School of Computer Science, Tel-Aviv University

Aadvanced Research Seminar

Neural Computation and Signal Processing Lab (NCSP)

 

סמינר מתקדם במדעי המחשב

0368-5020-01 , Autumn 2004-5

Prof. Nathan Intrator

 

The seminar is devoted to presentation of current research projects done at the NCSP lab. The seminar is open to students interested in the field or who are looking for an advisor. General background topics include some knowledge in statistics, machine learning and signal processing. Students without background that are interested in the seminar, should talk with the instructor.

Class Meetings: Wednesday 14:00am-16pm, Schreiber 309

Instructor:

Prof. Nathan Intrator, Schreiber 221, x7598, Office hours: Wednesday 4-5 or by appointment via email

Presentations

Class

 Date

Title

Speaker

1

Oct 27

Overview: Nearest Neighbor search

Meir Cohen

2

Nov 3

Mapping the Internet topology via multiple agents

Anat & Ohad

3

Nov 10

Boosting gene expressions: Simulations

Niv Efron

4

Nov 17

Gene Net Analysis: Motifs vs. Correlation

Omer Berkman

5

Nov 24

FMRI overview

Ofer Pasternak

6

Dec 1

Altering music parameters

Shachaf Grofit

7

Dec 8

Heart Sounds analysis

Guy Amit

8

Dec 15

Overview heart ECG under physical exercise

Hadas Zur

9

Dec 19

Cardiac/Respiratory Interaction

Noam Gavriely

10

Jan 12

Advanced algorithms in ensembles of classifiers

Nimrod Bar

11

Jan 19

ICA and biophysical signals

Haim Appleboim

 

Some reading material

 

Sound analysis

Auditory display of hyperspectral colon tissue images

Singing the Mind Listening

Sound features

Chris Raphael Rhythm changes

 

Biomedical signals and sensors

Biomedical Signal Analysis R. M. Rangayyan 

Breath Sounds Methodology N. Gavriely

Digital Signal Analysis: A Computer Science

Perspective J. Stein.

Robust measurement of Carotid Heart sound delay

Heart Mechanical and Electrical System

Segmentation of EKG signals

Heart info and abnormalities (video)

Software

Max/MSP Multimedia creation

TinyOS  operating sys for wireless applications

 

Sensors

Cheap off-the shelf TinyOs operated robots

PicoRadio: Low power wireless node with sensors

Sensors Magazine

Xbow sensors

 

Machine learning and Statistics

Pattern recognition and neural networks B. Ripley

Neural networks for pattern recognition Bishop