Active EM to reduce noise in activity recognition

International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Proceedings IUI

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 132-140

  Shen, Jianqiang ^a   Dietterich, Thomas G ^a  

^a Oregon State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Active learning; Expectation maximization; Intelligent interface; Machine learning; Noise

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ELECTROMAGNETISM; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NOISE ABATEMENT; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; QUERY PROCESSING; ROBUST CONTROL;

ACTIVE LEARNING; EM ALGORITHM; INTELLIGENT INTERFACE;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 34648823321     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1216295.1216323     Document Type: Conference Paper

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