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Tampere University Student’s Guide

Course unit, curriculum year 2026–2027
COMP.SGN.220

Advanced Audio Processing, 5 cr

Tampere University
Teaching periods
Active in period 3 (1.1.2027–7.3.2027)
Active in period 4 (8.3.2027–31.5.2027)
Course code
COMP.SGN.220
Language of learning
English
Academic years
2024–2025, 2025–2026, 2026–2027
Level of study
Advanced studies
Grading scale
General scale, 0-5
Persons responsible
Responsible teacher:
Tuomas Virtanen
Responsible teacher:
Annamaria Mesaros
Responsible organisation
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences 100 %
Coordinating organisation
Computing Sciences Studies 100 %
Content
Core content
  • Acoustic feature extraction and audio classification. Machine learning for audio classification: recurrent neural networks, connectionist temporal classification, convolutional neural networks. Environmental sound classification, music signal analysis and classification, spatial audio
  • Source separation (one channel and multichannel). Time-frequency masking. Deep neural network based and spectrogram factorization based source separation techniques.
  • Microphone array signal processing: beamforming, source localization and tracking.
Learning outcomes
Prerequisites
Compulsory prerequisites
Further information
Learning material
Equivalences
Studies that include this course
Completion option 1
Accepted exercises, project work, and exam.
All parts of the completion option are compulsory.

Participation in teaching

05.01.2027 – 25.02.2027
Active in period 3 (1.1.2027–7.3.2027)

Exam

05.03.2027 – 05.03.2027
Active in period 3 (1.1.2027–7.3.2027)
20.04.2027 – 20.04.2027
Active in period 4 (8.3.2027–31.5.2027)