The Best of Unpublished Machine Learning and Statistics Books

Posted on Tue 09 February 2016 in Machine Learning, Statistics

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 when it is published.

Here is a short list of …


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

Posted on Sat 09 January 2016 in Decision Theory, Machine Learning

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(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; second, whether the information causes you to change your decisions …


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ICCV 2015, Day 4

Posted on Wed 16 December 2015 in Computer Vision

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 Venice, Italy.

For ICCV 2019 there was an open voting …


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ICCV 2015, Day 3

Posted on Wed 16 December 2015 in Computer Vision

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

By Tobias Ploetz and Stefan Roth.

This work considers the …


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ICCV 2015, Day 2

Posted on Tue 15 December 2015 in Computer Vision

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 Award (1): Yann LeCun
  • PAMI Distinguished Researcher Award (2): David …

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