May 14 – 15, 2018
ENS de Lyon
Europe/Paris timezone

Connecting geodesics for the Stiefel manifold

May 14, 2018, 11:30 AM
30m
Amphi A (ENS de Lyon)

Amphi A

ENS de Lyon

46 allée d'Italie 69364 Lyon Cedex 07, France

Speaker

Marco Sutti (University of Geneva)

Description

Several applications in optimization, image and signal processing deal with data that belong to the Stiefel manifold St(n, p), that is, the set of n × p matrices with orthonormal columns. Some applications, for example, the computation of the Karcher mean, require evaluating the geodesic distance between two arbitrary points on St(n, p). This can be done by explicitly constructing the geodesic connecting these two points. An existing method for finding geodesics is the leapfrog algorithm introduced by J. L. Noakes, which enjoys global convergence properties. We reinterpret this algorithm as a nonlinear block Gauss-Seidel process and propose a new convergence proof based on this framework for the case of St(n, p).

Co-author

Bart Vandereycken

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