STatistical AI Reading Group previous readings: September-December, 2009

October 2 (Stairmaster: Meg): Hierarchical Models of Objects in Scenes:

Devi Parikh and Tsuhan Chen.
Hierarchical Semantics of Objects (hSOs).
In ICCV (2007).

Carolina Galleguillos, Andrew Rabinovich, Serge Belongie.
Object Categorization using Co-Occurrence, Location and Appearance.
CVPR (2008).

Stephen Gould, Jim Rodgers, David Cohen, Gal Elidan, Daphne Koller.
Multi-Class Segmentation with Relative Location Prior.
IJCV (2008).

October 9 (Stairmaster: Sam): Attend Classification and Beyond Talk by Shimon Ullman on Oct 6 if possible.

Boris Epshtein and Shimon Ullman.
Feature Hierarchies for Object Classification.
In ICCV (2005).

October 16 (Stairmaster: David): Hui Li, Xuejun Liao, Lawrence Carin.
Multi-task Reinforcement Learning in Partially Observable Stochastic Environments.
JMLR 10(May):1131--1186, (2009).

October 30 (Stairmaster: Jenny): Kee-Eung Kim and Thomas Dean.
Solving factored Markov decision processes using non-homogeneous partitions.
Artificial Intelligence, 147(1-2):225–251 (2003).

November 13 (Stairmaster: Tomas): Michael Erdmann.
On the Topology of Discrete Strategies.
International Journal of Robotics Research. To appear.

CANCELED

November 20 (Stairmaster: Chris Watkins): Vicky Choi and Yang Huang.
Faster Algorithms for Constructing a Concept (Galois) Lattice, Enumerating all Maximal Bipartite Cliques.
Presented at SIAM Conference on Discrete Mathematics. (2006)

December 4 (Stairmaster: Tomas): Michael Erdmann.
On the Topology of Discrete Strategies.
International Journal of Robotics Research. To appear.