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Alan Yuille

Colloquium: Alan Yuille

111 Krieger Hall 3400 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD, United States

Approximate Analysis by Synthesis: Towards a Computational Theory of Vision ABSTRACT: Vision is humans'  underappreciated superpower. It gives us the miraculous ability to perceive the three-dimensional structure of the world from the complex pattern of light rays which are imaged on our retinas. Vision can be conceptualized as Analysis by Synthesis, formalized by Bayesian probability […]

Nguyen, An

Dissertation Talk: An Nguyen

111 Krieger Hall 3400 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD, United States

Acquiring syntactic variation: regularization in wh-question production. ABSTRACT: Children are often exposed to language-internal variation. Studying the acquisition of variation allows us to understand more about children’s ability to acquire probabilistic input, their preferences at choice points, and factors contributing to such preference. Using wh-variation as a case study, this dissertation explores the acquisition of […]