Leurs propriétés et caractéristiques fondamentales y sont discutées, ainsi que les outils fondamentaux permettant de les étudier (transformée de Fourier et transformé ...

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This lecture covers the concept of feasible LID systems, which are characterized by being implementable using a finite number of memory registers. It explains how feasible LID systems are governed by rational transfer functions and the importance of poles being inside the unit circle for stability. The lecture also delves into the implications of causality and stability in achievable time systems, emphasizing the necessity of the unit circle containment. Additionally, it explores the implementation parameters, complexity of calculations, and the historical perspective on the cost of operations in computing. The presentation concludes with discussions on direct and recursive implementations of filters, trellis implementation, and the significance of reflection coefficients in speech processing.

Instructors (2)

Michaël Unser

Expertise Image Processing, Medical Imaging, Biological Imaging, Wavelets, Splines, Multiresolution Michael Unser is Full Professor with EPFL’s school of Engineering and the academic director of EPFL's Center for Imaging, Lausanne, Switzerland. His primary areas of investigation are signal processing, biomedical imaging and applied functional analysis. He is internationally recognized for his research contributions to sampling theory, wavelets, the use of splines for image processing, stochastic processes,

Pierre Vandergheynst

Pierre Vandergheynst received the M.S. degree in physics and the Ph.D. degree in mathematical physics from the Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, in 1995 and 1998, respectively. From 1998 to 2001, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Signal Processing Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland. He was Assistant Professor at EPFL (2002-2007), where he is now a Full Professor of Electrical Engineering and, by courtesy, of Computer and Communication Sciences. As of 2015, Prof. Vandergheynst serves as EPFL’s Vice-Provost for Education. His research focuses on harmonic analysis, sparse approximations and mathematical data processing in general with applications covering signal, image and high dimensional data processing, computer vision, machine learning, data science and graph-based data processing. He was co-Editor-in-Chief of Signal Processing (2002-2006), Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (2007-2011), the flagship journal of the signal processing community and currently serves as Associate Editor of Computer Vision and Image Understanding and SIAM Imaging Sciences. He has been on the Technical Committee of various conferences, serves on the steering committee of the SPARS workshop and was co-General Chairman of the EUSIPCO 2008 conference. Pierre Vandergheynst is the author or co-author of more than 70 journal papers, one monograph and several book chapters. He has received two IEEE best paper awards. Professor Vandergheynst is a laureate of the Apple 2007 ARTS award and of the 2009-2010 De Boelpaepe prize of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Belgium.

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