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MGA Workshop I: Multiscale Geometry in Image Processing and Coding

September 20 - 24, 2004

IPAM Building
Room 1200

Printable Version

Monday, September 20, 2004

Sparse representations/nonlinear approximation

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:15 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:15 - 9:30 Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:30 - 10:30

Emmanuel Candes (California Institute of Technology)

"Robust Uncertainty Principles: Exact Signal Reconstruction from Highly Incomplete Frequency Information "

10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00

Justin Romberg (California Institute of Technology)

"Robust Uncertainty Principles and Optimally Sparse Decompositions"
Presentation (PDF File)

12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00

Luminita Vese (UCLA)

"Energy minimization models for image decomposition into cartoon and texture"

3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30

Michael Elad (Technion, Haifa, Israel)

"Sparse Representations of Signals - Theory and Applications"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

4:30 - 4:45 Break
4:45 - 5:45

Richard Baraniuk (Rice University)

"Multiscale Geometric Frames and Tilings"
Presentation (PDF File)

5:45 - 7:30 Wine/Cheese Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, September 21, 2004

Vision, Sparse Coding and PDEs in imaging

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:30 Continental Breakfast
9:30 - 10:30

David Field (Cornell University)

"Towards a unified geometry of non-linearities in visual neurons"

10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00

Eero Simoncelli (New York University/Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences)

"Joint statistics of multi-scale derivative operators"
Presentation (PDF File)

12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00

Bruno Olshausen (University of California at Davis)

"Sparse coding of time-varying natural images"
Presentation (PDF File)

3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30

Guillermo Sapiro (University of Minnesota)

"Geometric (Multiscale) Representation of Elevation Maps and Point Cloud Data"

4:30 - 4:45 Break
4:45 - 5:45

Naoki Saito (University of California at Davis)

"Image Analysis and Approximation via Generalized Polyharmonic Local Trigonometric Transform"
Presentation (PDF File)


Wednesday, September 22, 2004

X-lets

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:30 Continental Breakfast
9:30 - 10:30

Stéphane Mallat (Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau France/CMAP)

"Hierarchical Geometrical Image Representation with Plain Wavelets"

10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00

Jean-Luc Starck (CEA Saclay, France)

"The Curvelet Transform on the Sphere"
Presentation (PDF File)

12:00 - 1:00

Paul Salamonowicz (National Geospatial Agency)

"Grant Opportunities at the National Geospatial Agency."
Special Lunchtime Lecture in the IPAM South Lecture Area
A box lunch will be provided

1:00 - 2:00 Break
2:00 - 3:00

Bedros Afeyan (Polymath Research Inc.)

"Wavelets, Curvelets and Combined Transforms Applied to Z Pinch X Ray Backlighting, Astrophysical Radiation Jets and Microwave Images of Turbulent Clouds "

3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30

Minh Do (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

"Discrete Geometrical Image Processing using the Contourlet Transform"
Presentation (PDF File)

4:30 - 4:45 Break
4:45 - 5:45

Rebecca Willett (Rice University)

"Coarse-to-Fine Image Reconstruction"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

5:45 - 7:30 Dinner (Hosted by IPAM)

Thursday, September 23, 2004

Multiscale Methods in Imaging and Machine Vision

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:30 Continental Breakfast
9:30 - 10:30

Achi Brandt (Weizmann Institute of Science)

"Multiscale Segmentation of Visual Scenes"
Presentation Files (Zip Archive)

10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00

Xiaoming Huo (Georgia Institute of Technology)

"JBEAM: Multiscale Curve Coding via Beamlets"
Presentation (PDF File)

12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

12:15 - 1:15 (Optional) Tour of Laboratory of Neuro Imaging (LONI) - Please sign up at the registration table if interested
2:00 - 3:00

Song-Chun Zhu (UCLA)

"From Scaling Laws of Natural Images to Regimes of Statistical Models"
Presentation (PDF File)

3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30

Davi Geiger (New York University/Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences)

"Trees and Belief Propagation Networks"

4:30 - 4:45 Break
4:45 - 5:45

Hamid Krim (University of North Carolina)

"Morse Theory in Object Representation and Classification"
Presentation (PDF File)


Friday, September 24, 2004

Application in Medical Imaging

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:30 Continental Breakfast
9:30 - 10:30

Amir Averbuch (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)

 
Presentation Files (Zip Archive)

10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00

Hemant Tagare (Yale University)

"Segmenting Cardiac Ultrasound Images with Active Contours"

12:00 - 1:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

1:00 - 2:00

Roland Wilson (University of Warwick)

"Multiresolution Image Segmentation"

2:00 - 2:30 Break
2:30 - 3:30

Stanley Osher (IPAM)

"An Iterative Regularization Method and Inverse Scale Space for Image Restoration"

3:30 - 3:45 Break
3:45 - 4:45

Francois Meyer (University of Colorado)

"Multiscale Analysis of fMRI Data"
Presentation (PDF File)

4:45 Conclusion

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