Projects Co-ordinator

Prof. Mark Plumbley, Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing, University of Surrey, UK.

Projects Administrator

Dr Helen Cooper, Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing, University of Surrey, UK.

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macsenet@surrey.ac.uk

spartan-itn@surrey.ac.uk

SpaRTaN-MacSeNet Spring School on Sparse Representations and Compressed Sensing

4th-8th April 2016, Ilmenau, Germany

The spring school is now over, thank you to all who attended and who made the event a great success, looking forward to seeing you all at future MacSeNet and SpaRTaN events

The SpaRTaN-MacSeNet Spring School on Sparse Representations and Compressed Sensing Spring School will be of interest to graduate students, researchers and industry professionals working in this fast moving and exciting area. The five day school is split into two components, during three days, a panel of experts will offer lectures and tutorials covering the theory of sparse representations, compressed sensing and related topics, and applications of these methods in areas such as image processing, audio signal processing, and signal processing on graphs. The remaining two days will be devoted to software carpentry, giving researchers the computing skills they need to get more done in less time and with less pain

The SpaRTaN-MacSeNet Spring School on Sparse Representations and Compressed Sensing is organized and sponsored by the SpaRTaN (Sparse Representations and Compressed Sensing Training Network) Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN) and the MacSeNet (Machine Sensing Training Network) Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action Innovative Training Network (ITN). Non-project members will need to cover the cost of their own meals and accommodation.

Important Dates

MacSeNet is funded under the H2020-MSCA-ITN-2014 call and is part of the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions — Innovative Training Networks (ITN) funding scheme: Project number - 642685

SpaRTaN is funded under the FP7-PEOPLE-2013-ITN call and is part of the Marie Curie Actions — Initial Training Networks (ITN) funding scheme: Project number - 607290

The spring school is being hosted by Fraunhofer IDMT in Ilmenau. Further details of accomodation and local arrangements are available in the briefing pack. As a warning very few places in Ilmenau take credit cards but we have located some ATM/Cash points which take Visa.

Ilmenau
"Ilmenau Lindenberg" by Michael Sander - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons.

How to get to Ilmenau

The best way to get to Ilmenau is to fly to Frankfurt/Main (FRA) and take a train to Erfurt (which takes about 2,5 hours). In Erfurt you have to change to another train to Ilmenau (which takes about 1 hour) or take a rental car or taxi to Ilmenau (which takes about 35 minutes). You can also fly to Berlin and take a train to Erfurt or you can fly to Leipzig/Halle (LEJ) which is the nearest airport to Ilmenau. But as the train connection from Leipzig Airport to Erfurt/Ilmenau is not that good you would then have to take a rental car from Leipzig Airport.

Software Carpentry

Be sure to check out the software carpentry event page before you come to Ilmenau. You will need to prepare your laptop with some basic software to take part in the course and there's a pre-course survey so we know what level everyone is before we start.

Poster Session

The subject of your poster will depend on how far through your PhD you are:

If you've just started then your poster will be a project proposal with some background (literature review) on common techniques in the field you're working in.

If you're further on in your studies then you can pick the topic of your current work or a recently published paper.

Design and Layout

The boards are portrait with size : 70x100cm so they should fit A1 (or a bit larger).

There are lots of resources on the web for how best to design a poster I've collected a few here but do take a look around yourself and if you find any other nice tutorials please let us know so we can share them:

University of Leicester's 20 min tutorial
Berkley's how to design a poster slides
A nice blog post covering the same as the above for those who like the texty approach

Attendees

The spring school had a wide range of attendees, they're listed here so that you can remind yourself of names or verify spellings!

Jakob Abesser
Fraunhofer IDMT

Alain Alahi
VisioSafe

Ines Axthelm
Fraunhofer IDMT

Dmitry Babichev
Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA)

Francis Bach
Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA)

Wajiha Bano
University of Edinburgh

Arnold Benjamin
University of Edinburgh

Dave Betts
CEDAR

Karlheinz Brandenburg
Fraunhofer IDMT

Evgeny Burnaev
Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences

Christos Chatzichristos
Computer Technology Institute (Greece)

Helen Cooper
University of Surrey

Cristóvão Cruz
Tampere University of Technology/Noiseless Imaging Oy

Dhritiman Das
Technical University Munich

Mike Davies
University of Edinburgh

Giovanni Del Galdo
Technical University Ilmenau

Karen Egiazarian
Noiseless Imaging Oy

Mario Figueiredo
Instituto de Telecomunicações

Oleg Golokolenko
Fraunhofer IDMT

Sascha Grollmisch
Songquito

Stylianos Ioannis Mimilakis
Fraunhofer IDMT

Jan Kirckhof
TU Ilmenau

Eleftherios Kofidis
Computer Technology Institute (Greece)

Yannis Kopsinis
Computer Technology Institute (Greece)

Fabian Kring
TU Ilmenau

Joshin Krishnan
Instituto de Telecomunicações

Sacha Krstulovic
Audio Analytic

Mateusz Kuzak
Netherlands eScience Centre (Software Carpentry Instructor)

Guillaume Laurent
CNRS

Marina Ljubenovic
Instituto de Telecomunicações

Hanna Lukashevich
Fraunhofer IDMT

Ian Marshall
University of Edinburgh

Volodymyr Miz
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Manuel Morante
Computer Technology Institute (Greece)

Amirafshar Moshtaghpour
Université Catholique de Louvain

Milad Niknejad
Instituto de Telecomunicações

Thibault Notargiacomo
CNRS GIPSA-Lab & Thales TED

Cian O'Brien
University of Surrey

Rodrigo Pena
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Konstantinos Pitas
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Mark Plumbley
University of Surrey

Lucas Rencker
University of Surrey

Florian Romer
TU Ilmenau

Enrique Sánchez-Monge
Noiseless Imaging Oy

Gerald Schuller
Fraunhofer IDMT

Damien Scieur
Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA)

Sebastian Semper
TU Ilmenau

Youngjoo Seo
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Thomas Sgouros
Democritus University of Thrace

Aleksei Sholokhov
University of Eastern Finland & ITMO University

Tatiana Shpakova
Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA)

Iwona Sobieraj
University of Surrey

Jens Steinwandt
TU Ilmenau

'Billy' Junqi Tang
University of Edinburgh

Stefanie Theiss
Fraunhofer IDMT

Tim Tröndle
Younicos (Software Carpentry Instructor)

Christos Tzagkarakis
Delft University of Technology

Cagdas Ulas
Technical University Munich

Mark van Heeswijk
Aalto University School of Science

Pierre Vandergheynst
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Christoph Wagner
TU Ilmenau

Wenwu Wang
University of Surrey

Ahmad Warda
TU Ilmenau

Zhongwei Xu
Noiseless Imaging Oy

Alfredo Zermini
University of Surrey

Lina Zhuang
Instituto de Telecomunicações

4th/5th April 2016 - Software Carpentry

The first 2 days will be devoted to Software Carpentry. Software Carpentry's mission is to help scientists and engineers get more research done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic lab skills for scientific computing. This hands-on workshop will cover basic concepts and tools, including program design, version control, data management, and task automation. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems. Take a look at the event page to find out more.

6th-8th April 2016 - Sparse Representations and Compressed Sensing

Lectures and tutorials covering the theory of sparse representations, compressed sensing and related topics, and applications of these methods in areas such as image processing, audio signal processing, and signal processing on graphs.

The poster session is there to give delegates a chance to discuss their own work with their peers and the speakers.

Weds 6th April

09:00 Gerald Schuller (Fraunhofer IDMT)Neural Networks and Sparse Coding from the Signal Processing Perspective
Slides (pdf) | Python Examples (zip)
11:00 Break
11:30 Francis Bach (INRIA) large-scale optimization
Slides (pdf)
12:30 Francis Bach (INRIA) Probabilistic modelling
Slides (pdf)
13:30 Lunch
14:30 Mike Davies (University of Edinburgh) Compressed sensing theory
Slides (pdf)
15:30 Mike Davies (University of Edinburgh) Compressed sensing theory extensions
Slides (pdf)
16:30 Break
17:00 Sacha Krstlovic (Audio Analytic) Audio Event detection in an Industrial Environment
18:15 Dinner

Thurs 7th April

09:00 Jakob Abesser (Fraunhofer IDMT) Instrument centered parameter estimation and sound synthesis
10:00 Wenwu Wang (University of Surrey) Sparse representation and dictionary learning for source separation, localisation and tracking
Slides (pdf)
11:00 Break
11:30 Ian Marshall (University of Edinburgh) Compressed sensing in MRI
Slides (pptx)
12:30 Giovanni Del Galdo (TU Ilmenau) Compressed sensing theory: geometric interpretations
Slides (ppsx)
13:30 Lunch
14:30 Poster Session
16:30 Keynote: Prof. Karlheinz Brandenburg IDMT
18:00 Dinner

Fri 8th April

09:00 Mario Figueiredo (Instituto de Telecomunicações) Convex Optimization in Inverse Problems and Machine Learning
Slides - Part 1(pdf) | Slides - Part 2(pdf) | Slides - Part 3(pdf)
11:00 Break
11:30 Karen Egiazarian (Noiseless Imaging) Image denoising and enhancement
Slides (pdf)
13:30 Lunch
14:30 Pierre Vandergheynst (EPFL) Graph Signal Processing
Slides (pdf)
17:00 End