11-755 MLSP, Projects page

11-755/18-797 MLSP -- Fall 2010 PROJECTS

A total of 15 projects were completed by the students of the course. All of them were excellent. Several of them were later extended into publications. The teams are listed below. The book of abstracts and publications resulting from the projects are listed at the bottom of the page.

Team membersProject
Aaron Jaech, Andy Strat, Chenkai Xie.Unsupervised face clustering in video.report
Amrita Anand, Kedar Mane, Rathi Munukur.Multi-rate event detection for energy-aware green design facilities: Techniques to improve event detection in non-intrusive systems.report
Bharat Khandoi, Bhaskar Adavi, Prashant Malani, Sahil Sapre.De-identification of speech.report
Dan Burrows, Ajay Ghadiyaram, Maxwell Jordan, Amandianeze Nwana, Amber Xu.Emotion recognition and synthesis in speech.report
Dawen Liang, Guangyu Xia, Mark Harvilla.Rehearsal audio stream segmentation and clustering.report
Griffin Romigh.Personalization of head-related transfer functions from a limited number of acoustic measurements.report
Hongfei Wang, Zhong Zhang.Source separation with character matching.report
Hugo Goncalves, Adrian Ocneanu, Manuel Tragut, Aditi Pandya.Non-intrusive load monitoring.report
Huimin Yang, Tianyi Chen, Yulian Xu, Ran Ye.Dynamic foreground/background extraction based on segmented image.report
Jonathon Smereka, Andres Rodriguez.Support vector correlation filters.report
Miriam Cha, Pooya Khorrami, Matt Wagner.Robust image logo removal.report
Philippe de Wagter, Yuqian Zhao, Quan Chen.Music information retrieval.report
Takshak Desai, Swetha Chigurupati, Anish Menon, Jason Andersen.Talk-along Karaoke.report
Xie Yiting, Akshay Chandrashekaran, Nidhi Kohli, Ge Yang, Abhishek Jain, Anoop Ramakrishna, Tejas Chopra, R. Swaminathan.Song retrieval system using hidden Markov models.report
Yujie Ying, Joel Harley.Damage recognition for structural health monitoring.report


The complete set of abstracts are available here

The following is an incomplete list of publications that resulted from the projects:

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1.   Guangyu Xia, Dawen Liang, Roger Dannenberg, Mark Harvilla.         Segmentation, Clustering, and Display in a Personal Audio Database for Musicians.     ISMIR 2011
2.   Hugo Goncalves, Adrian Ocneanu, Mario Berges.     Unsupervised disaggregation of appliances using aggregated consumption data.     The 17th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: Workshop on Data Mining Applications in Sustainability
3.   A. Rodriguez, V. Boddeti, B.V.K. Kumar, A. Mahalanobis.     Maximum margin correlation filter.      Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2011.
4.   Yujie Ying, Joel Harley, James H. Garrett Jr., Yaunwei Jin, Irving J. Oppenheim, Jun Shi, Lucio Soibelman.     Applications of Machine Learning in Pipeline Monitoring.     2011 American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) International Workshop on Computing in Civil Engineering. (Best data sensing and analysis paper award)