FALL 2008
Date	Title	Speaker
06/18/08	Primal Dual Pursuit	Salman Asif
06/27/08	Fundamentals of light field inference and rendering	William Mantzel
07/11/08	Analog architectures for solving optimization problems	Aditya Joshi
07/17/08	Random projections and online sensing	Justin Romberg
07/25/08	Random projections, Johnson-Lindenstrauss lemma and smooth manifold A simple proof of the restricted isometry property for random matrices by R. Baraniuk, M. Davenport, R. DeVore, and M. Wakin Random projections of smooth manifolds by R. Baraniuk and M. Wakin	Mark Davenport (Rice)
08/15/08	Color spaces and perceptual uniformity	Christopher Turnes
08/21/08	Image and video restoration	Jawahar Waknis (Mathematics)
09/05/08	Interior point methods My favorite book: Convex Optimization by Stephen Boyd & Lieven Vandenberghe Tutorial papers by Haitham Hindi: A Tutorial on Convex Optimization and A Tutorial on Convex Optimization II: Duality and Interior point methods	Salman Asif
09/12/08	Convergence analysis of interior point methods Convex Optimization by Stephen Boyd & Lieven Vandenberghe	Salman Asif
09/26/08	Capturing light field textures for video coding	William Mantzel
10/03/08	The non-uniform fast Fourier transform (supplement) Details of NFFT can be found on this webpage by Keiner Kunis Potts http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~potts/nfft/ (pdf)	Christopher Turnes
10/10/08	SAR imaging	Peter Tuuk
10/23/08	Streaming measurements in compressive sensing and L1 filtering	Salman Asif
10/31/08	Analog structures for solving optimization problems	Aditya Joshi
11/07/08	Direction of Arrival Estimation via Spatial Sparsity	Ali Cafer Gurbuz
11/14/08	Scale invariant feature transform (SIFT) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale-invariant_feature_transform	William Mantzel
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