Statistical Learning Theory


09810CS 565300 -- Autumn 2009

Tuesday 13:10-15:00 & Thursday 13:10-14:00
234 CS Building


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About the Term Projects

Each group consists of 1-3 members. You may apply machine learning to to your research problems (supposedly involving large data sets), or study and implement one of the following papers.

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Unsupervised Detection of Regions of Interest Using Iterative Link Analysis
G. Kim, A. Torralba [pdf]

The "tree-dependent components" of natural scenes are edge filters
D. Zoran, Y. Weiss [pdf]

Structured output regression for detection with partial truncation
A. Vedaldi, A. Zisserman [pdf]

Speaker Comparison with Inner Product Discriminant Functions
W. Campbell, Z. Karam, D. Sturim [pdf]

Semi-Supervised Learning in Gigantic Image Collections
R. Fergus, Y. Weiss, A. Torralba [pdf]

Segmenting Scenes by Matching Image Composites
B. Russell, A. Efros, J. Sivic, B. Freeman, A. Zisserman [pdf]

Robust Principal Component Analysis: Exact Recovery of Corrupted Low-Rank Matrices via Convex Optimization
J. Wright, A. Balasubramanian, S. Rao, Y. Peng, Y. Ma [pdf]

Region-based Segmentation and Object Detection
S. Gould, T. Gao, D. Koller [pdf]

Rank-Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search: Retaining Meaning and Speed in High Dimensions
P. Ram, D. Lee, H. Ouyang, A. Gray [pdf]

Positive Semidefinite Metric Learning with Boosting
C. Shen, J. Kim, L. Wang, A. van den Hengel [pdf]

A Bayesian Model for Simultaneous Image Clustering, Annotation and Object Segmentation
L. Du, L. Ren, D. Dunson, L. Carin [pdf]

A Biologically Plausible Model for Rapid Natural Scene Identification
S. Ghebreab, H. Steven, V. Lamme, A. Smeulders [pdf]

Perceptual Multistability as Markov Chain Monte Carlo Inference
S. Gershman, E. Vul, J. Tenenbaum [pdf] [slide]

On the Algorithmics and Applications of a Mixed-norm based Kernel Learning Formulation
S. Jagarlapudi, d. govindaraj, R. S, C. Bhattacharyya, A. Ben-Tal, K. Ramakrishnan [pdf]

On Learning Rotations
R. Arora [pdf] [slide]

Occlusive Components Analysis
J. Lucke, R. Turner, M. Sahani, M. Henniges [pdf] [slide]

Nonparametric Bayesian Texture Learning and Synthesis
L. Zhu, Y. Chen, B. Freeman, A. Torralba [pdf]

Modelling Relational Data using Bayesian Clustered Tensor Factorization
I. Sutskever, R. Salakhutdinov, J. Tenenbaum [pdf]

Learning to Hash with Binary Reconstructive Embeddings
B. Kulis, T. Darrell [pdf] [slide]

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More topics can be found at
ICML 2009
and
NIPS 2009