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Program Schedule
Please kindly note that the plenary talks are open to public and no prior registration is required. For other events, prior registration is required. Please go to the registration page for details.
Updated as of 30 Jun 2015
13 Apr | 14 Apr | 15 Apr | 16 Apr | 17 Apr
13 Apr 2015 (Mon)
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Time |
Event |
Venue |
| 08:00 |
Pick-up at Crowne
Plaza Hong Kong Kowloon East /
Holiday Inn Express Hong Kong Kowloon
East by coach |
| 08:30-09:00 |
Registration |
Lobby, G/F |
| 09:00-09:30 |
Opening Remarks
Henry Tye
(The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology;
Director of HKUST IAS)
Leonidas J. Guibas
(Stanford University; Senior Visiting Fellow of HKUST IAS)
Siu-Wing Cheng
(The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) |
IAS Lecture Theater, G/F |
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Session Chair: Mirela Ben-Chen (Technion - Israel Institute of
Technology) |
| 09:30-10:30 |
Plenary Talk: "Weakly-Supervised
Structure Discovery in Images
and Video"
Jean Ponce (École Normale Supérieure
[ENS])
(Click
here for presentation file) |
IAS Lecture Theater, G/F |
| 10:30-11:00 |
Coffee break
|
Lobby, G/F |
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Session Chair: Sun Jian (Tsinghua University) |
| 11:00-11:45 |
Talk: "Learning
Kernels for Summarizing Videos"
Fei Sha (University of Southern California)
(Click
here for presentation file) |
IAS1038, 1/F |
|
11:45-12:30 |
Talk: "Fast Multi-Scale Calculation of Optimal Transport Plans for Point Clouds in High-Dimensions"
Mauro Maggioni (Duke University)
(Click
here for presentation file) |
| 12:30-14:00 |
Lunch (For registered participants only) |
Lounge,
5/F |
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Session Chair: Hao Li (University of Southern California) |
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14:00-14:45 |
Talk:
"Unsupervised Building Block Discovery in Image and Geometric Data"
Michael Wand (Johannes Gutenberg
- Universität Mainz)
(Click
here for presentation file) |
IAS1038, 1/F |
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14:45-15:30 |
Talk: "Goal-Driven
Design with Autodesk's Project Dreamcatcher"
Adrian
Butscher (Autodesk Research)
(Click
here for presentation file) |
| 15:30-16:00 |
Group photo and coffee break
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Open Area,
1/F |
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Session Chair: Mirela Ben-Chen (Technion - Israel Institute of
Technology) |
| 16:00-16:45 |
Talk: "Conformational
Changes of Biological Macromolecules Using Kinetic Network Models"
Xuhui Huang (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
(Click
here for presentation file) |
IAS1038,
1/F |
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18:00 |
Return to Crowne
Plaza Hong Kong Kowloon East /
Holiday Inn Express Hong Kong Kowloon
East by coach |
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14 Apr 2015 (Tue)
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Time |
Event |
Venue |
| 08:30 |
Pick-up at Crowne
Plaza Hong Kong Kowloon East /
Holiday Inn Express Hong Kong Kowloon
East by coach |
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Session Chair: Frédéric
Chazal (INRIA Saclay -
Īle-de-France) |
| 09:30-10:30 |
Plenary Talk: "Functional Maps: A Flexible Representation of
Maps (with Applications)"
Maks Ovsjanikov (École Polytechnique)
(Click
here for presentation file) |
IAS
Lecture Theater, G/F |
| 10:30-11:00 |
Coffee break |
Lobby, G/F |
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Session Chair: Mauro Maggioni
(Duke University) |
| 11:00-11:45 |
Talk: "Sparse Models for Deformable Shapes"
Roee Litman
(Tel Aviv University)
(Click
here for presentation file) |
IAS1038, 1/F |
| 11:45-12:30 |
Talk: "Shared
Structure Extraction from Networks of Shapes
and Images"
Leonidas
J. Guibas
(Stanford University; Senior Visiting Fellow of HKUST IAS) |
| 12:30-14:00 |
Lunch (Self-arranged) |
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Session Chair: Vin de Silva (Pomona College) |
|
14:00-14:45 |
Talk:
"Convergence of the Laplace-Beltrami Operator on Point Clouds"
Jian Sun (Tsinghua University)
(Click
here for presentation file) |
IAS1038, 1/F |
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14:45-15:30 |
Talk: "Functional Vector Fields - an Operator Approach to
Tangent Vector Field Processing"
Mirela Ben-Chen (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology)
(Click
here for presentation file) |
| 15:30-16:00 |
Coffee break
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Open Area, 1/F |
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Session Chair: Sayan Mukherjee
(Duke University) |
| 16:00-16:45 |
Talk: "Data-Driven Hairstyling"
Hao Li (University of Southern California) |
IAS1038, 1/F |
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18:00 |
Return to Crowne
Plaza Hong Kong Kowloon East /
Holiday Inn Express Hong Kong Kowloon
East by coach |
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15 Apr 2015 (Wed)
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Time |
Event |
Venue |
| 08:30 |
Pick-up at Crowne
Plaza Hong Kong Kowloon East /
Holiday Inn Express Hong Kong Kowloon
East by coach |
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Session Chair: Leonidas
J. Guibas (Stanford University; Senior Visiting Fellow of HKUST IAS) |
| 09:30-10:30 |
Plenary Talk: "Persistent Homology for Data Analysis: an Introduction"
Frédéric Chazal (INRIA Saclay -
Īle-de-France)
(Click
here for presentation file) |
IAS
Lecture Theater, G/F |
| 10:30-11:00 |
Coffee break |
Lobby, G/F |
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Session Chair: Leonidas
J. Guibas, Stanford University; Senior Visiting Fellow of HKUST IAS |
| 11:00-11:45 |
Talk: "Manifold Reconstruction"
Siu-Wing Cheng
(The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
(Click
here for presentation file) |
IAS1038, 1/F |
| 11:45-12:30 |
Talk: "Discrete Conformality with Uniformization: Theory and Algorithms"
Jian Sun (Tsinghua University) |
| 12:30-14:00 |
Lunch (Self-arranged) |
| 14:00-21:00 |
Excursion and dinner
(by invitation)
*For those registered participants who are not joining the excursion and dinner, please note that the return trip to Crowne
Plaza Hong Kong Kowloon East / Holiday Inn Express Hong Kong Kowloon
East will depart at 18:00.
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16 Apr 2015 (Thu)
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Time |
Event |
Venue |
| 08:30 |
Pick-up at Crowne
Plaza Hong Kong Kowloon East /
Holiday Inn Express Hong Kong Kowloon
East by coach |
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Session Chair: Adrian Butscher (Autodesk Research) |
| 09:30-10:30 |
Plenary Talk: "Topological Dimensionality Reduction"
Vin de Silva (Pomona College)
(Click
here for presentation file) |
IAS
Lecture Theater, G/F |
| 10:30-11:00 |
Coffee break |
Lobby, G/F |
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Session Chair: Jian Sun (Tsinghua University) |
| 11:00-11:45 |
Talk: "Modeling Complex Phenotypes: Learning Maps between Spaces"
Sayan Mukherjee (Duke University)
(Click
here for presentation file) |
IAS1038, 1/F |
| 11:45-12:30 |
Talk: "Sheaves and Global Sections"
Primož
Škraba (Jožef Stefan Institute)
(Click
here for presentation file) |
| 12:30-14:00 |
Lunch (Self-arranged) |
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Session Chair: Primož Škraba (Jožef
Stefan Insitute) |
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14:00-14:45 |
Talk: "ShapeNet: Learning 3D Shape Descriptors with
Convolutional Neural Networks on non-Euclidean Manifolds"
Michael Bronstein (Universitą della Svizzera Italiana) |
IAS1038, 1/F |
|
14:45-15:30 |
Talk:
"Topological Persistence via Category Theory"
Vin de
Silva (Pomona College) |
| 15:30-16:00 |
Coffee break |
Open Area, 1/F |
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Session Chair: Maks Ovsjanikov (École Polytechnique) |
| 16:00-16:45 |
Talk:
"Unsupervised Object Discovery and Localization in the
Wild:
Part-based Matching with Bottom-up Region Proposals"
Jean
Ponce (École Normale Supérieure [ENS])
(Click
here for presentation file) |
IAS1038, 1/F |
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18:15 |
Return to Crowne
Plaza Hong Kong Kowloon East /
Holiday Inn Express Hong Kong Kowloon
East by coach |
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17 Apr 2015 (Fri)
|
Time |
Event |
Speaker |
| 08:30 |
Pick-up at Crowne
Plaza Hong Kong Kowloon East /
Holiday Inn Express Hong Kong Kowloon
East by coach |
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Session Chair: Siu-Wing Cheng (The Hong Kong University of
Science and Technology) |
| 09:30-10:30 |
Plenary Talk: "Multiscale and Multi-Layer Dictionary Learning in Metric Spaces"
Mauro Maggioni (Duke University) |
IAS
Lecture Theater, G/F |
| 10:30-11:00 |
Coffee break
|
Lobby, G/F |
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Session Chair: Siu-Wing Cheng (The Hong Kong University of
Science and Technology) |
| 11:00-11:45 |
Talk: "Hierarchical Clustering on Asymmetric Networks"
Facundo Mémoli (The Ohio State University)
(Click
here for presentation file) |
IAS1038, 1/F |
| 11:45-12:30 |
Talk:
"Learning Semantically Meaningful Spatio-Temporal Features from
Video Data"
Dit-Yan Yeung
(The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
(Click
here for presentation file) |
| 12:30-14:00 |
Lunch (Self-arranged) |
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18:00 |
Return to Crowne
Plaza Hong Kong Kowloon East /
Holiday Inn Express Hong Kong Kowloon
East by coach |
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Venue
Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
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