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Volkan Cevher
Tenure Track Assistant Professor
web site: http://lions.epfl.ch

office(s): ELE233
phone(s): [+41 21 69] 31101,35955
BIOGRAPHY
Prof. Volkan Cevher received his BSc degree (valedictorian) in Electrical Engineering from Bilkent University in 1999, and his PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2005. He held Research Scientist positions at University of Maryland, College Park during 2006-2007 and at Rice University during 2008-2009. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne and a Faculty Fellow at Rice University. His research interests include signal processing theory, machine learning, graphical models, and information theory.
MAIN PUBLICATIONS

A. Asaei, M. Davies, H. Bourlard, and V. Cevher. Computational Methods For Structured Sparse Component Analysis of Convolutive Speech Mixtures. In Proceeding of the 37th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2012. [ Details | Full Text ]

A. Kyrillidis, G. Puy, and V. Cevher. Hard Thresholding with Norm Constraints. Technical report, Kyoto, Japan, 2012. [ Details | Full Text ]

A. Kyrillidis and V. Cevher. Sublinear time, approximate model-based sparse recovery for all. 2011. [ Details | Full Text ]

V. Cevher. An Alps View Of Sparse Recovery. In 2011 Ieee International Conference On Acoustics, Speech, And Signal Processing, International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing ICASSP, pages 5808-5811. Ieee Service Center, 445 Hoes Lane, Po Box 1331, Piscataway, Nj 08855-1331 Usa, 2011. [ Details ]

J. T. Parker, V. Cevher, and P. Schniter. Compressive Sensing under Matrix Uncertainties: An Approximate Message Passing Approach. In Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, 2011. [ Details | Full Text ]

A. Asaei, M. Taghizadeh, H. Bourlard, and V. Cevher. Multi-party Speech Recovery Exploiting Structured Sparsity Models. In INTERSPEECH 2011, 2011. [ Details | Full Text ]

M. Fatemi, S. Dashmiz, M. H. Shafinia, and V. Cevher. Equivalence of synthesis and atomic formulations of sparse recovery. 2011. [ Details | Full Text ]

A. Kyrillidis and V. Cevher. Recipes on Hard Thresholding Methods. 2011. [ Details | Full Text ]

H. Tyagi and V. Cevher. Learning Ridge Functions with Randomized Sampling in High Dimensions. Technical report, 2011. [ Details | Full Text ]

A. Asaei, H. Bourlard, and V. Cevher. Model-Based Compressive Sensing for Multi-Party Distant Speech Recognition. Technical report, 2011. [ Details | Full Text ]

R. Gribonval, V. Cevher, and M. Davies. Compressible priors for high-dimensional statistics. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2011. [ DOI | Details | Full Text ]

S. Jafarpour, V. Cevher, and R. Schapire. A Game Theoretic Approach to Expander-based Compressive Sensing. 2011. [ Details | Full Text ]

V. Cevher. On Accelerated Hard Thresholding Methods for Sparse Approximation. Technical report, 2011. [ Details | Full Text ]

V. Cevher. An ALPS view of sparse recovery. Technical report, International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2011. [ Details | Full Text ]

R. Giryes and V. Cevher. Online performance guarantees for sparse recovery. Technical report, 2010. [ Details | Full Text ]

V. Cevher and S. Jafarpour. Fast hard thresholding with Nesterov's gradient method. In Neuronal Information Processing Systems, Workshop on Practical Applications of Sparse Modeling, 2010. [ Details | Full Text ]

S. Jafarpour, V. Cevher, and R. E. Schapire. Compressive sensing meets game theory. Technical report, 2010. [ Details | Full Text ]

V. Cevher, P. Indyk, L. Carin, and R. Baraniuk. Sparse Signal Acquisition and Recovery with Graphical Models. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 26, 2010. [ DOI | Details | Full Text ]

L. Carin, R. Baraniuk, V. Cevher, D. Dunson, M. Jordan, G. Sapiro, and M. Wakin. A Bayesian Approach to Learning Low-Dimensional Signal Models from Incomplete Measurements. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 2010. [ DOI | Details | Full Text ]

A. C. Gurbuz, V. Cevher, and J. H. McClellan. Bearing estimation via spatial sparsity using compressive sensing. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 2010. [ DOI | Details ]

A. Krause and V. Cevher. Submodular dictionary selection for sparse representation. In International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2010. [ Details | Full Text ]

A. Waters and V. Cevher. Distributed bearing estimation via matrix completion. In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2010. [ Details | Full Text ]

R. Baraniuk, V. Cevher, M. F. Duarte, and C. Hegde. Model-based compressive sensing. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 56(4):1982-2001, 2010. [ DOI | Details | Full Text ]

R. Baraniuk, V. Cevher, and M. B. Wakin. Low-dimensional models for dimensionality reduction and signal recovery: A geometric perspective. Proceedings of the IEEE, 98(6):959-971, 2010. [ DOI | Details | Full Text ]

V. Cevher and A. Krause. Greedy dictionary selection for sparse representation. In Ieee Journal Of Selected Topics In Signal Processing, volume 5, pages 979-988, 2009. [ DOI | Details | Full Text ]

V. Cevher. Learning with Compressible Priors. In Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2009. [ Details | Full Text ]

M. F. Duarte, V. Cevher, and R. G. Baraniuk. Model-Based Compressive Sensing for Signal Ensembles. In 47th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, 2009. [ Details | Full Text ]

V. Cevher, P. Indyk, C. Hegde, and R. Baraniuk. Recovery of clustered sparse signals from compressive measurements. In International conference on Sampling Theory and Applications(SAMPTA), 2009. [ Details | Full Text ]

V. Cevher, P. Boufounos, R. G. Baraniuk, A. C. Gilbert, and M. J. Strauss. Near-Optimal Bayesian Localization via Incoherence and Sparsity. In IEEE/ACM Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), 2009. [ Details | Full Text ]

C. Hegde, M. F. Duarte, and V. Cevher. Compressive sensing recovery of spike trains using a structured sparsity model. In Workshop on Signal Processing with Adaptive Sparse Structured Representations (SPARS), 2009. [ Details | Full Text ]

M. F. Duarte, C. Hegde, V. Cevher, and R. G. Baraniuk. Recovery of Compressible Signals in Unions of Subspaces. In Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), 2009. [ Details | Full Text ]

V. Cevher and L. Kaplan. Acoustic sensor network design for position estimation. ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, 5(3), 2009. [ DOI | Details | Full Text ]

V. Cevher, R. Chellappa, and J. H. McClellan. Vehicle speed estimation using acoustic wave patterns. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 57(1):30-47, 2009. [ DOI | Details | Full Text ]

V. Cevher, M. F. Duarte, C. Hedge, and R. Baraniuk. Sparse signal recovery using Markov random fields. In Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2008. [ Details | Full Text ]

V. Cevher, A. Sankaranarayanan, M. F. Duarte, D. Reddy, R. G. Baraniuk, and R. Chellappa. Compressive Sensing for Background Subtraction. In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2008. [ Details | Full Text ]

V. Cevher, M. F. Duarte, and R. Baraniuk. Distributed target localization via spatial sparsity. In European Conference on Signal Processing (EUSIPCO), 2008. [ Details | Full Text ]

V. Cevher and L. Kaplan. Pareto frontiers of sensor networks for localization. In IEEE/ACM Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), 2008. [ Details | Full Text ]

V. Cevher and R. Baraniuk. Compressive Sensing For Sensor Calibration. In IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM), 2008. [ Details | Full Text ]

D. Reddy, A. C. Sankaranarayanan, V. Cevher, and R. Chellappa. Compressed Sensing For Multi-View Tracking And 3-D Voxel Reconstruction. In IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2008. [ Details | Full Text ]

V. Cevher, A. C. Sankaranarayanan, and R. Chellappa. Factorized variational approximations for acoustic multi source localization. In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2008. [ Details | Full Text ]

V. Cevher, A. C. Gurbuz, J. H. McClellan, and R. Chellappa. Compressive wireless arrays for bearing estimation. In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2008. [ Details | Full Text ]

A. C. Gurbuz, J. H. McClellan, and V. Cevher. A compressive beamforming method. In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2008. [ Details | Full Text ]

V. Cevher, R. Chellappa, and J. H. McClellan. Gaussian approximations for energy-based detection and localization in sensor networks. In IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop (SSP), 2007. [ Details | Full Text ]

R. Velmurugan, V. Cevher, and J. H. McClellan. Implementation of batch-based particle filters for multi-sensor tracking. In IEEE Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP), 2007. [ Details | Full Text ]

R. Velmurugan, S. Subramanian, V. Cevher, J. H. McClellan, and D. V. Anderson. Mixed-mode implementation of particle filters. In IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing (PACRIM), 2007. [ Details | Full Text ]

V. Cevher, R. Chellappa, and J. H. McClellan. Joint acoustic-video fingerprinting of vehicles, part I. In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2007. [ Details | Full Text ]

V. Cevher, F. Guo, A. C. Sankaranarayanan, and R. Chellappa. Joint acoustic-video fingerprinting of vehicles, part II. In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2007. [ Details | Full Text ]

V. Cevher, F. Shah, R. Velmurugan, and J. H. McClellan. A multi target bearing tracking system using random sampling consensus. In IEEE Aerospace Conference, 2007. [ Details | Full Text ]

M. Borkar, V. Cevher, and J. H. McClellan. A Monte-Carlo approach for tracking mobile personnel. In IEEE Aerospace Conference, 2007. [ Details | Full Text ]

L. M. Kaplan and V. Cevher. Design considerations for a heterogeneous network of bearings-only sensors using sensor management. In IEEE Aerospace Conference, 2007. [ Details | Full Text ]

V. Cevher, R. Velmurugan, and J. H. McClellan. Acoustic multi target tracking using direction-of-arrival batches. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 55(6):2810-2825, 2007. [ DOI | Details | Full Text ]

V. Cevher, A. C. Sankaranarayanan, J. H. McClellan, and R. Chellappa. Target tracking using a joint acoustic video system. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 9(4):715-727, 2007. [ DOI | Details | Full Text ]

M. Alam, V. Cevher, J. H. McClellan, G. D. Larson, and W. R. Scott. Optimal maneuvering of seismic sensors for localization of subsurface targets. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 45(5):1247-1257, 2007. [ DOI | Details | Full Text ]

M. Borkar, V. Cevher, and J. H. McClellan. Decentralized State Initialization with Delay Compensation for Multi-modal Sensor Networks. Journal of Vlsi Signal Processing Systems for Signal Image and Video Technology, 48(1-2):109-125, 2007. [ DOI | Details | Full Text ]

M. Borkar, V. Cevher, and J. H. McClellan. Low computation and low latency algorithms for distributed sensor network initialization. Signal, Image and Video Processing, 1(2):133-148, 2007. [ DOI | Details | Full Text ]

S. Ozgur, V. Cevher, D. B. Williams, and J. H. McClellan. Convergence analysis for sequential Monte Carlo receivers in communications applications. In IEEE DSPWorkshop, 2006. [ Details | Full Text ]

V. Cevher, M. Borkar, and J. H. McClellan. A joint radar-acoustic particle filter tracker with acoustic propagation delay compensation. In European Conference on Signal Processing (EUSIPCO), 2006. [ Details | Full Text ]

R. Velmurugan, S. Subramanian, V. Cevher, D. Abramson, K. M. Odame, J. D. Gray, H. J. Lo, J. H. McClellan, and D. V. Anderson. On low-power analog implementations of particle filters for target tracking. In European Conference on Signal Processing (EUSIPCO), 2006. [ Details | Full Text ]

V. Cevher, R. Velmurugan, and J. H. McClellan. A range-only multiple target particle filter tracker. In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2006. [ Details | Full Text ]

M. Alam, V. Cevher, and J. H. McClellan. Optimal experiments with seismic sensors. In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2006. [ Details | Full Text ]

M. Borkar, V. Cevher, and J. H. McClellan. A Monte-Carlo method for initializing distributed tracking algorithms. In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2006. [ Details | Full Text ]

V. Cevher, R. Velmurugan, and J. H. McClellan. Multi target direction-of-arrival tracking using road priors. In IEEE Aerospace Conference, 2006. [ Details | Full Text ]

V. Cevher and J. H. McClellan. Acoustic node calibration using moving sources. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 42(2):585-600, 2006. [ DOI | Details | Full Text ]

V. Cevher and J. H. McClellan. An acoustic multiple target tracker. In IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Conference (SSP), 2005. [ Details | Full Text ]

V. Cevher, J. H. McClellan, and M. Borkar. Estimating target state distributions in a distributed sensor network using a Monte-Carlo approach. In IEEEWorkshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP), 2005. [ Details | Full Text ]

J. H. McClellan and V. Cevher. Proposal strategies for joint state-space tracking with particle filters. In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2005. [ Details | Full Text ]

V. Cevher and J. H. McClellan. General direction-of-arrival tracking with acoustic nodes. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 53(1):1-12, 2005. [ DOI | Details | Full Text ]

A. C. Sankaranayanan, Q. Zheng, R. Chellappa, V. Cevher, J. H. McClellan, and G. Qian. Vehicle tracking using acoustic and video sensors. In Army Science Conference (ASC), 2004. [ Details | Full Text ]

J. H. McClellan and V. Cevher. Acoustic node calibration using helicopter sounds and Monte Carlo markov chain methods. In IEEE DSP Workshop, 2004. [ Details | Full Text ]

J. H. McClellan and V. Cevher. Fast initialization of particle filters using a modified Metropolis-Hastings algorithm: Mode-hungry approach. In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2004. [ Details | Full Text ]

R. M. Dansereau, W. Kinsner, and V. Cevher. Wavelet packet best basis search using generalized Renyi entropy. In IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), 2002. [ Details ]

J. H. McClellan and V. Cevher. Tracking of multiple wideband targets using passive sensor arrays and particle filters. In IEEE DSP Workshop, 2002. [ Details | Full Text ]

J. H. McClellan and V. Cevher. 2-d sensor position perturbation analysis: Equivalence to AWGN on array outputs. In IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM), 2002. [ Details | Full Text ]

W. Kinsner, V. Cevher, and R. M. Dansereau. Wavelet packet best basis search using generalized Renyi entropy. Ieee Ccec 2002: Canadian Conference On Electrcial And Computer Engineering, Vols 1-3, Conference Proceedings, pages 1005-1008, 2002. [ DOI | Details ]

V. Cevher and J. H. McClellan. Sensor array calibration via tracking with the extended Kalman filter. In International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2001. [ Details | Full Text ]

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