SSLI Lab Research Subgroup Discussions -- Winter Quarter, 2001 -- Agenda

Recognition Sub-Group: (Tuesdays 1:30-2:30, Rm EE1-203)

• 1/2: No class, happy new year.
• 1/9: First class, introduction, objectives, and class overview (Jeff Bilmes)
• 1/16: Jeff Bilmes will present Joseph Atick's, "Could information theory provide an ecological theory of sensory processing?", (pdf)
• 1/23: Scott Otterson will present the tutorial on Kernal Machines
• 1/30: Scott continues his discussion on Kernal Machines
• 2/6: Meeting cancelled
• 2/13: Jeff Bilmes will present David Mackay's Introduction to Gaussian Processes
• 2/20: Sonia Parandekar will present Leslie Pack Kaelbling's overview and use of POMDPs
• 2/27: Costas Boulis will present Mance Harmon's Reinforcement Learning Tutorial
• 3/6: Izhak Shafran will present a review on inference in Hybrid networks both out of the Lauritzen book and other links such as this

Prosody/Generation/Synthesis Sub-Group: (Fridays 12:30-1:30, Rm 205)

• 2/2: (Ivan) : Special (Speech Synthesis) Issue of IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, Jan 2001
• Wouters, J.; Macon, M.W. "Control of spectral dynamics in concatenative speech synthesis".
• Klabbers, E.; Veldhuis, R. "Reducing audible spectral discontinuities".

Previous Quarters subgroup meetings:

• Fall, 2000
• Spring, 2000
• Winter, 2000

Last updated ($Date: 2001/02/28 03:56:01 $)

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