ECE 561, Spring 2009
Signal Detection and Estimation

Course Staff

Olgica Milenkovic (Instructor)
milenkov at uiuc.edu
Tel: 244-7358
Class: Tuesdays/Thursday, 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM
Office hours: Tuesday/Thursday 3:00-4:30pm
Place: 126 CSL

To be announced (TA)
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Office hours:
Time:
Place: CSL


General Information

Pre-requisite:
ECE 534 or consent of instructor.

Location:
168 Everitt Laboratory

Credit: 4 hours

Course blurb here

Textbook:
Levy, Detection and Estimation, First Edition, Springer-Verlag, 2008.

Additional Sources:
Texts by Poor, VanTrees, Cover/Thomas, and MacKay.

Homeworks

HW1 (Solutions)
Assigned: 02/08, Due: 02/19

HW2 (Solutions)
Assigned: 02/28, Due: 03/12

HW3 (Solutions)
Assigned: 03/15, Due: 03/31

HW4 (Solutions)
Assigned: 04/08, Due: 04/20

HW5
Assigned: 04/27, Due: 05/06

Exams

Midterm 1, 2009: ( problem set )
Issued: Monday, 03/16. Due: 03/20 by 5p.m.

Midterm 2, 2009: ( problem set )
Issued: Friday, 05/01. Due: 05/13 by 5p.m.


Previous Exams (2008 /2009)

Midterm 1, 2008: (solutions)

Midterm 2, 2008: (solutions)

Final exam, 2008: (solutions)


Notes from 2008/2009:

(5/06) Nonparametric Estimation.
(5/05) Particle Filtering.
(5/04) The EM algorithm.
(5/03) Monte Carlo Integration.
(5/01) Practice final and its solutions.
(4/28) Kalman filtering.
(4/23) Bootstrapping.
(4/17) Parameter estimation.
(3/28) Large deviations.
(3/26) Practice Midterm 2 and its solutions.

Grading and Policy
There will be biweekly homeworks (20%), two midterm exams (25% each) and a class project (30%).

Topics

Project topics: Suggested reading

Project presentations

Note: Each project team should have three members (nine groups total). If you prefer to choose another topic, please email the instructor the subject/list of papers by Monday, March 9th. References
In addition to the text, the above books (possibly not the latest editions) can be obtained from Grainger reserves.