Abstract— Imitation learning in robots, also called programing by demonstration, has made important advances in recent years, allowing humans to teach context dependant motor ski...
Abstract. Non-verbal communication, or “body language”, is a critical component in constructing believable virtual characters. Most often, body language is implemented by a set...
We present a taxonomy for local distance functions where most existing algorithms can be regarded as approximations of the geodesic distance defined by a metric tensor. We categor...
Abstract: Democratic societies throughout the world, it appears, are facing a new type of threat dubbed "asymmetric threat." In this new threat environment the world gove...
Abstract. Most of the work in Machine Learning assume that examples are generated at random according to some stationary probability distribution. In this work we study the problem...