1. Hossein Sameti Department of Computer Engineering Sharif University of Technology

2.  Any topic related to DSP is acceptable. However, make sure that the topic is realistic and the work is doable in a short period.  Some research areas:  Medicine: ◦ analysis of biosignals, ◦ medical imaging,… 2 Hossein Sameti, CE, SUT, Fall 1992

3.  Speech, music, and audio: ◦ Speech recognition, ◦ Speech synthesis, ◦ Speaker identification/verification ◦ Speech enhancement ◦ Music synthesis, ◦ Music emotion recognition, ◦ Keyword spotting ◦ Echo cancellation ◦ … 3

4.  Security: ◦ Biometrics, ◦ Surveillance, ◦ Face recognition ◦ Steganography in image/speech/video ◦ …  Data management: ◦ Data storage, compression, and retrieval,…  Financial: ◦ Financial data analysis ◦ Stock market modeling and prediction 4

5.  Image/video processing: ◦ Image denoising, ◦ Object recognition ◦ Image reconstruction and enhancement ◦ Video processing ◦ … 5