Entry requirementsYou should have a first or upper-second class degree in Electronic Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related discipline. Have good Java programming skills gained at Undergraduate degree level. Applicants with unrelated degrees will be considered if there is evidence of significant industrial experience. Applicants with lower-second class degrees may be considered if the undergraduate degree specialised in relevant subjects. Applicants should also have completed an undergraduate programme in at least one of the following areas: Signal Processing, Control or Analogue Filters.
Academic titleMSc Internet Signal Processing
Course descriptionMSc
Programme description
One year full-time, two years part-time by distance learning
Internet Signal Processing is an exciting new field that covers all applications of Digital Signal Processing (DSP) to the Internet (and vice versa). This Masters degree is the first of its type in the United Kingdom and is intended for graduates who wish to enhance and specialise their skills in DSP while aiming to apply these skills to Internet related problems and projects. The programme of study responds to a skills shortage in industry for digital technologists able to meet the demands of the real-time Internet.
Graduates of the programme will understand both the signal processing and web technologies involved in storing, indexing and delivering content-rich and real-time media over wired and wireless Internet. This is of importance to infrastructure companies, service and content providers, companies involved in the broadcast, new media and multimedia industries, as well as intelligent information retrieval and digital libraries.
The programme provides core knowledge of basic DSP theory and the fundamentals of the Internet. The taught modules are fully supported with computing and laboratory work using state-of-the-art DSP hardware and software to provide the students with hands-on experience of DSP development and design.
Programme outline
There are no optional modules. Enrolment onto a specific degree programme constitutes the specialisation and module choice.
Semester 1
* Java Programming (1)
* Internet Infrastructure
* Fundamentals of Digital Signal Processing (1)
* Advanced Transform Methods.
Semester 2
* Network Modelling and Performance (1)
* Multimedia Systems (1)
* Music and Speech Processing
* Image and Video Processing.
May-September
* Project
(1) = This course is taken in the first year of part-time study
Assessment
All students are required to take written examinations in May/June. To obtain an MSc, students must gain passes in six of the eight modules taken with an overall average of 50 per cent.
In addition to the above, the MSc requires that a satisfactory individual project should be completed. MSc students who do not pass the written examinations are only allowed to attempt the project after passing resit examinations the following May.