Max Welling

Projects

• Taxonomies of visual categories
• Estimation of receptive fields with lighting invariance constraint
• Zipf prior on n. of clusters (vectors) for feature selection
• On-line clustering of data with Dirichelet prior and limited memory (see Ryan Gomes' page and his Log)
• memory bounded non-parametric modeling

Log

September 22 2006 meeting to make progress on various issues.

Agenda:

• Taxonomy project update: directions and progress
• powerlaw distributed LDA word vocabulary
• online clustering with data compression
• Component analysis with invariances
• WhatWhere statistics
• Caltech 256 and related experiments
• Relationship with Candes and hi-dimensional searches