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Research: Audio Puzzler Alpha

Thursday, August 7th, 2008 Posted in Computational Journalism, Nick Diakopoulos | No Comments »

Audio Puzzler Alpha (ONLINE DEMO) By Nick Diakopoulos (My PhD Student) Audio Puzzler is a new kind of puzzle game based on unauthored content found online. The audio for the puzzles is ... Read more..

Thesis Raffay Hamid PhD (2008): “A Computational Framework For Unsupervised Analysis of Everyday Human Activities”

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 Posted in Aaron Bobick, Activity Recognition, Numerical Machine Learning, PhD, Raffay Hamid | No Comments »

M. Raffay Hamid PhD (2008), "A Computational Framework For Unsupervised Analysis of Everyday Human Activities", PhD Thesis, Georgia Institute of Techniology, College of Computing, Atlanta, GA. (Advisor: Aaron Bobick & Irfan ... Read more..

Thesis David Minnen PhD (2008): “Unsupervised Discovery of Activity Primitives from Multivariate Sensor Data”

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 Posted in Activity Recognition, David Minnen, PhD, Thad Starner | No Comments »

Unsupervised Discovery of Activity Primitives from Multivariate Sensor Data David Minnen PhD (2008): "Unsupervised Discovery of Activity Primitives from Multivariate Sensor Data" Georgia Institute of Techniology, College of Computing, Atlanta, GA. (Advisors: ... Read more..

Paper: ICASSP (2008) “Discriminative Feature Selection for Hidden Markov Models using Segmental Boosting”

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 Posted in 0205507, Face and Gesture, Funding, James Rehg, Numerical Machine Learning, PAMI/ICCV/CVPR/ECCV, Papers, Pei Yin, Thad Starner | No Comments »

Pei Yin, Irfan Essa, James Rehg, Thad Starner (2008) "Discriminative Feature Selection for Hidden Markov Models using Segmental Boosting", ICASSP 2008 - March 30 - April 4, 2008 - ... Read more..

Funding: NSF (2008) “Symposium on Computation and Journalism”

Saturday, March 8th, 2008 Posted in Computational Journalism, Funding | No Comments »

Award#0813831 - Symposium on Computation and Journalism ABSTRACT Fundamentally, journalism is aimed at collecting news information and disseminating that information with a layer of contextualization and understanding provided by journalists. Recent advances ... Read more..

Personal: Creative Use of Computational Photography and Journalism

Monday, March 3rd, 2008 Posted in Personal | 1 Comment »

Irfan's Office Hacked My students decided to play a very nice joke on me. This morning I walked in to find my office open (and it was not!) check out ... Read more..

Event: Journalism 3G The Future of Technology in the Field

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008 Posted in Computational Journalism, Events, Nick Diakopoulos | No Comments »

Journalism 3G: The Future of Technology in the Field (A Symposium on Computation and Journalism) was a huge success. We had over 230 registered attendees. Thanks to all ... Read more..

Event: Symposium on computation+journalism (Feb 22-23, 2008, Atlanta, GA)

Friday, February 15th, 2008 Posted in Events, Nick Diakopoulos | No Comments »

Working with Brad Stenger (Wired), Nick Diakopoulos (GA Tech), Sergio Goldenberg (GA Tech), we are organizing a Symposium on computation+journalism, to bring together computationalists, internet/media experts, and journalists together for ... Read more..

Event: AAAI 2008 Special Track on Physically-Grounded AI

Thursday, February 14th, 2008 Posted in Events, Service | No Comments »

I am Co-Chairing  with Drew Bagnell (CMU), Wolfram Burgard (University of Frieberg) a Special Track on Physically-Grounded AI. See AAAI-08: Twenty-Third Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Chicago, IL, USA. The goal ... Read more..