CSCI-567 Projects (Fall 2008)

Administrative

Paper	Due on Dec 2, 2008 at beginning of class (email + hardcopy) Should be 6-8 pages long Must include references to relevant work Use style from a public ML-type conference such as ICML, KDD, IJCAI, AAAI, NIPS, ICDM, etc. Write as though you are submitting the paper to the conference
Presentation	Length: 15 minutes for 1 and 2 person groups Length: 20 minutes for 3 person groups Only questions of clarifications allowed. Presentation can be done by one or all of the group members SLIDES DUE ON PRESENTATION DAY. Mail them (PPT or PDF) to Sofus before noon on that day. DAY OF PRESENTATION: If you have more than one person in the group, then provide a sheet detailing who worked on what (with respect to the paper, research and presentation). This should be signed by all members when you turn it in.
Grade breakdown	5% attendance. 20% presentation. 25% paper writing quality: Clarity of writing, is problem well explained and motivated, is relevant work identified and cited properly, are results clearly presented. Can a reader understand it well enough to replicate your results. 50% research.

Projects

Group	Presentation Date + Time	Description
Megha Jain, Atul Kumar	Dec 2, 3:30 PM	Text Classification of news articles
Prashant Khanduri, Pradeep Vaghela	Dec 2, 3:45 PM	Email Classification on Enron Dataset
Sang Su Lee	Dec 2, 4:00 PM	Favorite photos prediction from Flickr
Zubia Jamail, Furgan Khan	Dec 2, 4:15 PM	Video Action Recognition using Low-Level Features
Ramsey Beaini, Arun Poruri, Sanjay Purushotham	Dec 2, 4:30 PM	Video Surveillance Using ML Algorithms
BREAK	Dec 2, 4:50 PM	BREAK
Dian Gong, Derya Ozkan	Dec 2, 5:00 PM	Learning Methods for Face Recognition in News Photos
Zhenzhen Gao, Wei Guan, Tanasai Sucontphunt	Dec 2, 5:15 PM	3D Face Texture Generation Inference from Face Geometry
Stephen tratz, Dirk Hovy	Dec 2, 5:35 PM	Learning Proposition Disambiguation (NLP)
Shuping Liu, Thomas Lubitz	Dec 4, 3:30 PM	Sensor Network Health Monitoring of Human Patients
Abijit Bej, Anand Kishore, Sudheer Ramoji	Dec 4, 3:45 PM	Movie Recommendation (NetFlix)
Tushar Gajera, Jikku John	Dec 4, 4:05 PM	Movie Recommendation System (NetFlix)
Yu-Hao Chang, Wan-Ting Chen, Qunzhi Zhou	Dec 4, 4:20 PM	Handwriting Recognition Using ML Approaches
Lin Quan, Lingyan Sheng, Lokendra Uppuluri	Dec 4, 4:40 PM	Using ML on gene expression data
BREAK	Dec 4, 5:00 PM	BREAK
Donald Allen	Dec 4, 5:05 PM	predict vote from navigation behavior
Prithviraj Banerjee, Anustup Choudhury	Dec 4, 5:20 PM	Object Category Recognition in Images
Larry Hignight, Anand Raman, John Battista, Abhishek Sharma	Dec 4, 5:35 PM	Poker Player
Q & A for final	Dec 4, 6:00 PM	Q & A for final