Summer School on
Advances in Image, Motion and Video Coding and Processing
In Copenhagen, Denmark, August 22-26, 2011
The Summer School is held at DTU, Lyngby Campus, Building 101.
Motion and optical flow are basic elements of video analysis and video coding. Video coding is a prominent application of motion analysis and image and video coding provides a good setting for benchmarking and improving image and video models and techniques.
Standard methods for image and video compression use information theoretic ap- proaches. E.g. transforming the data representation to one where correlation and redundancy appear more clearly, and use this new representation with lossy or lossless encoding schemes. For video there is a considerable temporal redundancy of successive frames that can be exploited. In state of the art video codecs (e.g. H.264/AVC) this redundancy is typically utilized at the encoder side using block-based motion-compensated methods to compress the video data. An alternative and newer type of video coding is distributed video coding, which builds on information theoretic results showing that the standard en-coding/decoding setup can be reversed in the sense that the computationally hard work of using e.g. temporal redundancy, can be done at decoder side rather than at the encoder. Distributed video coding is one instance of distributed source coding.
In image analysis content of interest is usually characterized directly and often in a continuous setting (as opposed to video coding). Content of interest can be edges, T-junctions, scale-space structures, etc. Recent research has shown that a proper sparse description of these features can lead to efficient compression algorithms, with reconstructions governed via carefully designed partial differential equations, via variational formulations.
The same is true for video analysis, where problems, when embedded in the continuous setting, will often yield much simpler forms as variational formulations and resulting partial differential equations or problems in convex analysis, while they provide some of the most accurate motion recovery techniques. They could thus be beneficial to the Video Coding community.
The areas of image and video coding and analysis have a large number of similar goals, but often very different approaches to reaching them. In this summer school, we will let the two communities meet for exchange of ideas on related topics.
The PhD course will consist of lectures given by members of the research groups in Coding at DTU Fotonik, Technical University of Denmark and in Image Analysis at DIKU, Copenhagen University as well as invited speakers.
Keynote lecturers
Prof. Xiaolin Wu, McMaster University, Canada
Prof. Joachim Weickert Saarland University, Germany
Prof. Fernando Pereira, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal
Prof. Horst Bischof, TU Graz, Austria
Keynote lectures:
Topics
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Variational techniques:
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Variational Optical Flow on the GPU
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Interactive Variational Segmentation
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Variational Superresolution
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Variational Stereo
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On-line learning based tracking methods
Full Summer School program
Credits
PhD ECTS: You will get 2.5 ECTS for participating. You can get additional 2.5 ECTS if you present a poster at the summer school and write a small report on how the topics covered in the course relate to your own PhD project. That is in total you can get 5 ECTS points.
Organization
The summer school is organized in collaboration between the Image Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen and the Coding and Visual Communication Group, DTU Fotonik, Technical University of Denmark.
Organizing committee
Søren Forchhammer (DTU Fotonik),
Lars Lau (DIKU),
Registration and practical matters
The registration fee is 2000 dkr. payable upon acceptance to the summer school.
Payment is made here.
For registration send an email to Britt Boding (DTU Fotonik),
The registration covers lunch, refreshments, coffee, and dinner during course of the summer school.
Deadline for registration has passed.
Lecturers
Xiaolin Wu
Joachim Weickert
Fernando Pereira
Horst Bischof
Mads Nielsen
Søren Forchhammer
Francois Lauze
Jari Korhonen  | | 
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Payment is made here.
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Keynote lecturers
Prof. Xiaolin Wu,
McMaster University, Canada
Prof. Joachim Weickert,
Saarland University, Germany
Prof. Fernando Pereira,
Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal
Prof. Horst Bischof,
TU Graz, Austria |