Seminars Fall 2006 Jan 4 2007 Paper submission to ISIT 2007 Submission deadline is on Jan 8th 2007. The 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory will be held at the Acropolis Congress and Exhibition Center in Nice, France, from Sunday June 24 through Friday June 29, 2007. Dec 28 2006 Long break of Christmas -Have fun Dec 21 2006 Final exams -Good luck Dec 14 2006 Mr Xie Liangjun -Information geometry I I. Csiszar and G. Tusnady "Information geometry and alternating minimization procedures," Statistics and Decisions, Supplement Issue, 1984 Dec 7 2005 Mr Debashish Pal -Theory of Alternating minimization algorithms J. A. O'Sullivan, "Alternating minimization algorithms: from Blahut-Arimoto to expectation-maximization," in Codes, Curves, and Signals: Common Threads in Communications by A Vardy, Kluwer Academic Publishers 1998. Nov 30 2006 Mr Lichun (Andrew) Li -Theory of Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm A. P. Dempster, N. M. Laird, and D. B. Rubin, "Maximum Likelihood from Incomplete Data via the EM Algorithm," J. of Royal Statistical Society, Series B, Vol. 1, pp. 1-38, 1977. Nov 23 2006 Thanks Giving Break -Have fun Nov 16 2006 Mr Daniel Keesing -Regularization and hyperparameter estimation Z. Zhou, R.N. Leahy, and J. Qi, "Approximate maximum likelihood hyperparameter estimation for Gibbspriors," IEEE Trans. Image Processing, Vol. 6, pp. 844-861, 2002. Nov 2 2006 Mr Sean D. Kristjansson -General linear mixed model for biomatric D.J. Hruschka, B.A. Kohrt, and C.M. Worthman, "Estimating between- and within-individual variation in cortisol levels using multilevel models," Psychoneuroendocrinology, Vol. 30, pp. 698-714, 2005. Oct 26 2006 Professor Nan Lin -Robustness and applied statistics N. Lin, X. He, "Robust and efficient estimation under data grouping," Biometrika, Vol. 93, No. 1, pp. 99–112, 2006. Oct 19 2006 Mr Geoffrey San Antonio -Bounds on estimation performance, beyond the Cramér–Rao lower bound E.W. Barankin, "Locally best unbias estimates," Annals Math. Statistics, Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 477-501, 1949. F.E. Glave, "A New Look at the Barankin Lower Bound," IEEE Trans. Info. Thoery, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 349-356, 1972. R.J. McAulay and E.M. Hofstetter,"Barankin bounds on parameter estimation," IEEE Trans. Info. Thoery, Vol. 17, No. 6, pp. 669-676, 1971. Oct 12 2006 Mr Nobert Agbeko -Compressive sampling and Compressed sensing E. J. Candes, T. Tao, "Near Optimal Signal Recovery From Random Projections: Universal Encoding Strategies?" http://arxiv.org/abs/math.CA/0410542 D. L. Donoho, "Compressed sensing," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 52, pp. 1289-1306, April 2006. Oct 5 2006 Mr Po-Hsiang Lai -Robust unvertainty principles and compressive sampling E. J. Candes, J. Romberg, T. Tao, "Robust uncertainty principles: exact signal reconstruction from highly incomplete frequency information" IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 52, pp. 489-509, Feb. 2006. E. J. Candes, T. Tao, "Near Optimal Signal Recovery From Random Projections: Universal Encoding Strategies?" http://arxiv.org/abs/math.CA/0410542 Sep 28 2006 Miss Mei Chen -The central limit theorem and Fourier analysis P. Mayor, "The proof of the central limit theorem and Fourier analysis." http://www.renyi.hu/~major/probability/central.html Sep 25 2006 Mr Rob Grothe -Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Proteomic Mixtures: The Quest for Personalized Medicine Sep 18 to Sep 20 2006 Zarborsky distinguish lecture series Summer 2006 Aug 3 2006 Mr Partricio S. La Rosa -Applications of MDL denoising P GrÄunwald. A tutorial introduction to the minimum description length principle. July 20 2006 Mr Lichun (Andrew) Li -Introduction to robust statistics P. J. Huber. Robust Statistics, New York, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2003. http://arxiv.org/abs/math.ST/0406077 July 6 2006 Miss Shuli Wang -Dimensionaliy reduction algorithms Y. Bengio, J. F. Paiement, P. Vincent, and O. Delalleau, "Out-of-sample extensions for LLE, isomap, MDS, eigenmaps, and spectral clustering," Eighteenth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Whistler, B.C., 2004. http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~lisa/bib/pub_subject/kernel/pointeurs/tr1238.pdf June 29 2006 Miss Mei Chen -Denoising J. Rissanen, "MDL denoising," IEEE Trans. Info. Thoery, Vol. 46, No. 7, pp.2537 - 2543, 2000. June 22 2006 Mr Po-Hsiang Lai -Theories of model selection A. D. Lanterman, "Schwarz, Wallace, and Rissanen: intertwining themes in theories of model selection," Int. Stat. Rev., vol. 69, No. 2, pp. 185 - 212. June 15 2006 Mr Nobert Agbeko -Global theory of optimization II: optimization of functionals D. G. Luenberger. Optimization by Vector Space Methods, New York, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1969. June 8 2006 Mr Daniel Keesing -Introduction to BFGS A. L. Peressini, F. E. Sullivan, and J. J. Uhl. The Mathematics of Nonlinear Programming, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1988. J. M. Ortega and W. C. Rheinboldt. Iterative Solution of Nonlinear Equations in Several Variables, Philadelphia: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2000. Originally published by Academic Press (New York), 1970. Mr Xie Liangjun -Global theory of optimization I: dual spaces D. G. Luenberger. Optimization by Vector Space Methods, New York, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1969. June 1 2006 Mr Daniel Keesing -Introduction to some iterative minimization methods A. L. Peressini, F. E. Sullivan, and J. J. Uhl. The Mathematics of Nonlinear Programming, New York, Springer-Verlag, 1988. J. M. Ortega and W. C. Rheinboldt. Iterative Solution of Nonlinear Equations in Several Variables, Philadelphia, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2000. Originally published by Academic Press (New York), 1970. May 18 2006 Dr Brandon Westover -Achievable rates region for multiterminal source coding and pattern recognition" S. D. Servetto, "The region of achievable rates for multiterminal source coding part I," http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/cs/pdf/0604/0604005.pdf Spring 2006 May 1 2006 Professor Joseph A O'sullivan -Information Geometry and Optimization II April 24 2006 Professor Joseph A O'sullivan -Information Geometry and Optimization I April 17 2006 Professor Daniel R. Fuhrmann -Majorization A. W. Marshall and I. Olkin, Inequalities: Theory of Majorization and Its Applications, Academic Press, 1979 Feb 27 2006 Miss Shalini Priti -Introduction to Wavelets T. K. Sarkar, C. Su, R. Adve, M. Salazar-Palma, "A tutorial on wavelets from an electrical engineering perspective, part 1. Discrete wavelet techniques," IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, vol. 40, pp.36-49. T. K. Sarkar and C. Su, "A tutorial on wavelets from an electrical engineering perspective, part 2. The continuous case," IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, vol. 40, pp.36-49. Feb 20 2006 Miss Mei Chen -Time Warping E. J. Keogh and M. J. Pazzani, "Derivative dynamic time warping," in First SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, Chicago, IL, USA, 2001. Feb 13 2006 Mr Nobert Agbeko -Dose Reduction in X-Ray CT imaging M. Gies, W. A. Kalender, H. Wold, and C. Suess, "Dose reduction in CT by anatomically adapted tube current modulation. I. Simulation studies," Med. Phys., vol. 26(11), pp.2235-2247, 1999. W. A. Kalender, H. Wold, and C. Suess, "Dose reduction in CT by anatomically adapted tube current modulation. II. Phantom measurments," Med. Phys., vol. 26(11), pp.2248-2253, 1999. Feb 6 2006 Mr Liangjun Xie -Random Point Processes II: Compound Poisson Processes D. L. Snyder, M. I. Miller, Random Point Processes in Time and Space, New York, Springer-Verlag, 1991. Jan 30 2006 Mr Po-Hsiang Lai -Random Point Processes I: Translate Poisson Processes D. L. Snyder, M. I. Miller, Random Point Processes in Time and Space, New York, Springer-Verlag, 1991. Jan 23 2006 Mr Daniel Keesing -Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) S. Webb, "The physical basis of IMRT and inverse planning," British J. Radio., vol. 76, pp.678-689. Fall 2005 Dec 12 2005 Mr Po-Hsaing Lai -Active Sensing and Active Testing -Feedback time and Future ITRG R. Bajcsy, "Active perception," Proc. of the IEEE, vol. 76, No. 8, August 1988. Nov 28 2005 Mr Debashish Pal -Regularization Nov 14 2005 Mr Geoffrey San Antonio -Particle Filtering M. S. Arulampalam, S. Maskell, N. Cordon, and T. Clapp, "A tutorial on particle filters for online nonlinear/non-Gaussian Bayesian tracking," IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, bol. 50, no. 2, 2002. Nov 7 2005 Mr Geoffrey San Antonio -Beampattern Synthesis for Wideband MIMO Radar Systems G. San Antonio and D. Fuhrmann, "Beampattern synthesis for wideband MIMO radar systems," Proc. 1st IEEE Intl. Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP), Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, December 2005. Oct 31 2005 Mr Po-Hsiang Lai -Isomap J. B. Tenenbaum, V. de Silva, and J. C. Langford, "A global geometric framework for nonlinear dimensionality reduction," Science, vol. 290, pp. 2319-2323, 2000. M. Balasubramanian, E. L. Schwartz, J. B. Tenenbaum, V. de Silva, and J. C. Langford, "The isomap algorithm and topological stability," Science, vol. 295, pp. 7, 2002. Oct 24 2005 Miss Mei Chen -Biometric R. M. Bolle, J. H. Connell, S. Oankanti, N. K. Ratha, and A. W. Senior, Guide to Biometrics, New York, Springer-Verlag Inc., 2004. Oct 17 2005 Dr Naveen Singlar -Principle Component Analysis and Independent Component Analysis A Hyvarinen, "Survey on Independent Component Analysis" http://www.cis.hut.fi/~aapo/ps/NCS99.pdf Oct 10 2005 Professor Joseph A O'sullivan -Overview of ITGR Fall 2005 -Information Theoretic Image Formation Sep 8 2005 Dr Brandon Westover -Deformable Templates Using Large Deformation Kinematics G. E. Christensen, R. D. Rabbitt, and M. I. Miller, "Deformable Templates Using Large Deformation Kinematics," IEEE Trans. Image Processing, vol. 5. no. 10, pp.1435-1447, 1996. Overview 0000000 People 0000000 Areas 0000000 ITRGhome