Spring 2008 Meeting Time & Place

• The CLAMP group will meet every other Fridays 10-11 AM in ENS 32NEA

Scheduled Meetings

Date	Time	Place	Paper
05/02/2008	10AM	ENS 32NEA	M.R. Everingham, J. Sivic, and A. Zisserman "Hello! My name ... Buffy" - Automatic Naming of Characters in TV Video, BMVC, 2006

* Future meetings subject to rearrangement.
* Please send in suggestions for new papers to discuss, or vote for a paper from the currently proposed papers.

Past Meetings

Date	Time	Place	Paper
04/18/2008	10AM	ENS 32NEA	Fleischman, M. and Roy, D. Situated Models of Meaning for Sports Video Retrieval, HLT/NAACL, 2007
04/04/2008	10AM	ENS 32NEA	Kobus Barnard, Pinar Duygulu, David Forsyth, Nando de Freitas, David M. Blei, Michael I. Jordan Matching Words and Pictures, JMLR, 2003
03/07/2008	10AM	ENS 32NEA	M. Jamieson A. Fazly, S. Dickinson, S. Stevenson, S. Wachsmuth Learning Structured Appearance Models from Captioned Images of Cluttered Scenes, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2007
02/22/2008	*11AM	ENS 32NEA	Sonal Gupta, Joo Hyun Kim, and Raymond J. Mooney Co-training with Images and Text Captions, Under submission to ICML 2008
02/08/2008	10AM	ENS 32NEA	David L. Chen and Raymond J. Mooney Learning to Sportscast: A Test of Grounded Language Acquisition, Under submission to ICML 2008
01/25/2008	10AM	ENS 32NEA	K. Forbus, C. Riesbeck, L. Birnbaum, K. Livingston, A. Sharma, L. Ureel Integrating Natural Language, Knowledge Representation and Reasonin\ g, and Analogical Processing to Learn by Reading, AAAI, 2007

* For older discussions, see Previous Discussions

Members

Faculty

• Raymond J. Mooney
• Jason Michael Baldridge
• Katrin Erk
• Kristen Grauman
• Risto Miikkulainen
• Benjamin Kuipers
• Dana H. Ballard

Student

• David Chen
• Igor Karpov
• Yonatan Bisk
• Sudipta Chatterjee
• Sonal Gupta
• Joo Hyun Kim
• Elias Ponvert
• Shilpa Gulati
• Tuyen Ngoc Huynh
• Ben Wing

Previous Members

• Razvan Bunescu
• Yuk Wah Wong (John)
• Rohit Jaivant Kate

Proposed Readings

• Erik B. Sudderth, Antonio Torralba, William T. Freeman, and Alan S. Willsky
  Learning Hierarchical Models of Scenes, Objects, and Parts, ICCV, 2005
  
  
• Steve R. Howell, Damian Jankowicz and Suzanna Becker
  A model of grounded language acquisition: Sensorimotor features improve lexical and grammatical learning, Journal of Memory and Language, Volume 53, Issue 2, August 2005, Pages 258-276
  
  
• M. Yamamoto, H. Mitomi, F. Fujiwara, and T. Sato
  Bayesian Classification of Task-Oriented Actions Based on Stochastic Context-Free Grammar, International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, Southampton, UK, April 10-12, 2006
  
  
• Paul Vogt
  The emergence of compositional structures in perceptually grounded language games, Artificial Intelligence; 167(1-2):206-242, Connecting Language to the World, September 2005
  
  
• Pia Knoeferle and Matthew Crocker
  The coordinated interplay of scene, utterance, and world knowledge: evidence from eye tracking, Cognitive Science; 30(3):481-529, 2006
  
  
• Andrew Lovett, Morteza Dehghani, Kenneth Forbus
  Incremental Learning of Perceptual Categories for Open-Domain Sketch Recognition, IJCAI, 2007
  
  
• Matthew Klenk and Kenneth D. Forbus
  Measuring the Level of Transfer Learning by an AP Physics Problem-Solver, AAAI, 2007
  
  
• Brian Harrington, Stephen Clark
  ASKNet: Automated Semantic Knowledge Network, AAAI, 2007
  
  
• Kevin Gold, Brian Scassellati
  A Robot That Uses Existing Vocabulary to Infer Non-Visual Word Meanings from Observation, AAAI, 2007
  
  
• J. Allen, N. Chambers, G. Ferguson, L. Galescu, H. Jung, M. Swift, W. Taysom
  PLOW: A Collaborative Task Learning Agent, AAAI, 2007
  
  
• G. Herzog, P. Wazinski
  VIsual TRAnslator: Linking Perceptions and Natural Language Descriptions, Artificial Intelligence Review, 1994
  
  
• T. Regier, L. Carlson
  Grounding spatial language in perception: An empirical and computational investigation, J. Experimental Psychol, 2001
  
  
• Guest Editors: Ehud Reiter and Deb Roy
  Special Issue of AIJ: Connecting Language to the World, Volume 167 (Sept 2005) of Artificial Intelligence.
  
  
• P. Duygulu, K. Barnard, JFG de Freitas, D.A. Forsyth
  Object Recognition as Machine Translation: Learning a Lexicon for a Fixed Image Vocabulary, ECCV, 2002
  
  
• Tamara L. Berg, Alexander C. Berg, Jaety Edwards, Michael Maire, Ryan White, Yee-Whye Teh, Erik Learned-Miller and D. A. Forsyth
  Name and Faces in the News, CVPR, 2004
  
  
• Michael Fleischman, Deb Roy
  Intentional Context in Situated Natural Language Learning, CoNLL, 2005
  
  
• Deb K. Roy
  Learning Visually-Grounded Words and Synatx for a Scene Description Task, Computer Speech and Language, 2002
  
  
• Shinichi Satoh, Yuichi Nakamura, Takeo Kanade
  Name-It: Naming and Detecting Faces in Video by the Integration of Image and Natural Language Processing , IJCAI, 1997
  
  
• Luc Steels
  Evolving grounded communication for robots, Trends in CognitiveScience, 2003
  
  
• Sven Wachsmuth, Gerhard Sagerer
  Bayesian Networks for Speech and Image Integration , AAAI, 2002
  
  
• Chen Yu, Dana H. Ballard
  A Multimodal Learning Interface for Grounding Spoken Language in Sensory Perceptions, ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, 2004
  
  

If you find a certain paper interesting and would like to recommend reading, please feel free to let us know during the meeting or e-mail David Chen.

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