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Thomas Blumensath


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Publications

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Journal Papers

Submitted


T. Blumensath, M. E. Davies; "Normalised Iterative Hard Thresholding; guaranteed stability and performance". [Download preprint (19/02/09)]

Accepted and published

T. Blumensath, M. E. Davies; "Stagewise Weak Gradient Pursuits", to appear in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing [Download preprint (13/05/2009)]

T. Blumensath, M. E. Davies; "Iterative Hard Thresholding for Compressed Sensing", to appear in Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis. [Download preprint (28/01/09)]

M. Yaghoobi, T. Blumensath, M. E. Davies; "Dictionary Learning for Sparse Approximations with the Majorization Method", to appear in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing [Download article: pdf]

T. Blumensath, M. E. Davies; "Sampling Theorems for Signals from the Union of Finite-Dimensional Linear Subspaces", IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 55, no. 4, pp. 1872-1882, April 2009 [Download preprint: pdf]. Note the following error: [Erratum.pdf]
 
T. Blumensath, M. E. Davies; "Iterative Thresholding for Sparse Approximations". The Journal of Fourier Analysis and Applications, vol.14, no 5, pp. 629-654, December 2008. [Download preprint: pdf] The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com.

T. Blumensath, M. E. Davies; "Gradient Pursuits", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 56, no. 6, pp. 2370-2382, June 2008. [Download preprint: pdf]

T. Blumensath, M. E. Davies; "Monte Carlo Methods for Adaptive Sparse Approximations of Time-Series", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 55, no. 9, pp. 4474-4481, September 2007. [Download preprint: pdf]

M. D. Plumbley, S. A. Abdallah, T. Blumensath, M. E. Davies; "Sparse Representations of Polyphonic Music", Elsevier Signal Processing, vol. 86, no. 3, pp. 417-431, March 2006. [Download preprint: pdf]

T. Blumensath, M. E. Davies; "Sparse and Shift-Invariant Representations of Music", IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 50-57, January 2006. [Download article: pdf]

Refereed Conferences Papers

T. Blumensath and M. E. Davies; "How to use the Iterative Hard Thresholding algorithm", in Proc. of SPARS09, Saint-Malo, France, 2009. [Download article: pdf]

T. Blumensath and M. E. Davies; "A Simple, Efficient and Near Optimal Algorithm for Compressed Sensing", ICASSP, 2009. [Download article: pdf]

M. Yaghoobi, T. Blumensath and M. E. Davies; "Parsimonious Dictionary Learning", ICASSP, 2009. [Download article: pdf]

T. Blumensath and M. E. Davies; "Gradient Pursuit for Non-Linear Sparse Signal Modelling", European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Lausanne, Switzerland, April 2008. [Download article: pdf]

M. Yaghoobi, T. Blumensath, M. E. Davies; "Regularized Dictionary Learning for Sparse Approximation", European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Lausanne, Switzerland, April 2008. [Download article: pdf]

M.E. Davies and T. Blumensath; "Faster & Greedier: algorithms for sparse reconstruction of large datasets ", invited paper to the third IEEE International Symposium on Communications, Control, and Signal Processing, St Julians, Malta, March 2008. [Download article: pdf]

S. Bhattacharya, T. Blumensath, B. Mulgrew, M.E. Davies; "Fast encoding of synthetic aperture radar raw data using compressed sensing", IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing, Madison, USA, August 2007

T. Blumensath, M. E. Davies; "Compressed Sensing and Source Separation", International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Signal Separation, London, UK, September 2007. [Download article: pdf] The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com.

T. Blumensath, M. E. Davies; "In Greedy Pursuit of New Directions: (Nearly) Orthogonal Matching Pursuit by Directional Optimisation",  European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Pozna, Poland, September 2007. [Download article: pdf]

M. Yaghoobi, T. Blumensath, M. E. Davies; "Quantized Sparse Approximation with Iterative Thresholding for Audio Coding", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Honolulu, USA, April 2007. [Download article: pdf]

T. Blumensath, M. Yaghoobi, M. E. Davies; "Iterative Hard Thresholding and L0 Regularisation", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Honolulu, USA, April 2007. [Download article: pdf]

T. Blumensath, M. E. Davies. "Blind Separation of Maternal and Fetal ECG Recordings using Adaptive Sparse Representations". In Proceedings of ICA Research Network International Workshop 2006, Liverpool, UK, Sept 2006. [Download article: pdf]

M. D. Plumbley, S. A. Abdallah, T. Blumensath, M. G. Jafari, A. Nesbit, E. Vincent and B. Wang. "Musical audio analysis using sparse representations". In Proceedings of 17th COMPSTAT 2006 (17th Symposium of IASC-ERS), Rome, Italy, Aug-Sept 2006. [Download article: pdf]

T. Blumensath, M. E. Davies; "Shift-Invariant Sparse Coding for Single Channel Blind Source Separation", Workshop on Signal Processing with Adaptive Sparse Structured Representations (SPARS'05), pp.75-78, Rennes, France, November 2005. [Download article: pdf]

T. Blumensath, M. E. Davies; "Enforcing Sparsity, Shift-Invariance and Positivity in a Bayesian Model of Polyphonic Music", IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing, Bordeaux, France, July 2005. [Download article: pdf] [Download poster: part1.pdf; part2.pdf]

T. Blumensath, M. E. Davies; "A fast Importance Sampling Algorithm for Unsupervised Learning of Over-Complete Dictionaries", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, vol. 5, pp. 213-216, Philadelphia, USA, March 2005. [Download article: pdf]

T. Blumensath, M. E. Davies; "On Shift-Invariant Sparse Coding", in Proc. of the fifth International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Source Separation (ICA), Lecture notes in Computer Science (LNCS 3195), Springer Verlag,  pp. 1205 -1212, Granada, Spain, September 2004. [Download article: pdf] The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com.

T. Blumensath, M. E. Davies; "Unsupervised Learning of Sparse and Shift-Invariant Decompositions of Polyphonic Music", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing,vol. 5, pp. 497-500, Montreal, Canada, May 2004. [Download article: pdf]

 Other Publications

T. Blumensath, M. E. Davies; "Fast compressed-sensing reconstruction for magnetic-resonance imaging", SPIE Newsroom, 15 January, 2009

Unpublished Manuscripts

T. Blumensath, M. E. Davies; "On the Difference Between Orthogonal Matching Pursuit and Orthogonal Least Squares", manuscript version: March 2007. [Download manuscript: pdf]

T. Blumensath, M. E. Davies; "Blind Separation of Maternal and Fetal ECG's Using any Number of Channels". [Download preprint: pdf]

T. Blumensath, M. E. Davies; "Rate-Distortion Analysis of Sparse Overcomplete Codes". [under revision]

Thesis

T. Blumensath; Bayesian Modelling of Music: Algorithmic Advances and Experimental Studies of Shift-Invariant Sparse Coding, PhD Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London", January 2006. [Download thesis: pdf (3MB)]