Seminar Optimisation for Visual Computing

Summer Term 2009

Optimisation for Visual Computing

Dr. Michael Breuß und Dr. Bernhard Burgeth

Summer Term 2009

Seminar (2h)

Notice for bachelor/master students of mathematics: This is a »Hauptseminar« in the sense of these study programs.

The template for the write-up is available here!

ATTENTION: Please use ONE section for your write-up, and put the references at the end into one subsection (e.g., after a section 'Conclusion').

Important DatesDescriptionAdministrative detailsRequirementsOverview of Topics


First meeting: Friday, February 13, 2009, 14:15, Bld. E1 1, Room 306

Sign-up deadline: Thursday, February 12, 2009.

Regular meetings during summer term 2009:
None, by appointment.

Date of first meeting within the semester was: Tuesday, April 28th.

REGISTRATION: You can enroll here for the lecture from Thu, Feb. 05, 2009, 4 PM to Mon, Mai. 18, 2009, 2 PM.


Contents: The list of topics can be found here.

Prerequisites: The seminar is suitable for students of visual computing, mathematics, and computer science with a basic background in mathematics and image analysis.

Language: Understanding scientific texts in English is indispensable. Talks and write-up can be in English or German.


Sessions: The first meeting took place Friday, February 13, 2009, 14:15h, Bld. E1.1, room 306. There will be a few sessions on saturdays during the semester by appointment. Participants, please read your email.


Regular attendance: It is expected that you attend all seminar meetings, except for provable important reasons (we check).

Talk: Talk duration is 30 min, plus 15 min for discussion. Please do not deviate significantly from this time schedule.
You may give a presentation using a data projector (»beamer«), overhead projector or blackboard, or mix these media appropriately. English is preferred as language of presentation; if you should decide to talk in German anyway, you must use slides in English.

Write-up: The write-up should summarise your talk, so some 3+ pages per speaker will be adequate in most cases. Electronic submission is preferred. File format for electronic submissions is PDF – text processor files (like .doc) are not acceptable. We recommend using LaTeX. Adhere to the standards of scientific referencing: Quotations and copied material (such as images) must be clearly marked as such, and a bibliography is required.

Mandatory consultation: Talk preparation has to be presented to your seminar supervisor not later than in the week before the talk is given. It's your responsibility to approach us timely and make your appointment!



The speakers at the 18th of July need to be confirmed by now.


Date Speaker Topic
13.06. Ahmed Elhayek Duality
13.06. Laurent Hoeltgen Approximation and Fitting I
13.06. Sathess Thirunavukkarasu Geometric Problems I
13.06. Thorsten Hey Geometric Problems II
20.06. Ali Hatirnaz Approximation and Fitting II
20.06. Felix Retter Kalman Filtering
20.06. Maimaiti Maolanjiang Dijkstra's Algorithm
20.06. Alexander Reuter Minimal Spanning Trees
20.06. Sandra Alshabben Shortest Path Optimisation
18.07. Sebastian Schwarzbach Linear Programming
18.07. Winter Newton's Method
18.07. Lena Kinzel Quadratic Programming
18.07. Jörg Knappen The Potts Model
18.07. Stefan Schuh Graph Cuts for Energy Minimisation
18.07. Martin Schmidt Sequential Quadratic Programming - Theory
18.07. Patrick Trampert Sequential Quadratic Programming - Application
18.07. Muhammad Zeshan Afzal Maximum-likelihood Optimisation
18.07. Jan Hendrik Dithmar Euler Lagrange Formalism


M. Breuß / June 13, 2009

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