iPAL - Information Processing and Algorithms Laboratory, Penn State

Spring 2018 Schedule for iPAL group meetings:
Meetings are from 1:30PM to 3:30PM in 302 EE East.

Date	Presenter	Topic
01/12	Tiep, John, Xuelu, Venkat, Tiantong	Recent advances in deep learning
01/19	Coffee	Welcome to Spring 2018
02/02	Tiep, John; Tofighi	Data imbalance issue in classification problems; Cell detection using SP-CNN
02/09	Khaled	Research updates
02/16	Tofighi	Cell detection using SP-CNN
02/23	Tiantong	WvCNN for SR
03/02	Yuelong	Research updates
03/16
03/23
03/30
04/06
04/13
04/20
04/17
05/04

Fall 2017 Schedule for iPAL group meetings:
Meetings are from 2:30PM to 4:00PM in 101 EE East or 127 EE East .

Date	Presenter	Topic
08/21	Xuelu	Research update
08/25	Tiantong	Research update
09/01	Venkat	1:00PM, Research update
09/08	Hojjat	Research update
09/14(15)	Prof. Birsen Yazici	Visitor from RPI
09/22	Xuelu	Research update
09/29	Tofighi	Cell counting for colon cancer detection
10/06	Tiep	Quantization methods for Approximate Nearest Neighbors
10/12	Khaled	Research updates
10/20	Tofighi	Cell counting for colon cancer detection, 12:00-13:00
10/27	Tiantong	ORDSR and denoising
11/10	Coffee Break
11/17	John	Research updates
11/24		Happy Thanksgiving!

Summer 2017 Schedule for iPAL group meetings:
Meetings are from 2:30PM to 4:00PM in 101 EE East or 127 EE East .

Date	Presenter	Topic
05/19	Yuelong	Blind image deconvolution
05/26	John	SAR image classification
06/02	Tiantong	Learning based super resolution with transform domain information
06/16	Venkat	MRI image super resolution
07/07	Hojjat	Learning based image super resolution with prior
07/14	Tiantong, Tiep	CVPR poster practice, ideas for future researchideas for future research
07/21	John	Comprehensive exam practice
07/28	John	Comprehensive exam
08/11	Hojjat	Ph.D. defense practice
08/16	Hojjat	Ph.D. defense @ 2:30PM EEE 101

Spring 2017 Schedule for iPAL group meetings:
Meetings are from 2:00PM to 3:30PM in 101 EE East or 127 EE East .

Date	Presenter	Topic
01/13		Group Coffee
01/20	Omar
01/27		No group meeting
02/03	Xuelu
02/10	Yuelong
02/17
02/24	Hojjat, Tiep, Tiantong
03/03	Omar
3/3	Hojjat	Practice for ICASSP
03/17	Tiep	Tensor sparsity for classifying low-frequency ultra-wideband
03/24	Venkat
03/31
04/07	Tiantong
04/14	Visitor
04/21	Tofighi	Structure Sparsity Representations for Blind Deconvolution
04/28	Xuelu
05/05	Omar, Tiep	Practice for Radar Conference

Fall 2016 Schedule for iPAL group meetings:
Meetings are from 2:00PM to 3:30PM in 117 EE West or 127 EE East .

Date	Presenter	Topic
08/26	Tiep, Hojjat	Internship Experience Sharing
09/01	Yuelong, Hojjat	Visitor: Dr. Xin Li, 2-3:30PM, 107 EEW
09/09	Yuelong, Hojjat	Visitor: Dr. Trussel, 2:00 PM, 127 EEE
09/16	Bosung, Hojjat	Visitor: Dr Charles Bouman
09/23	Tiep, Hojjat, Yuelong	ICIP practice
09/30	No group meeting
10/07	Tiep, Hojjat	ICIP report
10/14	Omar	Beampattern design under Constant Moudulus and Spectral Interference constraints
10/21	Tofighi, Yuelong	Blind Deconvolution via Rank Minimization
10/28	Hojjat	Deep Learning-based Super-resolution
11/04	Bosung	Asilomar practice
11/11	Venkat
11/18	Xuelu
12/02	Yuelong	Comprehensive Exam practice

Spring 2016 Schedule for iPAL group meetings:
Meetings are from 3:30PM to 5:00PM in 101 or 127 EE East .

Date	Presenter	Topic
01/15		Group Coffee
01/22	Yuelong	SIASM: Sparsity-based Image Alignment and Stitcing for Creating Image Mosaics
01/29	Tiep	Research update: Low-rank shared dictionary learning for object classification
02/05	Venkateswararao
02/12	Bosung	Research update: Waveform and Receive Filter Design for Cognitive Radio (CR) Relay Network
02/19	Hojjat	Cancelled
02/26	John
03/04	Tofighi
03/11		Spring break
03/18	Tiantong	Deep Learning-based Super Resolution
03/25	Tiep	Fuzzy Dictionary Learning
04/01	Hojjat
04/08	Visitor: Dr Piya Pal Bosung Hojjat
04/15	Visitor: Dr. Ravi Adve Hojjat Omar
04/22	Omar	Comprehensive Exam 1st practice
04/29	Omar	Comprehensive Exam
05/06

Fall 2015 Schedule for iPAL group meetings:
Meetings are from 2:00PM to 3:30PM in 101 or 127 EE East .

Date	Presenter	Topic
08/28		Group coffee
09/04	Bosung	Literature Review: Spectrum Sharing Techniques and Cognitive Radar
09/11	John	Discriminative Sparsity for SONAR ATR
09/18	Yuelong	ICIP poster presentation practice and journal
09/25	Visistor: Prof. Farzad Kamalabadi Hojjat Yuelong
10/02	Hojjat	Sparsity-based Color Super Resolution
10/09	Omar	MIMO Beampattern Design Under Constant Modulus Constraints (Update on thorough experimental comparisons with state of the art)
10/16	John	Research Update on Classification Algorithms for sonar ATR
10/23	Mohammad	Signal and Image Restoration and Reconstruction Using Projections onto Epigraph Set of Convex Cost Functions ;
11/02	Tiantong and Hojjat	Deep Learning-based Super-resolution
11/06	Bosung and Omar	Radar and Comm Spectral co-existence, new techniques
11/13		No meeting
11/20	Venkateswararao	Recent advances in image segmentation
11/27		Thanksgiving week
12/04	Tiep	Comprehensive Exam practice

Summer 2015 Schedule for iPAL group meetings:
Meetings are from 2:00PM to 3:30PM in 101 or 127 EE East.

Date	Presenter	Topic
06/01	Bosung	First practice for PhD Defense.
06/05	Omar	SQR: Successive QCQP Refinement for MIMO Radar Waveform Design Under Practical Constraints.
06/12	Tiep	A survey on Dictionary Learning methods on Image Classification and the new idea.
06/19	Yuelong	Research plan for HDR Video Synthesis.
06/26	Tiantong	Deep Learning-based super resolution
07/10	Omar	Update research on Successive QCQP Refinement
07/17	Hojjat	Sparsity-based Color Super Resolution
07/24		Bosung's Farewell Lunch
07/31		No Group Meeting
08/07	Tiep	Subspace Decomposition Dictionary Learning for Image Classification
08/17	Yuelong	HDR Video Synthesis Based on MAP Estimation and Kernel Regression
08/21	Tiantong	Deep Super-resolution Using Coupled Back Propagation

Spring 2015 Schedule for iPAL group meetings:
Meetings are from 2:00PM to 3:30PM in 101 EE East.

Date	Presenter	Topic
1/16/2015	Group lunch
1/23/2015	Hojjat	Iterative Convex Refinement for Sparse Signal Recovery Using Spike and Slab Priors
1/30/2015	Tiep	Research Update: Dictionary Learning for Histopathological Image Classification
2/6/2015	Yuelong	A MAP Estimation Framework for HDR Video Synthesis
2/13/2015	Bosung Suren Jayasuriya (PhD student, Cornell)	Research Update: Robust Covariance Estimation under Imperfect Constraints using Expected Likelihood Approach Building Sensors and Designing Algorithms for Computational Photography
2/20/2015	Omar
2/27/2015	John
3/6/2015	Visitor: Dr. Dan Schonfeld Hojjat Bosung	Estimation of Structured Covariance Matrices for Radar STAP under Practical Constraints
3/27/2015	Tiep	Research Update: Discriminative Feature-oriented Dictionary Learning for Histopathological Image Classification
4/3/2015	Yuelong
4/10/2015	Tiep and Hojjat	Practice for ISBI presentation
4/17/2015	Omar
4/29/2015	Hojjat	First practice for PhD Proposal defense
5/1/2015	Visitor: Prof. Zhou Wang Hojjat Yuelong

Fall 2014 Schedule for iPAL group meetings:
Meetings are from 12:15PM to 2:00PM in 101/127 EE East.

Date	Presenter	Topic
9/12/2014	Omar	Review and Update: Cognitive Waveform Design for MIMO Radar
9/19/2014	Yuelong	A Bayesian Framework for HDR Video
9/29/2014	Tiep Hojjat	Discriminative Dictionary Learning for Histopathological Image Classification Cell Segmentation in Medical Images Using Sparse Representation Methods
10/3/2014	Hojjat	Hierarchical Spike and Slab Priors for Reconstruction
10/10/2014	Bosung Omar	Research Update: Adaptive Rank Constrained ML Estimation of Structured Covariance via Expected Likelihood Approach Update: Cognitive Waveform Design for MIMO Radar
10/20/2014	Prof. Monga
10/24/2014	Visitor: Dr. Clem karl Hojjat	Discriminative Sparse Representations with Applications
11/10/2014	Yuelong	Kernel Regression and Rank Minimization based HDR Imaging
11/17/2014	Tiep	DFDL: Discriminate Feature-oriented Dictionary Learning for Histopathological Image Classification
12/5/2014	Yuelong	HDR Video Synthesis Based on Rank Minimization and Kernel Regression
12/12/2014	Hojjat	Hierarchical Spike and Slab Priors for Signal Representation
12/19/2014	Bosung

Summer 2014 Schedule for iPAL group meetings:
Meetings are from 2:35PM to 4:00PM in 101 EE East.

Date	Presenter	Topic
Jun 12	Mu's PhD defence
Jun 16	Xuan's PhD defence
Jun 20		Group Lunch
Jun 27	Yuelong Rafael	High Dynamic Range Video
Jul 3	Omar
Jul 11	Tiep Omar & Tiep	Deep Learning: Three fundamental Architectures Review: The KKT Conditions
Jul 25	Rafael	Robust cell segmentation algorithm
Aug 1	Bosung	Research updates: Expected Likelihood
Aug 11	Hojjat
Aug 11	Tiep	Discriminative Dictionary Learning for Classification

Spring 2014 Schedule for iPAL group meetings:
Meetings are from 12:15PM to 1:15PM in 101 EE East.

Date	Presenter	Topic
Jan 24, 2014	Chul Lee	Ghost-Free High Dynamic Range Image Synthesis via Low-Rank Matrix Completion and Recovery
Jan 31, 2014	Tiep Vu	Rotation-Invariant Image and Video Description with Local Binary Pattern Features
Feb 7, 2014	Bosung Kang	Expected Likelihood Estimation and Future Research
Feb 14, 2014	Group Lunch
Feb 21, 2014	Yuelong Li	Ghost-Free High Dynamic Range Image Synthesis via Low-Rank Matrix Completion and Recovery
Feb 28, 2014	Kapil and Hojjat	Medical Image Analysis Cancer Detection
Mar 7, 2014	Visitor: Prof. Ghassan AlRegib Hojjat Mousavi Mu Li	Sparse Representations-Based Classification Video Hashing: Algorithm Design and Performance Analysis
Mar 21, 2014	Visitor: Dr. Safwan Wshah Mu Li Xuan Mo	Deep Learning Video Hashing Algorithm Design and Performance Analysis Adaptive Sparse Represestations for Video Anomaly Detection
Apr 4, 2014	Hojjat and Kapil	Medical Image Analysis Cancer Detection
Apr 18, 2014	Bosung and Hojjat

Fall 2013 Schedule for iPAL group meetings:
Meetings are from 12:15PM to 1:15PM in 101 EE East.

Date	Presenter	Topic
Aug 30, 2013	Tiep Vu Yuelong Li	FPGA-based IP camera and applications on remote supervising and controlling systems Colorization based on quaternion wavelet transform
Sep 6, 2013	Mu Li	Recent research updates
Sep 9, 2013	Chul Lee	High Dynamic Range (HDR) Video Synthesis
Sep 20, 2013	Chul Lee and Xuan Mo	Brief Survey on Image Inpainting
Sep 27, 2013		Group Lunch
Oct 4, 2013	Hojjat	Collaborative Hierarchical Structured Sparsity
Oct 11, 2013	Chul Lee	Power-Constrained RGB-to-RGBW Conversion for Emissive Displays
Oct 18, 2013	Mu	Research progress report
Oct 25, 2013	Jamilya	Developing a MATLAB toolbox to perform preprocessing and segmentation on histopathological images
Nov 1, 2013	Bosung Kang Chul Lee	Efficient Approximation of Structured Covariance under Joint Toeplitz and Rank Constraints HDR Video Creation, Analysis, and Artifact Reduction
Nov 15, 2013	Visitor: Dr. Arvind Rao and Hojjat	Medical Image Classification
Nov 15, 2013	Mu, Jamilya and Kapil

Spring 2013 Schedule for iPAL group meetings:
Meetings are from 3:30PM to 5:00PM in 127 EE East.

Date	Presenter	Topic
Jan 18, 2013		Start up meetings
Jan 25, 2013
Feb 1, 2013	Mahesh Hojjat	Structured Sparse Priors for Image Classification Local and Global Implementation of SRC
Feb 8, 2013	Mu	Updates on video hashing research
Feb 15, 2013
Feb 22, 2013	Bosung	Research updates
Mar 1, 2013
Mar 15, 2013
Mar 22, 2013	Visitor: Dr. Scott Acton Mahesh and Hojjat Mu	Simultaneous Sparsity Models for Histopathological Image Classification Video Fingerprinting: Algorithm Design and Performance Analysis
Mar 29, 2013	Mu	Research updates
Apr 5, 2013
Apr 12, 2013	Visitor: Dr. P.P. Vaidyanathan
Apr 19, 2013
Apr 26, 2013	Visitor: Dr. Minh Do
May 24, 2013	Chul	Power-constrained RGB-to-RGBW converson for emissive displays
May 31, 2013	Hojjat and Mahesh	Hierarchical Collaborative Structured Sparsity

Fall 2012 Schedule for iPAL group meetings:
Meetings are from 3:30PM to 5:00PM in 127 EE East.

Date	Presenter	Topic
Aug 31, 2012	Xuan	Kernel Based Joint Sparsity Model for Video Anomaly Detection
Sep 7, 2012	Prof. Monga Bosung	Rank Constrained ML Estimation of Structured Covariance Matrices with Applications in Radar Target Detection
Sep 14, 2012	Bosung	Rank Constrained ML Estimation of Structured Covariance Matrices
Oct 19, 2012	Visitor : Dr. Regu Radhakrishnan Mu Mahesh	Video Fingerprinting: Algorithm Design and Performance Analysis
Oct 26, 2012	Visitor : Dr. Nasser M. Nasradadi Bosung Mu	Rank Constrained ML Estimation of Structured Covariance Matrices Video Fingerprinting: Algorithm Design and Performance Analysis
Nov 2, 2012	Xuan	A Joint Sparsity Model for Video Anomaly Detection
Nov 25, 2012	Hojjat and Xuan	Structured Sparsity for Classification

Spring 2012 Schedule for iPAL group meetings:
Meetings are from 12:30PM to 1:30PM in 127 EE East.

Date	Presenter	Topic
Jan 20, 2012	Prof. Monga	Robust video hashing based on graphical representations
Jan 27, 2012		Group Lunch
Feb 3, 2012	Bosung	Rank constrained ML estimation of structured covariance matrices with applications in radar target detection
Feb 10, 2012	Mahesh	Sparsity in medical imaging
Feb 17, 2012	Visitor: Dr. Rabbani from Kodak Presenter: Prof. Monga, Mahesh, Xuan	Robust Image Classification Using Discriminative Graphical Models Robust Video Fingerprinting Optimization Problems in Computational Color Imaging
Feb 23, 2012	Visitor: Dr. Jan Allebach Presenter: Mahesh, Xuan	Robust Image Classification Using Discriminative Graphical Models Design and Optimization of Color LUTs on a Simplex Topology
Mar 2, 2012	Jim	Automated Classification of Histopathological Images
Apr 6, 2012	Bosung	Rank constrained ML estimation of structured covariance matrices with applications in radar target detection
Apr 13, 2012	Visitor: Dr. Muralidhar Rangaswamy Presenter: Bosung, Xuan, Mu	Rank constrained ML estimation of structured covariance matrices with applications in radar target detection Design and Optimization of Color LUTs on a Simplex Topology Desynchronization Resilient Video Fingerprinting via Randomized, Low-rank Tensor Approximations

Fall 2011 Schedule for iPAL group meetings:
Meetings are from 2:30PM to 4:30PM in 127 EE East.

Date	Presenter	Topic
Aug 26, 2011	Prof. Monga	Rank-constrained ML Estimation of Clutter Covariance Matrices for Radar Target Detection
Sep 2, 2011	Mu	Robust Video Hashing via Multilinear Subspace Projections
Sep 9, 2011	Mahesh	Automatic target recognition using discriminative graphical models
Sep 19, 2011	Mahesh, Mu	Color face recognition
Sep 30, 2011	Bosung	Work in LG Electronics
Oct. 7, 2011	Mu	Robust video hashing based on graphic representations
Oct. 14, 2011	Mu	Practice talk for MMSP2011
Oct. 21, 2011	Mahesh	Hyperspectral target classification using graphical models
Oct. 28, 2011		No group meeting
Nov. 4, 2011	Mahesh	Practice talks: Asilomar and CIC
Nov. 11, 2011		No group meeting
Nov. 18, 2011	Mu	Robust video hashing based on graphical representations: research progress
Nov. 25, 2011		No group meeting
Dec. 2, 2011	Mu, Bosung	Mu: video hashing research updates Bosung: Spatial considerations in color transformations

Spring 2011 Schedule for iPAL group meetings:
Meetings are from 9:30AM in 127 EE East.

Date	Presenter	Topic
January 21, 2011	Mahesh	Automatic Target Recognition using Discriminative Graphical Models
February 4, 2011	Xuan	OpenCV Tutorial I: Image Processing
February 11, 2011	Xuan	OpenCV Tutorial II: Video Processing
February 25, 2011	Mahesh	Markov Random Fields
March 4, 2011	Mahesh, Mu, Xuan	Overview of iPAL Research: 1. Robust Image Classification Using Graphical Models 2. Robust Video Hashing Via Randomized Tensor Approximations; 3. A Constrained Optimization Framework for Multi-frame Spatial Resolution Enhancement
March 18, 2011	Xuan	CIC paper result update report
April 8, 2011	Mahesh, Mu, Xuan	Introduction of research in iPAL to Ramakrishna Vedantham From Nokia Research Center
April 22, 2011	Xuan	Introduction to behavior-recognition and object Tracking
April 29, 2011	Mahesh	Ph.D. Proposal title: Robust image classification using graphical models
May 3, 2011	Mahesh	Ph.D. Proposal title: Robust image classification using graphical models
May 20, 2011	Mahesh	Knowledge-based Systems for Adaptive Radar

Fall 2010 Schedule for iPAL group meetings:
Meetings are from 3:30PM in 127 EE East.

Date	Presenter	Topic
Sep 3, 2010	Mahesh	Meta-classifiers for exploiting feature dependencies in automatic target recognition
Sep 10, 2010	Xuan	Algorithms for multidimensional color transform design
Sep 17, 2010	Mu	Introduction to tensor, tensor factorization and its applications
Sep 24, 2010	Mahesh	Sparse matrix optimization problems in computational color imaging
Oct 8, 2010	Mu	Introduction to video hashing
Oct 15, 2010	Pramod	Pattern matching using acceleration data
Oct 22, 2010	Mahesh	Learning graphical models for hypothesis testing and classification
Oct 29, 2010	Mahesh	Scalable robust hypothesis tests using graphical models
Nov 5, 2010	Xuan	Sparse matrix optimization problems in computational color imaging
Nov 12, 2010	Mu	Introduction to scalar quantization
Nov 26, 2010	Mu	Introduction to adaptive quantization
Dec 17, 2010	Mahesh	Optimization software for medium and large-scale problems