Learning Reading Group

Coordinator: Scott Helmer Mailing list: lm-rg@cs.ubc.ca Unless otherwise noted, meetings will take place at 3:30 on Mondays in room 104 Schedule March 8, 2004 Presented by: Mike Paper: A. Hinneburg, D. Keim. "Optimal Grid-Clustering: Towards Breaking the Curse of Dimensionality in High-Dimensional Clustering" VLDB, 1999. pdf March 1, 2004 Presented by: Dustin Paper: "Improved Gauss Transform" pdf February  9, 2004 Presented by: Hendrik and Dustin Paper: None, the talk will be an outline of their respective research. February 2, 2004  Presented by: Nando (White board 1,2,3,4) Paper: S. Kumar and M. Hebert, "Discriminative Fields for Modeling Spatial Dependencies in Natural Images," in NIPS 2003.  ps Background: S. Kumar and M. Hebert, "Discriminative Random Fields:  A Discriminative Framework for Contextual Interaction in Classification," in proc.  IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV),  October  2003. pdf January 19, 2004 Presented by: Eric Brochu Paper: A. McCallum, K. Rohanimanesh, C. Sutton. "Dynamic Donditional Random Fields for Jointly Labeling Multiple Seqeuences." pdf Background: J. Lafferty, et al. "Conditional Random Fields: Probabilistic Models for Segmenting and Labeling Sequence Data." January 12, 2004 Presented by : Scott Helmer Main Paper:  Michael Fink, Pietro Perona. "Mutual Boosting for Contextual Inference," N.I.P.S. 2003. pdf, ps.gz Background: Viola & Jones, "Robust Real-time Object Detection."  and                         R. Schapire, "Theoretical Views of Boosting and Applications" Additional Links Conferences Possible future reading group papers RL Reading Group Boards 1,2