Jacob Schack Vestergaard
DTU Compute

 

Currently working on my PhD thesis "A Grand Challenge: Large-scale event recognition and tracking". Current research topics include multivariate statistics for (multi set) decomposition methods, image deconvolution, object tracking methods, machine learning for classification and model selection.

 

The main applications are

 

  • Extreme weather classification and forecasting. Time series of weather radar data and multispectral satellite imagery, for recognizing and forecasting heavy precipitation.
  • Stemcell tracking. Time series of images of NPG stemcells captured using phase contrast microscopy.

 

Exemplary code for Matlab will be published here when possible.

 

 

 

Publications

Academic dissertations

 

Journal articles

  1. Vestergaard, Jacob S.; Nielsen, Allan A. (2012), Automated invariant alignment to improve canonical variates in image fusion of satellite and weather radar data, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 2012, [accepted, early online release available].

 

Conference contributions

  1. Vestergaard, Jacob S.; Dahl, Anders L.; Holm, Peter and Larsen, Rasmus (2013), Dynamically constrained pipeline for tracking neural progenitor cells, Conference on Digital Pathology, SPIE Medical Imaging 2013
  2. Vestergaard, Jacob S.; Dahl, Anders L.; Holm, Peter and Larsen, Rasmus (2012), Pipeline for tracking neural progenitor cells, Workshop on Medical Computer Vision, MICCAI 2012
  3. Vestergaard, Jacob S.; Dahl, Anders L.; Larsen, Rasmus and Nielsen, Allan A. (2012), Classification of Polarimetric SAR Data Using Dictionary Learning. In Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering Vol. 8537, 2012, p. 8537-35
  4. Nielsen, Allan A.; Vestergaard, Jacob S. (2012), Parameter optimization in the regularized kernel minimum noise fraction transformation, IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2012, Munich, Germany, 22-27 July 2012. Invited contribution.
  5. Nielsen, Allan A.; Larsen, Rasmus and Vestergaard, Jacob S. (2011), Sparse principal component analysis in hyperspectral change detection, presented at SPIE Europe Remote Sensing Conference 8180, September 2011, Prague, Czech Republic.
  6. Nielsen, Allan A.; Vestergaard, Jacob S. and Andersen, Simon G. (2010), Bidrag til automatisering af ortofotomosaikfremstilling, presented at Kortdage 2010, Århus, Denmark.

 

Posters

  1. Vestergaard, Jacob S.; Dahl, Anders L.; Holm, Peter and Larsen, Rasmus (2012), Large scale tracking of stem cells using sparse coding and coupled graphs, presented at International Computer Vision Summer School (ICVSS), July 2012, Sicily.
  2. Vestergaard, Jacob S. (2011), Improved Nowcasting of Heavy Precipitation Using Satellite and Weather Radar Data, supplementary poster for "Månedens grønne projekt", October 2011, Technical University of Denmark.
  3. Vestergaard, Jacob S.; Nielsen, Allan A.; Larsen, Rasmus and Bøvith, Thomas (2011), Improved Nowcasting of Heavy Precipitation Using Satellite and Weather Radar Data, part of master's thesis, presented at Industrial Visionday, May 2011, Technical University of Denmark.
  4. Vestergaard, Jacob S. and Andersen, Simon G. (2010), Normalization of ortophotos based on no-change pixels using Multivariate Alteration Detection (MAD), presented at Industrial Visionday, May 2010, Technical University of Denmark.
  5. Vestergaard, Jacob S.; Nielsen, Allan A., and Andersen Ole B. (2010), Seventeen years of global SSH anomalies analyzed by a maxmaximum information based extension to EOF analysis, presented at 2010 Ocean Sciences Meeting, February 2010, Portland, OR.

 

Software

  • hypersph2cart.m and cart2hypersph.m for Matlab.
    Convert hyperspherical coordinates to cartesian coordinates and convert cartesian coordinates to hyperspherical coordinates.
  • The CLOUD toolbox for Matlab.
    Methods for reading Meteosat Second Generation Level 1.5 HDF5 (.h5) images and using included metadata to perform projections using the PROJ.4 library. Minimum version 4.4 of the library is needed, as MATLAB does not support the geostationary satellite projection (GEOS).
    Exemplary weather radar data and multispectral satellite data is included (thanks to DMI).

 

 Teaching

2012

 

2011