Real-time Digital Signal Processing Using GPU

CMPUT 605

(Winter 2018)

 

General Information

Instructor: Pierre Boulanger
Tel: 780-492-3031
Email:
pierreb@cs.ualberta.ca

URL: www.cs.ualberta.ca/~pierreb
Office: 411 Athabasca Hall
Office hours: By appointment only.

Lectures: Every Monday 10h00 to 12h00 in Room ATH 411

Course Description

This class addresses the representation, analysis, and design of discrete time signals and systems. The major concepts covered include: discrete-time processing of continuous-time signals; decimation, interpolation, and sampling rate conversion; flow-graph structures for DT systems; time-and frequency-domain design techniques for recursive (IIR) and non-recursive (FIR) filters; linear prediction; discrete Fourier transform, FFT algorithm; short-time Fourier analysis and filter banks; multivariate techniques; Wavelet Transform; Cepstral analysis, Wiener and Kalman Filters, and various applications. We will also discuss and analyze the GPU implementations of many of these algorithms.

Purpose

To introduce Computer Scientists to advanced signal processing theory that can be applied to various projects involving multi-dimensional datasets. The emphasis is based on stochastic view of multi-dimensional signals and how to extract useful and reliable information from those signals using GPU.

Prerequisites

Basic statistical analysis is preferred. It is also assumed that you already have some familiarity with C Language.

 

 

Homework

Homework will generally be handed out in lecture and be due in lecture on the following week. Some parts of the homework will involve CUDA programming.

There will be approximately 5 problem sets. Don't be misled by the relatively few points assigned to homework grades in the final grade calculation. While the grade that you get on your homework is at most a minor component of your final grade, working the problems is a crucial part of the learning process and will invariably have a major impact on your understanding of the material.

Course Project

There will be an individual semester project, culminating in a final 8 pages report in IEEE format and a presentation at a day workshop. Progress and check points before the final due date will count toward the final grade.

 

Course Grade

The final grade for the course is based on our best assessment of your understanding of the material, as well as your commitment and participation. The problem sets and final projects are combined to give a final grade:

 

ACTIVITIES

Weight

Final Project

60%

Problem Sets

40%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lecture Notes

 

Course calendar.

LECTURE #

TOPICS

Extras

Jan. 19

Course Overview

Jan. 26

Discrete-Time Signals and Systems

Biomedical Signals

CUDA Programming Primer

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Feb. 2

Signal Processing Parallelization

GPU Compute Architecture

Assignment 1

Feb. 9

GPU Memory Systems

Discrete Fourier Analysis Using GPU

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Feb. 16

Profiling-Optimizing-CUDA-Kernel-Code-NVIDIA-Nsight-3_0

Assignment 2

Feb. 23

Winter Reading Week

 

Mar. 2

Wavelet Transforms Using GPU

Image Compression Using GPU

 

Real-Time Wavelet Filtering on the GPU

Mar. 9

No class

 

Mar. 16

IIR and FIR Filters Using GPU

Assignment 3

QRS_Detection-Part1

QRS_Decetrion-Part2

Digital-Filter-Design

Apr. 3

Wiener Filters and Its GPU Implementations

Host-Device Data Transfer

More on Wiener Filter

Embedded Real-time HD Video Deburring

Assignment 4

Apr. 6

LMS Adaptive Filter Introduction

GPU Implementation of Kalman Filter

Optimizing CUDA Performance

Apr. 13

Particle Filter and GPU Cluster

Apr. 20

Project Presentation

Final report due Apr. 20

Send report to pierreb@ualberta.ca

 

Extra Material for the Course

 

o   B. Champagne and F. Lebeau, Discrete Time Signal Processing, Course note of ECSE-412, Winter 2004

o   MATLAB Primer

o   MATLAB Tutorials

o   Signal Processing on a Graphics Card

o   GPU VSIPL is an implementation of Vector Signal Image Processing Library that targets Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) supporting NVIDIA CUDA platform

o   General-Purpose Computation on Graphics Hardware

o   GPU Programming at Caltech

o   Talks from NVIDIA GTC conference

o   Carnegie Mellon parallel architectures course

o   GPU Gems 3

o   Parallel Forall blog