[Research] Auton Lab Meeting Friday at noon - NSH 1507

[Jeff Schneider]

Hi Everyone,

Please come to an Auton Lab meeting tomorrow at noon in NSH 1507.  There will be 
pizza for lunch.

We will have a guest speaker, Marion Neumann, who has been visiting us the past 
few weeks from Fraunhofer IAIS in Deutschland.  If we have time after her talk, 
we will also hear Roman present his ICML paper.  Marion's talk abstract is:

Propagation Kernels for Partially Labeled Graphs

Learning from complex data is becoming increasingly important, and graph kernels 
have recently evolved into a rapidly developing branch of learning on structured 
data. However, previously proposed kernels rely on having discrete node label 
information. Propagation kernels leverage the power of continous node label 
distributions as kernel features and hence, enhance traditional graph kernels to 
efficiently handle partially labeled graphs in a principled manner. Utilizing 
locality-sensitive hashing, propagation kernels are able to outperform 
state-of-the-art graph kernels in terms of runtime without loss in prediction 
accuracy. This work investigates the power of propagation kernels to classify 
partially labeled images and to tackle the challenging problem of retrieving 
similar object views in robotic grasping.


Jeff.