STatistical AI Reading Group previous readings: February-May, 2009

February 13 (Stairmaster: Luke)
Sungwook Yoon, Alan Fern, Robert Givan, and Subbarao Kambhampati.
Probabilistic Planning via Determinization in Hindsight.
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2008).
February 27 (Stairmaster: Nick)
Mark Johnson and Thomas L. Griffiths and Sharon Goldwater.
Adaptor Grammars: A Framework for Specifying Compositional Nonparametric Bayesian Models.
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 19, 641-648.
March 13th (Stairmaster: Jenny)
Kee-Eung Kim and Thomas Dean.
Solving Factored MDPs with Large Action Space Using Algebraic Decision Diagrams.
7th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2417, Tokyo, Japan (PRICAI-2002).
April 3rd (Stairmaster: David W.)
Sebastien Jodogne and Justus H. Piater.
Closed-Loop Learning of Visual Control Policies .
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research 28 (2007) 349­391.
April 10th
Emma's Thesis Defense at 2pm
April 17th (Stairmaster: Meg)
Pedro Felzenszwalb, David McAllester, and Deva Ramanan.
A Discriminatively Trained, Multiscale, Deformable Part Model.
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (2008).
May 8th (Stairmaster: Jenny)
Blai Bonet and Hector Geffner.
Solving POMDPs: RTDP-Bel vs. Point-based Algorithms.
In Proc. of 21st Int. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI).
Pasadena, California. 2009. AAAI Press. To appear.
May 15th (Stairmaster: Leslie)
Semantic Maps:

Andreas Nuchter and Joachim Hertzberg.
Towards Semantic Maps for Mobile Robots.
Robotics and Autonomous Systems 56, 915-26 (2008).

David Meger, Per-Erik Forssen, Kevin Lai, Scott Helmer, Sancho McCann, Tristam Southey, Matthew Baumann, James J. Little, David G. Lowe, and Bruce Dow.
Curious George: An Attentive Semantic Robot.
In IROS Workshop: From sensors to human spatial concepts San Diego, CA, (November, 2007).

Cipriano Galindo, Juan-Antonio Fernandez-Madrigal, Javier Gonzalez, and Alessandro Saffiotti.
Robot Task Planning using Semantic Maps.
Robotics and Autonomous Systems 56, 955-66 (2008).