Publications on TAC++ applications

B. Pinty, T. Lavergne, T. Kaminski, N. Gobron, and M. Taberner. Validation of the MERIS FAPAR L2 Products against Independent Estimates Derived from the MODIS and MISR Surface Albedo Operational products. In Proceedings of 2nd MERIS/(A)ATSR User Workshop, Frascati, Italy. European Space Agency, 2008.
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M. Voßbeck, R. Giering, and T. Kaminski. Development and First Applications of TAC++. In C. Bischof, H. M. Bücker, P. D. Hovland, U. Naumann, and J. Utke, editors, Advances in Automatic Differentiation, Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering, pages 187-197, Berlin, 2008. Springer.
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B. Pinty, T. Lavergne, T. Kaminski, O. Aussedat, R. Giering, N. Gobron, M. Taberner, M. M. Verstraete, M. Voßbeck, and J.-L. Widlowski. Partitioning the solar radiant fluxes in forest canopies in the presence of snow. J. Geophys. Res., 113, 2008.
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The paper describes another application of the JRC-TIP inverse modeling package for estimation of parameters of a radiative transfer model together with their uncertainty ranges. The required adjoint and Hessian code have been generated by TAC++.

T. Pock, M. Pock, and H. Bischof. Algorithmic differentiation: Application to variational problems in computer vision. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 29(7):1180-1193, 2007.
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B. Pinty, T. Lavergne, M. Voßbeck, T. Kaminski, O. Aussedat, R. Giering, N. Gobron, M. Taberner, M. M. Verstraete, and J.-L. Widlowski. Retrieving surface parameters for climate models from MODIS-MISR albedo products. J. Geophys. Res., 112, 2007.
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The paper describes and applies an inverse modeling package for estimation of parameters of a radiative transfer model together with their uncertainty ranges. The required adjoint and Hessian code have been generated by TAC++.

M. Giles. Monte Carlo evaluation of sensitivities in computational finance. In Elias A. Lipitakis, editor, HERCMA 2007, 2007.
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The paper describes the application of TAC++ and the operator overloading AD tool FADBAD to a Monte Carlo simulation of the LIBOR market model and compares the performance with that of hand-coded tangent and adjoint codes

Thomas Lavergne, Michael Voßbeck, Bernard Pinty, Thomas Kaminski, and Ralf Giering. Evaluation of the two-stream inversion package. EUR 22467 EN, European Commission - DG Joint Research Centre, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, 2006.
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M. Voßbeck, R. Giering, and T. Kaminski. Towards a tool for forward and reverse mode source to source transformation in C++. In M. Bücker, G. Corliss, P. Hovland, U. Naumann, and B. Norris, editors, NOT accepted for AD 2004, Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering, Berlin, 2004. Springer.
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A feasibility study for our C++ AD-tool. A short 129 C-line Roe solver is differentiated in reverse mode. The automatically generated adjoint code runs about three times slower than the solver itself.