Communications and Signal Processing Lab (CSPL) Seminars (2000 - 2012)

2012 SEMINARS




• Tuesday, October 9, 2012
  Active Sequential Hypothesis Testing 
  Tara J avidi
  University of California - San Diego, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

• Tuesday, September 25, 2012
  Recent Advances in Multiple Target Tracking 
  Shawn Herman, Ph.D.
  Numerica Corporation 

• Friday, May 25, 2012
  Sparse image representation in nonlocal transform domain
  Alessandro Foi
  Affiliation: Tampere University of Technology, Finland
  
  

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2010 SEMINARS




• New Approaches to Automatic Speaker Recognition and Forensic Considerations
  Joseph P. Campbell
  MIT Lincoln Labs, Informations Systems Technology Group
  

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2009 SEMINARS




• Thursday, February 5, 2009
  4:00-5:00 pm
  Room EECS 1500
  Near-Optimal Bayesian Localizaion via Incoherence and Sparsity Martin Strauss University of Michigan
  

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• Thursday, March 12, 2009
  4:00-5:00 pm
  Room EECS 1500
  Communicating Delay-Sensitive and Bursty Information Over an outage Channel Tara Javidi
  Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego
  
  

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• Friday, March 13, 2009
  4:30-5:30 pm
  Room EECS 1200
  Multimodal Signal Analysis for Audio-Visual Speech Recognition Jean-Philippe Thiran
  Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Signal Processing Lab (LTS5), Lausanne, Switzerland

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• Thursday, March 26, 2009
  4:00-5:00 pm
  Room EECS 1500
  Data Fusion Improves the Coverage of Sensor Networks Guoliang Xing
  Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Signal Processing Lab (LTS5), Lausanne, Switzerland


• Tuesday, April 14, 2009
  4:00-5:00 pm
  Room EECS 1005
  Sparse matrics, sparse signals, and sparse algorithms Anna Gilbert
  University of Michigan Mathematics Department

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• Thursday, April 16, 2009
  4:00-5:00 pm
  Room EECS 1500
  Mapping Channel Coding over Networks for Reliable and Stable Communications Hayder Radha
  Michigan State University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  

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• Tuesday, June 23, 2009
  4:00-5:00 pm
  Room EECS 1005
  How to visualize multiterminal source coding Soumya Jana
  University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign Electrical Engineering

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• Thursday, June 25, 2009
  4:00-5:00 pm
  Room EECS 1005
  New Achievable Rates for the Multiple Access Channel with Feedback Ramji Venkataramanan
  Stanford University Information Systems Lab

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• Tuesday, July 7, 2009
  4:00-5:00 pm
  Room EECS 1005
  Non-Ideal Sampling and Regularized Interpolation of Noisy Data Sathish Ramani
  Stanford University Information Systems Lab

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• Monday, July 27, 2009
  10:30-11:30 am
  Room EECS 1005
  Constructing and Solving Variational Image Registration Problems Nathan Cahill
  University of Oxford Institute for Biomedical Engineering

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• Wednesday, August 26, 2009
  3:00-4:00 pm
  Room EECS 1200
  On the critical Transmission Range in One-Dimensional Sensor Networks Under Non-Uniform Node Placement Professor Armand M. Makowski
  Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Institute for Systems Research University of Maryland, College Park, MD

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• Thursday, September 17, 2009
  11:00 am-12:00 noon
  Room EECS 1005
  Locally Adaptive Kernal Regression: A Non-parametric Framework for Visual Signal Processing and Recognition Professor Peyman Milanfar
  Dept. of Electrical Engineering University of California at Santa Cruz
  
  

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• Wednesday, October 7, 2009
  4:00 pm-5:00 pm
  Room Dow 1010
  Graphical Reasoning for Decentralized Systems Aditya Mahajan
  Post-Doc, Yale University

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• Thursday, October 8, 2009
  2:00 pm-3:00 pm
  Room EECS 1005
  Active Learning and Selective Sensing Rob Nowak
  Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Wisconsin-Madison

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• Thursday, October 8, 2009
  4:00 pm-5:00 pm
  Room EECS 1200
  Opaque Lenses: Using Disorder to Bring Laser Light to a Focus Allard Mosk
  MESA+ Institute & Department of Science and Technology, Universiteit Twente, The Netherlands.

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• Monday, October 19, 2009
  1:30 pm-2:30 pm
  Room EECS 1003
  Beyond MP3 - Multichannel Audio Home Theatres vs. Cinema James D. Johnston
  Chief Scientist, DTS, Inc.
  
  

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  2008 SEMINARS

  
  
  
• Friday, February 1, 2008
  11:00 am - Noon
  Room Dow 1018
  
  Codeword Stabilized Quantium Codes
  
  Bei Zeng
  
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  
  

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• Tuesday, February 19, 2008
  4:00 pm -5:00 pm
  Room EECS 1005
  
  Toward a Graph-Based Discrete Information Interface for Network Communication
  
  S. Sandeep Pradhan
  
  University of Michigan, EECS Dept.
  
  

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• Wednesday, February 20, 2008
  4:00 pm -5:00 pm
  Room EECS 1003
  
  Routing and transport challenges in multi-hop wirless networks
  
  Konstantinos Psounis
  
  University of Southern California
  
  

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• Friday, March 21, 2008
  10:50 am - 12:00 noon
  Room Dow 1107
  
  Zero-Error Classical Capacity of Noisy Quantum Channels
  
  Runyao Duan
  
  Tsinghua University

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• Friday, May 2, 2008
  11:00 am - Noon
  Room EECS 1500
  
  Multichannel Methods for Restoration in Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging
  
  Robert Lee Morrison, Jr., Ph.D.
  
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  
  

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• Monday, June 9, 2008
  4:00 pm - 5 pm
  Room EECS 1005
  
  Multichannel Methods for Restoration in Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging
  
  Thrasos Pappas
  
  Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
  
  

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• Monday, June 16, 2008
  4:00 pm - 5 pm
  Room EECS 1005
  
  Machine Learning for Intelligent Identification of Information
  
  B.H. Juang
  
  Georgia Institute of Technology
  
  

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• Tuesday, September 9, 2008
  4:00-5:00 pm
  Room EECS 1005
  
  Lossless Source Coding using Cosets
  
  Manzur Murshed
  
  Monash University, Austrailia
  
  

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• Monday, September 22, 2008
  11:00 am - Noon
  Room EECS 1005
  
  Inter-Cell Interference Statistics in OFDMA Cellular Networks: The Truth
  
  Prof. Kyungwhoon Cheun
  
  Pohang University of Science and Technology
  
  

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• Monday, September 22, 2008
  4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
  Room EECS 1005
  
  Qualcomm R&D & Heterogeneous Networks : Growing Capacity via Topology
  
  Dr. Tingfang Ji
  
  QualComm

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• Thursday, October 2, 2008
  3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
  Room EECS 1005
  
  Motion Compensated Image Reconstruction
  
  Prof. Jeffrey Fessler
  
  EECS University of Michigan

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• Thursday, October 9, 2008
  3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
  Room EECS 1005
  
  Congestion Games and Their Application to Spectrum Sharing
  
  Prof. Mingyan Liu
  
  EECS University of Michigan

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• Thursday, October 16, 2008
  3:30-4:30 pm
  Room EECS 1005
  
  Interference-Aware Power Control for Cognitive Radio Networks
  Siamak Sorooshyari
  
  Bell Labs -- Alcatel-Lucent
  
  

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• Thursday, October 23, 2008
  3:30-4:30 pm
  Room EECS 1005
  Optimal Non-Parametric Detection of the Number of Signals
  
  Boaz Nadler
  
  Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
  

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• Thursday, November 6, 2008
  3:30-4:30 pm
  Room EECS 1005
  Is Dense Sampling Good for Lossy Data Compression?
  
  Dave Neuhoff
  
  University of Michigan EECS Professor and Associate Chair
  

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• Tuesday, November 11, 2008
  3:30-4:30 pm
  Room EECS 1311
  Identification of place/transition nets
  
  
  

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• Thursday, November 13, 2008
  3:30-4:30 pm
  Room EECS 1005
  Semi-supervised novelty detection Clayton Scott
  
  University of Michigan, Professor, EECS

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  2007 SEMINARS

  
  
  

• Monday, September 17, 2007
  2:00 - 3:00 PM
  Room 1690 CSE
  
  MIMO Wireless Communication
  
  Dr. Daniel W. Bliss
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory
  
• Thursday, October 11, 2007
  4:00 - 5:00 PM
  Room 1303 EECS
  
  Canonical Representation of Achievable Region in Multiterminal Source Coding
  
  Dr. Soumya Jana
  
  University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  
• Wednesday, October 24, 2007
  4:00 - 5:00 PM
  Room 1200 EECS
  
  A Framework for Heterogeneous Quality-of-Service Guarantees in Wireless Networks: A Communication-Theoretic Approach
  
  Prof. Achilleas Anastasopoulos
  
  University of Michigan
  
  

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• Wednesday, November 7, 2007
  3:30 - 4:30 PM
  Room 2315 GG Brown
  
  Feedback Control and Information
  
  Professor Richard H. Middleton
  
  Hamilton Institute National University of Ireland Maynooth Co. Kildare, Ireland
  
  

• Thursday, November 8, 2007
  4:00 - 5:00 PM
  Room 1005 Dow
  
  Statistical Learning Under Communication Constraints
  
  Prof. Maxim Raginsky
  
  Duke University
  
  

• Thursday, November 15, 2007
  4:00 - 5:00 PM
  Room 1005 Dow
  
  Loopy Belief Propagation
  
  Prof. Sujay Sanghavi
  
  Duke University
  
  

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• Monday, December 1, 2007
  4:00 - 5:00 PM
  Room 1013 Dow
  
  Model Based Reconstruction of Spectroscopic Imaging Data
  
  Dr. Mathews Jacob
  
  Duke University
  
  

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  2006 SEMINARS

• October 6, 2006
  "Network Information Theory and Computational Neuroscience"
  Prof. Todd Coleman
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  April 21, 2006
  "Discreet Signaling: From the Chinese Emperors to the Internet"
  abstract
  Prof. Pierre Moulin
  Beckman Institute and the Coordinated Science Laboratory
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  
  March 31, 2006
  "Lessons on stability of rate control mechanisms in the presence of feedback delays"
  abstract
  Prof. Richard La
  Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
  University of Maryland, College Park
  
  
  
  

  2005 SEMINARS

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  "Distributed and Layered Codes for Relaying"
  abstract
  Dr. Gerhard Kramer
  Bell Laboratories
  Lucent Technologies
  
  December 1, 2005
  
  

  "Thermoacoustic Tomography - Reconstruction of Data Measured under Clinical Constraints"
  abstract
  Prof. Sarah Patch
  Department of Physics
  University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
  
  November 21, 2005
  
  

  "Computing Sparse Solutions to Linear Inverse Problems"
  abstract
  Prof. Bhaskar Rao
  Electrical and Computer Engineering
  University of California, San Diego
  
  August 12, 2005
  
  

  "Quantization of Multiple Sources Using Nonnegative Integer Bit Allocation"
  abstract
  Dr. Benjamin Farber
  Fair Isaac Corp.
  San Diego, CA
  
  July 13, 2005
  
  

  "Control, delay, and the nature of information"
  abstract
  Prof. Anant Sahai
  Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  University of California, Berkeley
  
  May 13, 2005
  
  

  "Spectrum Sharing Games"
  abstract
  Prof. Randy Berry
  Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  Northwestern University
  
  April 22, 2005
  
  

  "Robust MSE Estimation: New Methods for Old Problems"
  abstract
  Dr. Yonina Eldar
  Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
  Haifa, ISRAEL
  
  March 14, 2005
  
  

  "Recent Results in Non-asymptotic Shannon Theory"
  abstract
  Dr. Dror Baron
  Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  Rice University
  
  February 3, 2005
  
  

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  2004 SEMINARS

  "Cross-layer design of wireless ad-hoc networks"
  abstract
  Prof. Andrea Goldsmith
  Departmentof Electrical Engineering
  Stanford University
  
  October 8, 2004
  

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  "Parametric Estimation of Multi-Dimensional Homeomorphis Transformations: Solving a Group Theory Problem as a Linear Problem"
  abstract
  Prof. Joseph M. Francos
  Electrical and Computer Engineering
  Ben-Gurion University, Israel
  
  September 24, 2004
  

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  "A new source-splitting approach to Slepian-Wolf problem"
  abstract
  Dr. Todd Coleman
  Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  
  July 8, 2004
  

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  "Simulation-based learning for partially observable Markov decision processes and games"
  abstract
  Dr. Rahul Jain
  Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  University of California, Berkeley
  
  July 6, 2004
  

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  "Efficient Variable Length Channel Coding for Unknown Discrete Memoryless Channels"
  Abstract
  Prof. Stark Draper
  Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  University of Toronto
  
  April 19, 2004

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  "Algorithms and Rate-Distortion bounds in Data Compression for Multi-User Communications
  Abstract
  Dr. Michelle Effors
  Department of Electrical Engineering
  California Institute of Technology
  
  March 12, 2004

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  2003 SEMINARS

  "Partially Channel Optimized Quantization"
  abstract
  Dr. Benjamin Farber
  Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
  University of California - San Diego
  
  November 25, 2003

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  "Adaptive Space-Time Codes for high Speed Wireless Communication Systems"
  Abstract
  Prof. Branka Vucetic
  School of Electrical Engineering
  University of Sydney, Australia
  
  February 17, 3003

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  2002 SEMINARS

  
  

  "Resolution and noise characterisation of iterative reconstruction algorithms for PET that are regularised with inter-filtering"
  Abstract
  Dr. Kris Thielmans
  Imaging Research Solutions, Ltd.
  Hammersmith, UK
  
  November 19, 2002

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  "Suprathreshold Visual Psychophysics and Applications to Image Compression"
  Abstract
  Prof. Sheila Hemami
  Electrical Engineering
  Cornell University
  
  October 25, 2002

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  "Statistical signal modeling and estimation using multiple wavelet bases and the maximum entropy principle"
  Abstract
  Dr. Prakash Ishwar
  Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  
  March 13, 2002

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  "Electromagnetic Wavelets as Extended Hertz Dipoles"
  Abstract
  Dr. Gerald Kaiser
  The Virginia Center for Signals and Waves
  
  April 22, 2002

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  2000 SEMINARS

  
  

  "Ad-hoc Networks for Multi-vehicle Systems"
  Abstract
  Raja Sengupta
  Research Scientist
  California PATH Program
  University of California Berkeley
  
  October 16, 2000

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  "Information-Theoretic Analysis of Neural Recordings"
  Abstract
  Professor Don H. Johnson
  Electrical & Computer Engineering
  Rice University
  
  May 9, 2000

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  "Cut-off Rate and Signal Design for the Rayleigh Fading Space-Time Channel"
  Abstract
  Professor Alfred O. Hero
  Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  University of Michigan
  
  April 20, 2000

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  "Towards a scientific theory of information"
  Abstract
  Dr. Mark R. Titchener
  Centre for Image Technology and Robotics
  Department of Computer Science
  The University of Auckland, New Zealand
  
  April 13, 2000

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  "Adaptive Communication under Measurement Uncertainty"
  Abstract
  Professor Dennis L. Goeckel
  Electrical and Computer Science Department
  University of Massachusetts - Amherst
  
  March 2, 2000