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International Conference

Numerical Methods in Imaging Science and Information Processing

15 - 19 December 2003

Part of IMS program on Mathematics and Computation in Imaging Science and Information Processing (July - December 2003)

• Raymond Chan (Chinese University of Hong Kong, China)
• Say Song Goh (National University of Singapore)
• Zuowei Shen (National University of Singapore)
• Chi-Wang Shu (Brown University, USA)

• Nirmal Bose (Pennsylvania State University, USA)

• Raymond Chan (Chinese University of Hong Kong, China)

• Tony Chan (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)

• Charles Chui (Stanford University, USA/ University of Missouri - St. Louis, USA)

• Martin Hanke-Bourgeois (Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität, Germany)

• Markus Hegland (Australian National University, Australia)

• Aggelos Katsaggelos (Northwestern University, USA)

• Stanley Osher (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)

• Robert Plemmons (Wake Forest University, USA)

• Chi-Wang Shu (Brown University, USA)
• Nick Trefethen (Oxford University)

• Confirmed visitors

The aims of the conference are to promote research interest in mathematical modeling and computational methods in imaging science and information processing for mathematicians and engineers and to foster collaborations and exchanges between researchers in Singapore and experts around the world. The conference will feature several mathematical and computational areas for solving image and information processing problems, including

• Ill-posed Inverse Problems
• Partial Differential Equations
• Numerical Optimization
• Numerical Linear Algebra
• Sparse Grid Approximation
• Applications

• IMS Auditorium
  Institute for Mathematical Sciences, NUS
  3 Prince George's Park
  Singapore 118402
• Directions to the institute

 

Monday, 15 December 2003
9:00am – 9:20am	Registration
9:20am – 9:30am	Opening address
9:30am – 10:30am	Logic operators for active contours on multi-channel images Tony Chan, Dept. of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles
10:30am – 11:00am	--- Tea break ---
11:00am – 11:30nn	Weberized Mumford-Shah model with Bose-Einstein photon noise: Light adapted segmentation inspired by vision psychology, retinal physiology, and quantum statistics Jianhong (Jackie) Shen, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
11:30am – 12:00nn	Computational challenges in electron microscopy of macromolecules Esmond Ng, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
12:00nn – 1:30pm	--- Lunch break ---
1:30pm – 2:30pm	Content based image data retrieval and classification using nonnegative encoding Robert Plemmons, Dept. of Mathematics & Computer Science, Wake Forest University
2:30pm – 3:00pm	--- Tea break ---
3:00pm – 3:30pm	A Multigrid technique for restoring images with Dirichlet boundary conditions Stefano Serra Capizzano, Dept. of Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics, University of Insubria, Italy
3:30pm – 4:00pm	Fast summation at nonequispaced knots by NFFTs Daniel Potts, Institute of Mathematics, University of Lübeck
4:00pm – 4:15pm	--- Tea break ---
4:15pm – 4:45pm	Contributed talks (1) Impulse noise removal by median-type noise detector and edge-preserving regularization Chung-Wa Ho, Dept. of Mathematics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2) Domain decomposition methods for image processing Shiu-Hong Liu, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Manitoba, Canada

 

Tuesday, 16 December 2003
9:30am – 10:30am	Using geometry and iterated refinement for inverse problems: Total variation image restoration Stanley Osher Dept. of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles
10:30am – 11:00am	--- Tea break ---
11:00am – 11:30nn	LBIC imaging of semiconductor arrays Weifu Fang, Dept. of Mathematics, West Virginia University
11:30am – 12:00nn	Challenges and new solutions predicting Tsunami waves M. M. Lavrentiev Jr., Sobolev Institute for Mathematics SD RAS, Novosibirsk State University
12:00nn – 1:30pm	--- Lunch break ---
1:30pm – 2:30pm	Wavelet algorithms for high-resolution image reconstruction Raymond Chan, Dept. of Mathematics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2:30pm – 3:00pm	--- Tea break ---
3:00pm – 4:00pm	Unitary extension principle and applications Zuowei Shen, Dept. of Mathematics, National University of Singapore
4:00pm – 4:15pm	--- Tea break ---
4:15pm – 4:45pm	Contributed talks (1) Super-resolution image restoration from blurred low-resolution images Andy Chin Ko Yau, Dept. of Mathematics, The University of Hong Kong (2) Edge and ramp preserving noise removal based on nonlinear diffusion with Gauss curvature conductance Suk-Ho Lee, Dept. of Mathematics, Yonsei University

 

Wednesday, 17 December 2003
9:30am – 10:30am	Bayesian resolution enhancement of compressed video Aggelos Katsaggelos, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northwestern University
10:30am – 11:00am	--- Tea break ---
11:00am – 12:00nn	Fast fourth-order time-stepping for stiff PDE Nick Trefethen, Oxford University Computing Laboratory
12:00nn – 1:30pm	--- Lunch break ---
1:30pm – 2:30pm	Latest results in image superresolution Nirmal Bose, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University
2:30pm – 3:00pm	--- Tea break ---
3:00pm – 3:30pm	Periodic wavelet frames for processing band-limited signals Say Song Goh, Dept. of Mathematics, National University of Singapore
3:30pm – 4:00pm	A fast and adaptive surface reconstruction algorithm based on implicit B-spline surfaces Falai Chen, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Science and Technology of China
4:00pm – 4:15pm	--- Tea break ---
4:15pm – 4:45pm	Contributed talks (1) Wavelet adaptation for hybrid wavelet-large margin classifiers Julia Neumann, Dept. of Mathematics & Computer Science, University of Mannheim (2) The numerical algorithm for an inverse problem in optical mammography Jerry Yin-Tzer Shih, Dept. of Medical Imaging Technology, Chung Shan Medical University

 

Thursday, 18 December 2003
9:30am – 10:30am	High order discontinuous Galerkin finite element method for solving time dependent Hamilton-Jacobi equations Chi-Wang Shu, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University
10:30am – 11:00am	--- Tea break ---
11:00am – 11:30nn	Non smooth cost-functions in image and signal reconstruction Mila Nikolova, Centre de Mathematiques et de Leurs Applications CMLA
11:30am – 12:00nn	Relations between nonlinear denoising methods in signal and image processing Gabriele Steidl, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Mannheim
12:00nn – 1:30pm	--- Lunch break ---
1:30pm – 2:30pm	Content-dependent filter (CDF) design and analysis: CDF design and analysis based on the anisotropic diffusion model Charles Chui, Dept. of Mathematics, Stanford University and University of Missouri - St. Louis
2:30pm – 3:00pm	--- Tea break ---
3:00pm – 3:30pm	Content-dependent filter (CDF) design and analysis: Design of CDFs for image noise reduction Jianzhong Wang, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, Sam Houston State University
3:30pm – 4:00pm	Improved splitting-integrating methods for image geometric transformations Zi-Cai Li, Dept. of Applied Mathematics, National Sun Yat-sen University
4:00pm – 4:15pm	--- Tea break ---
4:15pm – 4:30pm	Contributed talks (1) Improving learning machines with optimization strategies J.M Górriz Sáez, E.P.S. Algeciras. University of C´adiz, avda. Ram´on Puyol s/n Algeciras, Spain

 

Friday, 19 December 2003
9:30am – 10:30am	Sparse grids and the analysis of high dimensional large scale data Markus Hegland, Mathematical Sciences Institute, Australian National University
10:30am – 11:00am	--- Tea break ---
11:00am – 11:30nn	A hierarchical Hough transform for fingerprint matching Tao Xia, Centre for Wavelets, Approximation and Information Processing, National University of Singapore
11:30am – 12:00nn	New idea of segmentation method by using Riemannian geometry Chun-li Shen, Dept. of Mathematics, East China Normal University
12:00nn – 1:30pm	--- Lunch break ---
1:30pm – 2:30pm	Recent progress in iteratively regularized image reconstruction Martin Hanke-Bourgeois, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Mainz
2:30pm – 3:00pm	--- Tea break ---
3:00pm – 3:30pm	Underwater acoustic signal classification Zhenyong Lin, Temasek Laboratories, National University of Singapore
3:30pm – 4:00pm	Preconditioning regularized least squares problems arising from high-resolution image reconstruction from low-resolution frames Furong Lin, Dept. of Mathematics, Shantou University
4:00pm – 4:30pm	A fast sweeping method with application in image processing Hongkai Zhao, Dept. of Mathematics, University of California
4:30pm – 5:00pm	A numerical method for maximum entropy deconvolution Jian-Guo Liu, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Maryland
5:00pm – 5:10pm	Closing Remarks

 

Contributed Talks

Abstracts for 15-minute contributed talks are welcomed and should be received by latest 14 November 2003. Please submit your abstracts to Say Song Goh at matgohss@nus.edu.sg. The author will be notified by email within a month of submission.

Please complete the registration form (MSWord|PDF|PS) and fax to (65) 6873 8292 or email to ims@nus.edu.sg at least one month before the conference. If you are an IMS member or are applying for IMS membership, you do not need to register for the attendance of the conference. Registration is free.

• General enquiries: Secretary (ims@nus.edu.sg)

• Enquires on scientific aspects: Say Song Goh (matgohss@nus.edu.sg)