MGA Workshop I: Multiscale Geometry in Image Processing and Coding

Part of the Long Program Multiscale Geometry and Analysis in High Dimensions
September 20 - 24, 2004

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, September 20, 2004

Sparse representations/nonlinear approximation

Morning Session
8:30 - 9:15 Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:15 - 9:30 Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:30 - 10:30
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00
Justin Romberg (California Institute of Technology)

Robust Uncertainty Principles and Optimally Sparse Decompositions
PDF Presentation
12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:00 - 3:00
3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30
4:30 - 4:45 Break
4:45 - 5:45
Richard Baraniuk (Rice University)

Multiscale Geometric Frames and Tilings
PDF Presentation
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
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
PDF Presentation
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
PDF Presentation
3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30
4:30 - 4:45 Break
4:45 - 5:45

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
PDF Presentation
12:00 - 1:00
Paul Salamonowicz (National Geospatial Agency)

Grant Opportunities at the National Geospatial Agency.

1:00 - 2:00 Break
2:00 - 3:00
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
PDF Presentation
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
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00
Xiaoming Huo (Georgia Institute of Technology)

JBEAM: Multiscale Curve Coding via Beamlets
PDF Presentation
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
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
PDF Presentation

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
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
3:30 - 3:45 Break
3:45 - 4:45
Francois Meyer (University of Colorado)

Multiscale Analysis of fMRI Data
PDF Presentation
4:45 Conclusion