Dissertation Chapter 1 outline

In order not to waste any time on writing unapproved content in detail, I'd like to have a mid-level outline of my dissertation chapters before diving into the actual writing. I hope that I can have an idea whether the following structure and points make sense and make adjustments at the mid-level. Once this list is confirmed, I'll start expanding these ideas into real text.

Chapter 1 The McGill Image to Audio Conversion Project

1.1 Introduction

1. Phonograph recording/playback technology in one sentence.
2. Social background and significance of creating the technology of
   the dissertation: Records are dying and need to be preserved;
   international authorities and communities care about this. Quote
   Langnois project proposal.
   
   
3. Digital archiving as the major solution to problem introduced in
   #2: Pros (reliability; mature technology) and cons(Time cost; quality
   issues).
4. Origin of the MItAC project: idea; rough procedure. Briefly mention optical audio reconstruction efforts.
   
   
5. Advantages learned from the above rough procedure: Contact-less; capability to restore damaged records.
   
   
6. Advantages summarized in bullet list.
7. Objectives derived from the advantage list, each objective seeks to explore and elaborate one or more advantages.
   
   
8. Briefly mention the hardware (closely related to the advantages).
9. Indicate that the dissertation mainly deals with which objectives.
10. The significance of the dissertation (To elaborate the thesis proposal): First in the world to deal with stereo LPs, with white-light interferometry (WLI) and using 3D groove profile.
    
    

1.2 Objectives of the thesis

1. Because the use of the specific imaging system (WLI microscope)
   is unprecedented, the objectives include describing hardware system and
   how it is applied to replace phonography. As a result we'll also talk
   about phonography in next chapter.
2. Theoretical perspectives on system limitations, resolution, sampling rate, dynamic range, etc.
3. Image processing algorithms: stitching; groove extraction; noise reduction and restoration.
4. The high-level objectives of the audio extraction tasks:
   reconstruct a stereo test signal (silence + sine wave, and a music
   signal) at a quality/time trade-off scanning resolution.
   
   

1.3 Related works

1. Existing efforts to optically reconstruct audio: Laser turntable
   (several models), Haber, Stotzer, Tian, (optional: McBride), with high
   level categorization: Optical stylus, 2D digital imaging, 3D method.
2. Core image processing techniques: connected-component-analysis, edge detection.
   
   

1.4 Summary of dissertation

chapter-by-chapter description, each in one sentence.