Publications

2003

  • Eric Brochu, Nando de Freitas and Kejie Bao. The Sound of an Album Cover: A Probabilistic Approach to Multimedia. AI-Stats 2003. pdf

  • Peter Carbonetto, Nando de Freitas, Paul Gustafson and Natalie Thompson. Bayesian Feature Weighting for Unsupervised Learning, with Application to Object Recognition. AI-Stats 2003. pdf

  • Kobus Barnard, Pinar Duygulu, Nando de Freitas, David Forsyth, David Blei and Michael I. Jordan. Matching Words and Pictures. html

  • Eric Brochu and Nando de Freitas. "Name that Song!": A Probabilistic Approach to Querying on Music and Text. NIPS 2003. ps

2002

  • Nando de Freitas, Eric Brochu, Kobus Barnard, Pinar Duygulu and David Forsyth. Bayesian Models for Massive Multimedia Databases: a New Frontier. 7th Valencia International Meeting on Bayesian Statistics/2002 ISBA International Meeting. 2002. Preliminary draft in pdf.

  • Pinary Duygulu, Kobus Barnard, Nando de Freitas and David Forsyth. I. Jordan. Object Recognition as Machine Translation: Learning a Lexicon for a Fixed Image Vocabulary. ECCV 2002. pdf  ps.gz Best Paper prize on Cognitive Computer Vision.

2001

  • Nando de Freitas and Kobus Barnard. Bayesian Latent Semantic Analysis of Multimedia Databases UBC TR 2001-15. ps