About Signal Recovery and Synthesis (SRS)

Signal recovery and synthesis is concerned with methods for obtaining the best estimate of an image from the data and constraints at hand. The topical area is important to many fields of optics, as well as a broader constituency due to its interdisciplinary nature; examples include image reconstruction from Fourier intensity measurements, superresolution, tomographic reconstruction and blind deconvolution. This topical meeting is concerned with theory, algorithms, computations, and applications of signal recovery and synthesis in optics and other disciplines. Specifically, technical advances in the following and related areas are solicited:

Theory

Stable inversion of ill-posed problems
Image quality analysis/metrics
Complexities and uncertainties in image/signal formation
Regularization concepts (for example: Total Variation, Bayesian, sparsity)

Algorithms/Approaches

Phase retrieval
Superresolution
Tomography
Spatially-varying deblurring

Computation

Computational methods and implementations, including parallel processing
Minimization methods for non-convex problems
Accelerating convergence of iterative algorithms

Applications

Imaging through turbulence
Imaging of, or through, scattering media
Imaging with the use of scattered fields
Quantum-limited imaging

Technical Conference: October 13–14, 2009
The Fairmont San Jose
San Jose, California, USA

Postdeadline Submission Deadline: September 21, 2009 12:00 p.m. EDT (16.00 GMT)
Hotel Reservation Deadline: September 11, 2009
Pre-Registration Deadline: September 16, 2009

Sponsor: The Optical Society