Digital Audio Processing Workshop

Overview

Digital Audio Processing involves applying the principles of Digital Signal Processing to process sound signals. The applications of this area include compression,storage,enhancement and synthesis of sound signals.

The Digital Audio Processing Workshop at Shaastra 2009 aims to introduce the participants to this exciting field.Emphasis would be given to explain the fundamentals and demonstrations would be held to illustrate some simple algorithms.

Structure

The workshop will have three sessions. The first lecture will be by an academician working in this area. This will  give an overview of the theory involved in Digital Audio Processing. This would acquaint the participant with the basic principles and terminologies in this field and enable them to understand the basic building blocks with which  different audio processing systems are made. This introductory lecture would be followed by two sessions from people working in the audio processing industry.

Participant Background

 Ideally a participant of the workshop should have some background in Digital Signal Processing.Though not essential, some background in digital signal processors would help the participant to understand some of the implementation issues . Students with non Electronics/Computer Science background can also attend the workshop if they are enthusiastic about Digital Audio,though preference would be given to ECE/EE/CS students.

Speakers

1. Prof. T V Sreenivas
   Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore                                       

   Title of lecture: Psycho-acoustics for Audio Technologies.
   Date: October 2^nd, 2009

   Bio
   

   Dr. Thippur V Sreenivas is a Professor in the Department and Electrical and Computer Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.  Prof. Sreenivas received a B.E from UVCE ,Bangalore University in 1973,,M E in ECE from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1975 and PhD from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research,Bombay in 1981. From 1981-1983, he worked as a scientist at Electronics & Radar Development Establishment, Bangalore. He has held visiting professor positions at  Norwegian Institute of Technology, Marquette University(USA),Griffith University(Australia), Fraunhofer Institute(Germany) and Royal Institute of Technology(Sweden). In 1990,  he joined IISc. as a faculty member. In 2003, he co-founded ESQUBE Communication Solutions Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore and served as its director till 2007.
                       His research interests include Speech and Audio (Music) Modelling, Compression, Watermarking; Robust Speech Recognition, Speech Enhancement, Audio Spatialization and Hubot Communication.  Prof. Sreenivas is a Fellow, IETE, India . He is also a Senior Member of IEEE Signal Processing Society USA. He is  a member of Audio Engeneering Society, USA and International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). He is the Co founder and Chairman of IEEE Signal Processing Society, Bangalore Chapter and Co founder of ISCA- SIG-ILSP (Indian Language Speech Processing)
               
2. Frank Hund
   Director
   inDSP Audio Technologies, Bangalore
   www.indsp.com
   

   Title: Engineering in the Pro Audio Domain
   Date: October 3^rd , 2009.
   
   About the Speaker:
   Being bored with mainstream IT technologies when studying computer science at the University of Bonn (Germany), Frank founded his first audio company in 1992 and brought several major innovations in audio recording and signal processing to market. Since 2005 he is heading the development team of inDSP Audio Technologies Pvt Ltd in Bangalore.
   

3.  Jeyasingh P
   Chief Technology Officer
   Jasmin Infotech, Chennai.
   http://www.jasmin-infotech.com/  
   
   Title of lecture: Head Related Transfer Function and Virtualization     
   Demonstration: Dolby Headphone/Virtual Speaker    
   Date: October 3^rd , 2009.
   
   Bio
   
   Jeyasingh Pathrose is the Chief Technology Officer of Jasmin InfoTech Pvt. Ltd. He heads the Design, Development and Customer support activities related to Digital Signal Processing (DSP) projects of Jasmin. He has a multifaceted experience of over 16 years in the fields of Audio signal processing, Digital Signal Processing, Array signal processing, Image processing, Pattern recognition and Wavelets. Before joining Jasmin InfoTech, Jeyasingh has worked in Indcom R&D Labs in the field of Audio signal processing, and in Bharat Dynamics LTD (Ministry of Defence, Govt. of India) as Asst. Manager – Image Processing in R&D department. Before joining BDL he had worked as Assistant Professor in the Dept of Electronics & Communication Engineering, with MSEC Engineering College.
                     Jeyasingh holds a Master degree in Applied Electronics from Govt. College of Technology, Coimbatore, India, Bachelors in Engineering from Karunya institute of Technology, Coimbatore and Bachelor in Physics from Madras University. He is a member of the Audio Engineering Society (AES). 

   
   

             

Registration

Registration for Digital Audio Processing Workshop is now closed.

Eligible participants will receive a confirmation mail before 20th September.

1.  What will be difficulty level of the lectures this workshop? I haven't done any coursework/projects in Audio processing. Will I be able to follow the lectures/sessions?

This is intended to be an introductory level workshop. No previous coursework in Audio processing is required. 

2. What are the prerequisites for attending this workshop?

Course work in Signals and Systems/Digital Signal Processing is expected. Knowledge of Digital Signal Processors will be useful, but isn't essential.

3.  I am not from a ECE/EE/CS background and have not done any related coursework . But I am interested in Digital Audio and would like to know more about it.  Can I attend?

If you have some basic background in Signals and Systems,microprocessors etc, you can. But priority will be given to students who come from ECE/EE/CS background.

4. How can I get accommodation if I am planning to attend this workshop?

Please contact the Hospitality team for information about accommodation.

5.If I attend this workshop, can I get a certificate which indicates my participation in this workshop?

No. We don't issue any event specific participation certificates.

For any other information/clarifications, please mail:

digital.audio[at]shaastra[dot]org