Convex Relaxation Methods for Geometric Problems in Scientific Computing - IPAM

Convex Relaxation Methods for Geometric Problems in Scientific Computing

February 11 - 15, 2013

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, February 11, 2013

Morning Session

08:00-08:55
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
08:55-09:00
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Session Chair: Xavier Bresson
09:00-09:50
Francis Bach (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique Automatique (INRIA))
Structured Sparsity-inducing Norms through Submodular Functions
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Massimiliano Pontil (University College London)
Multi-task Learning and Structured Sparsity
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Gabriele Steidl (Universität Kaiserslautern)
Constrained image restoration problems

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
Session Chair: Gabriele Steidl
14:30-15:20
Amir Beck (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)
Sparsity Constrained Nonlinear Optimization: Optimality Conditions and Algorithms
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Yuri Boykov (University of Western Ontario)
Segmentation with non-linear constraints on geometry, complexity, and appearance
17:00-19:00
Reception and Poster Session (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
Session Chair: Gabriel Peyre
09:00-09:50
Xavier Bresson (City University of Hong Kong)
Total Variation Clustering
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Thomas Pock (Technische Universität Graz)
Convex relaxation of a class of vertex penalizing functionals
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Tom Goldstein (Rice University)
Fast alternating direction methods for Optimization

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
Session Chair: Thomas Pock
14:30-15:20
Selim Esedoglu (University of Michigan)
Threshold dynamics for the mean curvature motion of networks with unequal surface tensions
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Matthias Hein (Saarland University)
Nonlinear Eigenproblems and Tight Relaxations of Constrained Fractional Set Programs

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
Session Chair: Yuri Boykov
09:00-09:50
Daniel Cremers (Technische Universtitat München)
Convex Relaxations for the Mumford-Shah Functional
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Xue-Cheng Tai (University of Bergen)
Graph cut, convex relaxation and continuous max-flow problem
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Simon Setzer (Saarland University)
Optimizing Data for Interpolation and Approximation with Homogeneous Diffusion

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
Session Chair: Daniel Cremers
14:30-15:20
Stanley Osher (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Inverse scale space, linearized Bregman and sparse learning
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Jan Lellmann (Universität zu Lübeck)
Convexity and Non-Convexity in Partitioning and Interpolation Problems

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
Session Chair: Selim Esedoglu
09:00-09:50
Antonin Chambolle (École Polytechnique)
Functional lifting for scalar and vector-valued maps
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Gabriel Peyre (Université de Paris IX (Paris-Dauphine))
SURE-based Parameter Selection for Sparse Regularization of Inverse Problems
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Wotao Yin (Rice University)
Block multi-convex optimization

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
Session Chair: Antonin Chambolle
14:30-15:20
Christoph Schnörr (University of Heidelberg)
Shape, Segmentation and Convex Relaxations in Computer Vision
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Evgeny Strekalovskiy (Technical University of Munich)
Total Cyclic Variation
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