Ariadna Quattoni

"Juan de la Cierva" researcher
LARCA Research Group, Dept. LSI, UPC

aquattoni/ at/ lsi/upc/edu
phone : (+34) 93-413-7548
address : UPC Dept. LSI, Omega-317, C/Jordi Girona 1-3, 08034 Barcelona

I work on Machine Learning with applications to natural language processing and computer vision.
Currently, my reseach focuses on structure prediction and latent variable models.
If you are a student and want to work in these topics, please contact me.

Technology Transfer

dMetrics CTO and Co-founder.

Publications

Conferences and Journals

Local Loss Optimization in Operator Models: A New Insight into Spectral Learning, B. Balle, A.Quattoni, X. Carreras , to appear in ICML 2012.

Spectral Learning for Non-Deterministic Dependency Parsing, F. Luque, A. Quattoni, B. Balle, X. Carreras , EACL 2012, Best Paper Award.

A Latent Variable Ranking Model for Content-based Retrieval, A. Quattoni, X. Carreras, A. Torralba , ECIR 2012.

A Spectral Learning Algorithm for Finite State Transducers, B. Balle, A. Quattoni, X. Carreras , ECML 2011. [pdf]

An Efficient Projection for L1,Infinity Regularization, A. Quattoni, X. Carreras, M. Collins, T. Darrell, ICML 2009. [pdf]

Recognizing Indoor Scenes, A. Quattoni, A. Torralba, CVPR 2009. [pdf]

Transfer Learning for Image Classification with Sparse Prototype Representations, A. Quattoni, M. Collins, T. Darrell, CVPR 2008. [pdf]

Learning Visual Representations using Images with Captions, A. Quattoni, M. Collins, T. Darrell, CVPR 2007. [pdf]

Hidden-state Conditional Random Fields, A. Quattoni, S. Wang, L.P. Morency, M. Collins, and T. Darrell, IEEE PAMI, 2007 [pdf]

Latent-Dynamic Discriminative Models for Continuous Gesture Recognition, L.P. Morency, A. Quattoni, T. Darrell, CVPR 2007. [pdf]

Hidden Conditional Random Fields for Gesture Recognition, S.Wang, A. Quattoni, L.P. Morency, D. Demirdjian, T. Darrell, CVPR 2006. [pdf]

Incorporating Semantic Constraints into a Discriminative Categorization and Labeling Model, A. Quattoni, M. Collins, T. Darrell, Workshop on Semantic Knowledge in Vision, ICCV, 2005. [pdf]

Conditional Random Fields for Object Recognition, A. Quattoni, M. Collins, T. Darrell, NIPS 2004. [pdf]

Technical Reports

Transferring Nonlinear Representations using Gaussian Processes with a Shared Latent Space, R. Urtasun, A. Quattoni, N. Lawrence, T. Darrell, MIT TR 2008 . [pdf]

A Projected Subgradient Method for Scalable Multi-Task Learning, A. Quattoni, X. Carreras, M. Collins, T. Darrel, MIT TR 2008 2008. [pdf]

Thesis

Transfer Learning Algorithms for Image Classification, Phd Thesis, Massachussetts Institure of Technology 2009. [pdf]

Latent Conditional Random Fields for Object Recognition, Master Thesis, Massachussetts Institute of Technology 2005. [pdf]

Software

HCRF: Hidden Conditional Random Fields Library.

L1InfProjection : L1Inf Projection matlab code.

Talks

Transfer Learning Algorithms for Image Classification, Phd Thesis Defense, [pdf]

An Efficient Projection for L1,Infinity Regularization, ICML 2009, [pdf] [video]

Tutorial on Conditional Random Fields, LARCA Seminar 2009, [pdf]

Last updated: July 2009