A Million to One

Well, that's it folks. On Nov. 15th, 2011, I defended my thesis. While I can still be seen around campus on occasion, I'm mostly elsewhere. The email address way down at the bottom of this webpage still works, if you've got something important to share (or if you want some code).

My name is Inmar Givoni. I am a computer science graduate student at the University of Toronto, currently working under the supervision of Professor Brendan Frey. I'm interested in applying machine learning algorithms to computer vision and biological data. In the past I've collaborated with the Boone Lab at the University of Toronto. During the winter of 2009 I was a visitor at the CBL lab at the University of Cambridge. Later that year I interned at Microsoft Research - Search Labs where I worked on e-commerce search. In the summer of 2010 I interned at Microsoft Research - Cambridge working on project Kinect.

PhD Thesis:

Beyond Affinity Propagation: Message Passing Algorithms for Clustering pdf
I.E. Givoni, December 2011, University of Toronto, Canada.

Refereed Publications:

Learning Structural Element Patch Models with Hierarchical Palettes pdf
J.C. Chua, I.E. Givoni, R.P. Adams and B.J. Frey
Presented at 25th IEEE conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2012, Providence, RI.

Matching Unstructured Product Offers to Structured Product Specifications pdf MSR website
A. Kannan, I.E. Givoni, R. Agrawal and A. Fuxman
Presented at the 17th International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), August 2011, San Diego, CA.

Hierarchical Affinity Propagation pdf supp material
I.E. Givoni, C. Chung, and B.J. Frey
Presented at the 27th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), July 2011, Barcelona, Spain.

Graph Cuts is a Max-Product Algorithm pdf arXiv
D. Tarlow, I.E. Givoni, R.S. Zemel, and B.J. Frey
Presented at the 27th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), July 2011, Barcelona, Spain.
Best Student Paper Award - Runner Up

Learning Better Image Representations Using 'Flobject Analysis' pdf supp material project webpage
P.S. Li(*), I.E. Givoni(*), and B.J. Frey
[(*): joint first authors]
Presented at 24th IEEE conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2011, Colorado Springs, CO.

HOP-MAP: Efficient Message Passing with High Order Potentials pdf project website
D. Tarlow, I.E. Givoni, and R. Zemel
Presented at The 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), May 2010, Sardinia.

FLoSS: Facility Location for Subspace Segmentation pdf
N. Lazic, I.E. Givoni, P. Aarabi and B.J. Frey
Presented at the 12th International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), October 2009, Kyoto, Japan.

Semi-supervised Affinity Propagation With Instance-Level Constraints pdf
I.E. Givoni and B.J. Frey
Presented at the 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), April 2009, Clearwater, FL.

A Binary Variable Model for Affinity Propagation pdf PubMed
I.E. Givoni and B.J. Frey
Neural Computation,Vol 21, issue 6, pp 1589-1600, June 2009

Exploring the Mode-of-Action of Bioactive Compounds by Chemical-Genetic Profiling in Yeast pdf PubMed
A.B. Parsons(*), A. Lopez(*), I.E. Givoni(*), D.E. Williams, C.A. Gray, J. Porter, G. Chua, R. Sopko, R.L. Brost, C. Ho, J.Wang, T. Ketela, C. Brenner, J.A. Brill, G.E. Fernandez , T.C. Lorenz , G.S. Payne, S. Ishihara, Y. Ohya, B. Andrews, T.R. Hughes, B.J. Frey, T.R. Graham, R.J. Andersen, C. Boone
[(*): joint first authors]
Cell, Vol. 126, Issue 3, pp. 611-625, August 2006

Matrix Tile Analysis pdf
I.E. Givoni, V. Cheung, and B.J. Frey
Presented at the 22nd Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), July 2006, Cambridge, MA.

Book Chapters:

Bayesian Painting by Numbers: Flexible Priors for Colour-Invariant Object Recognition pdf
J.C. Chua, I.E. Givoni, R.P. Adams, B.J. Frey
Machine Learning for Computer Vision,
Edited by R. Cipolla, S. Battiato and G. M. Farinella
Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer, 2013.

Technical Reports:

Factorgrams: A tool for visualizing multi-way associations in biological data pdf
V. Cheung, I.E. Givoni, D. Dueck, B.J. Frey
University of Toronto Technical Report PSI-2006-44, May 2006.

Teaching:

Fall 2010 - CSC2515 Machine Learning Tutorial Notes
Winter 2010 - CSC2515 Machine Learning
Fall 2008 - CSC411 Machine Learning and Data Mining
Fall 2007 - CSC411 Machine Learning and Data Mining
Fall 2006 - CSC2515 Machine Learning

Some wonderful and indispensable sets of notes by Sam Roweis, whom we all miss.

Matrix Identities
Gaussian Identities
Short Probability Review
Linear Algebra Review

Useful links:
ML@UoT
ML meetings
CS@UoT
WCS@UofT
ECE@UoT
Course Timetable
DSC web
Events@UofT

e-mail: inmar [dot] givoni [at] utoronto [dot] ca

Made 30 August 2005

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