INFORMATION THEORY(ELEN E6717)

Syllabus

Date
Class
No.
Topics Covered
Chapter
Assigned
Due
Sept 2
Course introduction. Probability review.,
The basic quantities of Information Theory
2.1 to 2.7
HW #1
 
Sept 9
The basic quantities: Entropy, Relative Entropy, Mutual Information. The Asymptotic Equipartition Property and typical sets: introduction to stochastic processes.
2.7, 2.8, 2.11,
3.1, 3.2
 
 
Sept 16
Entropy rates of stochastic processes: introduction to data compression.  Lossless Data Compresion: Shannon's first Theorem, Shannon's Code, Kraft's Inequality
3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1,  to 5.4
HW #2
HW #1
Sept 23 
Huffman Codes, Lossless Data Compression and Codes: Shannon-Fano-Elias codes,
5.5 to 5.10

 
Sept 30 
 Arithmetic Coding, Tunstall Codes, Dictionary-Based codes, LZ77 and LZSS
5.9 to 5.12,  additional material provided via e-mail
HW #3
HW #2 
Oct 7
LZ78 and LZW, optimality of LZ1
additional material provided via e-mail
 

Oct 14
Introduction to Channel Coding
8.1 to 8.8 
 HW #4
HW #3
Oct 21
More Channel Coding
8.9 to 8.12
9.1 to 9.5



Oct 28
-
Midterm- Covers up to HW 3 included

 
      Nov 4   
         -
Election Day, University Holiday


Nov 11
10 
Linear Codes
Introduction to Rate-Distortion Theory: Lossy Compression
13.1 to 13.4 
HW #5 
HW #4

Nov 18
11 
More on Rate-Distortion Theory
13.5 to 13.7


Nov 25
12 
Vector Quantization
Information Theory and Statistics: the method of types. 
12.1 to 12.6
HW #6
HW #5
Dec 2
13
Information Theory and Statistics: the method of types.
  12.1 to 12.6  

Dec 9

Review Session


HW  #6
Dec 16
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FINAL EXAM
 
 
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