Manya Afonso

I am a PhD student and Marie Curie research fellow at Instituto de Telecomunicações, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal,

working under the supervision of Prof. Mário A. T. Figueiredo.

Full name: Manya Vital Afonso

Academic Degrees:

• Bachelor of Engineering (Electronics and Telecommunication), Padre Conceição College of Engineering, Verna, Goa, India (2003).
• Master of Technology (Communication Engineering), Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India (2005).

Professional Experience:

• Intern at Physical Oceanography Division, National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, India (2002-2003).
• Software engineer at Aricent (formerly Hughes/Flextronics Software Systems), Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (2005-2007).

Research Interests

• Signal and image processing and analysis:

  * Inverse problems in imaging

  * Statistical Inference

  * Image restoration

  * Compressed sensing

• Remote sensing
• Computer networks, network management, smart networks

Publications

• M. Afonso, J. Bioucas-Dias, and M. Figueiredo, "An augmented Lagrangian approach to linear inverse problems with compound regularization", IEEE International Conference on Image Processing – ICIP’2010, Hong Kong, China, (Accepted), 2010.
• M. Afonso, J. Bioucas-Dias, and M. Figueiredo, "An augmented Lagrangian approach to the constrained optimization formulation of imaging inverse problems", Submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2009. Available at http://arxiv.org/abs/0912.3481
• M. Afonso, J. Bioucas-Dias, and M. Figueiredo, "A fast algorithm for the constrained formulation of compressive image reconstruction and other linear inverse problems", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Dallas, USA, March 2010. Available at http://arxiv.org/abs/0909.3947v1
• M. Afonso, J. Bioucas-Dias, M. Figueiredo, “Fast image recovery using variable splitting and constrained optimization”, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, (To appear), 2010. Available at http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.4887
• M. Figueiredo, J. Bioucas-Dias, and M. Afonso, "Fast Frame-Based Image Deconvolution Using Variable Splitting and Constrained Optimization", Proceedings of the IEEE Worskhop on Statistical Signal Processing, Cardiff, Wales, 2009.
• M. Afonso, J. Bioucas-Dias, and M. Figueiredo, "Image Denoising with Compound Regularization Using a Bregman Iterative Algorithm," in Conference on Telecommunications (ConfTele'09), Santa Maria de Feira, Portugal, 2009.
• M. Afonso, J. Bioucas-Dias, and M. Figueiredo, “A Bregman iterative approach to linear inverse problems with compound regularizers”, Workshop on Signal Processing with Adaptive Sparse Structured Representations – SPARS’09, Saint-Malo, France, 2009.
• M. Afonso, and S. D. Joshi, “Image De-Noising by Estimating Finest Scale Wavelet Coefficients”, Proceedings of the 12th National Conference on Communication (NCC 2006).
• M. Afonso, and S. D. Joshi, “A Wavelet Based Scheme for Adaptive Noise Canceling from Images”, Proceedings of the 28th General Assembly of the International Union of Radio Science (U.R.S.I.) 2005.

Software

(C)SALSA : (Constrained) Split Augmented Lagrangian Shrinkage Algorithm

Contact Information

Manya Afonso

Instituto de Telecomunicações,

Instituto Superior Técnico

Torre Norte, Piso 10

Av. Rovisco Pais

1049-001 Lisboa

PORTUGAL

Tel: +351 218418467

Fax: + 351 218418472

E-mail: (f i r s t n a m e) dot (l a s t n a m e) at lx dot it dot pt

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