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Feburary 4th, 2020: T. Feuillen and I are invited by T. Fromentèze in the seminars of the "Comité d'Animation Scientifique pour l'Interdisciplinarité" (CASI), Institut XLIM (Limoges, France). Giving a talk entitled "Keep the phase! Signal recovery in phase-only compressive sensing" (pdf slides, video)
January 21th, 2021: Organizing and chairing a special session at EUSIPCO 2020 (Virtual Amsterdam) with Emrah Bostan (ams International AG, Switzerland), on the theme of "Computational Imaging in the Era of Learning: Imagers, Priors and Algorithms"
December 2-4, 2020: Participation to iTWIST'20, with 5 papers and 1 talk (see here)
October 2020: Two new PhD students join the team, Olivier Leblanc (FNRS), who'll work on computational imaging and deep learnign solutions for lensless endoscopy, and Rémi Delogne (TA UCLouvain), who'll work on random sketching techniques with optical processor units.
October 1st, 2020: I've been promoted FNRS Senior Research Associate (aka Maître de Recherche) and Professor at UCLouvain.
September 23th, 2020: PhD defense of Benoît Pairet on "Signal processing methods for high-contrast observation of planetary systems". Jury: Christophe Craeye (UCLouvain), Christophe De Vleeschouwer (UCLouvain), Olivier Absil (ULiège, Belgium), Faustine Cantalloube (MPIA, Germany), and I (co-advisor).
September 22th, 2020: PhD defense of Pierre-Yves Gousenbourger on "Interpolation and fitting on Riemannian manifolds" (pdf). Jury: Prof. Pierre-Antoine Absil (co-advisor, UCLouvain), Jean-Pierre Raskin (UCLouvain), Jean-François Remacle (UCLouvain), Benedikt Wirth (Universität Münster, Germany), Gabriel Peyré (Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris, France), and I (advisor).
July 16th, 2020: PhD Jury, C. Scotté, "Raman comprimé : développements et applications", Institut Fresnel (team of H. Rigneault), France.
June 2020: One new postdoc in the team, Alexander Stollenwerk, who'll study the interplay between random embeddings, deep neural networks, and quantization.
September 20th, 2019: Invited to give a keynote lecture on "Computational Fourier Transform Interferometry for Hyperspectral Imaging" (slides) in the Meeting on Image reconstruction of the network on "Turning images into value through statistical parameter estimation", UGhent, Belgium.
May 28th, 2019: "Student Best Paper Runner-up" award at ISCAS'19 for the work of Wissam Benjilali (CEA, France) on "An Analog-to-Information VGA Image Sensor Architecture for Support Vector Machine on Compressive Measurements", cowritten with W. Guicquero, G. Sicard, and I.
May 14-17, 2019: Attending ICASSP'19, Brighton, UK. Given an invited talk on "Compressive Single-pixel Fourier Transform Imaging using Structured Illumination" (joint work with A. Moshtaghpour and J. M. Bioucas Dias) at the special session "Recent Advances in Signal Processing for Large-Scale Computational Imaging", in ICASSP'19, Brighton, UK.
February 2-8, 2019: Attending the International Biomedical and Astronomical Signal Processing (BASP) Frontiers workshop, Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland. Given an invited talk on "Structured Illumination and Variable Density Sampling for Compressive Fourier Transform Interferometry", joint work with A. Moshtaghpour.

November 19-23, 2018: As a member of the scientific Ooganizing committee, attending the 4th "iTWIST: international Traveling Workshop on Interactions between low-complexity data models and Sensing Techniques" (iTWIST'18) in Marseille, France. Giving a 3h-doctoral course on "Quantized compressed sensing and related data embeddings".
October 28th-November 2th, 2018: Invited speaker at Intersection of Information Theory and Signal Processing: New Signal Models, their Information Content and Acquisition Complexity, Banff International Research Station, Canada. Giving a talk on "Dithered quantized compressive sensing with arbitrary RIP matrices".
October 7-10, 2018: Attending IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP18), October 7-10, 2018, Athens, Greece. Giving a tutorial on "Geometry-preserving Embeddings: Dimensionality Reduction Techniques for Information Representation" with Petros Boufounos.
August 28, 2018: Invited in the Theory and Algorithms in Data Science (TADS) seminar organized by by H. Tyagi and M. Cucuringu in the Alan Turing Institute (London, UK). Giving a talk on "Time for dithering! Quantized random embeddings with RIP random matrices".
June 10-13, 2018: Invited to the special session "Signal and Information Processing with Coarsely Quantized Data" organized by M. Stein and Lee Swindlehurst at 2018 IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop (SSP). Contribution: "Taking the edge off quantization: projected back projection in dithered compressive sensing" by C. Xu, V. Schellekens, and I.
May 14-18, 2018: Invited speaker at ICCHA7 (May 14-18, 2018, Vanderbilt U., TN, USA). Talk on "Quantized Compressive Sensing with RIP Matrices: The Benefit of Dithering".
May 2nd, 2018: Invited to give a talk on "Time for dithering! Quantized random embeddings with RIP random matrices" (slides in pdf and youtube video) at the Second Mini-workshop on "The Future of Random Projections" organized by Igor Carron (LightOn, Paris), Laurent Daudet (Paris Diderot & LightOn, Paris) and Florent Krzakala (ENS and LightOn, Paris).
March 5-9, 2018: Invited by Simon Foucart for a short scientific stay at Texas A&M University. Giving a seminar on "Time for dithering! Quantized random embeddings with RIP random matrices" (slides here).

December 18th, 2017: C. De Vleeschouwer and I have been awarded the 45th "de Boelpaepe" prize (2015-2016) by the Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique (Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium) for our scientific research on image processing with wavelet analysis and sparsity methods.
December 12th, 2017: Invited speaker at "Journée thématique conjointe IEEE-CAS et GDR/SOC2 (SoC-SiP), 12 Décembre 2017, ParisTech", Paris, France.
Talk on "A quantized view on compressive sensing systems and compressive learning methods" (slides here)
October 18th, 2017: Public PhD defense of (now Dr) Kévin Degraux on “Methods fr Solving Regularized Inverse Problems”. Congrats to him!
August 30th, 2017: Organizing the Workshop on "Regularized Inverse Problem Solving and High-Dimensional Learning Methods". Plenary speakers: G. Peyré (ENS, Paris, France) and U. Kamilov (WUSTL, USA).
July 3-7, 2017: Attending Sampta17, Tallinn, Estonia. Invited in the special session "Mathematical theory of quantization" organized by Sjoerd Dirksen and Rayan Saab. I gave a talk entitled "The Rare Eclipse Problem on Tiles: Quantized Embeddings of Disjoint Convex Sets" (joint work with V. Cambareri and C. Xu). See also arXiv:1702.04664 for the corresponding preprint.
June 5-8, 2017: Attending SPARS17 (with 3 collaborative contributions)
March 7, 2017: Organizing with Petros Boufounos the special session "SS-L10: Random Embeddings and Geometry-Preserving Dimensionality Reduction" at ICASSP'17, New Orleans, USA.
February 16, 2017: Giving a talk at the URSI Forum (RMA, Belgium) on "A short introduction to compressive sensing, its applications and relatives".

November 16, 2016: Organizing in UCL the regular workshop "FNRS Wavelet Contact Group on Wavelet and Applications" this time dedicated to random binary embeddings, compressive sensing and signal sampling on graphs, thanks to the invitation of Sjoerd Dirksen (RWTHAachen, Germany) and Gilles Puy (Technicolor, Rennes, France), the two plenary speakers.
October 13, 2016: Public PhD defense of Augustin Cosse on "Semidefinite programming relaxations for matrix completion, inverse scattering and blind deconvolution" (picture of the day). Congrats to Dr Cosse!
October 4-7, 2016: Visiting IRISA/INRIA, in the team of Remi Gribonval. Seminar on "A simple gradient descent algorithm for blind gain calibration of randomized sensing devices" and participation to the PhD "soutenance" of Marwa Chaffi (CentraleSupélec, Rennes, France).
September 19-22, 2016: Invited speaker at CoSeRA 2016, Aachen, Germany. Talk on "A Non-Convex Blind Calibration Method for Randomised Sensing Strategies" (pdf slides), work done in collaboration with Valerio Cambareri.
September 12th, 2016: 3 works submitted to ICASSP'17, New Orleans, USA (see here).
September 8-9, 2016: Attending RBSM16 (Brussels, Belgium) with one poster on "Coded-Illumination Fourier Transform Interferometry", by A. Moshtaghpour (the presenter), V. Cambareri, K. Degraux, A. Gonzalez, M. Roblin, L. Jacques, and P. Antoine.
August 24-26, 2016: Six (!) works accepted and presented by the members of ISPGroup in the 3rd "international Traveling Workshop on Interactions between Sparse models and Technology (iTWIST)", Aalborg, Denmark, 2016 (see here).
July 5th, 2016: New paper submitted: "Time for dithering: fast and quantized random embeddings via the restricted isometry property", joint work with Valerio Cambareri.
May 13, 2016: Public PhD defense of Adriana Gonzalez on "Solving Inverse Problems in Imaging using Robust and Regularized Optimization" (picture of the day). Congrats to Dr Gonzalez!
May 9, 2016: New work: "A Non-Convex Blind Calibration Method for Randomised Sensing Strategies", by Valerio Cambareri and I, submitted to CoSeRa16 (arXiv:1605.02615, updated on May 19th)
April 17, 2016: "Error Decay of (almost) Consistent Signal Estimations from Quantized Gaussian Random Projections" accepted in IEEE Transactions in Information Theory (arXiv:1406.0022).
March 18, 2016: I've just given my last (over 6) SOCN doctoral course on "Compressive sensing of low-complexity signals: theory, algorithms and extensions". Slides available on the same page or here (Part 0, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4).

December 7-9, 2015: Invited speaker at the Second Workshop on Optimization for Image and Signal Processing (MAORI), Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris.
November 17-20, 2015: Visiting IRISA/INRIA, in the team of Remi Gribonval. Seminar on "Consistent Basis Pursuit for Low-Complexity Signal Estimates in Quantized Compressed Sensing" and participation to the PhD "pré-soutenance" of Marwa Chaffi (CentraleSupélec, Rennes, France).
November 2nd, 2015: The paper "Consistent Basis Pursuit for Signal and Matrix Estimates in Quantized Compressed Sensing", written by A. Moshtaghpour, L. Jacques, V. Cambareri, K. Degraux and C. De Vleeschouwer, has been accepted for publication in IEEE Signal Processing Letters! (see arXiv:1507.08268)
July 30, 2015: New work: "Consistent Basis Pursuit for Signal and Matrix Estimates in Quantized Compressed Sensing" (or, "How to do QCS of low-rank matrices") by A. Moshtaghpour, L. Jacques, V. Cambareri, K. Degraux and C. De Vleeschouwer. Matlab demo code available here (this one uses the UnLocBox!).
May 17-20, 2015: Stay at UniBo, Bologna, Italy. Talk on "Quantized compressed sensing and quasi-isometric embeddings" (pdf, url) and PhD jury participation for the thesis defense of V. Cambareri.
April 24, 2015: New paper on "Small width, low distortions: quasi-isometric embeddings with quantized sub-Gaussian random projections" submitted. (arXiv:1504.06170)
April 12-14, 2015: Stay at EPFL and PhD jury participation for the thesis defense of William Guicquero.
March 19, 2015: PhD jury participation for the thesis defense of D.D. Ariananda, TU-Delft, Nederlands.
January 27-29, 2015: Invited by Prof. Holger Rauhut in his group (RWTH, Aachen, Germany). Giving a talk on "Compressed sensing, quantization and quasi-isometric embeddings".
January 8, 2015: Giving a short course on "What can we learn from Compressed Sensing in sensor design?" in FETCH2015 French winter school (UCL, Belgium).

December 2014: New paper on "Non-parametric PSF estimation from celestial transit solar images using blind deconvolution" submitted by A. Gonzalez, with V. Delouille (SIDC/ROB, Belgium) and I. arXiv:1412.6279.
December 2014: Honored to have been awarded a "Incentive Grant for Scientific Research (MIS)" by the Belgian FNRS. Project title: "AlterSense: Computational Sensing Strategies for Low-Complexity Signal Models".
November 19, 2014: Invited for a presentation entitled "Observing the transparency: Compressive optical deflectometry and refractive index imaging" (pdf slides), for the "Journée conjointe GDR STIC SANTE/GDR ISIS/Labex PRIMES" on "Représentations parcimonieuses, échantillonnage compressé et imagerie médicale" at INSA, Lyon, France.
September 12, 2014: Giving a tutorial entitled "Compressed Sensing in Optics: Schlieren Deflectometry and Refractive Index Map Reconstruction" (pdf slides), for the "Journée thématique conjointe GDR/ISIS et GDR/SoC-SiP" at Télécom ParisTech entitled "Acquisition/Echantillonnage comprimé : quelles réalisations/applications pratiques ?".
August 27-29, 2014: Organizing iTWIST'14 workshop in Namur, Belgium.
June 23, 2014: Giving a tutorial entitled "Compressed sensing et récents développements en matière de quantification extrême des mesures (à 1-bit)" at Institut Elie Cartan de Lorraine (IECL, Nancy, France) for the French "Journée Scientifique de la Fédération Charles Hermite" on "Parcimonie" (sparsity).
June 16-18, 2014: Giving a 2h course entitled "Quantizing compressed sensing: From high resolution to 1-bit quantization schemes" at the "Joint ICTP-TWAS School on Coherent State Transforms, Time-Frequency and Time-Scale Analysis, Applications", ICTP, Trieste, Italy.
June 3rd, 2014: New paper on "Error Decay of (almost) Consistent Signal Estimations from Quantized Random Gaussian Projections" submitted. arXiv:1406.0022
May 19-23, 2014: Talk on "When Buffon's needle problem helps in quantizing the Johnson-Lindenstrauss Lemma" at ICCHA5, Vanderbilt U., TN, USA
May 7, 2014: New submitted book chapter on "Quantization and Compressed Sensing" with Petros Boufounos, Felix Kramer and Rayan Saab. Preprint on arXiv:1405.1194
April 7, 2014: Tutorial at Eurographics 2014 (Strasbourg, France) on "An Introduction to Optimization Techniques in Computer Graphics" with I. Ihrke, X. Granier, G. Guennebaud and B. Goldlücke. Title of my part: "Compressed Sensing: how to sample data from what you know".
April 2, 2014: (for UCL students) 3 new master project propositions for 2014-2015. See the corresponding page
March 21, 2014: Presentation at the Belgian "Cercle d'Astronomes Amateurs du Pays de Charleroi" (Centre de Culture Scientifique de l'ULB, campus de Parentville, Couillet). Popular scientific talk (in French) on "Du ciel aux images ! Comment acquérir et traiter des images (astronomiques)" (pdf slides).
March 12, 2014: First presentation on "When Buffon’s needle problem helps in quantizing the Johnson-Lindenstrauss Lemma" made at the Machine Learning Group, UCL.

November 19, 2013: New blog post on "Testing a quasi-isometric quantized embedding" plus a IPython notebook script.
September 6, 2013: Previously submitted paper "Stabilizing Nonuniformly Quantized Compressed Sensing with Scalar Companders", by D. Hammond, M. Fadili and myself, accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (preprint, arXiv:1206.6003)).
September 6, 2013: Submission of a new paper entitled "A Quantized Johnson Lindenstrauss Lemma: The Finding of Buffon's Needle", preprint + arxiv link soon. Blog post about it here! (update: now on arXiv:1309.1507)
July 18, 2013: Opening of a new PhD position in my group on the topic of "Low-Dimensional Prior Models for Hyperspectral Images and Applications". More information here.
July 16, 2013: Here are the two presentations (pdf) I made in (the wonderful) SAMPTA2013 (July 1st-5th, Bremen, Germany): "Compressive Acquisition of Sparse Deflectometric Maps" and "Quantized Iterative Hard Thresholding: Bridging 1-bit and High Resolution Quantized Compressed Sensing". These are the results of collaborative works (Author list given on first slides).
June 11, 2013: Adding a "Quantized Iterative Hard Thresholding algorithm demo" associated to the paper "Quantized Iterative Hard Thresholding: Bridging 1-bit and High-Resolution Quantized Compressed Sensing" by Laurent Jacques, Kévin Degraux, Christophe De Vleeschouwer, arXiv:1305.1786.
May 27, 2013: Giving a tutorial of 3 hours on "Modern Quantization Strategies for Compressive Sensing and Acquisition Systems" with Petros Boufounos at ICASSP13. (slides + webpage)
May 17, 2013: Joint work with D.K. Hammond and J. Fadili about "Stabilizing Nonuniformly Quantized Compressed Sensing with Scalar Companders" updated on arXiv:1206.6003 (improved explanations and emphasis on GGD noisy CS)
May 9, 2013: New technical report associated to an accepted paper in Sampta 13, Bremen, Germany: "Quantized Iterative Hard Thresholding: Bridging 1-bit and High-Resolution Quantized Compressed Sensing", co-written with Kévin Degraux and Christophe De Vleeschouwer, arXiv:1305.1786
April 15, 2013: Two previously submitted papers (on Compressive Optical Deflectometry and Quantized Iterative Hard Thresholding in Compressed Sensing) accepted in SAMPTA2013. Revised preprints will be available soon here and on arxiv.
April, 2013: Popularized explanation of my research (in French) in the Athena magazine (April issue) of SPW.
Pdf excerpt here or access to the all document here.
Text written by Paul Devuyst.
April 8, 2013: (for UCL students) 5 new master project propositions for 2013-2014. See the corresponding page
February 28, 2013: Two previously submitted conference papers (see below) accepted to ICASSP13 (Vancouver, Canada). Both available on arXiv! See here.
February 15, 2013: Two (invited) papers submitted to SAMPTA2013 (July 1st-5th, Bremen, Germany)

November 30, 2012: Two conference papers submitted to ICASSP13 (Vancouver, Canada): (i) "Compressive Schlieren Deflectometry" with P. Sudhakar, myself, X. Dubois, P. Antoine, L. Joannes, and (ii) "Consistent Iterative Hard Thresholding for Signal Declipping" with S. Kitic, myslef, N. Madhu, M. P. Hopwood, A. Spriet, and C. De Vleeschouwer.
November 21, 2012: Giving an invited seminar on "Compressed Sensing, Quantization and Applications" in Bell Labs Belgium (Alcatel-Lucent, Antwerp, Belgium).
November 7, 2012: Update on the previous news: Here is a blog post by E. D'Angelo about "1-bit Linear Binary Descriptors Reconstruction" in "Computer don't see".
November 6, 2012: New paper "From Bits to Images: Inversion of Local Binary Descriptors", by Emmanuel d'Angelo, Alexandre Alahi, Pierre Vandergheynst and myself submitted to IEEE TPAMI (preprint on arXiv:1211.1265).
* October 22&24, 2012: Research presentations in EPL/UCL and ICTEAM/UCL (short inaugural sessions).
October 15, 2012: Tutorial proposal on "Modern Quantization Strategies for Compressive Sensing and Acquisition Systems" by Petros Boufounos and myself accepted in ICASSP13.
October 1st, 2012: First day as an Research Associate funded by FRS-FNRS, and as a Professor in UCLouvain.
September 4, 2012: New paper about "Compressive Optical Deflectometric Tomography: A Constrained Total-Variation Minimization Approach" written by A. Gonzalez, C. De Vleeschouwer, P. Antoine and myself submitted (arXiv:1209.0654).
August 20th, 2012: Paper "A Comprehensive study of Image-based PUFs" written by S. Shariati, F.-X. Standaert, myself and B. Macq accepted in Journal of Cryptographic Engineering.
July 2nd, 2012: Accepted as a "Research Associate"/"Chercheur Qualifié" (funded by the Belgian National Science Foundation -- FRS-FNRS) in the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) in Belgium (Officially starting in October 1st, 2012) !!
June 26th, 2012: Joint work with D.K. Hammond and J. Fadili about "Stabilizing Nonuniformly Quantized Compressed Sensing with Scalar Companders" just submitted! (this represents two years of work ;-) Preprint here. Related matlab code will be available soon.
May 10th, 2012: Presentation at iTWIST2012 on "Compressed Sensing and Quantization: a Compander Approach". Joint work with D. Hammond (U. Oregon, USA) and J. Fadili (GREYC, Caen, France).
May 9th, 2012: Presentation of Adriana Gonzalez (ELEN/ICTEAM, UCL) at iTWIST2012 on "TV−L2 Refractive Index Map Reconstruction from Polar Domain Deflectometry". Joint work with myself, C. De Vleeschouwer (ELEN/ICTEAM, UCL) and P. Antoine (NAPS/IMCN, UCL).
May 9-11, 2012: Co-organizing the 1st iTWIST Workshop on "international - Traveling Workshop for Interacting Sparse models and Technology" in CIRM, Marseilles, France. (program available here).
March 28-30, 2012: Inviting Prof. Jalal Fadili (ENSICaen, France) for a doctoral lecture on "Exploring inverse problems with non-smooth optimization and sparse representations" in the MUSICS doctoral school program.
March 22, 2012: Invited by P. Chainais and P. Bas to give a talk on "What can we learn from the Compressed Sensing theory?" in LAGIS, Ecole Centrale de Lille, France.
February 6-8, 2012: Invited as Master Project expert at EPFL by Pr P. Frossard for two works on "Geometric group sparsity in image analysis" by A. Fawzi and "Efficient Depth Based Image Rendering for Virtual Views Synthesis" by G. Chevtchenko. New presentation of "Robust 1-Bit Compressive Sensing: How the Sign of Random Projections Distinguishes Sparse Vectors".
January 31, 2012: the paper "The PANOPTIC Camera: A Plenoptic Sensor with Real-Time Omnidirectional Capability" by H. Afshari, L. Jacques, L. Bagnato, A. Schmid, P. Vandergheynst and Y. Leblebici, has been accepted in the Journal of Signal Processing Systems.
January 16-18, 2012: Attending the MIA'12 - Mathematics and Image Analysis 2012.

December 21, 2011: New presentation of "Robust 1-Bit Compressive Sensing: How the Sign of Random Projections Distinguishes Sparse Vectors" (Joint work with J. Laska, P. Boufounos, R. Baraniuk), at the FNRS Contact Group "Wavelet and applications" at ULB (Brussels, Belgium).
November 27, 2011: Creation of a "1-bit Compressed Sensing Resource Page" at Rice (by my collaborators J. Laska, P. Boufounos and R. Baraniuk).
November 16, 2011: Invited presentation on "Robust 1-Bit Compressive Sensing: How the Sign of Random Projections Distinguishes Sparse Vectors" (Joint work with J. Laska, P. Boufounos, R. Baraniuk), at the Signal processing - machine learning seminars organized by the LATP and the Qarma team at LIF.
November 15-18, 2011: Visiting the Université Aix-Marseille 2 (ESIL/France) and the Signal and Image Processing Group at LATP (Université de Provence, France). Collaboration on Polychromatic CBCT with Y. Boursier (ESIL), P. Vandergheynst (EPFL), Y. Wiaux (EPFL) and P. Frossard (EPFL).
October 18, 2011: Invited presentation on "Robust 1-Bit Compressive Sensing: How the Sign of Random Projections Distinguishes Sparse Vectors", at the Cesame Seminars in Systems and Control, UCL. Joint work with J. Laska, P. Boufounos, R. Baraniuk.
September 11-14, 2011: Being Plenary Chair with Ann Dooms (VUB/ETRO) at IEEE ICIP11 (invited plenaries). One talk on "Weighted Fidelity in Non-Uniformly Quantized Compressed Sensing" (with D. Hammond, J. Fadili), participation to another "Compact Rotation Invariant Image Descriptors By Spectral Trimming" by M. Taquet (with B. Macq and S. Jaume).
August 20-26, 2011: Attending "Wavelets and Sparsity XIV" (SPIE Optical Engineering and Applications, 21-25 August 2011, San Diego, CA, USA) with one presentation on "Refractive Index Map Reconstruction in Optical Deflectometry Using Total-Variation Regularization" (collaborative work with A. Gonzalez, E. Foumouo and P. Antoine).
June 27-30, 2011: Attending "Workshop : Signal Processing with Adaptive Sparse Structured Representations" (SPARS11) (Edinburgh, UK) with one talk and one poster (with A. Gonzalez, D. Hammond, J. Fadili, see below).
May 31, 2011: Participation at the 1st ICTEAM Young Researchers' Day. 10' presentation on "The sparsity paradigm in high dimensional signal representation".
May 18th, 2011: Invitation of Prof. Y. Boursier (Université Aix-Marseille 2 / ESIL) in the group, Signal Processing Seminar on "Imaging techniques for LOW-DOSE and COLOR tomography: new challenges for Cone-Beam CT and PET with hybrid pixels".
May 6th, 2011: 2 preprints added to publication list: "Weighted Fidelity in Non-Uniformly Quantized Compressed Sensing" by L. Jacques, D. Hammond, J. Fadili (preprint, ICIP11), and "Compact Rotation Invariant Image Descriptors By Spectral Trimming" by M. Taquet, L. Jacques, B. Macq and S. Jaume (preprint, ICIP11).
April 22, 2011: paper "A Panorama on Multiscale Geometric Representations, Intertwining Spatial, Directional and Frequency Selectivity" (arxiv preprint) co-written with L. Duval, C. Chaux and G. Peyré, Accepted in Elsevier Signal Processing, Special issue on Advances in Multirate Filter Bank Structures and Multiscale Representations.
April 22, 2011: Small Matlab demo for the Binary Iterative Hard Thresholding (BIHT), available here and here.
April 20, 2011: two extended abstracts accepted in SPARS11 (June 27-30 2011, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK):
- "Primal-Dual TV Reconstruction in Refractive Deflectometry", by A. Gonzalez, L. Jacques, E. Foumouo and P. Antoine (pdf)
- "Weighted Lp Constraints in Noisy Compressed Sensing", L. Jacques, D. K. Hammond, J. Fadili (pdf)
April 19, 2011: conference paper "Refractive index map reconstruction in optical deflectometry using total-variation regularization" by L. Jacques, A. Gonzalez, E. Foumouo and P. Antoine, accepted in "Wavelets and Sparsity XIV", SPIE Optical Engineering and Applications, 21-25 August 2011, San Diego, CA, USA.
April 18, 2011: two conference papers accepted in IEEE ICIP 2011 (11-14 Sept. 2011, Brussels, Belgium; preprints available soon...):
- "Weighted Fidelity in Non-Uniformly Quantized Compressed Sensing" cowritten with D. Hammond and J. Fadili;
- "Compact Rotation Invariant Image Descriptors By Spectral Trimming" by M. Taquet, L. Jacques, B. Macq and S. Jaume.
April 15, 2011: paper "Robust 1-Bit Compressive Sensing via Binary Stable Embeddings of Sparse Vectors" co-written with J. N. Laska, P. T. Boufounos, R. G. Baraniuk submitted (abstract and preprint).
March 21, 2011: Organization of a MUSICS doctoral school in UCL.
Invitation of Prof. Gabriel Peyré (Cérémade, Univ. Paris-Dauphine, Paris) for two courses on:
"Adaptive Geometric Representations" and "Adaptive Patch-based Representations".
February 28th, 2011: Conference paper accepted in 3DTV (Antalya, Turkey, 2011) (see here).
February 2011: (deadline extended) for the two new positions opened (1 PhD & 1 Postdoc) funded by the Project DETROIT (Région Wallonne), about inverse problems in 3-D deflectometry using sparse models. In collaboration with Prof. Philippe Antoine (IMCN/NAPS).
January 21st, 2011: 3 papers submitted to IEEE ICIP2011, Brussels, Belgium (see here).

December 17th, 2010: Project "New Technologies for Compressive Imaging in X-Ray Computed Tomography", previously submitted to the "Tournesol 2011" call in collaboration with Yannick Boursier (CPPM, Université Aix-Marseille 2 / ESIL, France), accepted by the WBI!
December 1st, 2010: Pierre Vandergheynst and his team (LTS2, EPFL, Switzerland) have realized this very nice video (and here for a text description) about the Panoptic camera (project in which I'm involved).
November 23, 2010: Presentation at the Image Processing and Interpretation Group (TELIN, Universiteit Gent, Ghent, Belgium), invited by Prof. Aleksandra Pizurica and Dr Hiêp Quang Luon, about "Compressed Sensing: A Short Introduction and Some Quantization Aspects".
November 10-12, 2010: Attending CTIC2010.
October 13th, 2010: Paper "Invariant Spectral Hashing of Image Saliency Graph" accepted in CTIC2010 (see below or here).
October, 2010: Two new positions opened (1 PhD & 1 Postdoc) funded by the Project DETROIT (Région Wallonne), about inverse problems in 3-D deflectometry using sparse models. In collaboration with Prof. Philippe Antoine (IMCN/NAPS).
September 26-29, 2010: IEEE ICIP 2010, Hong Kong. Presentation of research on "Randomly Driven Fuzzy Key Extraction of Unclonable Images" (see below)
September 15th, 2010: Submission of a work on "Invariant Spectral Hashing of Image Saliency Graph" co-written with Maxime Taquet, Christophe De Vleeschouwer and Benoît Macq, to the the 3rd International Workshop on Computational Topology in Image Context (CTIC2010)
August 16-19, 2010: Visiting the LTS2 Lab in EPFL.
May 26, 2010: Paper "Dequantizing Compressed Sensing: When Oversampling and Non-Gaussian Constraints Combine" co-written with David Hammond, and Jalal Fadili, accepted for publication in IEEE Trans. Inf. Th.
May 26, 2010: Paper "Randomly Driven Fuzzy Key Extraction of Unclonable Images" by Saloomeh Shariati, Laurent Jacques, Francois-Xavier Standaert, Benoit Macq, Mohamed Amin Salhi and Philippe Antoine, accepted in IEEE ICIP 2010, Hong Kong.
May 11, 2010: Presentation at the Cesame Seminars (UCL) on "Dequantizing Compressed Sensing: When Oversampling and Non-Gaussian Constraints Combine".
May 6-7, 2010: Organization of a MUSICS doctoral school on "Sparse Representation of Signals: Theory, Algorithms and Applications", with the invitation of Prof. Pierre Vandergheynst (EPFL, Switzerland). More information here. I gave also a talk on "Sparsity Driven Computer Vision: Plenoptic and Compressed Imaging" on that occasion.
April, 2010: Three student projects proposed (in French) with C. De Vleeschouwer for 2010-2011. Main topics: Affine Invariant Image Hashing Methods, Numerical Reconstruction in Optics, Image Deconvolution for Confocal Microscopy.
April 23, 2010: Paper "A Short Note on Compressed Sensing with Partially Known Signal Support" accepted for publication in Signal Processing - Elsevier.
April 23, 2010: Invited presentation on Compressed Sensing given at ISBA, UCL.
April 8, 2010: Presentation entitled "Dequantizing Non-Uniformly Quantized Compressed Sensing: Weight and See!" given at the "Sparsity and Modern Mathematical Methods for High Dimensional Data", VUB, Brussels, April 6-10, 2010. Joint work with David Hammond and Jalal Fadili.
March 15, 2010: Invitation of Prof. Ingrid Daubechies (Princeton/USA) in UCL. On the occasion of her Intl' Francqui Chair, she gave us a very interesting talk on "Independent component analysis and functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging".
February 5, 2010: New paper submitted to ICIP 2010, Hong Kong: "Randomly Driven Fuzzy Key Extraction of Unclonable Images", by Saloomeh Shariati, Laurent Jacques, Francois-Xavier Standaert, Benoit Macq, Mohamed Amin Salhi and Philippe Antoine.
January 6, 2010: New paper submitted to IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging: "Registration of Images with Variable Contrast Enhancement using Diffeomorphic Morphons", by G. Janssens, L. Jacques, J. Orban de Xivry, X. Geets and B. Macq.

December 14-16, 2009: Attending the MIA Conference at IHP, Paris, France.
December 7, 2009: Paper "Dequantizing Compressed Sensing: When Oversampling and Non-Gaussian Constraints Combine." by L. Jacques, D. K. Hammond, and M. J. Fadili, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.
December 3, 2009: Invited at the conference "Ondelettes et Sciences du Vivant" organized by C. Charles, and the Belgian NSF (FNRS) Wavelet Contact Group. Lecture about "Image Denoising using Non-Local Wavelet Bases".
November 27,2009: Invited at SequeL, INRIA Lille-Nord Europe, in Rémi Munos Machine Learning group, for a presentation at the SequeL Group Meeting about "A Compressed Introduction to Compressed Sensing: Combining Sparsity and Sampling" (pdf).
November 17,2009: Presentation at Machine Learning Group (MLG/UCL) about "A Compressed Introduction to Compressed Sensing: Combining Sparsity and Sampling" (pdf).
November 9, 2009: Presentation on "Dequantizing Compressed Sensing with Non-Gaussian Constraints", in collaboration with D. K. Hammond and M. J. Fadili, made at ICIP'09, Cairo, Egypt (presentation in pdf).
October 20, 2009: In collaboration with Vahid Majidzadeh, Hossein Afshari, Alexandre Schmid, Yusuf Leblebici (from LSM/EPFL) and Pierre Vandergheynst (from LTS2/EPFL), two papers have just been submitted to ISCAS 2010. One paper is about the CMOS Compressive Imager, and the other about the Panoptic camera. (more ...)
September 14, 2009: Short presentation of Compressed Sensing at the Mondays of Signal Processing in the TELE laboratory.
September 1st, 2009: The ICDSC Challenge Prize is awarded to "Sport Players Detection and Tracking With a Mixed Network of Planar and Omnidirectional Cameras" by A. Alahi, Y. Boursier, L. Jacques and P. Vandergheynst.
August 5, 2009: Submission of a tiny technical report on arXiv: "A Short Note on Compressed Sensing with Partially Known Signal Support". If there are errors, I will be happy to get your feedback.
August 3, 2009: Back to work in TELE/UCL!
July 29, 2009: Paper "Dequantizing Compressed Sensing with Non-Gaussian Constraints", co-written with D. K. Hammond and M. J. Fadili, (slightly) updated in function of ICIP'09 reviewers comments. Thank you to them.
July 8, 2009: Official release of the Basis Pursuit De Quantization (BPDQ) toolbox by D. Hammond, M.J. Fadili and I.
June 30, 2009: Two papers accepted to ICIP'09:
- "Dequantizing Compressed Sensing with Non-Gaussian Constraints" by L. Jacques, D. K. Hammond, and M. J. Fadili (pdf);
- "TV-Regularized Generation of Planar Images from Omnicams" by Y. Boursier, L. Jacques, D. Raboud, P. Frossard, M.J. Fadili, P. Vandergheynst (pdf);
June 9, 2009: M. J. Fadili has presented our common work with D. K. Hammond on Compressed Sensing and Dequantization, at the "Approximation and Optimization in Image Restoration and Reconstruction" workshop in Porquerolles, France.
April 23, 2009: Poster (pdf) presentation at ICASSP'09 of the work about CMOS Compressed Imaging by Random Convolution, by L. Jacques, P. Vandergheynst, A. Bibet, V. Majidzadeh, A. Schmid, and Y. Leblebici.
April 2009: Paper "A Sparsity Constrained Inverse Problem to Locate People in a Network of Cameras" by A. Alahi, Y. Boursier, L. Jacques, P. Vandergheynst accepted to DSP 2009.
February 2009: Paper "Compressed sensing imaging techniques for radio interferometry" by Y. Wiaux et al. accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
February 14, 2009: Paper "TV-Regularized Generation of Planar Images from Omnicams", by Y. Boursier, L. Jacques, D. Raboud, P. Frossard, M.J. Fadili, P. Vandergheynst. (preprint)
February 13, 2009: Paper "Dequantizing Compressed Sensing with Non-Gaussian Constraints" (preprint) by L. Jacques, D. K. Hammond, and M. J. Fadili, submitted to ICIP'09 Cairo, Egypt. See also the companion Technical Report: "Dequantizing Compressed Sensing: When Oversampling and Non-Gaussian Constraints Combine." by L. Jacques, D. K. Hammond, and M. J. Fadili. (more on Publications).

December 31, 2008: Paper "Compressed sensing imaging techniques for radio interferometry" by Y. Wiaux et al. submitted to Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. A poster (PDF) on the same subject has been presented at "Workshop on Sparsity and its application to large inverse problems" (Cambridge University, Cambridge UK).
December 15, 2008: The two ICASSP'09 papers listed below have been accepted.
December 14-15, 2008: Attending the "Workshop on Sparsity and its application to large inverse problems" (Cambridge University, Cambridge UK). Joint poster on "Compressed sensing imaging techniques for aperture synthesis by radio interferometry" with Y. Wiaux and G. Puy.
October 27, 2008: Simple Matlab codes to test the Geometrically optimized Matching Pursuit introduced in "A Geometrical Study of Matching Pursuit Parametrization" (see here).
September 2008: 2 papers submitted to ICASSP'09 :
- CMOS Compressed Imaging by Random Convolution, by L. Jacques, P. Vandergheynst, A. Bibet, V. Majidzadeh, A. Schmid, and Y. Leblebici. (more...)
- Compressive Sampling of Pulse Trains : Spread the Spectrum !, by Farid M. Naini, Rémi Gribonval, Laurent Jacques and Pierre Vandergheynst. (more...)
September 2008: I'm working in LTS2/EPFL for one more year until July 31th, 2009.
June 2008: I have just opened my "yet another signal processing (and applied math) blog" on WordPress : "Le Petit Chercheur Illustré".
18/04/2008: Fast Noiselets Transform implemented and available in the Codes section (see also this news on Igor's NuitBlanche)
19/03/2008: LTS-MMM presentation about "Matching Pursuit : Parametrization Matters."
February 2008: New paper on "Shape from Texture for Omnidirectional Images" by L. Jacques, E. de Vito, L. Bagnato and P. Vandergheynst, submitted to EUSIPCO08. (... more).

18/12/2007: Paper "A geometrical Study of Matching Pursuit Parametrization"
L. Jacques and C. De Vleeschouwer, accepted to IEEE Trans. Sig. Process.
1/9/2007: Visiting Post-doc Researcher at LTS2/EPFL for one year.
21/8/2007: New paper on "A geometrical Study of Matching Pursuit Parametrization"
L. Jacques and C. De Vleeschouwer, submitted to IEEE Trans. Sig. Process.
18/7/2007: Paper "Fast spin +-2 spherical harmonics transforms and application in cosmology", Y. Wiaux, L. Jacques, P. Vandergheynst, accepted for publication in Journal of Computational Physics.
28/6/2007: Seminar on "A short introduction on Compressed Sensing" in SIDC/ROB
1/6/2007: Seminar on "A short introduction on Compressed Sensing" in TELE.
30/5/2007: Seminar on the YAWTb matlab toolbox in FYMA.
2/1/2007 - 4/30/2007: Short post-doctoral stay in Richard Baraniuk's team, in the DSP Group of Rice University. Learning Compressed Sensing/Sampling of Signals, Images and Manifolds.

12/13/2006: Paper "Multiselective pyramidal decomposition of images: wavelets with adative angular selectivity" accepted for publication in IJWMIP (but will be published in September 2007 issue!). More...