2010 Workshop on Information Theoretic Methods in Science and Engineering
August 16 - 18, 2010 | Tampere, Finland
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Monday, August 16th; Room “Luentosali 1” Sähkötalo building |
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10:00-10:30 |
Registration and Coffee |
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10:30 – 12:00 |
Oral session: Information Theoretic Methods Chair: Ioan Tabus |
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10:30 – 11:00 |
Maximum mutual information Jorma Rissanen (Tampere University of Technology) |
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11:00 – 11:30 |
Extensions and probabilistic analysis of dynamic model selection Kenji Yamanishi and Ei-ichi Sakurai (University of Tokyo) |
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11:30 – 12:00 |
Flemming Topsøe (University of Copenhagen) |
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12:00 – 13:30 |
Lunch at Restaurant Zip, Tietotalo building |
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13:30 – 14:30 |
Plenary session: Vincent Poor Chair: Visa Koivunen Information and inference in the wireless physical layer Vincent Poor (Princeton University) |
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14:30 – 15:00 |
Coffee Break |
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15:00 – 17:00 |
Oral session: Information Theoretic Methods Chair: Kenji Yamanishi |
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15:00 – 15:30 |
On the consistency of sequentially normalized least squares Daniel Schmidt (University of Melbourne) and Teemu Roos (University of Helsinki) |
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15:30 – 16:00 |
Thresholding schemes for cepstral analysis Ciprian Doru Giurcaneanu and Seyed Alireza Razavi (Tampere University of Technology) |
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16:00 – 16:30 |
An alternative view of variational Bayes and minimum variational stochastic complexity Kazuho Watanabe (Nara Institute of Science and Technology) |
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16:30 – 17:00 |
A minimum description length method of medium-scale simultaneous inference David Bickel (University of Ottawa) |
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17:00 |
Dinner at the Main Building 6th Floor |
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Tuesday, August 17th; Room “Luentosali 1” Sähkötalo building |
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9:00 – 10:00 |
Oral session: Information Theoretic Methods in Engineering Chair: Marcelo Weinberger |
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9:00 – 9:30
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Quantization of discrete probability distributions Yuriy Reznik (Qualcomm, US) |
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9:30 – 10:00
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Image reconstruction and the existence of true models Joseph A. O'Sullivan (Washington University, St. Louis) |
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10:00 – 10:30 |
Coffee break |
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10:30 – 12:00 |
Oral session: Information Theoretic Methods in Engineering Chair: Marcelo Weinberger |
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10:30 – 11:00
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Using information theory to study the efficiency and capacity of computers and similar devices Boris Ryabko (Siberian State University of Telecommunications and Informatics) |
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11:00 – 11:30 |
Tjalling Tjalkens (Eindhoven University of Technology) |
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11:30 – 12:00 |
Information theory inspired video coding methods: truth is sometimes better than fiction Nitin Khanna, Fengqing Zhu, Marc Bosch, Meilin Yang, Mary Comer and Edward J. Delp (Purdue University) |
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12:00 – 14:00 |
Lunch at Restaurant Zip, Tietotalo building |
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14:00 – 15:00 |
Plenary session: Alon Orlitsky Chair: Teemu Roos String reconstruction from substring compositions Alon Orlitsky (UC San Diego) |
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15:00 – 15:30 |
Coffee break |
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15:30 – 18:00 |
Oral session: Information Theoretic Methods in Engineering Chair: Alon Orlitsky |
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15:30-16:00 |
Maximizing entropy of image models for 2-D constrained coding S. Forchhammer, M. Danieli, N. Burini, M. Zamarin, and A. Ukhanova (Technical University of Denmark) |
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16:00-16:30 |
Cooperative sensing policies for identification and exploitation of underutilized radio spectrum Visa Koivunen (Aalto University) |
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16:30-17:00 |
Error-correcting decision diagrams Helena Astola, Stanislav Stankovic, Jaakko T. Astola (Tampere University of Technology) |
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17:00-17:30 |
Image deblurring by augmented Lagrangian with BM3D frame prior Aram Danielyan, Vladimir Katkovnik and Karen Egiazarian (Tampere University of Technology) |
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17:30-18:00 |
Have I seen you before? Principles of Bayesian predictive classification revisited Jukka Corander (University of Helsinki and Åbo Akademi University) , Yaqiong Cui (University of Helsinki), Timo Koski (Royal Institute of Technology), and Jukka Sirén (University of Helsinki) |
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18:00 |
Dinner at Restaurant Zip, Tietotalo building |
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Wednesday, August 18th; Room “Luentosali 1” Sähkötalo building |
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9:00 – 10:00 |
Plenary session: Marcelo Weinberger Chair: Jorma Rissanen Tree models revisited Marcelo Weinberger (Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, US) |
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10:00 – 10:30 |
Coffee break |
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10:30 – 12:10 |
Special session: Information Theoretic Methods in Statistics Chair: Erkki Liski |
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10:30 – 10:50 |
On maximal likelihood estimators of the shape parameter when the scale parameter is nuisance Alexander Zaigrajew (University of Torun, Poland) |
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10:50 – 11:10 |
Antti Liski (Tampere University of Technology), Erkki P. Liski (University of Tampere), Reijo Sund and Merja Juntunen (National Institute for Health and Welfare) |
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11:10 – 11:30 |
Analyzing microarray data via random forest Daniel Fischer (University of Tampere and TU Dortmund) |
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11:30 – 11:50 |
Minimum description length based hidden Markov model clustering for life sequence analysis Jouni Helske(Tampere University of Technology), Mervi Eerola (University of Jyväskylä), Ioan Tabus (Tampere University of Technology) |
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11:50 – 12:10 |
Stochastic prediction optimality Sami Helle (University of Tampere) |
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12:10 – 13:30 |
Lunch at Restaurant Zip, Tietotalo building |
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13:30 – 15:10 |
Oral session: Information Theoretic Methods in Engineering Chair: Petri Myllymäki |
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13:30 – 13:50 |
Evaluation of marine windspeed derived from SAR imagery based on buoy observations Alexander Komarov, Vladimir Zabeline, Mikhail Malioutov, and Christopher Boulay (Northeastern University) |
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13:50 – 14:10 |
Hidden Markov models for induction of morphological structure of natural language Hannes Wettig, Suvi Hiltunen, Roman Yangarber (University of Helsinki) |
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14:10 – 14:30 |
Artem Migukin, Vladimir Katkovnik, and Jaakko Astola (Tampere University of Technology) |
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14:30 – 14:50 |
Code lengths for model classes with continuous uniform distributions Panu Luosto (University of Helsinki) |
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14:50 – 15:10 |
Secrecy rate region in the interference channel with common information Hamid G. Bafghi (Shahed University, Tehran), Somayeh Salimi (Sharif University of Technology, Tehran), Babak Seyfe (Shahed University, Tehran), and Mohammad R. Aref (Sharif University of Technology, Tehran) |
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15:20 – 21:30 |
Free discussions, sauna, and dinner at Restaurant Maisa by Näsijärvi lake |
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15:20 |
Bus leaves from the parking lot in front of Tietotalo building, Entrance 1 |
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15:50 – 18:30 |
Free discussions and sauna |
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18:30 – 21:00 |
Dinner |
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21:00 – 21:30 |
Bus transportation to Tampere |
Last updated: Tuesday, August 24, 2010