Solar Image Processing Workshop II

Governor Calvert House, Historic Inns of Annapolis,
Annapolis, Maryland, USA.
3 - 5 November, 2004.


Announcement

Solar physicists are currently confronted by a rich set of imaging data from a variety of ground- and space-based observatories, and there is a lot of interest in the community in making a coordinated approach to the problem of maximizing the scientific return of this data.

This workshop aims to provide (1) an overview of the current state of the art of image processing in solar physics and (2) exposure to modern image processing approaches that may be unfamiliar to solar physicists. We intend to provide a multi-disciplinary forum for the cross-pollination of the solar physics and image processing communities so that we may maximize the science returns from existing and future datasets. SIPWork II will follow on the success of the Solar Image Recognition Workshop held in the Royal Observatory of Belgium in October 2003.

The application image processing methods to existing data - such as RHESSI, SOHO, TRACE, BBSO, and the VTT - and to the large volume and variety of data from upcoming missions - such as SDO and STEREO - will be discussed.

The meeting will be held on 3-5 November 2004 in historic Annapolis, Maryland, USA. Further details can be found at URL: http://www.solarmonitor.org/~ptg/SIPWorkII. Registration is now closed.

This Workshop is supported by NASA's Sun-Earth Connection Division.

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Abstracts

Workshop Schedule

Wednesday, November 3.

09:00-09:30  Welcome by Peter Gallagher (L-3 Com GSI/NASA GSFC)

Session I    General Introductory Session (Chair: David Berghmans)
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09:30-10:10 "Overview of Image Processing in Solar Physics" (Invited)
             Alex Young (L-3 Communications GSI/NASA GSFC)
10:10-10:30 "SWAP & LYRA onboard PROBA-2, Solar event recognition on 
             a technology demonstration mission"
             David Berghmans (Royal Observatory of Belgium)         

10:30-11:00  Coffee

11:00-11:20 "Combining Local Correlation Tracking with the Magnetic Induction
             Equation" 
             Brian Welsch (University of California, Berkeley)
11:20-11:40 "Short period oscilations in the solar atmoshere"
             Aleksandra Andic (University of Goettingen)
11:40-12:00 "Solar Photospheric and Chromospheric Patterns analyzed via 
             Information Entropy"
             Dario Del Moro (University of Rome 'Tor Vergata')
12:00-12:20 "Automated detection of oscillations on SECIS observations using
             wavelet analysis"
             Athanassis Katsiyannis (Royal observatory of Belgium)
12:20-12:40 "The Solar Weather Browser"
             Bogdan Nicula (Royal Observatory of Belgium)
12:40-01:00 "Trends in Solar Data Visualization for Research and 
             Education/Public Outreach"
             Tom Bridgman (Global Science & Technology, Inc./NASA GSFC)
                           
01:00-02:30  Lunch

Session II   Multi-scale Methods (Chair: Jack Ireland)
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02:30-03:10 "A Review of Wavelet Techniques in Solar Image Processing" (Invited) 
             Guillermo Stenborg (Catholic University of America/NASA GSFC)
03:10-03:30 "Multifractal analysis of solar images"
             Valentyna Abramenko (Big Bear Solar Observatory)
03:30-03:50 "Wavelet spectrum analysis of EIT-SoHO observations"
             Veronique Delouille (Royal Observatory of Belgium)

04:00-04:30  Coffee

04:30-04:50 "Manifestations and Diagnostics of Turbulence in the Solar Atmosphere"
             Manolis Georgoulis (Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory)
04:50-05:10 "Fractal based fuzzy technique for detection of active regions 
             from solar images"
             K. Revathy (Kerala University)
05:10-05:30 "The Accurate and Precise Estimation of Velocity and Associated 
             Uncertainties of Flows in Solar Image Sequences"
             Peter W. Schuck (Naval Research Laboratory)
05:30-05:50 "Shape-up or Shapelets"
             Scott McIntosh (Southwest Research Institute)


Thursday, November 4.

Session III  Image Restoration and Enhancement (Chair: Markus Aschwanden)
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09:00-09:40 "Image Reconstruction in Solar Physics" (Invited)
             Carsten Denker (NJIT)
09:40-10:00 "Automated recognition and tracing of G-band bright points"
             Katarzyna Mikurda (Kiepenheuer Institut Fuer Sonnenphysik)
10:00-10:20 "Multi-Object Phase Diversity Solar Image Reconstruction"
             Michielvan Noort (University of Oslo)

10:30-11:00  Coffee

11:00-11:20 "Image quality effects from wavelength dependent pupil 
             apodisation in narrow-band filters"
             Mats Lofdahl (Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Sweden)           
11:20-11:40 "Truth, Distortions, and Lies: An Image Resampling Primer"
             Craig DeForest (Southwest Research Institute)
11:40-12:00 "Multichannel Blind Deconvolution as a Tool for Solar Image 
             Restoration"
             Stanislava Simberova (Czech Academy of Sciences)
12:00-12:20 "First Results of Phase Diversity Techniques at THEMIS"
             Serena Criscuoli (High Altitude Observatory)
12:20-12:40 "RHESSI Imaging Talk"
             Richard Schwartz (SSAI/NASA GSFC)
12:40-01:00 "Imaging with the Frequency Agile Solar Radiotelescope"
             Stephen White (University of Maryland)

01:00-02:30  Lunch

Session IV   Breakout Session (Chair: Dominic Zarro)
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02:30-04:00  Several data sets will be supplied by the SOC for attendees to 
             try out their favourite image processing techniques on. This is 
             an informal session where attendees will be encouraged to work 
             in small groups on specific problems in solar image processing.

04:00-04:30  Coffee

04:30-06:00  Breakout Session (continued)
			
08:00-       Banquet


Friday, November 5

Session IV   Breakout Session (Reports) 
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09:00-09:50  Informal presentations and discussion of breakout session 
             findings.     

Session V    Feature Recognition and Classification (Chair: David Rust)
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09:50-10:30 "Overview of Machine Learning in Solar Physics" (Invited)
             Frank Shih (New Jersey Institute of Technology)

10:30-11:00  Coffee

11:00-11:20 "Solar Feature Catalogues in EGSO"
             Valentina Zharkova (University of Bradford)
11:20-11:40 "Feature Recognition Algorithms applied to solar EUV images"
             Markus Aschwanden (Lockheed Martin)
11:40-12:00 "Entering the era of automated CME recognition: a review of 
             existing tools"
             Eva Robbrecht (Royal Observatory of Belgium)
12:00-12:20 "Results from an Advanced Automated Filament Detection and 
             Characterization Code"
             Pietro Bernasconi (Johns Hopkins Univ./Applied Physics Lab.)
12:20-12:40 "Automatic detection of prominences using Meudon spectroheliograms"
             Nicolas Fuller (LESIA/Observatoire de Paris)
12:40-01:00 "Automatic comparison of magnetic field inversion with filament 
             data from the Solar Feature Catalogue"
             Stanley Ipson (University of Bradford)

01:00-02:30  Lunch

02:30-02:50 "Solar Cycle Statistics extracted from the Sunspot Feature 
             Catalogue"
             Sergei Zharkov (University of Bradford)
02:50-03:10 "On Learning of Sunspot Classification"
             Trung Nguyen (University of Bath)
03:10-03:30 "Using the Solar Feature Catalogue for Tracking Solar Active 
             Regions and Search for Classification parameters"
             Ali Benkhalil (University of Bradford)
03:30-03:50 "EIT wave and dimmings recognition algoritm for STEREO/SECCHI data"
             Elena Podladchikova (Royal Observatory of Belgium)
04:00-04:30  Coffee

Session VI   Future Prospects for Solar Imaging (Chair: Bob Bentley)
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04:30-05:10 "The Future of Solar Imaging and Image Processing" (Invited)
             Frank Hill (National Solar Observatory)
05:10-06:00  Closing group discussion led by Bob Bentley.

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