CS: Miki Elad's Course on Sparse and Redundant Representation Modeling of Images

Miki Elad gave a course as part of the Park City (Utah) Graduate Summer School, organized by the Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS), Princeton on July 12-16 2010. This course (5 lectures) brings the core ideas and achievements made in the field of sparse and redundant representation modeling, with emphasis on the impact of this field to image processing applications. The five lectures (given as PPTX and PDF) are organized as follows:

• Lecture 1: The core sparse approximation problem and pursuit algorithms that aim to approximate its solution.
• Lecture 2: The theory on the uniqueness of the sparsest solution of a linear system, the notion of stability for the noisy case, guarantees for the performance of pursuit algorithms using the mutual coherence and the RIP.
• Lecture 3: Signal (and image) models and their importance, the Sparseland model and its use, analysis versus synthesis modeling, a Bayesian estimation point of view.
• Lecture 4: First steps in image processing with the Sparseland model - image deblurring, image denoising, image separation, and image inpainting. Global versus local processing of images. Dictionary learnong with the MOD and the K-SVD.
• Lecture 5: Advanced image processing: Using dicitonary learning for image and video denoising and inpainting, image scale-up using a pair of learned dictionaries, Facial image compression with the K-SVD.

The five lectures can be downloaded here (51 MB large).