Wotao Yin's Homepage

Assistant Professor
Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics
Rice University
Office: 3086 Duncan Hall
Phone: (713)348-5368
Email: wotao.yin@rice.edu

Ph.D.(2006), M.Phil.(2006), and M.S.(2003) in Operations Research, Columbia University
B.S.(2001) in Mathematics, Nanjing University
 

Talks


  1. Simon Morgan. TV-L1 and the flat norm for shape signatures and distance functions. CAAM, Rice University, 04/21/2008. [link]

 

Papers


  1. Fast linearized Bregman iteration for compressive sensing and sparse denoising (with Stanely Osher, Yu Mao, and Bin Dong) submitted. [CAAM TR08-07]

  2. An fast algorithm for large scale l1-regularized logistic regression (with Jianing Shi, Paul Sajda, and Stanley Osher) submitted. [CAAM TR08-08]

  3. A Curvilinear Search Method for p-Harmonic Flows on Spheres (with Donald Goldfarb and Zaiwen Wen) submitted. [CAAM TR08-02] (revised, June 2008)

  4. Bregman Iterative Algorithms for l1-Minimization with Applications to Compressed Sensing (with Stanley Osher, Donald Goldfarb, and Jerome Darbon) SIAM J. Imaging Sciences 1(1), 143-168, 2008. [reprint]. [download the code]

  5. Fixed-Point Continuation for l1-Minimization: Methodology and Convergence (with Elaine Hale and Yin Zhang) submitted. [pdf] (revised, Jan 2008). [download FPC]

  6. Parametric Maximum Flow Algorithms for Fast Total Variation Minimization (with Donald Goldfarb) submitted. [CAAM TR07-09]. [download the code]

  7. Iteratively Reweighted Algorithms for Compressive Sensing (with Rick Chartrand) ICASSP 2008. [CAAM TR08-01]

  8. A New Alternating Minimization Algorithm for Total Variation Image Reconstruction (with Yilun Wang, Junfeng Yang, and Yin Zhang) to appear in SIAM Imaging Sciences. [CAAM TR07-10] (revised, May 2008). [download FTVd]

  9. A Comparison of Three Total Variation Based Texture Extraction Models (with Donald Goldfarb and Stanley Osher) Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, 18(3), 240-252, 2007. [reprint]

  10. The Total Variation Regularized L1 Model for Multiscale Decomposition (with Donald Goldfarb and Stanley Osher) SIAM J. Multiscale Modeling and Simulation 6(1), 190-211, 2006. [reprint]

  11. Second-Order Cone Programming Methods for Total Variation Based Image Restoration (with Donald Goldfarb) SIAM J. Scientific Computing 27(2), 622-645, 2005. [reprint]. [download the code]

  12. Slope and G-Set Characterization of Set-Valued Functions and Applications to Non-Differentiable Optimization Problems (with Otmar Scherzer and Stanley Osher) Communications in Mathematical Sciences 3(4), 479-492, 2005. [reprint]

  13. Image Cartoon-Texture Decomposition and Feature Selection using The Total Variation Regularized L1 Functional (with Donald Goldfarb and Stanley Osher) In Variational, Geometric, and Level Set Methods in Computer Vision, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3752, 73-84, Springer, 2005. [reprint]

  14. An Iterative Regularization Method for Total Varitaion-Based Image Restoration (with Stanley Osher, Martin Burger, Donald Goldfarb, and Jinjun Xu) SIAM J. Multiscale Modeling and Simulation 4(2), 460-489, 2005. [reprint]

  15. Background Correction for cDNA Microarray Images using The TV+L1 Model (with Terrence Chen, Xiang Zhou, and Amit Chakraborty) Bioinformatics 21 (10), 2410-2416, 2005. [reprint]

  16. Illumination Normalization for Face Recognition and Uneven Background Correction using Total Variation Based Image Models (with Terrence Chen, Xiang Zhou, Dorin Comaniciu, and Thomas Huang) In proceedings of IEEE confererence on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2005(2), 532-539. [reprint]

  17. Total Variation Models for Variable Lighting Face Recognition (with Terrence Chen, Xiang Zhou, Dorin Comaniciu, and Thomas Huang) IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI) 28 (9), 1519-1524, 2006. [reprint]

  18. A New Coarse-To-Fine Framework for 3D Brain MR Image Registration (with Terrence Chen, Thomas Huang, and Xiang Zhou) Computer Vision for Biomedical Image, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3765, 114-124, Springer, 2005. [reprint]

 

Software


  1. PGC: A Preflow-Push based Graph-Cut Solver. Version 2.32, last update on June 23, 2008. [link].

  2. FPC: A MATLAB solver for minimizing ||x||1 + p||Ax-b||2. [link]

  3. FTVd: A MATLAB code for total variation image deblurring. [link]

  4. Fast total variation minimization by solving parametric maximum flows on graph. Version 2.3, last update on Aug 08, 2007. [link]

  5. A second-order cone programming based solver for MATLAB. Version 1, uploaded on 05/23/2006. [link] Requires solver package Mosek (free for academic research).