Nuit Blanche In Review (October 2013)

Since the last Nuit Blanche In Review (September 2013), we had quite a few entries and the number of members in different groups increased in the Google+ Community (670), the CompressiveSensing subreddit (156), the LinkedIn Compressive Sensing group (2554) or the Advanced Matrix Factorization (769). The Paris based Machine Learning group has now 291 members and the attendant LinkedIn Paris Machine Learning group has 74 members.

This month, several implementations were made available by their respective authors:

• Direct deconvolution of radio synthesis images using L1 minimisation
• Implementation: EM-NN-AMP: Recovering Linearly-Constrained Non-Negative Sparse Signals
• Robust Sparse Signal Recovery for Compressed Sensing with Sampling and Representation Uncertainties
• 1-Bit Matrix Completion
• Sparse FFT implementation: FFAST, Fast Fourier Aliasing-based Sparse Transform
• An Empirical-Bayes Approach to Recovering Linearly Constrained Non-Negative Sparse Signals
• OrderedLASSO : Statistical Estimation and Testing via the Ordered L1 Norm

Focused entries:

• Simultaneous reconstruction of absorption and scattering using joint sparsity in diffuse optical tomography
• Task-based evaluation of segmentation algorithms for diffusion-weighted MRI without using a gold standard
• Application of compressed sensing to genome wide association studies and genomic selection
• Randomized Items: Uncompressing CS, Les Houches school on "Statistical physics, Optimization, Inference and Message-Passing algorithms", Upcoming workshop on "Statistical Issues in Compressive Sensing"
• Phase Retrieval: Covariance Estimation, Sparse Signals
• Infinity Continues to Matter: Generalized sampling: stable reconstructions, inverse problems and compressed sensing over the continuum
• Compressed Counting Meets Compressed Sensing
• Imaging strong localized scatterers with sparsity promoting optimization
• About t'em breakthroughs and a comment on a comment on "The Mathematical Shape of Things to Come"
• The Tale of Three Breakthroughs: Matrix Sketches, Face Recognition and an AMP based LASSO

Sunday Morning Insights:

• Sunday Morning Insight: Structured Sparsity and Structural DNA Folding Information
• Sunday Morning Insight: Watching P vs NP
• The Red Wedding in Science and Technology

Videos and slides of meetings

• Videos: Succinct Data Representations and Applications
• Slides: Second Edition of the International Workshop on Compressed Sensing applied to Radar (CoSeRa 2013)

Jobs

• CSJob: Postdoc, imaging techniques for earthquake science and geophysics, Harvard
• CSJob: Shell-MIT Postdoctoral Researcher
• Two postdocs: UC Davis Math, EPFL

Saturday Morning Videos

• Saturday Morning Videos: This is why we fly; a phase separator in different gravity levels; concurrent vertical two phase flow
• Saturday Morning Videos: Space, Gravity, an old Geiger counter and how kilowatt-hour meters work
• Saturday Morning Video: The mathematics of weight loss

Startups

• Startup News: GraphLab, InView Corp., Centice

Meetups

• Summary: Paris Machine Learning #4, Fake and Real Bayesian Worlds
• Tonight / Ce Soir: Fourth Paris Machine Learning Meetup: Fake and Real Bayesian Worlds
• Paris Machine Learning LinkedIn group and Meetup #4

Around the blogs

• Around the Blogs in 78 Summer Hours: Phase transitions, infinite CS and earliest version of phase transitions ?

CfP

• CfP: ITWIST'14: "international - Traveling Workshop on Interactions between Sparse models and Technology"
• WCSCM Special Session: “Advances in data acquisition and processing techniques for health monitoring of civil infrastructure"

Other

• Ceci n'est toujours pas le blog de Nuit Blanche

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech 

This image was taken by Front Hazcam: Right B (FHAZ_RIGHT_B) onboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 439 (2013-10-31 06:46:58 UTC). 

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