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2012

MICCAI, Workshop on Computational Diffusion MRI, 2012 (electronic publication)

Panagiotaki, E., O’Donnell, L., Schultz, T., Zhang, G.

15th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), Workshop on Computational Diffusion MRI , 2012 (proceedings)

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2012

Panagiotaki, E., O’Donnell, L., Schultz, T., Zhang, G. MICCAI, Workshop on Computational Diffusion MRI, 2012 (electronic publication) 15th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), Workshop on Computational Diffusion MRI , 2012 (proceedings)

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Arabidopsis defense against Botrytis cinerea: chronology and regulation deciphered by high-resolution temporal transcriptomic analysis

The Plant Cell Online, 24(9):3530-3557, 2012, all authors: Oliver Windram,Priyadharshini Madhou,Stuart McHattie,Claire Hill,Richard Hickman,Emma Cooke,Dafyd J. Jenkins,Christopher A. Penfold,Laura Baxter,Emily Breeze,Steven J. Kiddle,Johanna Rhodes,Susanna Atwell,Daniel J. (article)

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Windram, O., Madhou, P., McHattie, S., Hill, C., Hickman, R., Cooke, E., Jenkins, DJ., Penfold, CA., Baxter, Ll., Breeze, E., Kiddle, SJ., Rhodes, J., Atwell, S., Kliebenstein, D., Kim, Y-S., Stegle, O., Borgwardt, KM., others Arabidopsis defense against Botrytis cinerea: chronology and regulation deciphered by high-resolution temporal transcriptomic analysis The Plant Cell Online, 24(9):3530-3557, 2012, all authors: Oliver Windram,Priyadharshini Madhou,Stuart McHattie,Claire Hill,Richard Hickman,Emma Cooke,Dafyd J. Jenkins,Christopher A. Penfold,Laura Baxter,Emily Breeze,Steven J. Kiddle,Johanna Rhodes,Susanna Atwell,Daniel J. (article)

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Improved Linear Mixed Models for Genome-Wide Association Studies

Listgarten, J., Lippert, C., Kadie, CM., Davidson, RI., Eskin, E., Heckerman, D.

Nature Methods, 9, pages: 525–526, 2012 (article)

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Listgarten, J., Lippert, C., Kadie, CM., Davidson, RI., Eskin, E., Heckerman, D. Improved Linear Mixed Models for Genome-Wide Association Studies Nature Methods, 9, pages: 525–526, 2012 (article)

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Calibration of Boltzmann distribution priors in Bayesian data analysis

Mechelke, M., Habeck, M.

Physical Review E, 86(6):066705, 2012 (article)

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Mechelke, M., Habeck, M. Calibration of Boltzmann distribution priors in Bayesian data analysis Physical Review E, 86(6):066705, 2012 (article)

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CSB: A Python framework for computational structural biology

Kalev, I., Mechelke, M., Kopec, K., Holder, T., Carstens, S., Habeck, M.

Bioinformatics, 28(22):2996-2997, 2012 (article)

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Summary: Computational Structural Biology Toolbox (CSB) is a cross-platform Python class library for reading, storing and analyzing biomolecular structures with rich support for statistical analyses. CSB is designed for reusability and extensibility and comes with a clean, well-documented API following good object-oriented engineering practice. Availability: Stable release packages are available for download from the Python Package Index (PyPI), as well as from the project’s web site http://csb.codeplex.com.

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Kalev, I., Mechelke, M., Kopec, K., Holder, T., Carstens, S., Habeck, M. CSB: A Python framework for computational structural biology Bioinformatics, 28(22):2996-2997, 2012 (article)

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Towards identifying and validating cognitive correlates in a passive Brain-Computer Interface for detecting Loss of Control

Zander, TO., Pape, AA.

In Proceedings of the 34th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, IEEE, EMBC, 2012 (inproceedings)

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Zander, TO., Pape, AA. Towards identifying and validating cognitive correlates in a passive Brain-Computer Interface for detecting Loss of Control In Proceedings of the 34th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, IEEE, EMBC, 2012 (inproceedings)

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Neural correlates of workload and puzzlement during loss of control

Pape, AA., Gerjets, P., Zander, TO.

In Meeting of the EARLI SIG 22 Neuroscience and Education, 2012 (inproceedings)

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Pape, AA., Gerjets, P., Zander, TO. Neural correlates of workload and puzzlement during loss of control In Meeting of the EARLI SIG 22 Neuroscience and Education, 2012 (inproceedings)

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Hypothesis testing using pairwise distances and associated kernels

Sejdinovic, D., Gretton, A., Sriperumbudur, B., Fukumizu, K.

In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Machine Learning, pages: 1111-1118, (Editors: J Langford and J Pineau), Omnipress, New York, NY, USA, ICML, 2012 (inproceedings)

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Sejdinovic, D., Gretton, A., Sriperumbudur, B., Fukumizu, K. Hypothesis testing using pairwise distances and associated kernels In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Machine Learning, pages: 1111-1118, (Editors: J Langford and J Pineau), Omnipress, New York, NY, USA, ICML, 2012 (inproceedings)

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Efficient Training of Graph-Regularized Multitask SVMs

Widmer, C., Kloft, M., Görnitz, N., Rätsch, G.

In Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases - European Conference, ECML/PKDD 2012, LNCS Vol. 7523, pages: 633-647, (Editors: PA Flach and T De Bie and N Cristianini), Springer, Berlin, Germany, ECML, 2012 (inproceedings)

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Widmer, C., Kloft, M., Görnitz, N., Rätsch, G. Efficient Training of Graph-Regularized Multitask SVMs In Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases - European Conference, ECML/PKDD 2012, LNCS Vol. 7523, pages: 633-647, (Editors: PA Flach and T De Bie and N Cristianini), Springer, Berlin, Germany, ECML, 2012 (inproceedings)

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Semi-Supervised Domain Adaptation with Copulas

Lopez-Paz, D., Hernandez-Lobato, J., Schölkopf, B.

Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2012 (poster)

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Lopez-Paz, D., Hernandez-Lobato, J., Schölkopf, B. Semi-Supervised Domain Adaptation with Copulas Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2012 (poster)

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Design of a Haptic Interface for a Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Simulation

Yu, S., Woo, H. S., Son, H. I., Ahn, W., Jung, H., Lee, D. Y., Yi, S. Y.

Advanced Robotics, 26(18):2115-2143, 2012 (article)

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Yu, S., Woo, H. S., Son, H. I., Ahn, W., Jung, H., Lee, D. Y., Yi, S. Y. Design of a Haptic Interface for a Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Simulation Advanced Robotics, 26(18):2115-2143, 2012 (article)

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Evaluation of Whole-Body MR-Based Attenuation Correction in Bone and Soft Tissue Lesions

Bezrukov, I., Mantlik, F., Schmidt, H., Schwenzer, N., Brendle, C., Schölkopf, B., Pichler, B.

Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS-MIC), 2012 (poster)

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Bezrukov, I., Mantlik, F., Schmidt, H., Schwenzer, N., Brendle, C., Schölkopf, B., Pichler, B. Evaluation of Whole-Body MR-Based Attenuation Correction in Bone and Soft Tissue Lesions Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS-MIC), 2012 (poster)

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Hilbert Space Embeddings of POMDPs

Nishiyama, Y., Boularias, A., Gretton, A., Fukumizu, K.

In Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), 2012 (inproceedings)

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Nishiyama, Y., Boularias, A., Gretton, A., Fukumizu, K. Hilbert Space Embeddings of POMDPs In Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), 2012 (inproceedings)

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Learning Throwing and Catching Skills

Kober, J., Mülling, K., Peters, J.

In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems , pages: 5167-5168, IROS, 2012 (inproceedings)

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Kober, J., Mülling, K., Peters, J. Learning Throwing and Catching Skills In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems , pages: 5167-5168, IROS, 2012 (inproceedings)

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Maximally Informative Interaction Learning for Scene Exploration

van Hoof, H., Kroemer, O., Ben Amor, H., Peters, J.

In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pages: 5152-5158, IROS, 2012 (inproceedings)

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van Hoof, H., Kroemer, O., Ben Amor, H., Peters, J. Maximally Informative Interaction Learning for Scene Exploration In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pages: 5152-5158, IROS, 2012 (inproceedings)

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Beta oscillations propagate as traveling waves in the macaque prefrontal cortex

Panagiotaropoulos, T., Besserve, M., Logothetis, N.

42nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (Neuroscience), 2012 (talk)

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Panagiotaropoulos, T., Besserve, M., Logothetis, N. Beta oscillations propagate as traveling waves in the macaque prefrontal cortex 42nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (Neuroscience), 2012 (talk)

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Investigating the Neural Basis of Brain-Computer Interface (BCI)-based Stroke Rehabilitation

Meyer, T., Peters, J., Zander, T., Brötz, D., Soekadar, S., Schölkopf, B., Grosse-Wentrup, M.

In International Conference on NeuroRehabilitation (ICNR) , pages: 617-621, (Editors: JL Pons, D Torricelli, and M Pajaro), Springer, Berlin, Germany, ICNR, 2012 (inproceedings)

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Meyer, T., Peters, J., Zander, T., Brötz, D., Soekadar, S., Schölkopf, B., Grosse-Wentrup, M. Investigating the Neural Basis of Brain-Computer Interface (BCI)-based Stroke Rehabilitation In International Conference on NeuroRehabilitation (ICNR) , pages: 617-621, (Editors: JL Pons, D Torricelli, and M Pajaro), Springer, Berlin, Germany, ICNR, 2012 (inproceedings)

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A Nonparametric Conjugate Prior Distribution for the Maximizing Argument of a Noisy Function

Ortega, P., Grau-Moya, J., Genewein, T., Balduzzi, D., Braun, D.

In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 25, pages: 3014-3022, (Editors: P Bartlett and FCN Pereira and CJC. Burges and L Bottou and KQ Weinberger), Curran Associates Inc., 26th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2012 (inproceedings)

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Ortega, P., Grau-Moya, J., Genewein, T., Balduzzi, D., Braun, D. A Nonparametric Conjugate Prior Distribution for the Maximizing Argument of a Noisy Function In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 25, pages: 3014-3022, (Editors: P Bartlett and FCN Pereira and CJC. Burges and L Bottou and KQ Weinberger), Curran Associates Inc., 26th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2012 (inproceedings)

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Significant global reduction of carbon uptake by water-cycle driven extreme vegetation anomalies

Zscheischler, J., Mahecha, M., von Buttlar, J., Harmeling, S., Jung, M., Randerson, J., Reichstein, M.

Nature Geoscience, 2012 (article) In revision

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Zscheischler, J., Mahecha, M., von Buttlar, J., Harmeling, S., Jung, M., Randerson, J., Reichstein, M. Significant global reduction of carbon uptake by water-cycle driven extreme vegetation anomalies Nature Geoscience, 2012 (article) In revision

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Algorithms for Learning Markov Field Policies

Boularias, A., Kroemer, O., Peters, J.

In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 25, pages: 2186-2194, (Editors: P Bartlett and FCN Pereira and CJC. Burges and L Bottou and KQ Weinberger), Curran Associates Inc., 26th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2012 (inproceedings)

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Boularias, A., Kroemer, O., Peters, J. Algorithms for Learning Markov Field Policies In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 25, pages: 2186-2194, (Editors: P Bartlett and FCN Pereira and CJC. Burges and L Bottou and KQ Weinberger), Curran Associates Inc., 26th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2012 (inproceedings)

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Semi-Supervised Domain Adaptation with Copulas

Lopez-Paz, D., Hernandez-Lobato, J., Schölkopf, B.

In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 25, pages: 674-682, (Editors: P Bartlett, FCN Pereira, CJC. Burges, L Bottou, and KQ Weinberger), Curran Associates Inc., 26th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2012 (inproceedings)

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Lopez-Paz, D., Hernandez-Lobato, J., Schölkopf, B. Semi-Supervised Domain Adaptation with Copulas In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 25, pages: 674-682, (Editors: P Bartlett, FCN Pereira, CJC. Burges, L Bottou, and KQ Weinberger), Curran Associates Inc., 26th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2012 (inproceedings)

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Gradient Weights help Nonparametric Regressors

Kpotufe, S., Boularias, A.

In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 25, pages: 2870-2878, (Editors: P Bartlett and FCN Pereira and CJC. Burges and L Bottou and KQ Weinberger), 26th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2012 (inproceedings)

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Kpotufe, S., Boularias, A. Gradient Weights help Nonparametric Regressors In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 25, pages: 2870-2878, (Editors: P Bartlett and FCN Pereira and CJC. Burges and L Bottou and KQ Weinberger), 26th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2012 (inproceedings)

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A Blind Deconvolution Approach for Pseudo CT Prediction from MR Image Pairs

Hirsch, M., Hofmann, M., Mantlik, F., Pichler, B., Schölkopf, B., Habeck, M.

In 19th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) , pages: 2953 -2956, IEEE, ICIP, 2012 (inproceedings)

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Hirsch, M., Hofmann, M., Mantlik, F., Pichler, B., Schölkopf, B., Habeck, M. A Blind Deconvolution Approach for Pseudo CT Prediction from MR Image Pairs In 19th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) , pages: 2953 -2956, IEEE, ICIP, 2012 (inproceedings)

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Combinatorial Problems with Submodular Coupling in Machine Learning and Computer Vision

Jegelka, S.

ETH Zürich, Switzerland, 2012 (phdthesis)

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Jegelka, S. Combinatorial Problems with Submodular Coupling in Machine Learning and Computer Vision ETH Zürich, Switzerland, 2012 (phdthesis)

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Mining correlated loci at a genome-wide scale

Velkov, V.

Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany, 2012 (mastersthesis)

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Velkov, V. Mining correlated loci at a genome-wide scale Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany, 2012 (mastersthesis)

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A mixed model approach for joint genetic analysis of alternatively spliced transcript isoforms using RNA-Seq data

Rakitsch, B., Lippert, C., Topa, H., Borgwardt, KM., Honkela, A., Stegle, O.

In 2012 (inproceedings) Submitted

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Rakitsch, B., Lippert, C., Topa, H., Borgwardt, KM., Honkela, A., Stegle, O. A mixed model approach for joint genetic analysis of alternatively spliced transcript isoforms using RNA-Seq data In 2012 (inproceedings) Submitted

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The PET Performance Measurements of A Next Generation Dedicated Small Animal PET/MR Scanner

Liu, C., Hossain, M., Bezrukov, I., Wehrl, H., Kolb, A., Judenhofer, M., Pichler, B.

World Molecular Imaging Congress (WMIC), 2012 (poster)

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Liu, C., Hossain, M., Bezrukov, I., Wehrl, H., Kolb, A., Judenhofer, M., Pichler, B. The PET Performance Measurements of A Next Generation Dedicated Small Animal PET/MR Scanner World Molecular Imaging Congress (WMIC), 2012 (poster)

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Evaluation of marginal likelihoods via the density of states

Habeck, M.

In Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS 2012) , 22, pages: 486-494, (Editors: N Lawrence and M Girolami), JMLR: W&CP 22, AISTATS, 2012 (inproceedings)

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Bayesian model comparison involves the evaluation of the marginal likelihood, the expectation of the likelihood under the prior distribution. Typically, this high-dimensional integral over all model parameters is approximated using Markov chain Monte Carlo methods. Thermodynamic integration is a popular method to estimate the marginal likelihood by using samples from annealed posteriors. Here we show that there exists a robust and flexible alternative. The new method estimates the density of states, which counts the number of states associated with a particular value of the likelihood. If the density of states is known, computation of the marginal likelihood reduces to a one- dimensional integral. We outline a maximum likelihood procedure to estimate the density of states from annealed posterior samples. We apply our method to various likelihoods and show that it is superior to thermodynamic integration in that it is more flexible with regard to the annealing schedule and the family of bridging distributions. Finally, we discuss the relation of our method with Skilling's nested sampling.

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Habeck, M. Evaluation of marginal likelihoods via the density of states In Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS 2012) , 22, pages: 486-494, (Editors: N Lawrence and M Girolami), JMLR: W&CP 22, AISTATS, 2012 (inproceedings)

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Image denoising with multi-layer perceptrons, part 1: comparison with existing algorithms and with bounds

Burger, H., Schuler, C., Harmeling, S.

2012 (article) Submitted

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Burger, H., Schuler, C., Harmeling, S. Image denoising with multi-layer perceptrons, part 1: comparison with existing algorithms and with bounds 2012 (article) Submitted

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Distributed multisensory signals acquisition and analysis in dyadic interactions

Tawari, A., Tran, C., Doshi, A., Zander, TO.

In Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts, pages: 2261-2266, (Editors: JA Konstan and EH Chi and K Höök), ACM, New York, NY, USA, CHI, 2012 (inproceedings)

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Tawari, A., Tran, C., Doshi, A., Zander, TO. Distributed multisensory signals acquisition and analysis in dyadic interactions In Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts, pages: 2261-2266, (Editors: JA Konstan and EH Chi and K Höök), ACM, New York, NY, USA, CHI, 2012 (inproceedings)

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Measuring Cognitive Load by means of EEG-data - how detailed is the picture we can get?

Scharinger, C., Cierniak, G., Walter, C., Zander, TO., Gerjets, P.

In Meeting of the EARLI SIG 22 Neuroscience and Education, 2012 (inproceedings)

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Scharinger, C., Cierniak, G., Walter, C., Zander, TO., Gerjets, P. Measuring Cognitive Load by means of EEG-data - how detailed is the picture we can get? In Meeting of the EARLI SIG 22 Neuroscience and Education, 2012 (inproceedings)

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Optimal kernel choice for large-scale two-sample tests

Gretton, A., Sriperumbudur, B., Sejdinovic, D., Strathmann, H., Balakrishnan, S., Pontil, M., Fukumizu, K.

In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 25, pages: 1214-1222, (Editors: P Bartlett and FCN Pereira and CJC. Burges and L Bottou and KQ Weinberger), Curran Associates Inc., 26th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2012 (inproceedings)

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Gretton, A., Sriperumbudur, B., Sejdinovic, D., Strathmann, H., Balakrishnan, S., Pontil, M., Fukumizu, K. Optimal kernel choice for large-scale two-sample tests In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 25, pages: 1214-1222, (Editors: P Bartlett and FCN Pereira and CJC. Burges and L Bottou and KQ Weinberger), Curran Associates Inc., 26th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2012 (inproceedings)

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Measurement and calibration of noise bias in weak lensing galaxy shape estimation

Kacprzak, T., Zuntz, J., Rowe, B., Bridle, S., Refregier, A., Amara, A., Voigt, L., Hirsch, M.

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 427(4):2711-2722, Oxford University Press, 2012 (article)

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Kacprzak, T., Zuntz, J., Rowe, B., Bridle, S., Refregier, A., Amara, A., Voigt, L., Hirsch, M. Measurement and calibration of noise bias in weak lensing galaxy shape estimation Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 427(4):2711-2722, Oxford University Press, 2012 (article)

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Image analysis for cosmology: results from the GREAT10 Galaxy Challenge

Kitching, T. D., Balan, S. T., Bridle, S., Cantale, N., Courbin, F., Eifler, T., Gentile, M., Gill, M. S. S., Harmeling, S., Heymans, C., others,

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 423(4):3163-3208, Oxford University Press, 2012 (article)

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Kitching, T. D., Balan, S. T., Bridle, S., Cantale, N., Courbin, F., Eifler, T., Gentile, M., Gill, M. S. S., Harmeling, S., Heymans, C., others, Image analysis for cosmology: results from the GREAT10 Galaxy Challenge Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 423(4):3163-3208, Oxford University Press, 2012 (article)

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Automatische Seitenkettenzuordnung zur NMR Proteinstrukturaufklärung mittels ganzzahliger linearer Programmierung

Hooge, J.

University of Tübingen, Germany, 2012 (diplomathesis)

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Hooge, J. Automatische Seitenkettenzuordnung zur NMR Proteinstrukturaufklärung mittels ganzzahliger linearer Programmierung University of Tübingen, Germany, 2012 (diplomathesis)

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On the Hardness of Domain Adaptation and the Utility of Unlabeled Target Samples

Ben-David, S., Urner, R.

In Algorithmic Learning Theory - 23rd International Conference, 7568, pages: 139-153, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, (Editors: Bshouty, NH. and Stoltz, G and Vayatis, N and Zeugmann, T), Springer Berlin Heidelberg, ALT, 2012 (inproceedings)

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Ben-David, S., Urner, R. On the Hardness of Domain Adaptation and the Utility of Unlabeled Target Samples In Algorithmic Learning Theory - 23rd International Conference, 7568, pages: 139-153, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, (Editors: Bshouty, NH. and Stoltz, G and Vayatis, N and Zeugmann, T), Springer Berlin Heidelberg, ALT, 2012 (inproceedings)

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Domain Adaptation–Can Quantity compensate for Quality?

Ben-David, S., Shalev-Shwartz, S., Urner, R.

In International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, ISAIM, 2012 (inproceedings)

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Ben-David, S., Shalev-Shwartz, S., Urner, R. Domain Adaptation–Can Quantity compensate for Quality? In International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, ISAIM, 2012 (inproceedings)

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Nonparametric System Identification and Control for Periodic Error Correction in Telescopes

Klenske, E. D.

University of Stuttgart, 2012 (diplomathesis)

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Klenske, E. D. Nonparametric System Identification and Control for Periodic Error Correction in Telescopes University of Stuttgart, 2012 (diplomathesis)

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Learning from Weak Teachers

Urner, R., Ben-David, S., Shamir, O.

In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 22, pages: 1252-1260, (Editors: Lawrence, N. and Girolami, M.), JMLR, AISTATS, 2012 (inproceedings)

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Urner, R., Ben-David, S., Shamir, O. Learning from Weak Teachers In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 22, pages: 1252-1260, (Editors: Lawrence, N. and Girolami, M.), JMLR, AISTATS, 2012 (inproceedings)

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First SN Discoveries from the Dark Energy Survey

Abbott, T., Abdalla, F., Achitouv, I., Ahn, E., Aldering, G., Allam, S., Alonso, D., Amara, A., Annis, J., Antonik, M., others,

The Astronomer's Telegram, 4668, pages: 1, 2012 (article)

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Abbott, T., Abdalla, F., Achitouv, I., Ahn, E., Aldering, G., Allam, S., Alonso, D., Amara, A., Annis, J., Antonik, M., others, First SN Discoveries from the Dark Energy Survey The Astronomer's Telegram, 4668, pages: 1, 2012 (article)

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A sensorimotor paradigm for Bayesian model selection

Genewein, T, Braun, DA

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 6(291):1-16, October 2012 (article)

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Sensorimotor control is thought to rely on predictive internal models in order to cope efficiently with uncertain environments. Recently, it has been shown that humans not only learn different internal models for different tasks, but that they also extract common structure between tasks. This raises the question of how the motor system selects between different structures or models, when each model can be associated with a range of different task-specific parameters. Here we design a sensorimotor task that requires subjects to compensate visuomotor shifts in a three-dimensional virtual reality setup, where one of the dimensions can be mapped to a model variable and the other dimension to the parameter variable. By introducing probe trials that are neutral in the parameter dimension, we can directly test for model selection. We found that model selection procedures based on Bayesian statistics provided a better explanation for subjects’ choice behavior than simple non-probabilistic heuristics. Our experimental design lends itself to the general study of model selection in a sensorimotor context as it allows to separately query model and parameter variables from subjects.

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Genewein, T, Braun, DA A sensorimotor paradigm for Bayesian model selection Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 6(291):1-16, October 2012 (article)

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Adaptive Coding of Actions and Observations

Ortega, PA, Braun, DA

pages: 1-4, NIPS Workshop on Information in Perception and Action, December 2012 (conference)

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The application of expected utility theory to construct adaptive agents is both computationally intractable and statistically questionable. To overcome these difficulties, agents need the ability to delay the choice of the optimal policy to a later stage when they have learned more about the environment. How should agents do this optimally? An information-theoretic answer to this question is given by the Bayesian control rule—the solution to the adaptive coding problem when there are not only observations but also actions. This paper reviews the central ideas behind the Bayesian control rule.

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Ortega, PA, Braun, DA Adaptive Coding of Actions and Observations pages: 1-4, NIPS Workshop on Information in Perception and Action, December 2012 (conference)

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Risk-Sensitivity in Bayesian Sensorimotor Integration

Grau-Moya, J, Ortega, PA, Braun, DA

PLoS Computational Biology, 8(9):1-7, sep 2012 (article)

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Information processing in the nervous system during sensorimotor tasks with inherent uncertainty has been shown to be consistent with Bayesian integration. Bayes optimal decision-makers are, however, risk-neutral in the sense that they weigh all possibilities based on prior expectation and sensory evidence when they choose the action with highest expected value. In contrast, risk-sensitive decision-makers are sensitive to model uncertainty and bias their decision-making processes when they do inference over unobserved variables. In particular, they allow deviations from their probabilistic model in cases where this model makes imprecise predictions. Here we test for risk-sensitivity in a sensorimotor integration task where subjects exhibit Bayesian information integration when they infer the position of a target from noisy sensory feedback. When introducing a cost associated with subjects' response, we found that subjects exhibited a characteristic bias towards low cost responses when their uncertainty was high. This result is in accordance with risk-sensitive decision-making processes that allow for deviations from Bayes optimal decision-making in the face of uncertainty. Our results suggest that both Bayesian integration and risk-sensitivity are important factors to understand sensorimotor integration in a quantitative fashion.

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Grau-Moya, J, Ortega, PA, Braun, DA Risk-Sensitivity in Bayesian Sensorimotor Integration PLoS Computational Biology, 8(9):1-7, sep 2012 (article)

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Free Energy and the Generalized Optimality Equations for Sequential Decision Making

Ortega, PA, Braun, DA

pages: 1-10, 10th European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning (EWRL), July 2012 (conference)

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The free energy functional has recently been proposed as a variational principle for bounded rational decision-making, since it instantiates a natural trade-off between utility gains and information processing costs that can be axiomatically derived. Here we apply the free energy principle to general decision trees that include both adversarial and stochastic environments. We derive generalized sequential optimality equations that not only include the Bellman optimality equations as a limit case, but also lead to well-known decision-rules such as Expectimax, Minimax and Expectiminimax. We show how these decision-rules can be derived from a single free energy principle that assigns a resource parameter to each node in the decision tree. These resource parameters express a concrete computational cost that can be measured as the amount of samples that are needed from the distribution that belongs to each node. The free energy principle therefore provides the normative basis for generalized optimality equations that account for both adversarial and stochastic environments.

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Ortega, PA, Braun, DA Free Energy and the Generalized Optimality Equations for Sequential Decision Making pages: 1-10, 10th European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning (EWRL), July 2012 (conference)

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2002

Real-Time Statistical Learning for Oculomotor Control and Visuomotor Coordination

Vijayakumar, S., Souza, A., Peters, J., Conradt, J., Rutkowski, T., Ijspeert, A., Nakanishi, J., Inoue, M., Shibata, T., Wiryo, A., Itti, L., Amari, S., Schaal, S.

(Editors: Becker, S. , S. Thrun, K. Obermayer), Sixteenth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), December 2002 (poster)

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2002

Vijayakumar, S., Souza, A., Peters, J., Conradt, J., Rutkowski, T., Ijspeert, A., Nakanishi, J., Inoue, M., Shibata, T., Wiryo, A., Itti, L., Amari, S., Schaal, S. Real-Time Statistical Learning for Oculomotor Control and Visuomotor Coordination (Editors: Becker, S. , S. Thrun, K. Obermayer), Sixteenth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), December 2002 (poster)

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Optimized Support Vector Machines for Nonstationary Signal Classification

Davy, M., Gretton, A., Doucet, A., Rayner, P.

IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 9(12):442-445, December 2002 (article)

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This letter describes an efficient method to perform nonstationary signal classification. A support vector machine (SVM) algorithm is introduced and its parameters optimised in a principled way. Simulations demonstrate that our low complexity method outperforms state-of-the-art nonstationary signal classification techniques.

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Davy, M., Gretton, A., Doucet, A., Rayner, P. Optimized Support Vector Machines for Nonstationary Signal Classification IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 9(12):442-445, December 2002 (article)

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Learning with Kernels: Support Vector Machines, Regularization, Optimization, and Beyond

Schölkopf, B., Smola, A.

pages: 644, Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA, December 2002, Parts of this book, including an introduction to kernel methods, can be downloaded here. (book)

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In the 1990s, a new type of learning algorithm was developed, based on results from statistical learning theory: the Support Vector Machine (SVM). This gave rise to a new class of theoretically elegant learning machines that use a central concept of SVMs-kernelsfor a number of learning tasks. Kernel machines provide a modular framework that can be adapted to different tasks and domains by the choice of the kernel function and the base algorithm. They are replacing neural networks in a variety of fields, including engineering, information retrieval, and bioinformatics. Learning with Kernels provides an introduction to SVMs and related kernel methods. Although the book begins with the basics, it also includes the latest research. It provides all of the concepts necessary to enable a reader equipped with some basic mathematical knowledge to enter the world of machine learning using theoretically well-founded yet easy-to-use kernel algorithms and to understand and apply the powerful algorithms that have been developed over the last few years.

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Schölkopf, B., Smola, A. Learning with Kernels: Support Vector Machines, Regularization, Optimization, and Beyond pages: 644, Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA, December 2002, Parts of this book, including an introduction to kernel methods, can be downloaded here. (book)

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Surface-slant-from-texture discrimination: Effects of slant level and texture type

Rosas, P., Wichmann, F., Wagemans, J.

Journal of Vision, 2(7):300, Second Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), November 2002 (poster)

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The problem of surface-slant-from-texture was studied psychophysically by measuring the performances of five human subjects in a slant-discrimination task with a number of different types of textures: uniform lattices, randomly displaced lattices, polka dots, Voronoi tessellations, orthogonal sinusoidal plaid patterns, fractal or 1/f noise, “coherent” noise and a “diffusion-based” texture (leopard skin-like). The results show: (1) Improving performance with larger slants for all textures. (2) A “non-symmetrical” performance around a particular slant characterized by a psychometric function that is steeper in the direction of the more slanted orientation. (3) For sufficiently large slants (66 deg) there are no major differences in performance between any of the different textures. (4) For slants at 26, 37 and 53 degrees, however, there are marked differences between the different textures. (5) The observed differences in performance across textures for slants up to 53 degrees are systematic within subjects, and nearly so across them. This allows a rank-order of textures to be formed according to their “helpfulness” — that is, how easy the discrimination task is when a particular texture is mapped on the surface. Polka dots tended to allow the best slant discrimination performance, noise patterns the worst up to the large slant of 66 degrees at which performance was almost independent of the particular texture chosen. Finally, our large number of 2AFC trials (approximately 2800 trials per texture across subjects) and associated tight confidence intervals may enable us to find out about which statistical properties of the textures could be responsible for surface-slant-from-texture estimation, with the ultimate goal of being able to predict observer performance for any arbitrary texture.

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Rosas, P., Wichmann, F., Wagemans, J. Surface-slant-from-texture discrimination: Effects of slant level and texture type Journal of Vision, 2(7):300, Second Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), November 2002 (poster)

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Modelling Contrast Transfer in Spatial Vision

Wichmann, F.

Journal of Vision, 2(10):7, Second Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), November 2002 (poster)

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Much of our information about spatial vision comes from detection experiments involving low-contrast stimuli. Contrast discrimination experiments provide one way to explore the visual system's response to stimuli of higher contrast, the results of which allow different models of contrast processing (e.g. energy versus gain-control models) to be critically assessed (Wichmann & Henning, 1999). Studies of detection and discrimination using pulse train stimuli in noise, on the other hand, make predictions about the number, position and properties of noise sources within the processing stream (Henning, Bird & Wichmann, 2002). Here I report modelling results combining data from both sinusoidal and pulse train experiments in and without noise to arrive at a more tightly constrained model of early spatial vision.

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Wichmann, F. Modelling Contrast Transfer in Spatial Vision Journal of Vision, 2(10):7, Second Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), November 2002 (poster)

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Gender Classification of Human Faces

Graf, A., Wichmann, F.

In Biologically Motivated Computer Vision, pages: 1-18, (Editors: Bülthoff, H. H., S.W. Lee, T. A. Poggio and C. Wallraven), Springer, Berlin, Germany, Second International Workshop on Biologically Motivated Computer Vision (BMCV), November 2002 (inproceedings)

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This paper addresses the issue of combining pre-processing methods—dimensionality reduction using Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Locally Linear Embedding (LLE)—with Support Vector Machine (SVM) classification for a behaviorally important task in humans: gender classification. A processed version of the MPI head database is used as stimulus set. First, summary statistics of the head database are studied. Subsequently the optimal parameters for LLE and the SVM are sought heuristically. These values are then used to compare the original face database with its processed counterpart and to assess the behavior of a SVM with respect to changes in illumination and perspective of the face images. Overall, PCA was superior in classification performance and allowed linear separability.

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Graf, A., Wichmann, F. Gender Classification of Human Faces In Biologically Motivated Computer Vision, pages: 1-18, (Editors: Bülthoff, H. H., S.W. Lee, T. A. Poggio and C. Wallraven), Springer, Berlin, Germany, Second International Workshop on Biologically Motivated Computer Vision (BMCV), November 2002 (inproceedings)

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