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1° Q - 2° anno e successivi | Sep 29, 2003 | Nov 28, 2003 |
2° Q | Jan 12, 2004 | Mar 12, 2004 |
3° Q | Apr 5, 2004 | Jun 11, 2004 |
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Extra term | Dec 17, 2003 | Dec 17, 2003 |
Winter term | Mar 17, 2004 | Mar 17, 2004 |
Summer term | Jul 22, 2004 | Jul 22, 2004 |
Autumn term | Sep 22, 2004 | Sep 22, 2004 |
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All Saint's Day | Nov 1, 2003 | Nov 1, 2003 |
Christmas holidays | Dec 22, 2003 | Jan 6, 2004 |
Easter holidays | Apr 8, 2004 | Apr 13, 2004 |
Patron Saint's day festivity | Apr 12, 2004 | Apr 12, 2004 |
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Information Theory (2006/2007)
Teaching code
4S00039
Teacher
Credits
5
Also offered in courses:
- Information Theory of the course Masters in Intelligent and Multimedia Systems
Language
Italian
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
INF/01 - INFORMATICS
Period
2nd quadrimester dal Jan 8, 2007 al Mar 9, 2007.
Location
VERONA
Learning outcomes
Course objective is to present fundaments of Information Theory and its applications to communication theory and computer science such as compression, security, complexity. Error correcting codes and advanced coding techniques will be also covered, such as trellises and graph codes.
Program
1. Introduction
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1.1. Entropy, relative entropy, mutual information
1.2. Asymptotic equipartition property
1.3. Entropy rates of a stochastic process
2. Data compression
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2.1 Block, symbol, stream codes, codes for integers
2.2 Huffman, LZ, arithmetic coding, Shannon-Fano codes
3. Shannon coding theory
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3.1. Kraft inequality, Shannon's source coding theorem
3.2. Channel capacity (jointly typical sequences, Fano's inequality, Shannon's channel coding theorem and its converse)
4. Differential entropy
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4.1. Defintion of differential entropy
4.2. Relationship with discrete entropy and properties
5. Gaussian channels
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5.1. Coding theorem for gaussian channels
5.2. Parallel, colored and feedback gaussian channels
5.3. Error correcting codes
6. Rate-distortion theory
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6.1. Quantization
6.2. Rate distortion theorem and rate distortion function
7. Advanced Coding
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7.1. Advanced coding (Hash, binary codes)
7.2. Exact marginalization in trellises and graphs
7.3. Sparse graph codes
Author | Title | Publishing house | Year | ISBN | Notes |
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T. M. Cover, J. A. Thomas | Elements of Information Theory (Edizione 1) | John Wiley & Sons, Inc. | 1991 | 0471062596 | Testo principale |
David J.C. MacKay | Information theory, inference and learning algorithms (Edizione 1) | Cambridge University Press | 2003 | Testo secondario - disponibile online |
Examination Methods
1. Written exam
2. Oral project defense
Teaching materials e documents
- slides lezione 03 (vnd.ms-powerpoint, en, 120 KB, 01/02/07)
- slides lezione 03 - 2 per pagina (pdf, en, 125 KB, 01/02/07)
- slides lezione 03 - appendix1 (vnd.ms-powerpoint, en, 36 KB, 01/02/07)
- slides lezione 03 - appendix1 - 2 per pagina (pdf, en, 47 KB, 01/02/07)
- slides lezione 06 (vnd.ms-powerpoint, en, 120 KB, 01/02/07)
- slides lezione 06 - 2 per pagina (pdf, en, 172 KB, 01/02/07)
- slides lezione 07 (vnd.ms-powerpoint, en, 150 KB, 01/02/07)
- slides lezione 07 - 2 per pagina (pdf, en, 193 KB, 01/02/07)
- slides lezione 08 (vnd.ms-powerpoint, en, 87 KB, 01/02/07)
- slides lezione 08 - 2 per pagina (pdf, en, 117 KB, 01/02/07)
- slides lezione 09 (vnd.ms-powerpoint, en, 256 KB, 01/02/07)
- slides lezione 09 - 2 per pagina (pdf, en, 204 KB, 01/02/07)
- slides lezione 10 (vnd.ms-powerpoint, en, 143 KB, 31/01/07)
- slides lezione 10 - 2 per pagina (pdf, en, 181 KB, 01/02/07)
- slides lezione 11 (vnd.ms-powerpoint, en, 2251 KB, 01/02/07)
- slides lezione 11 - 2 per pagina (pdf, en, 394 KB, 01/02/07)
- slides lezione 12 (pdf, en, 146 KB, 08/02/07)
- slides lezione 12 - 2 per pagina (pdf, en, 142 KB, 08/02/07)
- slides lezione 13 (vnd.ms-powerpoint, en, 284 KB, 13/02/07)
- slides lezione 13 - 2 per pagina (pdf, en, 226 KB, 13/02/07)
- slides lezione 14 (vnd.ms-powerpoint, en, 165 KB, 13/02/07)
- slides lezione 14 - 2 per pagina (pdf, en, 203 KB, 13/02/07)
- slides lezione 15 (vnd.ms-powerpoint, en, 296 KB, 13/02/07)
- slides lezione 15 - 2 per pagina (pdf, en, 205 KB, 13/02/07)
- slides lezione 16 (vnd.ms-powerpoint, en, 221 KB, 14/02/07)
- slides lezione 17 (vnd.ms-powerpoint, en, 257 KB, 20/02/07)
- slides lezione 17 - 2 per pagina (pdf, en, 187 KB, 20/02/07)
- slides lezione 18 (vnd.ms-powerpoint, en, 91 KB, 27/02/07)
- slides lezione 18 - 2 per pagina (pdf, en, 176 KB, 27/02/07)
- slides lezione 19 (pdf, en, 199 KB, 27/02/07)
- slides lezione 19 - 2 per pagina (pdf, en, 192 KB, 27/02/07)
- slides lezione 20 (vnd.ms-powerpoint, en, 107 KB, 01/03/07)
- slides lezione 20 - 2 per pagina (pdf, en, 171 KB, 01/03/07)
Type D and Type F activities
Documents and news
- Documento ufficiale (pdf, it, 21 KB, 25/06/03)
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