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| Date | Discussion Theme | Class |
| September 30, 2008 | Class Introduction [slides] | |
| October 2, 2008 | Useful Features for Activity Recognition | Activity recognition from
user-annotated
acceleration data L. Bao and S. S. Intille Pervasive 2004 Presentation and discussion leader: Hong Lu [slides] A Linked-HMM Model for Voicing and Speech Detection S. Basu IEEE Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2003 Presentation and discussion leader: Emiliano Miluzzo [slides] |
| October 7, 2008 | Modeling and Interpreting Conversations | Introduction to Graphical Models - Part I Modeling Dominance in Group Conversations from Nonverbal Activity Cues D. Jayagopi, H. Hung, C. Yeo, and D. Gatica-Perez IEEE Trans. on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Special Issue on Multi-modal Processing for Speech-based Interactions Presentation and discussion leader: Xiaoyu Zhao [slides] |
| October 9, 2008 | Incorporating Common Sense Knowledge | Unsupervised
Activity
Recognition Using Automatically Mined Common Sense D. Wyatt, M. Philipose and T. Choudhury Ammerican Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2005 Presentation and discussion leader: Daniel Hopkins [slides] Learning Large Scale Common Sense Models of Everyday Life W. Pentney, M. Philipose, J. Bilmes and H. Kautz. AAAI 2007 Presentation and discussion leader: Cory Cornelius [slides] |
| October 14, 2008 | Location-based Models of Acitivy and Context | Predestination:
Inferring Destinations from
Partial Trajectories J. Krumm and E Horvitz Ubicomp 2006 Presentation and discussion leader: Amy Palmer [slides] Extracting Places and Activities from GPS Traces Using Hierarchical Conditional Random Fields L. Liao, D. Fox, and H. Kautz. International Journal of Robotics Research, 2007 Presentation and discussion leader: Daniel Peebles [slides] |
| October 16, 2008 | Semi-supervised
learning and adapting models to deal with the real world |
Fast
and Scalable Training of Semi-Supervised CRFs with Application to
Activity Recognition M. Mahdaviani and T. Choudhury Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 2007 Presentation and discussion leader: Lu He [slides] Improving the Recognition of Interleaved Activities J. Modayil, T. Bai, and Henry Kautz UbiComp 2008 Presentation and discussion leader: Jing Chen [slides] |
| October 21, 2008 | Unsupervised Learning of Activity Models | Detecting Subdimensional
Motifs: An Efficient Algorithm for Generalized Multivariate Pattern
Discovery D. Minnen, T. Starner, C. Isbell, and I. Essa IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) 2007 Presentation and discussion leader: Daniel Peebles [slides] Novel Sequence Representation for Unsupervised Analysis of Human Activities R. Hamid, S. Maddi, A. Johnson, A. Bobick, I. Essa, C. Isbell. A Artificial Intelligence Journal Presentation and discussion leader: Wei Pan [slides] |
| October 23, 2008 | Modeling Activity Sub-structures | Discovery of Activity
Patterns using Topic Models T. Huynh, M. Fritz and B. Schiele. UbiComp 2008 Presentation and discussion leader: John Wilkinson [slides] The Hidden Permutation Model and Location-Based Activity Recognition H. Bui, D. Phung, S. Venkatesh, H. Phan AAAI 2008 Presentation and discussion leader: Joshua Pyke [slides] |
| October 28, 2008 | Modeling Groups | Modeling
Conversational Dynamics as a Mixed-Memory Markov Process T. Choudhury and S. Basu NIPS 2004 Presentation and discussion leader: Yufan Guo [slides] Learning Influence among Interacting Markov Chains D. Zhang, D. Gatica-Perez, S. Bengio, and D. Roy NIPS 2005 Presentation and discussion leader: Nimit Dhulekar [slides] |
| October 30, 2008 | Modeling Groups | SocialMotion:
Measuring the Hidden Social Life of a Building C. Wren, Y. Ivanov, I. Kaur, D. Leigh, and J Westhues International Symposium on Location- and Context-Awareness (LoCA) 2007 Presentation and discussion leader: Toubin Wang [slides] Recovering Social Networks From Massive Track Datasets C. Connolly, J. and Burns, and H. Bui IEEE International Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision 2008 Presentation and discussion leader: Geethmala Sridaran [slides] |
| November 4, 2008 | Midterm Project Update | |
| November 6, 2008 | Midterm Project Update | |
| November 11, 2008 | Introduction to Graphical Models - Part II | |
| November 12, 2008 | Introduction to Graphical Models - Part III [slides] | |
| November 13, 2008 | Community modeling | Learning Hidden
Curved Exponential Random Graph Models to Infer
Face-to-Face Interaction Networks from Situated Speech Data D. Wyatt, T. Choudhury, and J. Bilmes. AAAI 2008 Presentation and discussion leader: Shaohan Hu [slides] Cooperative Techniques Supporting Sensor-based People-centric Inferencing N. Lane, H. Lu, S. Eisenman, and A. Campbell Pervasive 2008 Presentation and discussion leader: Nic Lane |
| November 18, 2008 | Cameras and Activity Recognition | Discovery and
Segmentation of Activities in Video M. Brand and V. Kettnaker IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 20(8):844-851, 2000 Presentation and discussion leader: Mu Lin Detecting Unusual Activity in Video H. Zhong, J. Shi and M. Visontai IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition(CVPR) 2004 Presentation and discussion leader: Wei Pan |
| November 20, 2008 | Activity and Context from Wearable Cameras | Life Patterns B. Clarkson Ph.D Thesis, MIT 2002 Presentation and discussion leader: Janani Sriram and Hong Lu |
| November 25, 2008 | Activity Recognition in Health Care | Intelligent
Technology for an Aging Population: The
Use of AI to Assist Elders with Cognitive Impairment M. Pollack AI Magazine, 26(2):9-24, 2005 Open discussion Technology for Just-In-Time In-Situ Learning of Facial Affect for Persons Diagnosed with an Autism Spectrum Disorder M. Madsen, R. el Kaliouby, M. Goodwin, and R. Picard ACM Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS) 2008 Presentation and discussion leader: Joshua Pyke |
| December 2, 2008 | Final Project Presentation | |
| December 3, 2008 2pm - 4pm |
Final Project Presentation |