# HG changeset patch # User Robert McIntyre # Date 1342801341 18000 # Node ID c264ebf683b4dbdc37b508726b20f2a36df0c4cf # Parent f4ef73370da1e9f169814192eb06f0e1a5842ca2 cleanup. diff -r f4ef73370da1 -r c264ebf683b4 MIT-media-projects.org --- a/MIT-media-projects.org Fri Jul 20 11:21:04 2012 -0500 +++ b/MIT-media-projects.org Fri Jul 20 11:22:21 2012 -0500 @@ -1,21 +1,24 @@ -*Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition with Multiple Modalities -Hyungil Ahn and Rosalind W. Picard +*Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition with Multiple +Modalities Hyungil Ahn and Rosalind W. Picard -This project develops new theory and algorithms to enable computers to -make rapid and accurate inferences from multiple modes of data, such -as determining a person's affective state from multiple sensors—video, -mouse behavior, chair pressure patterns, typed selections, or -physiology. Recent efforts focus on understanding the level of a -person's attention, useful for things such as determining when to -interrupt. Our approach is Bayesian: formulating probabilistic models -on the basis of domain knowledge and training data, and then -performing inference according to the rules of probability -theory. This type of sensor fusion work is especially challenging due -to problems of sensor channel drop-out, different kinds of noise in -different channels, dependence between channels, scarce and sometimes -inaccurate labels, and patterns to detect that are inherently -time-varying. We have constructed a variety of new algorithms for -solving these problems and demonstrated their performance gains over -other state-of-the-art methods. +This project develops new theory and algorithms to enable +computers to make rapid and accurate inferences from +multiple modes of data, such as determining a person's +affective state from multiple sensors--video, mouse behavior, +chair pressure patterns, typed selections, or +physiology. Recent efforts focus on understanding the level +of a person's attention, useful for things such as +determining when to interrupt. Our approach is Bayesian: +formulating probabilistic models on the basis of domain +knowledge and training data, and then performing inference +according to the rules of probability theory. This type of +sensor fusion work is especially challenging due to problems +of sensor channel drop-out, different kinds of noise in +different channels, dependence between channels, scarce and +sometimes inaccurate labels, and patterns to detect that are +inherently time-varying. We have constructed a variety of +new algorithms for solving these problems and demonstrated +their performance gains over other state-of-the-art methods. -http://affect.media.mit.edu/projectpages/multimodal/ \ No newline at end of file +http://affect.media.mit.edu/projectpages/multimodal/ +