The author would like to thank the instructors of the course, Prof. Bernd Girod and Dr. Eckehard Steinbach for stimulating the idea and proof-reading the report, the class TA Markus Flierl for helping this class, and Dr. Nikolaus Färber, Dr. John Apostolopoulos and Rong Pan for helpful discussions. The authors would also like to thank all the classmates in EE368C for their help.