[4eyes] Reading Group Next Monday @ 2 pm!

[Saiph Savage]

Hi Everyone!
The reading group will be Monday November 4th at 2 pm in the MAT conference
room.
We will discuss:
*Title:*Learning Segmentation by Random
Walks<http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~jshi/papers/nips00_maila_shi.pdf>.

By: Marina Meila and Jianbo Shi.
*Abstract:*
We present a new view of image segmentation by pairwise similarities  We
interpret the similarities as edge  ows in a Markov random walk and study
the
eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the walk s transition matrix  This
interpretation
shows that spectral methods for clustering and segmentation have a
probabilistic
foundation  In particular  we prove that the Normalized Cut method arises
naturally from our framework  Finally  the framework provides a principled
method for learning the similarity function as a combination of features


Hope to see you there! Thanks to everyone that came to the last reading
group session. It was a great discussion.

Cheers
-- 
Saiph Savage
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