3rd International Workshop on TLS and Errors-in-Variables Modeling

Arenberg Castle, Leuven, Belgium
August 27-29, 2001

Final program and time schedule

The technical program includes invited and contributed papers, presented in oral sessions (30 minutes per paper). All lectures take place in the Auditorium of the Arenberg Castle, Kasteelpark Arenberg 1, 3001 Leuven-Heverlee, Belgium

Monday, August 27, 2001

08h30-09h45	Registration in Arenberg Castle
09h45-10h00	Opening and Welcome by Sabine Van Huffel
10h00-10h30	Opening lecture "Total Least Squares and Errors-in-Variables Modeling : Bridging the gap between Statistics, Computational Mathematics and Engineering", Sabine Van Huffel and Gene Golub
10h30-11h00	Break

Session I : Basic Concepts and Analysis in Errors-in-Variables Modeling

Chair: G. Golub

11h00-11h30	TLS and its Improvements by Semiparametric Approach, Shun-ichi Amari
11h30-12h00	Unifying least squares, total least squares and data least squares, Christopher Paige and Zdenek Strakoš
12h00-12h30	Bounds for the least squares residual using scaled total least squares, Christopher Paige and Zdenek Strakoš
12h30-13h30	Lunch

Session II : Total Least Squares Algorithms

Chair: S. Van Huffel

14h00-14h30	Recent developments in the use of rank revealing and Lanczos methods for solving TLS-related problems, Ricardo Fierro and Per Christian Hansen
14h00-14h30	A regularized total least squares algorithm, Hongbin Guo and Rosemary A. Renaut
14h30-15h00	The parametric quadratic form method for solving total least squares problems with element-wise weighting, Amedeo Premoli and Maria-Luisa Rastello
15h00-15h30	Least volume model fitting, Chris Tofallis
15h30-16h00	Break

Session III : Structured Total Least Squares Problems

Chair: G. Golub

16h00-16h30	Structured total least squares: analysis, algorithms and applications, Philippe Lemmerling and Sabine Van Huffel
16h30-17h00	Fast structured TLS algorithms via exploitation of the displacement structure, Nicola Mastronardi, Philippe Lemmerling and Sabine Van Huffel
17h00-17h30	The extended structured TLS algorithm for minimizing the extended least squares criterion, Arie Yeredor
19h00	Welcome drink and dinner in “De Oude Kantien”

Tuesday, August 28, 2001

Session IV : Nonlinear Errors-in-Variables Models and Statistical Estimators

Chair: Y. Amemiya

09h00-09h30	On the polynomial measurement error model, Chi-Lun Cheng and Hans Schneeweiss
09h30-10h00	On consistent estimators in nonlinear functional errors-in-variables models, Alexander Kukush and, Silvelyn Zwanzig
10h00-10h30	On consistent estimators in linear and bilinear Multivariate Errors-in-Variables Models, Alexander Kukush, Ivan Markovsky and Sabine Van Huffel
10h30-11h00	Break
11h00-11h30	Identification of Semi-Linear Models within an Errors-in-Variables Framework, Rik Pintelon and Johan Schoukens
11h30-12h00	Cox's Proportional Hazards model under covariate measurement error -- A review and comparison of methods, Thomas Augustin and R. Schwarz
12h00-13h30	Lunch

Session V : Errors-in-variables Modeling with Bounded Uncertainties

Chair: P. Lemmerling

13h30-14h00	State-space estimation with uncertain models, Ali Sayed
14h00-14h30	Bounded errors-in-variables models, Shivkumar Chandrasekaran, Gene Golub, Ming Gu, Ali Sayed, Keith Schubert
14h30-15h00	Robust solutions to linear approximation problems under ellipsoidal uncertainty, G. Alistair Watson
15h00-15h30	Break

Session VI : Orthogonal Curve Fitting

Chair: Å. Björck

15h30-16h00	QR factorization of the Jacobian in some structured nonlinear least squares problems, Åke Björck
16h00-16h30	Neural minor component analysis and TLS, Giansalvo Cirrincione and Maurizio Cirrincione
16h30-17h00	On the structural line segment model, Ori Davidov, Alexander Goldenshluger, Roman Reidman
17h30-19h30	Guided visit through Leuven
20h00	Banquet in “Salons Georges”

Wednesday, August 29, 2001

Session VII : Errors-in-Variables Estimation in System Identification

Chair: R. Pintelon

08h30-09h00	Perspectives on errors-in-variables estimation for dynamic systems, Torsten Söderström, Umberto Soverini and Kaushik Mahata
09h00-09h30	Errors-in-variables Filtering in Behavioural and state-space contexts, Roberto Guidorzi, Roberto Diversi and Umberto Soverini
09h30-10h00	Structured total least squares and errors-in-variables filtering, Bart De Moor
10h00-10h30	Frequency-domain TLS and Generalized TLS algorithms for modal analysis applications, Peter Verboven, Patrick Guillaume, Eli Parloo and Marc Van Overmeire
10h30-11h00	Break
11h00-11h30	Hidden Markov Chain identification, Erik Verriest

Session VIII : Errors-in-Variables Estimation in Signal Processing

Chair: B. Ottersten

11h30-12h00	A new decimative spectral estimation method with unconstrained model order and decimation factor, Stavroula-Evita Fotinea, Ioannis Dologlou and George Carayannis
12h00-12h30	Modeling Audio with Damped Sinusoids using Total Least Squares Algorithms, Werner Verhelst, Kris Hermus, Philippe Lemmerling, Patrick Wambacq and Sabine Van Huffel
12h30-13h30	Lunch

Session IX : Errors-in-Variables Applications in other fields

Chair: B. De Moor

13h30-14h00	TLS problems in information retrieval, Michael Berry and Ricardo Fierro
14h00-14h30	Constrained Total Least Squares for color Image Reconstruction, Michael Ng
14h30-15h00	Total least squares in astronomy, Richard Branham
15h00-15h30	TLS and Constrained TLS neural networks for computer vision, Giansalvo Cirrincione
15h30-16h00	Real-time TLS algorithms in Gaussian and Impulse noise environments, Da-Zheng Feng, Zheng Bao and Xian-Da Zhang
16h00	Closing of the workshop