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ShearLab 3D: Faithful Digital Shearlet Transforms based on Compactly Supported Shearlets
Wavelets and their associated transforms are highly efficient when
approximating and analyzing one-dimensional signals. However, multivariate
signals such as images or videos typically exhibit curvilinear singularities,
which wavelets are provably deficient of sparsely approximating and also of
analyzing in the sense of, for instance, detecting their direction. Shearlets
are a directional representation system extending the wavelet framework, which
overcomes those deficiencies. Similar to wavelets, shearlets allow a faithful
implementation and fast associated transforms. In this paper, we will introduce
a comprehensive carefully documented software package coined ShearLab 3D
(www.ShearLab.org) and discuss its algorithmic details. This package provides
MATLAB code for a novel faithful algorithmic realization of the 2D and 3D
shearlet transform (and their inverses) associated with compactly supported
universal shearlet systems incorporating the option of using CUDA. We will
present extensive numerical experiments in 2D and 3D concerning denoising,
inpainting, and feature extraction, comparing the performance of ShearLab 3D
with similar transform-based algorithms such as curvelets, contourlets, or
surfacelets. In the spirit of reproducible reseaerch, all scripts are
accessible on www.ShearLab.org.Comment: There is another shearlet software package
(http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/imagepro/members/haeuser/ffst/) by S.
H\"auser and G. Steidl. We will include this in a revisio
Astrophysical Dynamics 1999/2000: Merging Research and Education
The workshop `Astrophysical Dynamics 1999/2000' followed a homonymous
advanced research course, and both activities were organized by me. In this
opening paper of the proceedings book, I describe them and document their
strong impact on the academic life of the local institutions. The advanced
research course was open to graduate students, senior researchers, and
motivated under-graduate students with good background in physics and
mathematics. The course covered several multi-disciplinary issues of modern
research on astrophysical dynamics, and thus also of interest to physicists,
mathematicians and engineers. The major topic was gas dynamics, viewed in
context with stellar dynamics and plasma physics. The course was complemented
by parallel seminars on hot topics given by experts in such fields, and open to
a wide scientific audience. In particular, I gave a friendly introduction to
wavelets, which are becoming an increasingly powerful tool not only for
processing signals and images but also for analysing fractals and turbulence,
and which promise to have important applications to dynamical modelling of disc
galaxies. The workshop was open to a wide scientific audience. The workshop
with published proceedings book was, as a matter of fact, the innovative form
of exam that I proposed for the advanced research course. The contributions
were refereed and their quality is high on average, exceptionally high in a few
cases. The advanced research course and the workshop all together produced
great enthusiasm in the students and welcomed the participation of a hundred
different people, which means an order of magnitude more than an average
graduate course at Chalmers University of Technology and G\"oteborg University.Comment: opening paper; the proceedings book is in
http://www.oso.chalmers.se/~romeo/PROCEEDINGS_BOOK_
Blind Curvelet based Denoising of Seismic Surveys in Coherent and Incoherent Noise Environments
The localized nature of curvelet functions, together with their frequency and
dip characteristics, makes the curvelet transform an excellent choice for
processing seismic data. In this work, a denoising method is proposed based on
a combination of the curvelet transform and a whitening filter along with
procedure for noise variance estimation. The whitening filter is added to get
the best performance of the curvelet transform under coherent and incoherent
correlated noise cases, and furthermore, it simplifies the noise estimation
method and makes it easy to use the standard threshold methodology without
digging into the curvelet domain. The proposed method is tested on
pseudo-synthetic data by adding noise to real noise-less data set of the
Netherlands offshore F3 block and on the field data set from east Texas, USA,
containing ground roll noise. Our experimental results show that the proposed
algorithm can achieve the best results under all types of noises (incoherent or
uncorrelated or random, and coherent noise)
Cost-effective HPC clustering for computer vision applications
We will present a cost-effective and flexible realization of high performance computing (HPC) clustering and its potential in solving computationally intensive problems in computer vision. The featured software foundation to support the parallel programming is the GNU parallel Knoppix package with message passing interface (MPI) based Octave, Python and C interface capabilities. The implementation is especially of interest in applications where the main objective is to reuse the existing hardware infrastructure and to maintain the overall budget cost. We will present the benchmark results and compare and contrast the performances of Octave and MATLAB
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