About
Publications
Talks

Danny Tarlow

Ph.D. Student
Machine Learning Research Group
Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto

dtarlow cs toronto edu

News and Recent Highlights

Oct 28, 2009 I'm giving today's tea talk on Joint optimization of segmentation and appearance models.
Sept 28, 2009 I'm giving the Machine Learning seminar on Max product in high order factor graphs
Sept 5, 2009 Moved and settled back in Toronto.

Peer Reviewed Publications

Machine Learning & Computer Vision

Flexible Priors for Exemplar-based Clustering (2008)
Daniel Tarlow, Richard Zemel, and Brendan Frey.
The 24th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI).
[pdf] [bibtex]

Unsupervised Learning of Skeletons from Motion (2008)
David Ross, Daniel Tarlow, and Richard Zemel.
The 10th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV).
[pdf] [webpage]

Learning Articulated Skeletons From Motion (2007)
David Ross, Daniel Tarlow, and Richard Zemel.
Workshop on Dynamical Vision at International Conference on Computer Vision (WDV-ICCV).
[pdf] [webpage] [bibtex]

Using Combinatorial Optimization within Max-Product Belief Propagation (2007)
John Duchi, Daniel Tarlow, Gal Elidan, and Daphne Koller.
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 19).
[pdf] [bibtex]

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Automatically Calibrating a Probabilistic Graphical Model of Building Energy Consumption (2009)
Daniel Tarlow, Andrew Peterman, Benedict Schwegler, and Christopher Trigg.
The 11th International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA) Conference on Building Simulation.
[pdf]


Around the Web


Selected Talks

Max-Product Belief Propagation in High Order Factor Graphs
Toronto Machine Learning Group Seminar, Toronto, Canada, Fall 2009.
Microsoft Research Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, Summer 2009.

Automatically Calibrating a Probabilistic Graphical Model of Building Energy Consumption
IBPSA Conference on Building Simulation, Glasgow, Scotland, Summer 2009.

Flexible Priors for Exemplar-based Clustering
Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, Helsinki, Finland, Summer 2008.
Toronto Machine Learning Group Seminar, Toronto, Canada, Winter 2008.
[pdf] [video]

Learning Articulated Skeletons from Motion
CIFAR Summer School on Neural Computation and Adaptive Perception, Summer 2007.
[pdf]

Using Combinatorial Optimization within Max-Product Belief Propagation
Toronto Machine Learning Group Seminar, Toronto, Canada, Fall 2006.
[ppt] [pdf]

The Role of Features in a Feedback-based Ranking System
Google TechTalk, Mountain View, California, Summer 2006.

Partition-based Inference in Markov Networks
with John Duchi.
Daphne's Approximate Group of Students, Stanford, California, Spring 2006.

Learning in General Games
with Lee Zen and Ankit Garg.
Stanford Logic Group, Stanford, California, Winter 2005.
[link]

Automated Grading of Logic-based Homework Problems
Stanford Logic Group, Stanford, California, Summer 2004.


Other Stuff

Keyboard Shortcuts for Google Search in Your Browser Searchbox
Google labs has a product that lets you navigate search results using keyboard shortcuts. If you want to use keyboard shortcut Google search in your browser searchbox, you need to create an OpenSearch XML file describing the searchbox and ask the browser to load it. I did that here.

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