A common task in many applications is to find persons who are knowledgeable about a given topic (i.e., expert finding). In this paper, we propose and develop a general probabilis...
It is well known that occurrence counts of words in documents are often modeled poorly by standard distributions like the binomial or Poisson. Observed counts vary more than simpl...
This paper presents a multi-view approach to the tracking of people location and orientation. To achieve efficient and accurate likelihood evaluation, a novel likelihood computat...
– This paper describes a fusion of panoramic vision and laser range data to track multiple persons simultaneously from a stationary robot. Particle filters are used to track peop...
- In this paper, we show how a topographic mapping can be created from a product of experts. We learn the parameters of the mapping using gradient descent on the negative logarithm...