Nuit Blanche in Review (December 2012 edition)

Since the last Nuit Blanche in Review, we had a few implementations made available (several in Python, is this a trend ?)

• A hand-waving introduction to sparsity for compressed tomography reconstruction - python,
• Scattering Representations for Recognition
• 24AM: 24 efficient parallel SPCA implementations
• Estimating Natural Illumination from a Single Outdoor Image
• Robust image reconstruction from multi-view measurements
• #Python implementation of BSBL code family
• #Python NMF/NTF with beta divergence
• Robustness Analysis of HottTopixx, a Linear Programming Model for Factoring Nonnegative Matrices
• Hott Topixx: Factoring nonnegative matrices with linear programs
• Scaled gradients on grassmann manifolds for matrix Completion
• PDRank: Penalty Decomposition Methods for Rank Minimization (and more)
• NuMax: A Convex Approach for Learning Near-Isometric Linear Embeddings
• Blind Deconvolution using Convex Programming
• Random Projections for Support Vector Machines

We also had a Q&A: 

• A Q&A with Ben Adcock and Anders Hansen: Infinite Dimensional Compressive Sensing, Generalized Sampling, Wavelet Crimes, Safe Zones and the Incoherence Barrier.
• Additional insights on the Q&A with Ben Adcock and Anders Hansen

several questions:

• The Genetics of Parkinson's Disease: A question and a meta-question
• Randomized Bits: Education a Low Rank Problem ?, The JASON Report on Compressive Sensing and more.
• Multiple regularizers, Robust NMF and a simple question

several themes:

• Ghost and Entanglement Imaging
• Visualization of Astronomical Nebulae via Distributed Multi-GPU Compressed Sensing Tomography
• Highly Technical Reference Pages
• Plenoptic Function Sensing Hacks
• Reconstruction of Integers from Pairwise Distances
• M-MUX / FM-MUX : Compressive Multiplexers for Correlated Signals
• These Technologies Do Not Exist: Closed-Loop Inertial Confinement Fusion
• Quantized Embeddings of Scale-Invariant Image Features for Mobile Augmented Reality and Parameter estimation methods based on binary observations - Application to Micro -Electromechanical Systems (MEMS)

some items from conferences:

• MMDS2012 Videos are out ! Workshop on Algorithms for Modern Massive Data Sets
• #NIPS2012 Workshop presentations

a list of noteworthy papers and blogs in:

• Compressive Sensing and Matrix Factorization This Month
• Around the blogs in 80 summer hours (NIPS and more)
• Around the blogs in 80 summer hours

Two Sunday Morning Insights:

• Sunday Morning Insight: The extreme paucity of tools for blind deconvolution of biochemical networks
• Sunday Morning Insight: Can L1 help Inpainting ?

some jobs announcement:

• CSJobs: Research Scientist Job Openings and Student Internships on Sparsity and Compressed Sensing.
• Postdoc opening on developing advanced sparse machine learning and bioinformatics strategies

and finally the miscellaneous stuff:

• The Nuit Blanche Chronicles 2012
• The Nuit Blanche Effect, three years later.
• Don't tell my mom I blog, she thinks I'm a used car salesman
• New +Google changes
• Google+ and Reddit Experiments

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