Around the blogs in 80 summer hours

This week we featured a few implementation and a new hardware:

• Compressive Sensing with Local Geometric Features: Hardware and Implementation
• DORE j'ADORE: Sparse signal reconstruction via ECME hard thresholding - implementation -
• A Sub-Nyquist Radar Prototype: Hardware and Algorithms

A very nice review of results prior 2004 was featured in The Invention of Compressive Sensing and Recent Results. We also two CFPs: Workshop on Analysis Operator Learning vs. Dictionary Learning: Fraternal Twins in Sparse Modeling and Fifth IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP)

We wondered if A Compressive Sensing Capability for CheMin was onboard Curiosity ? (I have sent an email to the PI) and whether the microbiome should be of interest for the design of new sensors (Sparsity in Everything: The Gut Microbiome). Several authors mentioned to us their preprints or papers in the Nuit Blanche Mailbag:

• Sparsity Averaging for Compressive Imaging and Reweighted sparse deconvolution for high angular resolution diffusion MRI
• Improving Noise Robustness in Subspace-based Joint Sparse Recovery

We also found out that compressive sensing talks in seismic are worth it in No cookies for you at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and figured out a way to perform a Kinect Installation on a PC with Windows XP. Finally, I spent some time pulling out the statistics for this blog in Nuit Blanche by the Numbers

The other very interesting entries of the week were:

• Anna summarizes the Open problems from SPARC Workshop
• Danny tells us about Collaborative filtering with GraphChi
• Masaaki talks about Optimal Design of Delta-Sigma Modulators
• Andrew wants to share with us How [he] think about mixture models
• Larry tells us about P-values Gone Wild and Multiscale Madness 
• Dirk tells us about the reception at ISMP in Berlin  (with a twist in CS and Matrix Factorization)
• Rich tells us that the OpenStax College’s Free Textbooks Will Save Students $1M This Fall
• Hao' tells us how to Use IEEE Xplore to do a field study
• Andrej explores Khan Academy and Computer Science
• Randy features ''The Truth About Terahertz" (reposted from spectrum and this reminded me exactly the types of issues we have to deal with when we use neutrons to perform tomography: Here is a good introduction on the subject:

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
This image was taken by Navcam: Left A (NAV_LEFT_A) onboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 12 (2012-08-18 11:38:26 UTC) .
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