DIMACS Workshop on Source Coding and Harmonic Analysis

May 8 - 10, 2002
DIMACS Center, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ

Organizers:

Vivek Goyal, Digital Fountain, v.goyal@ieee.org

Jelena Kovacevic, Bell Labs, jelena@bell-labs.com

Workshop Program:

WEDNESDAY, May 8:

08:00 - 08:45	Breakfast & Registration

08:45 - 08:50	Welcome & Greeting
                Fred Roberts, DIMACS Director

08:50 - 09:00   Welcome & Greeting
                Vivek Goyal, Digital Fountain
                Jelena Kovacevic, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies

09:00 - 10:00   Redundant representations for A/D conversion
                Ingrid Daubechies, Princeton University

10:00 - 10:30	Harmonic Analysis and A/D Conversion
		Zoran Cvetkovic

10:30 - 11:00	Break

11:00 - 12:00	Periodicity Detection and MRI Data Acquisition
                John Benedetto, University of Maryland, College Park

12:00 - 12:30	Shift Invariant Spaces and Homogenous Functions
                Carlos Cabrelli and Ursula Molter, University of Buenos Aires

12:30 - 01:30 	Lunch

01:30 - 02:00  	Finite Normalized Tight Frames
                Matthew Fickus, Cornell University

02:00 - 02:30  	Custom Building Tight Frames
                Peter Casazza, University of Missouri

02:30 - 02:45  	Break

02:45 - 03:15  	Excesses of Frames
                Chris Heil, Georgia Tech University

03:15 - 03:45  	Density of Frames
                Zeph Landau, University of California, Berkeley

03:45 - 04:00  	Break

04:00 - 04:30  	On Frame Redundancy and Measure Functions
                Radu Balan, Siemens Research

04:30 - 05:00  	Quantized Frame Expansions in a Wireless Environment
                Jelena Kovacevic, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies

05:00 - 05:30  	Tight Frames in Quantum Information Theory
                Emina Soljanin, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies


THURSDAY, May 9:

08:00 - 09:00  	Breakfast & Registration

09:00 - 10:00  	Filtering and Signal Processing
                Gil Strang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

10:00 - 10:30  	Break

10:30 - 11:00  	Multiscale Edge Grammars for Image Modeling and Processing
                Richard Baraniuk, Rice University

11:00 - 11:30  	Smoothness of Nonlinear Subdivision Based on Median
		Interpolation
                Peter Oswald, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies

11:30 - 12:00  	Bivariate Probability Models and Shrinkage Functions
                Ivan Selesnick, Polytechnic University

12:00 - 01:30  	Lunch

01:30 - 02:30  	Sparse Geometrical Image Processing with Bandelets
                Stephane Mallat, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris

02:30 - 02:45  	Break

02:45 - 03:15  	The Phaselet Transform - An Integral Redundancy Nearly Shift
		Invariant Wavelet Transform
                Ramesh Gopinath, IBM T.J. Watson Research

03:15 - 03:45  	Geometric Modeling of Edges in Images
                Justin Romberg, Michael Wakin, Hyeokho Choi and Richard
		Baraniuk, Rice University

03:45 - 04:00  	Break

04:00 - 04:30  	Wavelet Denoising by Recursive Cycle Spinning
                Alyson Fletcher, University of California, Berkeley

04:30 - 05:00  	Distributed Filters: Application of Polysplines to Image
                Processing
                Ognyan Kounchev, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and University
                of Duisburg, Germany & Hermann Render, University of Duisburg

05:00 - 05:30  	Image Compression with Overcomplete Complex Wavelets Using
                Iterative Projection
                Nick Kingsbury, University of Cambridge

06:00 - 08:00   Banquet


FRIDAY, May 10:

08:00 - 09:00  	Breakfast & Registration

09:00 - 10:00  	Sampling Signals with Finite Rate of Innovation
                Martin Vetterli, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
                and University of California, Berkeley

10:00 - 10:30  	Break

10:30 - 11:00  	Application Specific Lossy Signal Compression for Distributed
		Signal Processing
                Antonio Ortega, University of Southern California

11:00 - 12:00  	Edge-Adapted Nonlinear Multiscale Decompositions
                Albert Cohen, Universite P. & M. Curie, Paris

12:00 - 01:30  	Lunch

01:30 - 02:00	Theorems and Counterexamples in Transform Coding
                Vivek Goyal, Digital Fountain

02:00 - 02:30  	One-bit Sigma-Delta Quantization with Exponential Accuracy
                C. Sinan Gunturk, New York University

02:30 - 03:00  	Breaking The Feedback Loop of Sigma-Delta Modulators
                Nguyen Thao, City College, CUNY

03:00 - 03:15  	Break

03:15 - 03:45  	Near-Optimal Sparse Fourier Representations via Sampling
                Anna Gilbert, AT&T Labs

03:45 - 04:15  	Geometric Multiscale Transforms, Space-Frequency Tilings,
                Minimum Total Variation Synthesis
                Emmanuel Candes, California Institute of Technology

Previous: Participation

Next: Registration

Workshop Index

DIMACS Homepage