Sebastian's slow blog

• The Entropy of a Normal Distribution

  Sebastian Nowozin - Sat 13 June 2015 -

  The multivariate normal distribution is one of the most important probability distributions for multivariate data. In this post we will look at the entropy of this distribution and how to estimate the entropy given an iid sample.

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• A quick summary of CVPR 2015

  Sebastian Nowozin - Thu 11 June 2015 -

  CVPR 2015, "Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition" is the main conference of the computer vision community and just finished. I unfortunately was only able to stay for the three main conference days, but here is my short subjective summary.

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• Demosaicing

  Sebastian Nowozin - Fri 29 May 2015 -

  This article describes the basic problem of image demosaicing and a recent work of mine providing a research dataset for demosaicing research.

  Image demosaicing is a procedure used in almost all digital cameras. From your smartphone camera to the top-of-the-line …

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• Becoming a Bayesian, Part 3

  Sebastian Nowozin - Fri 15 May 2015 -

  This post continues the previous post, part 1 and part 2, outlining my criticism towards a ''naive'' subjective Bayesian viewpoint:

  1. The consequences of model misspecification.
  2. The ''model first computation last'' approach.
  3. Denial of methods of classical statistics, in this post …

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• Becoming a Bayesian, Part 2

  Sebastian Nowozin - Sat 02 May 2015 -

  This post continues the previous post, part 1, outlining my criticism towards a ''naive'' subjective Bayesian viewpoint:

  1. The consequences of model misspecification.
  2. The ''model first computation last'' approach, in this post.
  3. Denial of methods of classical statistics.

  The ''Model First …

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