CIS 9590 - Schedule, Fall 2008

Machine Learning for Robot Perception (Advanced Topics in CS)

Dr. Longin Jan Latecki      

Date

Topics

Sep. 3

Introduction: Grand Challenge 2005 (S. Thrun)
Example Projects
and Shape

Sep. 10

Basic Statistics: IntroProb, RVs

Sep. 17

Bayes Classifier ppt
Bayes Classifier for Skeleton Shape by Xingwei Yang ppt

Sep. 24

K-means and Expectation Maximization (EM) ppt1  ppt2

Oct. 1

Mean Shift and Image Segmentation by ChengEn Lu ppt

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) LA, eigenfaces

Oct. 8

Eigen and Singular Value Decomposition ppt

Diffusion Maps by Xingwei Yang ppt

Oct. 15

Motion Detection with Local PCA by Son Vo and Lei Guan ppt

Introduction to Particle Filters ppt

Oct. 22

Linear Programming by Emmanuel Obasi pdf
Stanford entry in the Urban Challenge by Peter LoBue zip

Oct. 29

Mind Control Robots by Shusha Li ppt
Learning Vector Quantization (LVQ) by Mihajlo Grbovic ppt

Nov. 5

Image Segmentation with EM by Hong Vo zip (ppt + Matlab code)
Particle Filters for Shape Correspondence by Jingting Zeng ppt

Nov. 12

Detecting Dependency in Kernel Space by Qiang Lou ppt

Active Learning by Haidong Shi and Nanyi Zeng ppt

Nov. 19

Clustering analysis of microarray gene expression data by Ping Zhang ppt
Image Contrast Enhancement by Solomon Jones ppt

Dec. 3

Closing discussion

Dec. 10

Closing discussion