2006 Papers

• S. Amershi and C. Conati. Automatic Recognition of Learner Groups in Exploratory Learning Environments. Proceedings of ITS 2006, 8th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 4053/2006, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg [Springer]
• S. Amershi, C. Conati, H. Maclaren, Using Feature Selection and Unsupervised Clustering to Identify Affective Expressions in Educational Games. In: Proceedings of the Workshop "Motivational and Affective Issues in ITS". In conjunction with ITS2006, 8th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Jhongli, Taiwan.
• J. Bautista, G. Carenini, An Integrated TaskBased Framework for the Design and Evaluation of Visualizations to Support Preferential Choice. Proceedings of Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI 2006)- Venice, Italy, May 25-28, 2006
• Yizheng Cai, Nando de Freitas and Jim Little. Robust Visual Tracking for Multiple Targets. ECCV 2006. [pdf]
• Peter Carbonetto and Nando de Freitas. Conditional Mean Field. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2006. [pdf]
• Peter Carbonetto, Gyuri Dorko, Cordelia Schmid, Hendrik Kueck and Nando de Freitas. A Semi-Supervised Learning Approach to Object Recognition with Spatial Integration of Local Features and Segmentation Cues. In Toward Category-Level Object Recognition, pages 277-300. 2006. [pdf]
• G. Carenini and J. Moore, Generating and Evaluating Evaluative Arguments. Artificial Intelligence Journal Vol. 170, Issue 11, pp 925-952, August, 2006.
• G. Carenini, R. Ng, A. Pauls MultiDocument Summarization of Evaluative Text, Proceedings of the 11th European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2006), Trento, Italy, April, 2006.
• G. Carenini, R. Ng, A. Pauls Interactive Multimedia Summaries of Evaluative Text, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2006), Sydney, Australia, Gen29-Feb1, 2006. [pdf]
• Gustavo Carneiro and David G. Lowe, Sparse flexible models of local features, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Graz, Austria (May 2006), Part III, pp. 29-43. [pdf]
• K. Collie, J.L. Bottorff, B.C. Long and C. Conati. Distance art groups for women with breast cancer: guidelines and recommendations. Support Care Cancer (2006) 14: 849858 [Springer]
• C. Conati, K. Muldner, G. Carenini, From Example Studying to Problem Solving via Tailored Computer-Based Meta-Cognitive Scaffolding: Hypotheses and Design. Technology, Instruction, Cognition and Learning (TICL) special issue on problem-solving support in ITSs, Vol. 4 , Issue 2, 2006. [pdf]
• Arnaud Doucet, M. Briers, S. Senecal, Efficient Block Sampling Strategies for Sequential Monte Carlo, J. Comp. Graph. Statist., vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 693-711, 2006. [pdf]
• Pantelis Elinas, Robert Sim, and James J. Little, sSLAM: Stereo Vision SLAM Using the Rao-Blackwellised Particle Filter and a Novel Mixture Proposal Distribution, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Orlando, FL, 7 pages, 2006. [pdf]
• M. Enriquez, K. E. MacLean, C. Chita, Haptic Phonemes: Basic Building Blocks of Haptic Communication, in Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, ICMI'06, Banff, Alberta, Canada, November 2006. [pdf]
• Per-Erik Forssén, Anders Moe, Autonomous Learning of Object Appearances using Colour Contour Frames CRV06, June 2006 [pdf]
• Per-Erik Forssén Björn Johansson, Gösta Granlund, Channel Associative Networks for Multiple Valued Mappings ICVW06, May 2006 [pdf]
• B. Forsyth, K. E. MacLean, Predictive Haptic Guidance: Intelligent User Assistance for the Control of Dynamic Tasks, in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 12, no. 1, pages 103-113, January/February 2006. [pdf]
• A. Ghosh, A. Doucet and W. Heidrich, Sequential Sampling for Dynamic Environment Map Illumination, Proc. of Eurographics Symposium on Rendering. [pdf]
• Iryna Gordon and David G. Lowe, What and where: 3D object recognition with accurate pose, in Toward Category-Level Object Recognition, eds. J. Ponce, M. Hebert, C. Schmid, and A. Zisserman, (Springer-Verlag, 2006), pp. 67-82. [pdf]
• Firas Hamze, Jean-Noel Rivasseau and Nando de Freitas. Information Theory Tools to Rank MCMC Algorithms on Probabilistic Graphical Models. UCSD Information Theory Workshop, 2006. [pdf]
• F. Hutter, Y. Hamadi, H. Hoos, K. Leyton-Brown, Performance Prediction and Automated Tuning of Randomized and Parametric Algorithms, Appeared in Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP-06). [pdf]
• D. L. James, J. Barbic, and D. K. Pai, Precomputed Acoustic Transfer: Output-Sensitive, Accurate Sound Generation for Geometrically Complex Vibration Sources, Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2006, Aug 2006. [pdf] [project page]
• Albert Jiang, Kevin Leyton-Brown, Bidding Agents for Online Auctions with Hidden Bids. Appeared in Machine Learning Journal, 2006. [pdf]
• Albert Jiang, Kevin Leyton-Brown. A Polynomial-Time Algorithm for Action-Graph Games. Appeared in American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-06), 2006. [pdf]
• A. Johansen, S.S. Singh, Arnaud Doucet, B. Vo, Convergence of the SMC Implementation of the PHD Filter, Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 265-291, 2006. [pdf]
• A. Johansen, P. Del Moral and A. Doucet, Sequential Monte Carlo samplers for rare events. Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Rare Event Simulation. [pdf]
• A. Johansen, A. Doucet and M. Davy, Maximum likelihood parameter estimation for latent variable models using sequential Monte Carlo, Proc. IEEE ICASSP. [pdf]
• N. Kantas, S.S. Singh and A. Doucet, A Distributed Recursive Maximum Likelihood Implementation for Sensor Registration, Proc. Fusion. [pdf]
• Mike Klaas, Mark Briers, Nando de Freitas, Arnaud Doucet, Simon Maskell and Dustin Lang. Fast Particle Smoothing: If I Had a Million Particles. ICML 2006. [pdf]
• P. G. Kry and D. K. Pai, Interaction Capture and Synthesis, Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2006, Aug 2006. [pdf] [project page]
• Hendrik Kueck, Nando de Freitas and Arnaud Doucet, SMC Samplers for Bayesian Optimal Nonlinear Design. Nonlinear Statistical Signal Processing Workshop (NSSPW), 2006. [pdf]
• Kevin Leyton-Brown, Computers and Markets: Exploring the Intersection of Computer Science, Microeconomics and Game Theory. Keynote address at 16th Annual Canadian Conference on Intelligent Systems (IS2006), Victoria, 2006. Abstract [pdf] Slides [pdf]
• Kevin Leyton-Brown, Yoav Shoham. A Test Suite for Combinatorial Auctions. Chapter 18 in Combinatorial Auctions, P. Cramton, Y. Shoham, R. Steinberg (eds.), MIT Press, 2006. Chapter (preprint) [pdf] MIT Press web page [link]
• Kevin Leyton-Brown, E. Nudelman, Y. Shoham. Empirical Hardness Models for Combinatorial Auctions. Chapter 19 in Combinatorial Auctions, P. Cramton, Y. Shoham, R. Steinberg (eds.), MIT Press, 2006. Chapter (preprint) [pdf] MIT Press web page: [link]
• Wei-Lwun Lu and James J. Little Simultaneous Tracking and Action Recognition using the PCA-HOG Descriptor, CRV 2006, Quebec, June 2006 [pdf]
• Wei-Lwun Lu and James J. Little, Tracking and Action Recognition at a Distance, CVBASE '06 - Workshop on Computer Vision Based Analysis in Sport Environments, at ECCV 2006, Graz, Austria, May 12, 2006 [pdf]
• J. Luk, J. Pasquero, S. Little, K. E. MacLean V. Hayward, V. Levesque, Haptics as a Solution for Mobile Interaction Challenges: Initial Design Using a Handheld Tactile Display Prototype, in Proceedings of ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI '06, Montreal, Canada, April 2006. (Best of CHI award). [pdf]
• C. Merten and C. Conati. Eye-Tracking to Model and Adapt to User Meta-cognition in Intelligent Learning Environments. Proceedings of IUI 06, International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Sydney, Australia [pdf]
• P. Del Moral, Arnaud Doucet, G.W. Peters, Sharp Propagation of Chaos Estimates for Feynman-Kac Particle Models, Teoriya Veroyatnostei i ee Primeneniya (to be reprinted in SIAM Theory of Probability and Its Applications), vol. 51, no. 3, 2006. [pdf]
• P. Del Moral, Arnaud Doucet, A. Jasra, Sequential Monte Carlo Samplers, J. Royal Statist. Soc. B, vol. 68, no. 3, pp. 411-436, 2006. [pdf]
• Jim Mutch and David G. Lowe, Multiclass object recognition with sparse, localized features, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), New York, NY (June 2006), pp. 11-18. [pdf]
• H. Neilson, M. Enriquez, and K. E. MacLean, Predictive Haptic Guidance: Intelligent User Assistance for the Control of Dynamic Tasks (Poster), presented at Mass Terms: Cognitive Issues in Generics, Mass Terms, and Related Linguistic Constructions Conference, February 3-4, 2006, Vancouver, BC. (Best Poster award). [ppt]
• J. Pasquero, J. Luk, S. Little, K. E. Maclean, Perceptual Analysis of Haptic Icons: An Investigation into the Validity of Cluster Sorted MDS, in Proceedings of 14th Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environments and Teleoperator Systems, IEEE-VR'06, Alexandria, Virginia, USA, March, 2006. [pdf]
• David Poole and Alan Mackworth, Dimensions of Complexity of Intelligent Agents, International Symposium on Practical Cognitive Agents and Robots, Perth, November 2006. [pdf]
• Wayne Pullan and Holger H. Hoos: Dynamic Local Search for the Maximum Clique Problem. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Volume 25, pages 159-185, 2006. [pdf]
• E. Ruffaldi, D. Morris, T. Edmunds, F. Barbagli, D. K.Pai, Standardized Evaluation of Haptic Rendering Systems in proceedings of the 14th Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, Washington, DC, March 25-26, 2006. [pdf]
• Robert Sim and James J. Little. Autonomous vision-based exploration and mapping using hybrid maps and Rao-Blackwellised particle filters Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Beijing, 2006. Nominated for best paper. [pdf]
• Robert Sim, Pantelis Elinas, Matt Griffin, Alex Shyr, and James J. Little, Design and analysis of a framework for real-time vision-based SLAM using Rao-Blackwellised particle filters, Proceedings of the 3rd Canadian Conference on Computer and Robotic Vision (CRV 2006), Quebec City, QC, 9 pages, 2006. Best Robotics Paper [pdf]
• S Shah, X Xuang, R DeLeeuw, M Khojasteh, W Lam, R Ng, K Murphy, Integrating copy number polymorphisms into array CGH analysis using a robust HMM Bioinformatics, 22(14):e431-e439, July 2006. [external pdf]
• C. Swindells, K. E. MacLean, K. S. Booth, M. Meitner, A Case-Study of Affect Measurement Tools for Physical User Interface Design, in Proceedings of Graphics Interface, Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society, GI2006, Quebec City, Canada, June 2006. [pdf]
• C. Swindells, E. Maksakov, K. E. MacLean, V. Chung, The Role of Prototyping Tools for Haptic Behavior Design, in Proceedings of 14th Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environments and Teleoperator Systems, IEEE-VR'06, Alexandria, Virginia, USA, March, 2006. [pdf]
• C. Swindells, K. E. MacLean, Captured Dynamics Data of 5 Mechanical Knobs, Technical Report TR-2006-14, UBC Dept. of Computer Science, Vancouver, 2006. [pdf]
• Dave A.D. Tompkins and Holger H. Hoos: On the Quality and Quantity of Random Decisions in Stochastic Local Search for SAT. Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence, (AI-2006), Volume 4013 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pp. 146-158, 2006. This paper won the AI 2006 best paper award. [pdf]
• S Vishwanathan, N. Schraudolph, M. Schmidt, K. Murphy, Accelerated Training of Conditional Random Fields with Stochastic Meta-Descent ICML'06 (Intl Conf on Machine Learning) [pdf]
• Julia Vogel, Adrian Schwaninger, Christian Wallraven, and Heinrich H. Büthoff. Categorization of natural scenes: local vs. global information. Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization APGV 2006, Boston, MA, USA, July 2006. [pdf]
• Julia Vogel and Bernt Schiele. Performance Evaluation and Optimization for Content-Based Image Retrieval. Pattern Recognition. Vol. 39, No. 5, pp. 897-909, May 2006. [pdf]