Abstract—The techniques of digital signal processing (DSP) and digital image processing (DIP) have found amyriad of applications in diverse fields of scientific, commercial, and technical endeavor. DSP and DIP education needs to cater to a wide spectrum of people from different educational backgrounds. This paper describes tools and techniques that facilitate a gentle introduction to fascinating concepts in signal and image processing. Novel LabVIEW- and MATLAB-based demonstrations are presented, which, when supplemented with Web-based class lectures, help to illustrate the power and beauty of signal and image-processing algorithms. Equipped with informative visualizations and a user-friendly interface, these modules are currently being used effectively in a classroom environment for teaching DSP and DIP at the University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin). Most demon- strations use audio and image signals to give students a flavor of real-world applications of signal and image processing. This paper is also intended to provide a library of more than 50 visualization modules that accentuate the intuitive aspects of DSP algorithms as a free didactic tool to the broad signal and image-processing community.