Mullin, Matthew D.
Information about AI from the News, Publications, and Conferences
Automatic Classification – Tagging and Summarization – Customizable Filtering and Analysis
If you are looking for an answer to the question What is Artificial Intelligence? and you only have a minute, then here's the definition the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence offers on its home page: "the scientific understanding of the mechanisms underlying thought and intelligent behavior and their embodiment in machines."
However, if you are fortunate enough to have more than a minute, then please get ready to embark upon an exciting journey exploring AI (but beware, it could last a lifetime) …
Learning a Rare Event Detection Cascade by Direct Feature Selection
Wu, Jianxin, Rehg, James M., Mullin, Matthew D.
Neural Information Processing Systems
Face detection is a canonical example of a rare event detection problem, inwhich target patterns occur with much lower frequency than nontargets.