This paper presents a stagewise least square (SLS) loss function for classification. It uses a least square form within each stage to approximate a bounded monotonic nonconvex los...
We extend the Bayesian skill rating system TrueSkill to infer entire time series of skills of players by smoothing through time instead of filtering. The skill of each participat...
Pierre Dangauthier, Ralf Herbrich, Tom Minka, Thor...
The Informedia team participated in the tasks of Rushes summarization, high-level feature extraction and event detection in surveillance video. For the rushes summarization, our b...
Alexander G. Hauptmann, Robert V. Baron, Ming-yu C...
Abstract. In this paper the suitability of different document representations for automatic document classification is compared, investigating a whole range of representations be...
Bayesian belief propagation in graphical models has been recently shown to have very close ties to inference methods based in statistical physics. After Yedidia et al. demonstrate...