COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCES LECTURE SERIES (CSLS)

A graphical model for vision			Second meeting in the CSLS series: Workshop on Graphical Models Thursday, 19 February 2004 2:30 PM - 6:00 PM Schedule | Abstracts A graphical model, or Bayesian network, encodes probabilistic relationships among variables. Techniques based on these models are becoming increasingly important in data analysis applications of many types. In areas such as foreign-language translation, microchip manufacturing, and drug discovery, the volume of data can slow progress because of the difficulty of finding causal connections or dependencies. The new Bayesian methods enable these tangled interconnections to be sorted out and produce useful tools for handling large data sets. Google is already using these techniques to find and take advantage of patterns of interconnections between Web pages, and Bill Gates has been quoted as saying that expertise in Bayesian networks is an essential part of Microsoft's competitive advantage, particularly in such areas as speech recognition. (Bayesian networks now pervade Microsoft Office.) Recently, the MIT Technology Review named Bayesian networks as one of the top ten emerging technologies.
Schedule 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM "An Introduction to Probabilistic Graphical Models and Their Lyapunov Functions and Algorithms for Inference and Learning" Brendan J. Frey Abstract  |  Tutorial  |  Slides   |    Video Video url: mms://www.cae.wisc.edu/video/ece/CSLS/CSLS4.wmv 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM "Graphical models for linear systems, codes and networks" Ralf Koetter Abstract   |  Slides   |   Video Video url: mms://www.cae.wisc.edu/video/ece/CSLS/CSLS5.wmv 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM "Graphical models, exponential families and variational inference" Michael I. Jordan Abstract   |  Tutorial   |   Slides   |   Video Video url: mms://www.cae.wisc.edu/video/ece/CSLS/CSLS6.wmv For more information, please contact Nigel Boston, Robert Nowak or Steve Wright. Workshop Abstracts | CSLS Home | Top of this page