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  • The Best of Unpublished Machine Learning and Statistics Books

    Sebastian Nowozin - Tue 09 February 2016 -

    Nowadays authors in the fields of statistics and machine learning often choose to write their books openly by publishing early draft versions. For popular books this creates a lot of feedback and in the end clearly improves the final book …


  • The Fair Price to Pay a Spy: An Introduction to the Value of Information

    Sebastian Nowozin - Sat 09 January 2016 -

    Spy image

    (This article covers the decision-theoretic concept of value of information through a classic example.)

    What is the value of a piece of information?

    It depends. Two factors determine the value of information: first, whether the information is new to you …


  • ICCV 2015, Day 4

    Sebastian Nowozin - Wed 16 December 2015 -

    This article summarizes the fourth day of the ICCV 2015 conference, the International Conference on Computer Vision. A summary of the first day, second day, and third day is also available.

    ICCV 2017 and 2019

    ICCV 2017 will be in …


  • ICCV 2015, Day 3

    Sebastian Nowozin - Wed 16 December 2015 -

    This article summarizes the third day of the ICCV 2015 conference, the International Conference on Computer Vision. A summary of the first day and second day is also available.

    Interesting Papers

    Registering Images to Untextured Geometry Using Average Shading Gradients …


  • ICCV 2015, Day 2

    Sebastian Nowozin - Tue 15 December 2015 -

    This article summarizes the second day of the ICCV 2015 conference, the International Conference on Computer Vision. A summary of the first day is also available.

    Awards

    The following awards were given at ICCV 2015.

    Achievement awards

    • PAMI Distinguished Researcher …