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The transition workshop's tentative schedule is now out: Don't wait too long before registering !
With the end of the program nearing, we are now focusing on getting papers and tech reports out. Can you please all prepare by the next meeting a list of where you currently stand ? This will update the list made last May

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Meeting Activities

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DATE	TOPICS & Readings	Notes
10/05/09	Brett McClintock on The challenges of fitting animal movement models to data .	Brett's slides
8/10/09	Summary of our session at JSM 2009. Transition workshop on Nov 9-10: who is coming ? Focus of the group now: get the papers ready	JSM Slides: Chunlin Ji Ernest Fokoue Nathan Green Daniel E. Clark François Septier
7/13/09	Ernest shared his ideas with François and Simon for feedback
7/06/09	Status from Ernest	Sorry for the short notice and the clash with July 4th holiday !
5/05/09	Count of papers/technical reports that we can expect for September. Revival of contour tracking for plume tracking. Metrics for SMC algortihms, status update by Julien.	Julien's brief slides. Francois has written two technical reports, on Plume tracking and Contour tracking.
4/27/09	Organization for JSM papers Aims in terms of publications for September Reviving contour tracking	Exceptionally, next meeting will be on Tuesday.
4/20/09	No meeting today due to the just-ending workshop.
4/13/09	A short discussion of current activities and the upcoming workshop
4/06/09	A short discussion of current activities and the upcoming workshop
3/30/09	Chunlin Recap of last weekes discussion and discussion of some newer data sets to use.. Julien Revisted selection metrics and discussed the problem as posed by Simon. Nathan and Namrata Some discussion of their work on cloud tracking and the availability of real data..	Julien's slides Chunlin's slides
3/23/09	Julien on Refined metrics on SMC algorithms: first thought. Chunlin on Dynamic Spatial Mixture Modelling for Multiple Extended Target Tracking.	Julien's slides Chunlin's slides
3/16/09	Francois on Plume Tracking. Francois on Evaluation of Particle Methods for Multitarget Tracking. Collegial discussion about the metrics. See summary for details. Slides, video, code, and data available soon.	Chunlin will present his results next week Ernest will investigate links with metrics for clustering methods Julien will investigate KLD metrics
3/2/09	Bin Liu discussed some of his work on the PHD filter and possible areas of future work Chunlin is making progress on the PHD filter for multi-target tracking and should have results soon. We should shortly have a link to a website where field data for STE/PT may be obtained.	Little to report this week
2/24/09	We discussed the workshop and outcomes and the upcoming Adaptive Design, SMC and Computer Modelling Workshop in April. We have decided to change the date and time of our meeting to Mondays at 10:00 AM Eastern Time.	There was little to report this week, we discussed upcoming results.
2/10/09	We discussed the upcoming workshop and the logistics involved. Ernest mentioned a problem concerning polymerization brought to him by a colleague in chemistry.	The agenda for the Internal Workshop is posted on the SAMSI website
2/3/09	Chunlin presented notes on the progress of his work in cell tracking. Gentry presented work on his progress with the plume tracking emulator.	The agenda for the Internal Workshop will be posted soon Chunlin's slides are hereandhere Gentry's notes are here
1/27/09	François presented notes on the MCMC-Based Particle Algorithm as applied to the multi-target tracking problem. He also included matlab code associated with the algorithm.	Details about the Internal Workshop will be posted soon François's slides are here here The notes on hiss presentation are here here The .zip file of the associated Matlab code is here here
1/20/09	Viktor presented his notes on the Re-sample move algorithm and reported on his progress towards implementation. There was also discussion of the Internal Tracking Workshop on February 19-20. The list of participants is coming together. This will be an informal meeting and we would like to hear about any work in progress, not just results. Interested participants need to contact Simon as soon as possible. Gentry presented some notes on applying a Kalman Filter based emulation procedure to the STE/PT problem.	Details about the Internal Workshop will be posted soon Viktor's notes on the re-sample move algorithm are here Gentry's notes are here
1/13/09	Simon discussed the possible JSM session, interested participants should contact Simon as soon as possible There was also discussion of the Internal Tracking Workshop on February 19-20. Interested participants need to contact Simon as soon as possible. Gentry presented a cursory discussion of emulation and discussed its possible application to tracking.	Details about the Internal Workshop will be posted soon Details about the organization of a JSM session should be forthcoming
1/6/09	Mark reported that a paper based on some work on source term estimation has been submitted. Viktor presented some of his notes on SIR with MCMC moves, a pdf will be posted soon. There was some discussion of the organization of a session for JSM this August	Viktor's notes should be posted soon Details about the organization of a JSM session should be forthcoming
12/16/08	Today we heard status reports from each of the subgroup leaders It was decided that we would meet again in three-weeks on January 6th to discuss progress	See Meeting Summary for more details
12/2/08	Today we heard status reports from each of the subgroup leaders It was decided that we would meet again in two-weeks on December 16th to discuss progress	Ahead of meeting, Nathan sent this pdf concerning likelihood descriptions for the plume tracking and source term estimation problems. François sent out two scenarios for use by the Multiple Target Tracking Subgroup Scenario1 Scenario2
11/11/08	Today we heard from three of the sub-groups, Neuron, STE, and Multiple Targets It was decided to wait until after Thanksgiving to meet as a full working group. Until then sub-group leaders will manage progress. A full summary of the sub-groups plans of actions can be found in today's meeting summary.	Ahead of meeting, Joshua updated his slides on the neuron tracking problem, adding a section "Next Step", pp. 21--22. Simon's slides from his presentation on the multiple target tracking subgroup are here Nathan's slides are here and other materials are here
11/04/08	This meeting discussed the spreadsheet sent by Nathan indicating members interests Next week we would like to hear from the areas of interests outlining general plans of activity. Please take a moment and check the spreadsheet. If there are no indicated areas of interest connected to your name, please contact Nathan A copy of the email giving details on the projects and areas of interest is located here	Julien's Presentation to the Postdoc and Grad student seminar series is a nice summary of our activities to date and is located here
10/28/08	This week's meeting is canceled We are still soliciting members' choice of projects to work on based on the presentations of 10/21/2008. A copy of the email giving details on the projects is located here
10/21/08	Nathan presented a summary of working group work to date and discussed four possible areas for future research his slides are here Chunlin presented so preliminary results on cell tracking slides Further discussion on selecting specific projects to work on
10/14/08	François presented material on the multi-target problem His notes are here and a zip file of MATLAB code is here His slides are here Nathan presented the ABC algorithm, slides are here	Some papers on ABC are [14] Peters et al. (2008) and [15] Sisson et al. (2007)
10/07/08	Presentation by Josh on neuron activity tracking from his PhD work. Slides are located here [UPDATED 11/11/2008] and video here and here	Here are some references on neuron tracking [16] Pillow et al. (2008) [17] Vogelstein et al. (2008) [18] Paninski (2004)
9/30/08	Overview of [11] by Lyudmila. Movies to accompany her material are here and here Presentation by Chunlin CellTracer Slides available, along with these four movies: first, second, third, and fourth. A few slides by Nathan, with pictures from the LIDAR Slides available.	Before the meeting, Lyudmila Mihaylova furnished the reference [11] Gning et al. (2008) on group object motion estimation. During the meeting, she also points to [12] Gning et al. (2008b) . Chunlin mentions [13] Celltracer software's website.
9/24/08	Nathan Green and Chunlin Yi, Plume Tracking and Cell Tracking Slides Nathan's R code for the simple Gaussian Puff model. See today's summary for actions.	Before the meeting, Nathan Green furnished the references [5] Green et al. (2008) and [6] Robins and Thomas (2005) about source term estimation, as well as the link to [7] CellTracker website (and specially its publications section), [8] Vaswani (2008) presenting PF-MT in general and [9] Vaswani et al. (2008) on deforming contour tracking. During the meeting, Steve points to the reference [10] Johannesson et al. (2004) for STE and plume-tracking.
9/17/08	Nathan Green and François Septier: global description of the three applications of interest. Slides and Matlab code will be available later. Slides of their presentation.	Recommended reading by François Septier for next week: [1] Cappe et al. (2007) [2] Doucet et al. (2000) [3] Pang et al. (2008) [4] Pitt and Shephard (1999)
9/11/08	Group Introduction and organizational meeting. Slides by Simon Godsill.

Group Members

(group email alias is smc-tracking at samsi.info)

Name	Affiliation	Email Address
Mark Briers		mark DOT briers AT cantab DOT net
Daniel Clark	Heriot-Watt University	d DOT e DOT clark AT hw DOT ac DOT uk
Avishi Carmi/font>	Cambridge University	ac599 AT cam DOT ac DOT uk
Jacob Colvin	Univ. of California-Santa Cruz	jcolvin AT ams DOT ucsc DOT edu
Julien Cornebise		jcornebise AT samsi DOT info
Sarah Dance	University of Reading	s DOT l DOT dance AT reading DOT ac DOT uk
Paul Fearnhead	Lancaster University	p DOT fearnhead AT lancs DOT ac DOT uk
Ernest Fokoue	Kettering University	efokoue AT kettering DOT edu
Amadou Gning	Lancaster University	e DOT gning AT lancaster DOT ac DOT uk
Simon Godsill	Cambridge University	sjg AT eng DOT cam DOT ac DOT uk
Nathan Green		NGREEN AT mail DOT dstl DOT gov DOT uk
Roman Holenstein	University of British Columbia	romanh AT cs DOT ubc DOT ca
Norikazu Ikoma		ikoma AT ecs DOT kyutech DOT ac DOT jp
Chunlin Ji	Duke University	chunlin DOT ji AT duke DOT edu
Steve Koutsourelakis	Cornell University	pk285 AT cornell DOT edu
Kevin Mernick	SUNY at Stony Brook	kmernick AT ece DOT sunysb DOT edu
Lyudmila Mihaylova	Lancaster University	mila DOT mihaylova AT lancaster DOT ac DOT uk
Sze Kim Pang	Cambridge University	skp31 AT cambridge DOT ac DOT uk
Gareth Peters	Univ. New South Wales	peterga AT maths DOT unsw DOT edu DOT au
Maria Pila Munoz		pilar DOT munyoz AT upc DOT edu
Olasunkanmi Obanubi		olasunkanmi DOT obanubi AT ic DOT ac DOT uk
Raquel Prado	Univ. of California-Santa Cruz	raquel AT ams DOT ucsc DOT edu
Viktor Rozgic	University of Southern California	rozgic AT usc DOT edu
Francois Septier		fjms2 AT cam DOT ac DOT uk
Jonathan Stroud		stroudjonathan AT yahoo DOT com
Sumeetpal Singh		sss40 AT cam DOT ac DOT uk
Andrew Thomas		helsinkiant AT gmail DOT com
Len Thomas		len AT mcs DOT st-and DOT ac DOT uk
Namrata Vaswani	Iowa State University	namrata AT iastate DOT edu
Joshua Vogelstein	Johns Hopkins University	jv DOT work AT jhu DOT edu
Quanli Wang	Duke University	quanli AT stat DOT duke DOT edu
Gentry White	N.C. State University	white AT stat DOT ncsu DOT edu

Reference List

References are listed in the order they have been added to the working group activities.

[1]	Cappe, O., Godsill, S., and Moulines, E. (2007), An Overview of Existing Methods and Recent Advances in Sequential Monte Carlo, PROCEEDINGS-IEEE, 95(5), 899. [ bib \| .pdf ]
[2]	Doucet, A., Godsill, S., and Andrieu, C. (2000), On sequential Monte Carlo sampling methods for Bayesian filtering, Statistics and Computing, 10(3), 197-208. [ bib \| .pdf ]
[3]	Pang, S., Li, J., and Godsill, S. (2008), Models and Algorithms for Detection and Tracking of Coordinated Groups, Aerospace Conference, 2008 IEEE, pp. 1-17. [ bib \| .pdf ]
[4]	Pitt, M., Shephard, N., and Oxford, N.C. (1999), Filtering Via Simulation: Auxiliary Particle Filters., Journal of the American Statistical Association, 94(446), 590-591. [ bib \| .pdf ]
[5]	Green, N., Robins, P., and Rapley, V. (2008), Real-time biological source term estimation using adaptive sampling of UV fluorescence LIDAR data, unpublished manuscript. [ bib \| .pdf ]
[6]	Robins, P. and Thomas, P. (2005), Non-linear bayesian CBRN source term estimation, Information Fusion, 2005 8th International Conference on, 2, 8 pp.-, 10.1109/ICIF.2005.1591980. [ bib \| DOI \| .pdf ]
[7]	Shen, H. (2008), CellTracker software website, http://dbkgroup.org/celltracker/, retrieved on September 23, 2008. [ bib \| http ]
[8]	Vaswani, N. (2008), Particle filtering for large dimensional state spaces with multimodal observation likelihoods, IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, to appear. [ bib \| .pdf ]
[9]	Vaswani, N., Rathi, Y., Yezzi, A., and Tannenbaum, A. (2008), PF-MT with an interpolation effective basis for tracking local contour deformations, IEEE Trans. Image Processing, accepted with mandatory minor revisions. [ bib \| .pdf ]
[10]	Johannesson, G., Hanley, B., and Nitao, J. (2004), Dynamic Bayesian Models via Monte Carlo-An Introduction with Examples, Tech. rep., UCRL-TR-207173, Lawrence Livermore National Lab., Livermore, CA (US). [ bib \| .pdf ]
[11]	Gning, A., Mihaylova, L., Maskell, S., Pang, S., and Godsill, S. (2008), Evolving networks for group object motion estimation, Proc. of IET Seminar on Target Tracking and Data Fusion: Algorithms and Applications, Birmingham, UK, pp. 99-106. [ bib \| .pdf ]
[12]	Gning, A., Mihaylova, L., Maskell, S., Pang, S., and Godsill, S. (2008), Ground target group structure and state estimation with particle filtering, Proc. of the 11th International Conf. on Information Fusion, Cologne, Germany, pp. 1176-1183. [ bib \| .pdf ]
[13]	Wang, Q., You, L., and West, M. (2008), CellTracer software website, http://www.stat.duke.edu/research/software/west/celltracer/, retrieved on September 30, 2008. [ bib \| http ]
[14]	Peters, G.W., Fan, Y., and Sisson, S. A. (2008) On sequential Monte Carlo, partial rejection control and approximate Bayesian computation, Technical Report, University of New South Wales, submitted August 2008. [ bib \| .pdf ]
[15]	Sisson, S. A., Fan, Y., and Tanaka, M. M. (2007) Sequential Monte Carlo without Likelihoods, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 104(6), 1760-1765. [ bib \| .pdf ]
[16]	Pillow, J. W., Fan, Y., and Shelens, J., and Paninski, L., and Sher, A., and Litke, A. M., and Chichilmisky, E. J., and Simoncelli, E. P. (2008) Spatio-temporal correlations and visual signalling in a complete neuron population. Nature , 454 995-999. [ bib \| .pdf ]
[17]	Vogelstein, J. T., and Watson, B. O., and Packer, A. M., and Yuste, R., and Jedynak, B., and Paninski, L. (2008) Spike inference from calsium imaging using sequential Monte Carlo methods. in preparation . [ bib \| .pdf ]
[18]	Paninski, L. (2008) Maximum likelihood estimation of cascade point-process neural encoding models. Network: Computation in Neural Systems 15 243-262. [ bib \| .pdf ]

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