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Learning People Detectors for Tracking in Crowded Scenes

Tang, S., Andriluka, M., Milan, A., Schindler, K., Roth, S., Schiele, B.

In 2013 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, pages: 1049-1056, IEEE, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, December 2013 (inproceedings)

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ps Tang, S., Andriluka, M., Milan, A., Schindler, K., Roth, S., Schiele, B. Learning People Detectors for Tracking in Crowded Scenes In 2013 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, pages: 1049-1056, IEEE, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, December 2013 (inproceedings)

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Strong Appearance and Expressive Spatial Models for Human Pose Estimation

Pishchulin, L., Andriluka, M., Gehler, P., Schiele, B.

In International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), pages: 3487 - 3494 , IEEE, Computer Vision (ICCV), IEEE International Conference on , December 2013 (inproceedings)

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Typical approaches to articulated pose estimation combine spatial modelling of the human body with appearance modelling of body parts. This paper aims to push the state-of-the-art in articulated pose estimation in two ways. First we explore various types of appearance representations aiming to substantially improve the body part hypotheses. And second, we draw on and combine several recently proposed powerful ideas such as more flexible spatial models as well as image-conditioned spatial models. In a series of experiments we draw several important conclusions: (1) we show that the proposed appearance representations are complementary; (2) we demonstrate that even a basic tree-structure spatial human body model achieves state-of-the-art performance when augmented with the proper appearance representation; and (3) we show that the combination of the best performing appearance model with a flexible image-conditioned spatial model achieves the best result, significantly improving over the state of the art, on the "Leeds Sports Poses'' and "Parse'' benchmarks.

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ps Pishchulin, L., Andriluka, M., Gehler, P., Schiele, B. Strong Appearance and Expressive Spatial Models for Human Pose Estimation In International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), pages: 3487 - 3494 , IEEE, Computer Vision (ICCV), IEEE International Conference on , December 2013 (inproceedings)

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Methods and Applications for Distance Based ANN Training

Lassner, C., Lienhart, R.

In IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), December 2013 (inproceedings)

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Feature learning has the aim to take away the hassle of hand-designing features for machine learning tasks. Since the feature design process is tedious and requires a lot of experience, an automated solution is of great interest. However, an important problem in this field is that usually no objective values are available to fit a feature learning function to. Artificial Neural Networks are a sufficiently flexible tool for function approximation to be able to avoid this problem. We show how the error function of an ANN can be modified such that it works solely with objective distances instead of objective values. We derive the adjusted rules for backpropagation through networks with arbitrary depths and include practical considera- tions that must be taken into account to apply difference based learning successfully. On all three benchmark datasets we use, linear SVMs trained on automatically learned ANN features outperform RBF kernel SVMs trained on the raw data. This can be achieved in a feature space with up to only a tenth of dimensions of the number of original data dimensions. We conclude our work with two experiments on distance based ANN training in two further fields: data visualization and outlier detection.

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ps Lassner, C., Lienhart, R. Methods and Applications for Distance Based ANN Training In IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), December 2013 (inproceedings)

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Understanding High-Level Semantics by Modeling Traffic Patterns

Zhang, H., Geiger, A., Urtasun, R.

In International Conference on Computer Vision, pages: 3056-3063, Sydney, Australia, December 2013 (inproceedings)

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In this paper, we are interested in understanding the semantics of outdoor scenes in the context of autonomous driving. Towards this goal, we propose a generative model of 3D urban scenes which is able to reason not only about the geometry and objects present in the scene, but also about the high-level semantics in the form of traffic patterns. We found that a small number of patterns is sufficient to model the vast majority of traffic scenes and show how these patterns can be learned. As evidenced by our experiments, this high-level reasoning significantly improves the overall scene estimation as well as the vehicle-to-lane association when compared to state-of-the-art approaches. All data and code will be made available upon publication.

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avg ps Zhang, H., Geiger, A., Urtasun, R. Understanding High-Level Semantics by Modeling Traffic Patterns In International Conference on Computer Vision, pages: 3056-3063, Sydney, Australia, December 2013 (inproceedings)

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A Non-parametric Bayesian Network Prior of Human Pose

Lehrmann, A. M., Gehler, P., Nowozin, S.

In Proceedings IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV), pages: 1281-1288, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, December 2013 (inproceedings)

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Having a sensible prior of human pose is a vital ingredient for many computer vision applications, including tracking and pose estimation. While the application of global non-parametric approaches and parametric models has led to some success, finding the right balance in terms of flexibility and tractability, as well as estimating model parameters from data has turned out to be challenging. In this work, we introduce a sparse Bayesian network model of human pose that is non-parametric with respect to the estimation of both its graph structure and its local distributions. We describe an efficient sampling scheme for our model and show its tractability for the computation of exact log-likelihoods. We empirically validate our approach on the Human 3.6M dataset and demonstrate superior performance to global models and parametric networks. We further illustrate our model's ability to represent and compose poses not present in the training set (compositionality) and describe a speed-accuracy trade-off that allows realtime scoring of poses.

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ps Lehrmann, A. M., Gehler, P., Nowozin, S. A Non-parametric Bayesian Network Prior of Human Pose In Proceedings IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV), pages: 1281-1288, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, December 2013 (inproceedings)

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Towards understanding action recognition

Jhuang, H., Gall, J., Zuffi, S., Schmid, C., Black, M. J.

In IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), pages: 3192-3199, IEEE, Sydney, Australia, December 2013 (inproceedings)

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Although action recognition in videos is widely studied, current methods often fail on real-world datasets. Many recent approaches improve accuracy and robustness to cope with challenging video sequences, but it is often unclear what affects the results most. This paper attempts to provide insights based on a systematic performance evaluation using thoroughly-annotated data of human actions. We annotate human Joints for the HMDB dataset (J-HMDB). This annotation can be used to derive ground truth optical flow and segmentation. We evaluate current methods using this dataset and systematically replace the output of various algorithms with ground truth. This enables us to discover what is important – for example, should we work on improving flow algorithms, estimating human bounding boxes, or enabling pose estimation? In summary, we find that highlevel pose features greatly outperform low/mid level features; in particular, pose over time is critical, but current pose estimation algorithms are not yet reliable enough to provide this information. We also find that the accuracy of a top-performing action recognition framework can be greatly increased by refining the underlying low/mid level features; this suggests it is important to improve optical flow and human detection algorithms. Our analysis and JHMDB dataset should facilitate a deeper understanding of action recognition algorithms.

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ps Jhuang, H., Gall, J., Zuffi, S., Schmid, C., Black, M. J. Towards understanding action recognition In IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), pages: 3192-3199, IEEE, Sydney, Australia, December 2013 (inproceedings)

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Probabilistic Object Tracking Using a Range Camera

Wüthrich, M., Pastor, P., Kalakrishnan, M., Bohg, J., Schaal, S.

In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pages: 3195-3202, IEEE, November 2013 (inproceedings)

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We address the problem of tracking the 6-DoF pose of an object while it is being manipulated by a human or a robot. We use a dynamic Bayesian network to perform inference and compute a posterior distribution over the current object pose. Depending on whether a robot or a human manipulates the object, we employ a process model with or without knowledge of control inputs. Observations are obtained from a range camera. As opposed to previous object tracking methods, we explicitly model self-occlusions and occlusions from the environment, e.g, the human or robotic hand. This leads to a strongly non-linear observation model and additional dependencies in the Bayesian network. We employ a Rao-Blackwellised particle filter to compute an estimate of the object pose at every time step. In a set of experiments, we demonstrate the ability of our method to accurately and robustly track the object pose in real-time while it is being manipulated by a human or a robot.

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am Wüthrich, M., Pastor, P., Kalakrishnan, M., Bohg, J., Schaal, S. Probabilistic Object Tracking Using a Range Camera In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pages: 3195-3202, IEEE, November 2013 (inproceedings)

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Virtual Robotization of the Human Body via Data-Driven Vibrotactile Feedback

Kurihara, Y., Hachisu, T., Kuchenbecker, K. J., Kajimoto, H.

In Proc. International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (ACE), 8253, pages: 109-122, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Enschede, Netherlands, 2013, Oral presentation given by Kurihara. Best Paper Silver Award (inproceedings)

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hi Kurihara, Y., Hachisu, T., Kuchenbecker, K. J., Kajimoto, H. Virtual Robotization of the Human Body via Data-Driven Vibrotactile Feedback In Proc. International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (ACE), 8253, pages: 109-122, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Enschede, Netherlands, 2013, Oral presentation given by Kurihara. Best Paper Silver Award (inproceedings)

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Mixing Decoded Cursor Velocity and Position from an Offline Kalman Filter Improves Cursor Control in People with Tetraplegia

Homer, M., Harrison, M., Black, M. J., Perge, J., Cash, S., Friehs, G., Hochberg, L.

In 6th International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, pages: 715-718, San Diego, November 2013 (inproceedings)

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Kalman filtering is a common method to decode neural signals from the motor cortex. In clinical research investigating the use of intracortical brain computer interfaces (iBCIs), the technique enabled people with tetraplegia to control assistive devices such as a computer or robotic arm directly from their neural activity. For reaching movements, the Kalman filter typically estimates the instantaneous endpoint velocity of the control device. Here, we analyzed attempted arm/hand movements by people with tetraplegia to control a cursor on a computer screen to reach several circular targets. A standard velocity Kalman filter is enhanced to additionally decode for the cursor’s position. We then mix decoded velocity and position to generate cursor movement commands. We analyzed data, offline, from two participants across six sessions. Root mean squared error between the actual and estimated cursor trajectory improved by 12.2 ±10.5% (pairwise t-test, p<0.05) as compared to a standard velocity Kalman filter. The findings suggest that simultaneously decoding for intended velocity and position and using them both to generate movement commands can improve the performance of iBCIs.

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ps Homer, M., Harrison, M., Black, M. J., Perge, J., Cash, S., Friehs, G., Hochberg, L. Mixing Decoded Cursor Velocity and Position from an Offline Kalman Filter Improves Cursor Control in People with Tetraplegia In 6th International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, pages: 715-718, San Diego, November 2013 (inproceedings)

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Multi-Robot Cooperative Object Tracking Based on Particle Filters

Ahmad, A., Lima, P.

In 61(10):1084-1093, 5th European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR), October 2013 (inproceedings)

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This article presents a cooperative approach for tracking a moving object by a team of mobile robots equipped with sensors, in a highly dynamic environment. The tracker’s core is a particle filter, modified to handle, within a single unified framework, the problem of complete or partial occlusion for some of the involved mobile sensors, as well as inconsistent estimates in the global frame among sensors, due to observation errors and/or self-localization uncertainty. We present results supporting our approach by applying it to a team of real soccer robots tracking a soccer ball.

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ps Ahmad, A., Lima, P. Multi-Robot Cooperative Object Tracking Based on Particle Filters In 61(10):1084-1093, 5th European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR), October 2013 (inproceedings)

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Distribution Fields with Adaptive Kernels for Large Displacement Image Alignment

Mears, B., Sevilla-Lara, L., Learned-Miller, E.

In British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) , BMVA Press, September 2013 (inproceedings)

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While region-based image alignment algorithms that use gradient descent can achieve sub-pixel accuracy when they converge, their convergence depends on the smoothness of the image intensity values. Image smoothness is often enforced through the use of multiscale approaches in which images are smoothed and downsampled. Yet, these approaches typically use fixed smoothing parameters which may be appropriate for some images but not for others. Even for a particular image, the optimal smoothing parameters may depend on the magnitude of the transformation. When the transformation is large, the image should be smoothed more than when the transformation is small. Further, with gradient-based approaches, the optimal smoothing parameters may change with each iteration as the algorithm proceeds towards convergence. We address convergence issues related to the choice of smoothing parameters by deriving a Gauss-Newton gradient descent algorithm based on distribution fields (DFs) and proposing a method to dynamically select smoothing parameters at each iteration. DF and DF-like representations have previously been used in the context of tracking. In this work we incorporate DFs into a full affine model for region-based alignment and simultaneously search over parameterized sets of geometric and photometric transforms. We use a probabilistic interpretation of DFs to select smoothing parameters at each step in the optimization and show that this results in improved convergence rates.

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ps Mears, B., Sevilla-Lara, L., Learned-Miller, E. Distribution Fields with Adaptive Kernels for Large Displacement Image Alignment In British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) , BMVA Press, September 2013 (inproceedings)

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Metric Regression Forests for Human Pose Estimation

(Best Science Paper Award)

Pons-Moll, G., Taylor, J., Shotton, J., Hertzmann, A., Fitzgibbon, A.

In British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) , BMVA Press, September 2013 (inproceedings)

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ps Pons-Moll, G., Taylor, J., Shotton, J., Hertzmann, A., Fitzgibbon, A. Metric Regression Forests for Human Pose Estimation In British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) , BMVA Press, September 2013 (inproceedings)

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Virtual Robotization of the Human Body Using Vibration Recording, Modeling and Rendering

Kurihara, Y., Hachisu, T., Kuchenbecker, K. J., Kajimoto, H.

In Proc. Virtual Reality Society of Japan Annual Conference, Osaka, Japan, sep 2013, Paper written in Japanese. Presentation given by Kurihara (inproceedings)

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hi Kurihara, Y., Hachisu, T., Kuchenbecker, K. J., Kajimoto, H. Virtual Robotization of the Human Body Using Vibration Recording, Modeling and Rendering In Proc. Virtual Reality Society of Japan Annual Conference, Osaka, Japan, sep 2013, Paper written in Japanese. Presentation given by Kurihara (inproceedings)

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Poselet conditioned pictorial structures

Pishchulin, L., Andriluka, M., Gehler, P., Schiele, B.

In IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pages: 588 - 595, IEEE, Portland, OR, Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVRP), June 2013 (inproceedings)

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ps Pishchulin, L., Andriluka, M., Gehler, P., Schiele, B. Poselet conditioned pictorial structures In IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pages: 588 - 595, IEEE, Portland, OR, Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVRP), June 2013 (inproceedings)

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Occlusion Patterns for Object Class Detection

Pepik, B., Stark, M., Gehler, P., Schiele, B.

In IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Portland, OR, June 2013 (inproceedings)

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Despite the success of recent object class recognition systems, the long-standing problem of partial occlusion re- mains a major challenge, and a principled solution is yet to be found. In this paper we leave the beaten path of meth- ods that treat occlusion as just another source of noise – instead, we include the occluder itself into the modelling, by mining distinctive, reoccurring occlusion patterns from annotated training data. These patterns are then used as training data for dedicated detectors of varying sophistica- tion. In particular, we evaluate and compare models that range from standard object class detectors to hierarchical, part-based representations of occluder/occludee pairs. In an extensive evaluation we derive insights that can aid fur- ther developments in tackling the occlusion challenge.

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ps Pepik, B., Stark, M., Gehler, P., Schiele, B. Occlusion Patterns for Object Class Detection In IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Portland, OR, June 2013 (inproceedings)

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Lost! Leveraging the Crowd for Probabilistic Visual Self-Localization

(CVPR13 Best Paper Runner-Up)

Brubaker, M. A., Geiger, A., Urtasun, R.

In IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2013), pages: 3057-3064, IEEE, Portland, OR, June 2013 (inproceedings)

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In this paper we propose an affordable solution to self- localization, which utilizes visual odometry and road maps as the only inputs. To this end, we present a probabilis- tic model as well as an efficient approximate inference al- gorithm, which is able to utilize distributed computation to meet the real-time requirements of autonomous systems. Because of the probabilistic nature of the model we are able to cope with uncertainty due to noisy visual odometry and inherent ambiguities in the map ( e.g ., in a Manhattan world). By exploiting freely available, community devel- oped maps and visual odometry measurements, we are able to localize a vehicle up to 3m after only a few seconds of driving on maps which contain more than 2,150km of driv- able roads.

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avg ps Brubaker, M. A., Geiger, A., Urtasun, R. Lost! Leveraging the Crowd for Probabilistic Visual Self-Localization In IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2013), pages: 3057-3064, IEEE, Portland, OR, June 2013 (inproceedings)

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Human Pose Estimation using Body Parts Dependent Joint Regressors

Dantone, M., Gall, J., Leistner, C., van Gool, L.

In IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pages: 3041-3048, IEEE, Portland, OR, USA, June 2013 (inproceedings)

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In this work, we address the problem of estimating 2d human pose from still images. Recent methods that rely on discriminatively trained deformable parts organized in a tree model have shown to be very successful in solving this task. Within such a pictorial structure framework, we address the problem of obtaining good part templates by proposing novel, non-linear joint regressors. In particular, we employ two-layered random forests as joint regressors. The first layer acts as a discriminative, independent body part classifier. The second layer takes the estimated class distributions of the first one into account and is thereby able to predict joint locations by modeling the interdependence and co-occurrence of the parts. This results in a pose estimation framework that takes dependencies between body parts already for joint localization into account and is thus able to circumvent typical ambiguities of tree structures, such as for legs and arms. In the experiments, we demonstrate that our body parts dependent joint regressors achieve a higher joint localization accuracy than tree-based state-of-the-art methods.

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ps Dantone, M., Gall, J., Leistner, C., van Gool, L. Human Pose Estimation using Body Parts Dependent Joint Regressors In IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pages: 3041-3048, IEEE, Portland, OR, USA, June 2013 (inproceedings)

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A fully-connected layered model of foreground and background flow

Sun, D., Wulff, J., Sudderth, E., Pfister, H., Black, M.

In IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, (CVPR 2013), pages: 2451-2458, Portland, OR, June 2013 (inproceedings)

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Layered models allow scene segmentation and motion estimation to be formulated together and to inform one another. Traditional layered motion methods, however, employ fairly weak models of scene structure, relying on locally connected Ising/Potts models which have limited ability to capture long-range correlations in natural scenes. To address this, we formulate a fully-connected layered model that enables global reasoning about the complicated segmentations of real objects. Optimization with fully-connected graphical models is challenging, and our inference algorithm leverages recent work on efficient mean field updates for fully-connected conditional random fields. These methods can be implemented efficiently using high-dimensional Gaussian filtering. We combine these ideas with a layered flow model, and find that the long-range connections greatly improve segmentation into figure-ground layers when compared with locally connected MRF models. Experiments on several benchmark datasets show that the method can recover fine structures and large occlusion regions, with good flow accuracy and much lower computational cost than previous locally-connected layered models.

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ps Sun, D., Wulff, J., Sudderth, E., Pfister, H., Black, M. A fully-connected layered model of foreground and background flow In IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, (CVPR 2013), pages: 2451-2458, Portland, OR, June 2013 (inproceedings)

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Hypothesis Testing Framework for Active Object Detection

Sankaran, B., Atanasov, N., Le Ny, J., Koletschka, T., Pappas, G., Daniilidis, K.

In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2013, clmc (inproceedings)

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One of the central problems in computer vision is the detection of semantically important objects and the estimation of their pose. Most of the work in object detection has been based on single image processing and its performance is limited by occlusions and ambiguity in appearance and geometry. This paper proposes an active approach to object detection by controlling the point of view of a mobile depth camera. When an initial static detection phase identifies an object of interest, several hypotheses are made about its class and orientation. The sensor then plans a sequence of view-points, which balances the amount of energy used to move with the chance of identifying the correct hypothesis. We formulate an active M-ary hypothesis testing problem, which includes sensor mobility, and solve it using a point-based approximate POMDP algorithm. The validity of our approach is verified through simulation and experiments with real scenes captured by a kinect sensor. The results suggest a significant improvement over static object detection.

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am Sankaran, B., Atanasov, N., Le Ny, J., Koletschka, T., Pappas, G., Daniilidis, K. Hypothesis Testing Framework for Active Object Detection In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2013, clmc (inproceedings)

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Benefits of an active spine supported bounding locomotion with a small compliant quadruped robot

Khoramshahi, M., Spröwitz, A., Tuleu, A., Ahmadabadi, M. N., Ijspeert, A. J.

In Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2013 IEEE International Conference on, pages: 3329-3334, May 2013 (inproceedings)

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We studied the effect of the control of an active spine versus a fixed spine, on a quadruped robot running in bound gait. Active spine supported actuation led to faster locomotion, with less foot sliding on the ground, and a higher stability to go straight forward. However, we did no observe an improvement of cost of transport of the spine-actuated, faster robot system compared to the rigid spine.

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dlg Khoramshahi, M., Spröwitz, A., Tuleu, A., Ahmadabadi, M. N., Ijspeert, A. J. Benefits of an active spine supported bounding locomotion with a small compliant quadruped robot In Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2013 IEEE International Conference on, pages: 3329-3334, May 2013 (inproceedings)

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Virtual Alteration of Body Material by Reality-Based Periodic Vibrotactile Feedback

Kurihara, Y., Hachisu, T., Sato, M., Fukushima, S., Kuchenbecker, K. J., Kajimoto, H.

In Proc. JSME Robotics and Mechatronics Conference (ROBOMEC), Tsukuba, Japan, May 2013, Paper written in Japanese. Poster presentation given by {Kurihara} (inproceedings)

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hi Kurihara, Y., Hachisu, T., Sato, M., Fukushima, S., Kuchenbecker, K. J., Kajimoto, H. Virtual Alteration of Body Material by Reality-Based Periodic Vibrotactile Feedback In Proc. JSME Robotics and Mechatronics Conference (ROBOMEC), Tsukuba, Japan, May 2013, Paper written in Japanese. Poster presentation given by {Kurihara} (inproceedings)

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Perception-driven multi-robot formation control

Ahmad, A., Nascimento, T., Conceicao, A., Moreira, A., Lima, P.

In pages: 1851-1856, IEEE, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2013 (inproceedings)

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Maximizing the performance of cooperative perception of a tracked target by a team of mobile robots while maintaining the team's formation is the core problem addressed in this work. We propose a solution by integrating the controller and the estimator modules in a formation control loop. The controller module is a distributed non-linear model predictive controller and the estimator module is based on a particle filter for cooperative target tracking. A formal description of the integration followed by simulation and real robot results on two different teams of homogeneous robots are presented. The results highlight how our method successfully enables a team of homogeneous robots to minimize the total uncertainty of the tracked target's cooperative estimate while complying with the performance criteria such as keeping a pre-set distance between the team-mates and/or the target and obstacle avoidance.

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ps Ahmad, A., Nascimento, T., Conceicao, A., Moreira, A., Lima, P. Perception-driven multi-robot formation control In pages: 1851-1856, IEEE, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2013 (inproceedings)

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Cooperative Robot Localization and Target Tracking based on Least Squares Minimization

Ahmad, A., Tipaldi, G., Lima, P., Burgard, W.

In pages: 5696-5701, IEEE, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2013 (inproceedings)

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In this paper we address the problem of cooperative localization and target tracking with a team of moving robots. We model the problem as a least squares minimization problem and show that this problem can be efficiently solved using sparse optimization methods. To achieve this, we represent the problem as a graph, where the nodes are robot and target poses at individual time-steps and the edges are their relative measurements. Static landmarks at known position are used to define a common reference frame for the robots and the targets. In this way, we mitigate the risk of using measurements and state estimates more than once, since all the relative measurements are i.i.d. and no marginalization is performed. Experiments performed using a set of real robots show higher accuracy compared to a Kalman filter.

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ps Ahmad, A., Tipaldi, G., Lima, P., Burgard, W. Cooperative Robot Localization and Target Tracking based on Least Squares Minimization In pages: 5696-5701, IEEE, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2013 (inproceedings)

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The Design and Field Observation of a Haptic Notification System for Oral Presentations

Tam, D., MacLean, K. E., McGrenere, J., Kuchenbecker, K. J.

In Proc. SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pages: 1689-1698, Paris, France, May 2013, Oral presentation given by Tam (inproceedings)

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hi Tam, D., MacLean, K. E., McGrenere, J., Kuchenbecker, K. J. The Design and Field Observation of a Haptic Notification System for Oral Presentations In Proc. SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pages: 1689-1698, Paris, France, May 2013, Oral presentation given by Tam (inproceedings)

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Using Robotic Exploratory Procedures to Learn the Meaning of Haptic Adjectives

Chu, V., McMahon, I., Riano, L., McDonald, C. G., He, Q., Perez-Tejada, J. M., Arrigo, M., Fitter, N., Nappo, J., Darrell, T., Kuchenbecker, K. J.

In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pages: 3048-3055, Karlsruhe, Germany, May 2013, Oral presentation given by Chu. Best Cognitive Robotics Paper Award (inproceedings)

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hi Chu, V., McMahon, I., Riano, L., McDonald, C. G., He, Q., Perez-Tejada, J. M., Arrigo, M., Fitter, N., Nappo, J., Darrell, T., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Using Robotic Exploratory Procedures to Learn the Meaning of Haptic Adjectives In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pages: 3048-3055, Karlsruhe, Germany, May 2013, Oral presentation given by Chu. Best Cognitive Robotics Paper Award (inproceedings)

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Instrument contact vibrations are a construct-valid measure of technical skill in Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery Training Tasks

Gomez, E. D., Aggarwal, R., McMahan, W., Koch, E., Hashimoto, D. A., Darzi, A., Murayama, K. M., Dumon, K. R., Williams, N. N., Kuchenbecker, K. J.

In Proc. Annual Meeting of the Association for Surgical Education, Orlando, Florida, USA, 2013, Oral presentation given by Gomez (inproceedings)

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hi Gomez, E. D., Aggarwal, R., McMahan, W., Koch, E., Hashimoto, D. A., Darzi, A., Murayama, K. M., Dumon, K. R., Williams, N. N., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Instrument contact vibrations are a construct-valid measure of technical skill in Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery Training Tasks In Proc. Annual Meeting of the Association for Surgical Education, Orlando, Florida, USA, 2013, Oral presentation given by Gomez (inproceedings)

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Dynamic Simulation of Tool-Mediated Texture Interaction

McDonald, C. G., Kuchenbecker, K. J.

In Proc. IEEE World Haptics Conference, pages: 307-312, Daejeon, South Korea, April 2013, Oral presentation given by McDonald (inproceedings)

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hi McDonald, C. G., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Dynamic Simulation of Tool-Mediated Texture Interaction In Proc. IEEE World Haptics Conference, pages: 307-312, Daejeon, South Korea, April 2013, Oral presentation given by McDonald (inproceedings)

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Generating Haptic Texture Models From Unconstrained Tool-Surface Interactions

Culbertson, H., Unwin, J., Goodman, B. E., Kuchenbecker, K. J.

In Proc. IEEE World Haptics Conference, pages: 295-300, Daejeon, South Korea, April 2013, Oral presentation given by Culbertson. Finalist for Best Paper Award (inproceedings)

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hi Culbertson, H., Unwin, J., Goodman, B. E., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Generating Haptic Texture Models From Unconstrained Tool-Surface Interactions In Proc. IEEE World Haptics Conference, pages: 295-300, Daejeon, South Korea, April 2013, Oral presentation given by Culbertson. Finalist for Best Paper Award (inproceedings)

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A practical System for Recording Instrument Contacts and Collisions During Transoral Robotic Surgery

Gomez, E. D., Weinstein, G. S., O’Malley, J. B. W., McMahan, W., Chen, L., Kuchenbecker, K. J.

In Proc. Annual Meeting of the Triological Society, Orlando, Florida, USA, April 2013, Poster presentation given by Gomez (inproceedings)

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hi Gomez, E. D., Weinstein, G. S., O’Malley, J. B. W., McMahan, W., Chen, L., Kuchenbecker, K. J. A practical System for Recording Instrument Contacts and Collisions During Transoral Robotic Surgery In Proc. Annual Meeting of the Triological Society, Orlando, Florida, USA, April 2013, Poster presentation given by Gomez (inproceedings)

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Unknown-color spherical object detection and tracking

Troppan, A., Guerreiro, E., Celiberti, F., Santos, G., Ahmad, A., Lima, P.

In pages: 1-4, IEEE, 13th International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems (Robotica), April 2013 (inproceedings)

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Detection and tracking of an unknown-color spherical object in a partially-known environment using a robot with a single camera is the core problem addressed in this article. A novel color detection mechanism, which exploits the geometrical properties of the spherical object's projection onto the image plane, precedes the object's detection process. A Kalman filter-based tracker uses the object detection in its update step and tracks the spherical object. Real robot experimental evaluation of the proposed method is presented on soccer robots detecting and tracking an unknown-color ball.

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ps Troppan, A., Guerreiro, E., Celiberti, F., Santos, G., Ahmad, A., Lima, P. Unknown-color spherical object detection and tracking In pages: 1-4, IEEE, 13th International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems (Robotica), April 2013 (inproceedings)

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Action and Goal Related Decision Variables Modulate the Competition Between Multiple Potential Targets

Enachescu, V, Christopoulos, Vassilios N, Schrater, P. R., Schaal, S.

In Abstracts of Neural Control of Movement Conference (NCM 2013), February 2013 (inproceedings)

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am Enachescu, V, Christopoulos, Vassilios N, Schrater, P. R., Schaal, S. Action and Goal Related Decision Variables Modulate the Competition Between Multiple Potential Targets In Abstracts of Neural Control of Movement Conference (NCM 2013), February 2013 (inproceedings)

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Simple, fast, accurate melanocytic lesion segmentation in 1D colour space

Peruch, F., Bogo, F., Bonazza, M., Bressan, M., Cappelleri, V., Peserico, E.

In VISAPP (1), pages: 191-200, Barcelona, February 2013 (inproceedings)

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ps Peruch, F., Bogo, F., Bonazza, M., Bressan, M., Cappelleri, V., Peserico, E. Simple, fast, accurate melanocytic lesion segmentation in 1D colour space In VISAPP (1), pages: 191-200, Barcelona, February 2013 (inproceedings)

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Falsification and future performance

Balduzzi, D.

In Algorithmic Probability and Friends. Bayesian Prediction and Artificial Intelligence, 7070, pages: 65-78, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Berlin, Germany, Solomonoff 85th Memorial Conference, January 2013 (inproceedings)

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We information-theoretically reformulate two measures of capacity from statistical learning theory: empirical VC-entropy and empirical Rademacher complexity. We show these capacity measures count the number of hypotheses about a dataset that a learning algorithm falsifies when it finds the classifier in its repertoire minimizing empirical risk. It then follows from that the future performance of predictors on unseen data is controlled in part by how many hypotheses the learner falsifies. As a corollary we show that empirical VC-entropy quantifies the message length of the true hypothesis in the optimal code of a particular probability distribution, the so-called actual repertoire.

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ei Balduzzi, D. Falsification and future performance In Algorithmic Probability and Friends. Bayesian Prediction and Artificial Intelligence, 7070, pages: 65-78, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Berlin, Germany, Solomonoff 85th Memorial Conference, January 2013 (inproceedings)

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Feedback Error Learning for Rhythmic Motor Primitives

Gopalan, N., Deisenroth, M., Peters, J.

In Proceedings of 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2013), pages: 1317-1322, 2013 (inproceedings)

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ei Gopalan, N., Deisenroth, M., Peters, J. Feedback Error Learning for Rhythmic Motor Primitives In Proceedings of 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2013), pages: 1317-1322, 2013 (inproceedings)

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Gaussian Process Vine Copulas for Multivariate Dependence

Lopez-Paz, D., Hernandez-Lobato, J., Ghahramani, Z.

In Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Machine Learning, W&CP 28(2), pages: 10-18, (Editors: S Dasgupta and D McAllester), JMLR, ICML, 2013, Poster: http://people.tuebingen.mpg.de/dlopez/papers/icml2013_gpvine_poster.pdf (inproceedings)

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ei Lopez-Paz, D., Hernandez-Lobato, J., Ghahramani, Z. Gaussian Process Vine Copulas for Multivariate Dependence In Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Machine Learning, W&CP 28(2), pages: 10-18, (Editors: S Dasgupta and D McAllester), JMLR, ICML, 2013, Poster: http://people.tuebingen.mpg.de/dlopez/papers/icml2013_gpvine_poster.pdf (inproceedings)

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The Randomized Dependence Coefficient

Lopez-Paz, D., Hennig, P., Schölkopf, B.

In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 26, pages: 1-9, (Editors: C.J.C. Burges, L. Bottou, M. Welling, Z. Ghahramani, and K.Q. Weinberger), 27th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2013 (inproceedings)

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ei pn Lopez-Paz, D., Hennig, P., Schölkopf, B. The Randomized Dependence Coefficient In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 26, pages: 1-9, (Editors: C.J.C. Burges, L. Bottou, M. Welling, Z. Ghahramani, and K.Q. Weinberger), 27th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2013 (inproceedings)

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On a link between kernel mean maps and Fraunhofer diffraction, with an application to super-resolution beyond the diffraction limit

Harmeling, S., Hirsch, M., Schölkopf, B.

In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pages: 1083-1090, IEEE, CVPR, 2013 (inproceedings)

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ei Harmeling, S., Hirsch, M., Schölkopf, B. On a link between kernel mean maps and Fraunhofer diffraction, with an application to super-resolution beyond the diffraction limit In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pages: 1083-1090, IEEE, CVPR, 2013 (inproceedings)

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Output Kernel Learning Methods

Dinuzzo, F., Ong, C., Fukumizu, K.

In International Workshop on Advances in Regularization, Optimization, Kernel Methods and Support Vector Machines: theory and applications, ROKS, 2013 (inproceedings)

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ei Dinuzzo, F., Ong, C., Fukumizu, K. Output Kernel Learning Methods In International Workshop on Advances in Regularization, Optimization, Kernel Methods and Support Vector Machines: theory and applications, ROKS, 2013 (inproceedings)

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Alignment-based Transfer Learning for Robot Models

Bocsi, B., Csato, L., Peters, J.

In Proceedings of the 2013 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2013), pages: 1-7, 2013 (inproceedings)

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ei Bocsi, B., Csato, L., Peters, J. Alignment-based Transfer Learning for Robot Models In Proceedings of the 2013 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2013), pages: 1-7, 2013 (inproceedings)

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Nonlinear Causal Discovery for High Dimensional Data: A Kernelized Trace Method

Chen, Z., Zhang, K., Chan, L.

In 13th International Conference on Data Mining, pages: 1003-1008, (Editors: H. Xiong, G. Karypis, B. M. Thuraisingham, D. J. Cook and X. Wu), IEEE Computer Society, ICDM, 2013 (inproceedings)

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ei Chen, Z., Zhang, K., Chan, L. Nonlinear Causal Discovery for High Dimensional Data: A Kernelized Trace Method In 13th International Conference on Data Mining, pages: 1003-1008, (Editors: H. Xiong, G. Karypis, B. M. Thuraisingham, D. J. Cook and X. Wu), IEEE Computer Society, ICDM, 2013 (inproceedings)

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A probabilistic approach to robot trajectory generation

Paraschos, A., Neumann, G., Peters, J.

In Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Humanoid Robots (HUMANOIDS), pages: 477-483, IEEE, 13th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, 2013 (inproceedings)

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ei Paraschos, A., Neumann, G., Peters, J. A probabilistic approach to robot trajectory generation In Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Humanoid Robots (HUMANOIDS), pages: 477-483, IEEE, 13th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, 2013 (inproceedings)

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Geometric optimisation on positive definite matrices for elliptically contoured distributions

Sra, S., Hosseini, R.

In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 26, pages: 2562-2570, (Editors: C.J.C. Burges and L. Bottou and M. Welling and Z. Ghahramani and K.Q. Weinberger), 27th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2013 (inproceedings)

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ei Sra, S., Hosseini, R. Geometric optimisation on positive definite matrices for elliptically contoured distributions In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 26, pages: 2562-2570, (Editors: C.J.C. Burges and L. Bottou and M. Welling and Z. Ghahramani and K.Q. Weinberger), 27th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2013 (inproceedings)

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Fast Probabilistic Optimization from Noisy Gradients

Hennig, P.

In Proceedings of The 30th International Conference on Machine Learning, JMLR W&CP 28(1), pages: 62–70, (Editors: S Dasgupta and D McAllester), ICML, 2013 (inproceedings)

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ei pn Hennig, P. Fast Probabilistic Optimization from Noisy Gradients In Proceedings of The 30th International Conference on Machine Learning, JMLR W&CP 28(1), pages: 62–70, (Editors: S Dasgupta and D McAllester), ICML, 2013 (inproceedings)

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Structure and Dynamics of Information Pathways in On-line Media

Gomez Rodriguez, M., Leskovec, J., Schölkopf, B.

In 6th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), pages: 23-32, (Editors: S Leonardi, A Panconesi, P Ferragina, and A Gionis), ACM, WSDM, 2013 (inproceedings)

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ei Gomez Rodriguez, M., Leskovec, J., Schölkopf, B. Structure and Dynamics of Information Pathways in On-line Media In 6th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), pages: 23-32, (Editors: S Leonardi, A Panconesi, P Ferragina, and A Gionis), ACM, WSDM, 2013 (inproceedings)

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Evaluation and Analysis of the Performance of the EXP3 Algorithm in Stochastic Environments

Seldin, Y., Szepesvári, C., Auer, P., Abbasi-Yadkori, Y.

In Proceedings of the Tenth European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning , pages: 103-116, (Editors: MP Deisenroth and C Szepesvári and J Peters), JMLR, EWRL, 2013 (inproceedings)

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ei Seldin, Y., Szepesvári, C., Auer, P., Abbasi-Yadkori, Y. Evaluation and Analysis of the Performance of the EXP3 Algorithm in Stochastic Environments In Proceedings of the Tenth European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning , pages: 103-116, (Editors: MP Deisenroth and C Szepesvári and J Peters), JMLR, EWRL, 2013 (inproceedings)

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Domain adaptation under Target and Conditional Shift

Zhang, K., Schölkopf, B., Muandet, K., Wang, Z.

In Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Machine Learning, W&CP 28 (3), pages: 819–827, (Editors: S Dasgupta and D McAllester), JMLR, ICML, 2013 (inproceedings)

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ei Zhang, K., Schölkopf, B., Muandet, K., Wang, Z. Domain adaptation under Target and Conditional Shift In Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Machine Learning, W&CP 28 (3), pages: 819–827, (Editors: S Dasgupta and D McAllester), JMLR, ICML, 2013 (inproceedings)

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From Ordinary Differential Equations to Structural Causal Models: the deterministic case

Mooij, J., Janzing, D., Schölkopf, B.

In Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Conference Annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, pages: 440-448, (Editors: A Nicholson and P Smyth), AUAI Press, Corvallis, Oregon, UAI, 2013 (inproceedings)

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ei Mooij, J., Janzing, D., Schölkopf, B. From Ordinary Differential Equations to Structural Causal Models: the deterministic case In Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Conference Annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, pages: 440-448, (Editors: A Nicholson and P Smyth), AUAI Press, Corvallis, Oregon, UAI, 2013 (inproceedings)

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A machine learning approach for non-blind image deconvolution

Schuler, C., Burger, H., Harmeling, S., Schölkopf, B.

In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pages: 1067-1074, IEEE, CVPR, 2013 (inproceedings)

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ei Schuler, C., Burger, H., Harmeling, S., Schölkopf, B. A machine learning approach for non-blind image deconvolution In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pages: 1067-1074, IEEE, CVPR, 2013 (inproceedings)

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Autonomous Reinforcement Learning with Hierarchical REPS

Daniel, C., Neumann, G., Peters, J.

In Proceedings of the 2013 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2013), pages: 1-8, 2013 (inproceedings)

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ei Daniel, C., Neumann, G., Peters, J. Autonomous Reinforcement Learning with Hierarchical REPS In Proceedings of the 2013 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2013), pages: 1-8, 2013 (inproceedings)

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Geometric Tree Kernels: Classification of COPD from Airway Tree Geometry

Feragen, A., Petersen, J., Grimm, D., Dirksen, A., Pedersen, JH., Borgwardt, KM., de Bruijne, M.

In Information Processing in Medical Imaging, pages: 171-183, (Editors: JC Gee and S Joshi and KM Pohl and WM Wells and L Zöllei), Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, 23rd International Conference on Information Processing in Medical Imaging (IPMI), 2013, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 7017 (inproceedings)

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ei Feragen, A., Petersen, J., Grimm, D., Dirksen, A., Pedersen, JH., Borgwardt, KM., de Bruijne, M. Geometric Tree Kernels: Classification of COPD from Airway Tree Geometry In Information Processing in Medical Imaging, pages: 171-183, (Editors: JC Gee and S Joshi and KM Pohl and WM Wells and L Zöllei), Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, 23rd International Conference on Information Processing in Medical Imaging (IPMI), 2013, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 7017 (inproceedings)

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