iCML-03 Schedule

Robotics/Vision Workshop: Monday, December 8th, Hill 254

Recognition from Images (4:30pm-5:00pm)

• 4:30pm "Comparing Kernel-based Learning Method with Application to Face Recognition", Zhiguo Li. [paper (pdf), slides (ppt), slides (pdf)].
• 4:40pm "Image-based Stress Recognition from a Model-based Face Tracking System", Sundara Venkataraman. [paper (pdf), slides (ppt), slides (pdf), demo videos (in mpeg)].
• 4:50pm "Chessman Position Recognition Using Artificial Neural Networks", Jun Hou. [paper (pdf), slides (ppt)].
• 5:00pm Short break

Navigation Applications (5:10pm-5:30pm)

• 5:10pm "Latent Learning in Agents", Rati Sharma. [paper (pdf), slides (ppt)].
• 5:20pm "LLE and ISOMAP Analysis of Robot Images", Rong Xu. [paper (pdf), slides (ppt), demo movie].

Gait Recognition from Vision (5:30pm-5:50pm)

• 5:30pm "Human Identification using Silhouette Gait Data", Chan-Su Lee. [paper (pdf), slides (ppt), demo movie (avi)].
• 5:40pm "Reconstruction of Walking People Images by Principal Component Analysis", Zhipeng Zhao. [paper (pdf), slides (pdf)].

Algorithms Workshop: Monday, December 8th, CoRE B

Multiagent Applications (4:30pm-5:00pm)

• 4:30pm "Empirical Analysis of Predictive Algorithms for Recommender Systems", Ruoheng Li. [paper (pdf), slides (pdf)].
• 4:40pm "Estimating Constraint Costs using Regression Trees", David J. DeVault. [paper (pdf), slides (ppt)].
• 4:50pm "Extending Implicit Negotiation to Repeated Grid Games", Robin Carnow. [paper (pdf), slides (ppt)].
• 5:00pm Short break

Evolutionary Algorithms (5:10pm-5:30pm)

• 5:10pm "A New Evolutionary Algorithm for Multi-objective Optimization Problems", Zhi Wei. [paper (pdf), slides (ppt), slides (pdf)].
• 5:20pm "Evolutionary Learning Networks", Paul Batchis. [paper (pdf) slides (ppt)].

Algorithm Comparisons (5:30pm-5:50pm)

• 5:30pm "Learning Change Patterns in Software Engineering, Practicable or Not?", Xiaoxia Ren. [paper (pdf), slides (ppt), slides (pdf)].
• 5:40pm "An Empirical Comparison between ANN and SVM as Classifiers", Jixin Li. [paper (pdf), slides (pdf)].

Language Workshop: Monday, December 8th, Hill 248

Text Classification and Retrieval (4:30pm-5:00pm)

• 4:30pm "Dynamic Topic Analysis: Classification Without Established Classes using Distance Thresholds", Mark Rogaski. [paper (pdf), slides (pdf)].
• 4:40pm "Evaluation of Kernel function Modification in Text Classification Using SVM", Yangzhe Xiao. [paper (pdf), slides (ppt), slides (pdf)].
• 4:50pm "Using TF-IDF to Determine Word Relevance in Document Queries", Juan A. Ramos. [paper (pdf), slides (ppt)].
• 5:00pm Short break

Language Applications (5:10pm-5:30pm)

• 5:10pm "Stock Price Prediction from Natural Language Understanding of News Headlines", Vasilios Daskalopoulos. [paper (pdf), slides (ppt)].
• 5:20pm "An Evaluation of Kea: An Automatic Keyphrase Extraction Algorithm", Lu Liu. [paper (pdf), slides (pdf)].

Style Classification (5:30pm-5:50pm)

• 5:30pm "ID Identification in Online Communities", Yufei Pan. [paper (pdf), slides (ppt)].
• 5:40pm "Document Quality Prediction with Statistical Textual Features", Bing Bai. [paper (pdf), slides (ppt), slides (pdf)].

Plenary Session: Wednesday, December 10th, CoRE A

Robotics/Vision (4:30pm-5:00pm)

• 4:30pm "Ratbert: Nearest Sequence Memory Based Prediction Model Applied to Robot Navigation", Sergey Alexandrov. [paper (pdf), slides (ppt)].
• 4:40pm "Super-Resolution of Faces", Rui Huang. [paper (pdf), slides (pdf)].
• 4:50pm "Exploration and Exploitation Strategies for the k-armed Bandit Problem", Alexander L. Strehl. [paper (pdf), paper (ps), slides (ppt), slides (pdf)].
• 5:00pm Short break

Algorithms (5:10pm-5:30pm)

• 5:10pm "Classification by Association Rules: Use Minimum Set of Rules", Jianyu Yang. [paper (pdf), slides (ppt)].
• 5:20pm "Comparison of Instance-Based Techniques for Learning to Predict Changes in Stock Prices", David LeRoux. [paper (pdf), slides (ppt)].

Language (5:30pm-5:50pm)

• 5:30pm "YAFC: Yet Another Focused Crawler", George Sakkis. [paper (pdf), slides (pdf)].
• 5:40pm "Part-of-Speech (POS) Tagging Revisited", Mark Sharp. [paper (pdf), slides (ppt), slides (pdf)].