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Overview
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Conference dinner
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SuSTaIn image processing
workshop
"High-dimensional Stochastic
Simulation and Optimisation in Image Processing"
27-29 August 2014, Bristol, UK
Pictures of the Workshop
Overview
The scope of this research workshop is stochastic simulation and
optimisation in image processing (IP), with a particular focus on
ill-posed inverse problems that are high-dimensional, have unknown
parameters or involve intractable statistical models.
With the recent development of fast and affordable imaging devices,
digital images have become
fundamental sources of information in science and industry. This has
generated an abundance of challenging IP problems as well as the
need for more complex image models and new
methodologies to use them.
Most modern IP methods rely strongly on statistical theory to solve IP
problems, i.e., they use statistical models to describe the image
observation
process and obtain solutions by
performing statistical inference (e.g., computing maximum likelihood or
Bayesian estimates). This is mainly achieved by using optimisation
techniques related to variational and convex minimisation, and
simulation methods such as Markov chain Monte Carlo and Sequential
Monte Carlo.
This workshop will bring together world experts on statistical IP,
computational statistics and optimisation to discuss the
theoretical and methodological challenges facing future statistical IP.
The aim is to promote transfer of ideas and methodologies and to
identify opportunities for synergy between these important areas, in
particular through the integration of stochastic simulation and modern
optimisation techniques.
This workshop is organised by Marcelo Pereyra.
Invited speakers
- Prof. Christophe Andrieu, University of Bristol (website
 )
- Prof. Jose Bioucas-Dias, Technical University of Lisbon (website )
- Prof. Peter Green, University of Bristol - UT Sydney (website )
- Prof. Mario Figueiredo, Technical University of Lisbon (website )
- Prof. Florence Forbes, INRIA Alpes (website )
- Prof. Steve McLaughlin, Heriot Watt University (website
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- Prof. Rafael Molina, University of Granada (website )
- Prof. Jean-Christophe Pesquet, University of Paris-Est (website )
- Prof. Christian Robert, University of Paris-Dauphine (website )
- Prof. Jean-Yves Tourneret, University of Toulouse (website )
Programme
The conference
programme will include invited plenary talks, contributed
research talks and poster presentations. The scope of the workshop
includes basic theory and methods and algorithms, and applications in
the
following areas:
- Theory, methods and
algorithms
- Stochastic simulation for high-dimensional and IP
statistical models.
- Recent advances in convex optimisation methods for
IP.
- Variational methods for statistical inference in IP.
- Computational methods for intractable models (e.g.,
pseudo-marginal MCMC, likelihood-free methods, stochastic gradient MCMC,
etc.).
- General IP methodology for high-dimensional inverse
problems with
uknown parameters (e.g., blind, semi-blind, unsupervised
problems).
- Modelling and methodology for remote sensing
applications
- Modelling and methodology for medical and biological
applications
Download the Conference
programme.
Contributed talks and poster
presentations
The call for contributed talks and poster presentation is now
closed.
Registration
The workshop is funded by SuSTaIn and therefore there is no
registration fee. However, numbers are limited so those interested in
attending are asked to register in advance.
If you would like to attend the workshop please register using this
form.
Venue
The workshop is set in the beautiful Goldney Hall Orangery
(map) complete
with historic
gardens and follies . Free wifi is available to all
participants.
Goldney Hall Orangery is serviced by the local
8/9 buses with bus stops at Victoria Square and Regent Street.
PLEASE NOTE: The Orangery is located to the side of Goldney
Hall on Constitution Hill, and can be entered through a smaller black
door as shown here.
University of Bristol
Goldney Hall
Lower Clifton Hill
Bristol
England
BS8 1BH
  
Conference dinner
The conference dinner will be held on the evening of Thursday August
28 at
the Riverstation,"the
best harbourside location in the city!". The conference dinner fee is
£40.
Pedestrian directions on how to get to Riverstation (BS1 4RB) from
Goldney Hall (BS8 1BH) can be found here.
From other locations, please refer to the map of the restaurant
on how to get there.
Travel
Directions
to Bristol and the University
If you are flying to the UK, you may want to look at the possibility of
flying into Bristol airport, which has direct flights from many European
cities, including
Amsterdam, Geneva, Grenoble, Lisbon, Madrid, Malaga, Paris, Toulouse,
which are useful hubs for connections with long-haul flights. Among
London airports, Heathrow is the most convenient for transfer to
Bristol (you can get from there to Bristol most conveniently by direct
National Express bus, or by train). Other possibilities include
Birmingham and Cardiff, which have
train connections to Bristol. Bristol Temple Meads is the most
convenient train station for the University area.
Accommodation
Mid-range accommodation
Budget accommodation
Contact the organiser
This workshop is organised by Marcelo Pereyra
Email: marcelo.pereyra@bristol.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)117 928-9146
Website: http://www.maths.bris.ac.uk/~mp12320/
Department of Mathematics
University of Bristol
University Walk, Clifton
Bristol BS8 1TW, U.K.
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