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ISI Announcements 2010

Student project presentation

Tuesday, 21 December 2010, 11:00-11:20, ETF D110

Title: Rate Distortion Function for a Gaussian Source with Two Distortions
Name: Thomas Laich
Supervisor: Ligong Wang

Student project presentations

Monday, 20 December 2010, 17:00-17:40, ETF D110

Title: Feedback Capacity of the MAC with Common Message
Name: David Sutter
Time: 17:00h - 17:20h
Supervisor: Michèle Wigger, Prof. A. Lapidoth

Title: Source Coding with Reconstruction Constraints
Name: Andreas Malär
Time: 17:20h - 17:40h
Supervisor: Michèle Wigger, Prof. A. Lapidoth

ISI Dinner

Wednesday, 15 December 2010

Student project presentation

Thursday, 2 December 2010, 10:00-10:20, ETF D110

Title: Sampling Jitter Correction
Name: Daniel Baumann
Supervisor: Lukas Bolliger

Talk by Gunvor Kirkelund

Thursday, October 28, 15:15, ETF D110

Combining Variational Message-Passing and the Sum-Product Algorithm

Talk by Amir Ingber (Tel-Aviv University)

Friday, October 8, 11:00-12:00, ETF D110

Parallel Bit-Interleaved Coded Modulation

Talk by Prof. Joachim Buhmann (ETH, D-INFK)

Wednesday, Sept. 8, 11:00, ETF D110

Information Theoretic Model Validation by Approximate Optimization

Student project presentation

Tuesday, 24 August 2010, 10:00-10:20, ETF D110

Title: Feedback Coding Strategies for Channel Capacity per Unit Cost
Name: Shahab Asoodeh
Supervisors: Amos Lapidoth, Ligong Wang

PhD Defense of Maja Ostojic

Friday, July 2, 2010, 16:00, VAW B1 (!)

Talk by Dan Costello (Notre Dame Univ.)

Thursday, July 1, 16:00, ETF D 110

LDPC Convolutional Codes - Approaching the Shannon Limit with Structured Irregularity

Student project presentation

Wednesday, 23 June 2010, 09:00h-09:20h, ETF D110

Title: Wind Noise Synthesizer
Name: Matthias Flückiger
Supervisor: Dr. Kurt Heutschi, Prof. H.-A. Loeliger

Student project presentation

Thursday, 10 June 2010, 10:00h-10:20h, ETF D110

Title: Audio Engine for an Ambisonics Surround Sequencer
Name: Samuel Gähwiler
Supervisor: Philippe Kocher, Kurt Heutschi, Prof. H.-A. Loeliger

Student project presentations

Tuesday, 8 June 2010, 09:00h-09:40h, ETF D110

Title: Dynamic Modeling, Estimation, and Calibration of Force Sensors in Machine Tool
Name: Petrit Bunjaku
Time: 09:00h - 09:20h
Supervisor: Lukas Bolliger, Prof. H.-A. Loeliger

Title: Signal Modelling with Likelihood Computations and Popper Complexity - A Factor Graph Approach Using Linear State Space Models
Name: Juan Pablo Marin Diaz
Time: 09:20h - 09:40h
Supervisor: Christoph Reller, Prof. H.-A. Loeliger

Student project presentations

Friday, 28 May 2010, 09:00h-10:00h, ETF D110

Title: Reconstruction of Continuous-Time Filtered White Noise from Discrete-Time Observations
Name: Adrian Waeber
Time: 09:00h - 09:20h
Supervisor: Lukas Bolliger, Prof. H.-A. Loeliger

Title: The Capacity of Rewritable Memories with Cost Constraints
Name: Christoph Bunte
Time: 09:20h - 09:40h
Supervisor: Prof. A. Lapidoth

Title: On Fading Estimation from Noisy Observations
Name: Filip Gospodinov
Time: 09:40h - 10:00h
Supervisor: Ligong Wang, Prof. A. Lapidoth

PhD Defense of Dali El'Mechat

Monday, April 12, 2010, 16.00, ETZ E81

Student project presentation

Friday, March 26 2010, 10:00-10:20, ETF D110

Title: Rate Distortion Functions for Poisson Processes
Name: Andreas Malär
Supervisor: Ligong Wang

Two Talks by Prof. Yossef Steinberg, Technion

Monday, 1 March 2010, 11:00-11:45, ETF D110

Title: Variations on Coding with Side Information: Common Reconstructions and Reversible Information Embedding
Abstract: n the classical definition of problems of source and channel coding, the code designer is primarily interested in reducing the coding rate under a given distortion constraint at the destination. The question whether the sender knows the version constructed at the destination is never raised in this context. In some applications, being able to reconstruct the receiver's version at the transmitter's site can be beneficial. This requirement is termed here as the common reconstruction constraint. In this talk I will introduce source coding and joint source-channel coding problems, under the common reconstruction constraint. Implications and duality results with information embedding models will also be discussed.
Joint work with Orna Sumszyk.

Monday, 1 March 2010, 12:00-12:45, ETF D110

Title: Lossy Source Coding with a Helper
Abstract: In this talk I will describe several lossy source coding problems where a helper provides rate-limited side information to the involved parties. We first consider the Wyner-Ziv problem, where in addition to the memoryless side information available to the decoder, a helper sends common rate-limited side information to the encoder and decoder. A single letter characterization of the achievable rates is derived, under Markov conditions on the source and side information. Partial results are derived also for the case where the side information is not necessarily common, i.e., when the helper can send different streams of coded side information to the encoder and decoder. We then consider Kaspi's two-way rate distortion problem, in the presence of a helper. A single letter characerization of the achievable rates-distortions region is derived, for the case where the two sources and the helper satisfy certain Markov conditions. Finally, the cascade source coding problem in the presence of a helper is studied.
Based on joint works with Haim Permuter and Tsachy Weissman.

ISI Assistenzsitzung

Monday, 15 February 2010, 14.15h, ETF D110

ISI internal

Talk by Prof. Emmanuel Abbe, EPFL

Friday, January 15 2010, 15.15, ETF D110

Title: Thresholds in Random Graphs and Concentration of k-SAT Solutions
Abstract: The boolean satisfiability problem k-SAT plays a central role in the quest for more efficient ways of solving large-scale computational problems. In the past years, it has attracted considerable attention from researchers in different communities such as computer science, coding theory, statistical mechanics or computational biology. In this work, we consider the random k-SAT problem. A particularity of this problem is that it undergoes a dramatic and swift qualitative change when the parameter controlling the density of constraints per variables grows. The talk first reviews some techniques and tools used to characterize phase transition phenomenon in random graphs, in particular the work of E. Friedgut. It then presents results on the concentration of the number of k-SAT solutions.
This is a joint work with A. Montanari at Stanford.

Talk by Prof. Richard E. Blahut, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois

Monday, December 14, 2009, 15:00, ETF C109

Title: Progress in Multiterminal Source Coding

Student project presentation

Monday, December 14 2009, 10:00h-10:20h, ETF D110

Title: Reconstruction of Continuous-Time Filtered Noise with Application to Samplingrate Conversion
Name: Samuel Gaehwiler
Supervisor: Lukas Bolliger, Christoph Reller

 
 

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