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• April 1: The third midterm is scheduled for Wednesday, April 4, in class.

  The midterm test is closed book, but a single page of notes is allowed. The test will cover transform coding and will also include conceptual questions and/or simple problems on vector quantization.

• March 7: The second midterm is scheduled for Friday, March 16, in class.

  The midterm test is closed book, but a single page of notes is allowed. The test will cover scalar quantization and will also include conceptual questions and/or simple problems on predictive quantization.

• Feb. 2: The first midterm is scheduled for Friday, Feb. 10, at 8:30 am in Jeffery 115 (in class). Please make sure that you arrive in time so that you have the full 50 minutes to write the exam.

  The midterm test is closed book, but a single page of notes is allowed. The test will cover rate-distortion theory and will also include conceptual questions and/or simple problems on lossless coding.

• Jan. 14: Homework 1 has been posted. The due date is January 27, in class.

• Jan. 11: The slides for rate-distortion theory are now available.