[Research] DATE/TIME/PLACE CHANGE Re: Auton Lab meeting: *THURSDAY* February 12th, 11:30 @ NSH1507

[Artur Dubrawski]

Dear Autonians,

We had to move this meeting to *Friday Feb 13, 3:30pm*.
It will take place in *NSH 3305* and there will be no
food at this meeting due to the awkward time of it.

Below I am pasting the title and summary of Sajid's talk
(at least the speaker stayed the same :)

Please attend if you can. This will be a practice job talk
that Sajid will be giving at JPL the following week.
 
Thanks
Artur

Title: Learning Latent Variable Models of Dynamical Systems

Abstract:
Dynamical systems and time series data are ubiquitous in our world. Models
for dynamical systems find widespread application for understanding these
systems, predicting their future behavior, time series classification and
recognition, planning and control, and much more. In this talk I will give
an overview of a popular class of dynamical system models, namely latent
variable models, with an emphasis on Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) and
Linear Dynamical Systems (LDS). I will describe work we have done on novel
learning algorithms for HMMs and LDSs that are more efficient, accurate
and robust than their predecessors in many ways. We will also discuss
recent work on a hybrid latent variable model that captures aspects of
both HMMs and LDSs. We will examine results on human motion capture data
for graphics, dynamic texture videos for computer vision, and mobile robot
camera data for robotics applications.



Artur Dubrawski wrote:
> Speaker: Sajid Siddiqi, ABD
> Topic: TBA
> Food: Yes.
>
> Please note that this meeting will be taking place on Thursday,
> and that we won't have a lab meeting on Tuesday Feb 10th.
>
> Artur
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