The Signal Processing with Adaptive Sparse Structured Representations (SPARS) workshop will bring together people from statistics, engineering, mathematics, and computer science, working on the general area of sparsity-related techniques and computational methods, for high dimensional data analysis, signal processing, and related applications.

SPARS 2017 will be held at Instituto Superior Técnico, the engineering school of the University of Lisbon, on June 5-8, 2017, and will be co-hosted by Instituto de Telecomunicações. The workshop venue will be the IST Congress Center.

In addition to 8 plenary lectures by world renowned experts, the workshop will feature a single track format with 34 talks and 4 poster sessions. Lunch will be provided on-site. The social program will include a welcome reception and a banquet.

SPARS 2017 is supported by the EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks MacSeNet and SpaRTaN. In order to open the event to as many people as possible, attendance for the first day, June 5, is free. If you are not registered for SPARS, but would like to attend the first day, please email spartan-itn@surrey.ac.uk with your name and affiliation.

New: Best student paper award: Nicolas Keriven, "Random moments for sketched mixture learning" (with R. Gribonval, Y. Traonmilin, and G. Blanchard)

New: SPARS photos are available here

New: Summer School photos are available here

New: The program and book of abstracts is now available in PDF

• Sparse coding and representations, and dictionary learning.
• Sparse and low-rank approximation algorithms.
• Compressive sensing and learning.
• Dimensionality reduction and feature extraction.
• Sparsity in approximation theory, information theory, and statistics.
• Low-complexity/low-dimensional regularization.
• Statistical and Bayesian models and algorithms for sparsity.
• Sparse network theory and analysis.
• Sparsity and low-rank regularization.
• Applications.

Invited  speakers:

• Yoram Bresler, Electrical and Computer Eng. and Coordinated Science Lab, Univ. of Illinois, USA.
  
• Volkan Cevher, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.
• Jalal Fadili, École Nationale Supérieure d'Ingénieurs de Caen, France.
• Anders Hansen, University of Cambridge, UK.
• Gitta Kutyniok, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany.
  
• Philip Schniter, Ohio State University, USA.
• Eero Simoncelli, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, New York University, USA.
  
• Rebecca Willett, University of Wisconsin, USA.

Dates:

• Submission deadline: December 12, 2016 January 3, 2017
  
• Notification of acceptance: March 27, 2017
• Summer school: May 31 - June 2, 2017
• Workshop: June 5-8, 2017

Organizers:

• Mário Figueiredo, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal
  
• Mark Plumbley, University of Surrey, UK

Conference administrator:

• Helen Cooper, University of Surrey, UK.

Contact: spars2017-organisers@lx.it.pt