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UW CSE AI Program ranked 6th best nationally by US News in 2010

UW CSE Faculty member Pedro Domingos is named AAAI Fellow

UW CSE Postdoc Vibhav Gogate and Faculty member Pedro Domingos win several categories at the 2010 UAI Approximate Inference Challenge

The AI group in the UW Department of Computer Science welcomes two new faculty, who deepen the group's expertise

Featured in NIPS 2011 Granada, Spain

    An ideal observer model for identifying the reference frame of objects
Joseph L. Austerweil, Abram L. Friesen and Thomas L. Griffiths
 
Featured in UbiComp 2011 Beijing, China

      Interactive 3D Modeling of Indoor Environments with a Consumer Depth Camera
Hao Du, Peter Henry, Xiaofeng Ren, Marvin Cheng, Dan B Goldman, Steven Seitz and Dieter Fox
  Project:  RGB-D Mapping: Using Depth Cameras for Dense 3D Mapping
 
Featured in AAAI 2011 San Francisco, California, USA

    A Scalable Tree-based Approach for Joint Object and Pose Recognition
Kevin Lai, Liefeng Bo, Xiaofeng Ren and Dieter Fox
  Project:  RGB-D Object Recognition and Detection
 

    Artificial Intelligence for Artificial Artificial Intelligence
Peng Dai, Mausam and Daniel S. Weld
  Project:  Decision-Theoretic Control for Crowdsourced Workflows, Scalable Probabilistic Planning
 

    Coarse-to-Fine Inference and Learning for First-Order Probabilistic Models
ChloƩ Kiddon and Pedro Domingos
  Project:  Machine Reading, Alchemy, Statistical Relational Learning
 

      Effective End-User Interaction with Machine Learning
Saleema Amershi, James Fogarty, Ashish Kapoor and Desney Tan
 
Featured in HCOMP 2011 San Francisco, CA, United States

    Human Intelligence Needs Artificial Intelligence
Daniel S. Weld, Mausam and Peng Dai
  Project:  Decision-Theoretic Control for Crowdsourced Workflows, Scalable Probabilistic Planning, Intelligent Interfaces
 
Featured in ISRR 2011 Flagstaff, AZ , USA

      Visual Odometry and Mapping for Autonomous Flight Using an RGB-D Camera
Albert S. Huang, Abraham Bachrach, Peter Henry, Michael Krainin, Daniel Maturana and Dieter Fox
  Project:  RGB-D Mapping: Using Depth Cameras for Dense 3D Mapping
 
Featured in CogSci 2011 Boston, MA, USA

    Gaze Following as Goal Inference: A Bayesian Model
Abram L. Friesen and Rajesh Rao
 
Featured in IJCAI 2011 Barcelona, Spain

    A Hierarchical Architecture for Adaptive Brain-Computer Interfacing
Mike Chung, Willy Cheung, Reinhold Scherer and Rajesh Rao
  Project:  Neural Systems
 

      Human-Guided Machine Learning for Fast and Accurate Network Alarm Triage
Saleema Amershi, Bongshin Lee, Ashish Kapoor, Ratul Mahajan and Blaine Christian
 

    Open Information Extraction: the Second Generation
Oren Etzioni, Anthony Fader, Janara Christensen, Stephen Soderland and Mausam
  Project:  Open Information Extraction
 

      Using Multiple Models to Understand Data
Kayur Patel, Steven M Drucker, James Fogarty, Ashish Kapoor and Desney Tan
 
Featured in EMNLP 2011 Edinburgh, UK

    Bootstrapping Semantic Parsers from Conversations
Yoav Artzi and Luke S. Zettlemoyer
 

    Data-Driven Response Generation in Social Media
Alan Ritter, Colin Cherry and Bill Dolan
 

    Identifying Relations for Open Information Extraction
Anthony Fader, Stephen Soderland and Oren Etzioni
  Project:  Open Information Extraction
  Downloads:  [Data
 

    Named Entity Recognition in Tweets: An Experimental Study
Alan Ritter, Sam Clark, Mausam and Oren Etzioni
 
Featured in ICAPS 2011 Freiburg, Germany

    Heuristic Search for Generalized Stochastic Shortest Path MDPs
Andrey Kolobov, Mausam, Daniel S. Weld and Hector Geffner
  Project:  Scalable Probabilistic Planning
 
Featured in ACL 2011

      A Class of Submodular Functions for Document Summarization
Hui Lin and Jeff A Bilmes
 

    Knowledge-Based Weak Supervision for Information Extraction of Overlapping Relations
Raphael Hoffmann, Xiao Ling, Luke S. Zettlemoyer and Daniel S. Weld
  Project:  Machine Reading
 

      Question Detection In Spoken Conversations Using Textual Conversations
Anna Margolis and Mari Ostendorf
 

      Word Alignment Via Submodular Maximization Over Matroids
Hui Lin and Jeff A Bilmes
 
Featured in K-CAP 2011 Banff, Canada

    An Analysis of Open Information Extraction based on Semantic Role Labeling
Janara Christensen, Mausam, Stephen Soderland and Oren Etzioni
 
Featured in CVPR 2011 Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA

      Object Recognition with Hierarchical Kernel Descriptors
Liefeng Bo, Kevin Lai, Xiaofeng Ren and Dieter Fox
  Project:  RGB-D Object Recognition and Detection
 
Featured in ICRA 2011 Shanghai, China

    A Large-Scale Hierarchical Multi-View RGB-D Object Dataset
Kevin Lai, Liefeng Bo, Xiaofeng Ren and Dieter Fox
  Project:  RGB-D Object Recognition and Detection
 

    Autonomous Generation of Complete 3D Object Models Using Next Best View Manipulation Planning
Michael Krainin, Brian Curless and Dieter Fox
  Project:  Robotic In-Hand 3D Object Modeling
 

    Gambit: A Robust Chess-Playing Robotic System
Cynthia Matuszek, Brian Mayton, Roberto Aimi, Marc P Deisenroth, Liefeng Bo and Dieter Fox
  Project:  Robot Game Playing, Mobile Robotics & State Estimation Lab
 

    Sparse Distance Learning for Object Recognition Combining RGB and Depth Information
Kevin Lai, Liefeng Bo, Xiaofeng Ren and Dieter Fox
   Best Vision Paper Award
  Project:  RGB-D Object Recognition and Detection
 

      Toward Object Discovery and Modeling via 3-D Scene Comparison
Evan Herbst, Peter Henry, Xiaofeng Ren and Dieter Fox
  Project:  3-D Object Discovery Using Motion
  Downloads:  [Slides
 
Featured in IJRR 2011

      Manipulator and Object Tracking for In-Hand 3D Object Modeling
Michael Krainin, Peter Henry, Xiaofeng Ren and Dieter Fox
  Project:  Robotic In-Hand 3D Object Modeling
 
Featured in UAI 2011

    Approximation by Quantization
Vibhav Gogate and Pedro Domingos
  Project:  Machine Reading, Alchemy, Statistical Relational Learning
 

    Probabilistic Theorem Proving
Vibhav Gogate and Pedro Domingos
  Project:  Machine Reading, Alchemy, Statistical Relational Learning
 

    Sum-Product Networks: A New Deep Architecture
Hoifung Poon and Pedro Domingos
   Best Paper Award
  Project:  Machine Reading, Alchemy, Statistical Relational Learning, Large-Scale Machine Learning
 
Featured in IROS 2011

      Depth Kernel Descriptors for Object Recognition
Liefeng Bo, Xiaofeng Ren and Dieter Fox
  Project:  RGB-D Object Recognition and Detection
 

      RGB-D Object Discovery Via Multi-Scene Analysis
Evan Herbst, Xiaofeng Ren and Dieter Fox
  Project:  3-D Object Discovery Using Motion
  Downloads:  [Slides
 

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