Chris Pal

Assistant Professor
University of Rochester
Department of Computer Science

Curriculum Vitae (Adobe PDF Format)

Biography

Contact Info:

Dept. of Computer Science 
Computer Studies Bldg. 
PO Box 270226  
Rochester, NY 14627 
USA  

Telephone: (585) 275-1351 

Office: CS 720 

    Research:

    In a broad sense, I develop algorithms for information processing. I use probability models, graphical representations and optimization methods to classify, index, analyze and extract information from: images, video, audio, text, documents, scientific publications and scientific data.

Teaching:

Winter 2008, CSC 577 - Seminar in AI: Advanced Topics in Pattern Recognition
Fall 2007, CSC 290A - Topics in CS: Computational Photography and Video


Recent Invited Talks and Activities

May 2006, Microsoft Research - Cambridge, UK.
July 2006, Microsoft Research - Redmond, WA.
Sept. 2006, Canadian Independent Media Arts Alliance - National Conference Speaker
Sept. 2006, Advanced Invention to Venture - Massachusetts Biomedical Center, UMass Worcester
Sept. 2006, Invention to Venture - University of Massachusetts Business School, Guest Speaker
Nov. 2006, McGill University - Montreal
Dec. 2006, Michael Smith Genomic Sciences Centre - Vancouver
Dec. 2006, Kodak Research
March 2007, MIT
March 2007, Google
Oct. 2007, Cornell / Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Workshop


Chris Pal (2006) What Did We See? A Talk for Microsoft Research's Memex Day.

Send me an email if you wish to have a copy of the slides from any of these other talks.


Selected Publications:


with Nicholas Morsillo and Randal Nelson (2008) Mining the Web for Visual Concepts University of Rochester Technical Report TR-2008-931, March 2008.

with Gideon Mann and Richard Minerich. (2007) Putting Semantic Information Extraction on the Map: Noisy Label Models for Fact Extraction. In the proceedings of the AAAI Workshop on Information Integration on the Web (IIWeb 2007).

with Xuerui Wang and Andrew McCallum. (2007) Generalized Component Analysis for Text with Heterogeneous Attributes In the proceedings of Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD).

with Greg Druck, Jerry Zhu and Andrew McCallum. (2007) Semi-Supervised Classification with Hybrid Generative/Discriminative Methods. In the proceedings of Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD).

with Pallika Kanani and Andrew McCallum. (2007) Improving Author Coreference by Resource-bounded Information Gathering from the Web In the proceedings of the Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI).


with Daniel Scharstein (2007) Learning Conditional Random Fields for Stereo In the proceedings of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR).

with Manjunatha N. Jagalur, Erik Learned-Miller, R. T. Zoeller and David Kulp. (2007) Analyzing in situ Gene Expression in the Mouse Brain with Image Registration, Feature Extraction and Block Clustering BMC Bioinformatics vol. 8, suppl. 10, Dec. 21. [BMC Online]

with Patrick Baudisch, Desney Tan, Drew Steedly, Eric Rudolph, Matt Uyttendaele and Richard Szeliski. (2006) An Exploration of User Interface Designs for Real-time Panoramic Photography. Australian Journal of Information Systems (AJIS), vol. 13, no. 2.


Chris Pal, Michael Kelm, Xuerui Wang, Greg Druck and Andrew McCallum (2006) On Discriminative and Semi-Supervised Dimensionality Reduction. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) Workshop on Novel Applications of Dimensionality Reduction.

with Michael Kelm and Andrew McCallum. (2006) Combining Generative and Discriminative Methods for Pixel Classification with Multi-Conditional Learning To appear in the proceedings of ICPR 2006. [BibTeX]

with Charles Sutton and Andrew McCallum. (2006) Sparse Forward-Backward using Minimum Divergence Beams for Fast Training of Conditional Random Fields. In the proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), vol. 5, pp. 581-584.[BibTeX]

with Andrew McCallum, Greg Druck and Xuerui Wang. (2006) Multi-Conditional Learning: Generative/Discriminative Training for Clustering and Classification To appear in the proceedings of AAAI 2006.[BibTeX]


with Manjunatha N. Jagalur, Erik Learned-Miller, R. T. Zoeller and David Kulp. (2006) The Processing and Analysis of in situ Gene Expression Images of the Mouse Brain. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) Workshop on New Problems and Methods in Computational Biology. [Project Page].

with Drew Steedly and Richard Szeliski. (2005) Efficiently Registering Video into Panoramic Mosaics.In the proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2005, Beijing, China, October 15-21.[BibTeX] [Project Page]


Aseem Agarwala, Colin Zheng, Chris Pal, Maneesh Agrawala, Michael Cohen, Brian Curless, David Salesin, and Richard Szeliski. (2005) Panoramic video textures. Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2005, ACM Transactions on Graphics, vol. 24, issue 3, pp. 821-827.[BibTeX] [Project Page] [Video (.wmv)]


Pal, C. and Jojic, N. (2005) Interactive Montages of Sprites for Indexing and Summarizing Security Video. In the Video Proceedings of IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2005. vol. 2, pp. 1192.[BibTeX] [Video (.wmv)]


Baudisch, P., Tan, D., Steedly, D., Rudolph, E., Uyttendaele, M.,
Pal, C., and Szeliski, R. (2005) Panoramic Viewfinder: providing a real-time preview to help users avoid flaws in panoramic pictures. In the Proceedings of OZCHI 2005, Canberra, Australia, November 2005.[BibTeX] [Project Page] [Video (.mov)]

Pal, C. (2004) Probability Models for Information Processing and Machine Perception. PhD Thesis, University of Waterloo.


Pal, C., Szeliski, R., Uyttendaele, M. and Jojic, N. (2004) Probability Models for High Dynamic Range Imaging. In the Proceedings of IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2004. vol. 2, pp. 173-180.[BibTeX] [Project Page]


Peng, W., et al. (2003) A Panoramic View of Yeast Non-Coding RNA processing. Cell, vol. 113, pp. 919-933.[BibTeX]


Pal, C., Frey, B. and Jojic, N. (2002) Learning Montages of Transformed Latent Images as Representations of Objects that Change in Appearance. In the proceedings of ECCV: The European Conference on Computer Vision, Springer-Verlag lecture notes in Computer Science, vol. 4, pp. 715-731. [BibTeX]


Pal, C., Frey, B. and Kristjansson, T. (2002) Noise Robust Speech Recognition Using Gaussian Basis Functions For Non-linear Likelihood Function Approximation . In the proceedings of IEEE ICASSP: International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing, Orlando, Florida May 13-17, 2002.[BibTeX]

Pal, C. (2001) Probabilistic Models and Decision Problems . An Invited Tutorial Presented at the International Symposium for Environmental Software Systems, ISESS 2001, Banff, Alberta, Canada, May 22-25, 2001.

Pal, C. and Hu, M. (2001) Methodologies for Constructing and Training Large Hierarchical Hidden Markov Models for Sequence Analysis . Research in Computational Biology. RECOMB 2001. Abstract for Poster Presentation. April 22-25, 2001. Poster [here] in .pdf format (Note: you will need a recent version of Adobe Acrobat to view properly): 

Pal, C. Swayne, D. and Frey, B. (2001) The Automated Extraction of Environmentally Relevant Features from Digital Imagery using Bayesian Multi-Resolution Analysis . Advances in Environmental Research. vol. 5, issue 4, pp 435-444.

Dorner, S. Swayne, D. A., Rudra, R. P., Pal, C., Newald, C. (2001) Integrating Parametric Uncertainty and Modelling Results into an Advisory System for Watershed Management . Advances in Environmental Research.. vol. 5, issue 4, pp. 445-451

Pal, C., Slaney, M. and Adams, R. (2000) Sound-based Event Control Using Timbral Analysis . United States Patent number: 6,054,646


Pal, C. (2000) A Probabilistic Approach to Image Feature Extraction, Segmentation and Interpretation . Masters of Mathematics Thesis. University of Waterloo. 


Pal, C. Swayne, D. and Frey, B. (2000) Image Interpretation and Segmentation with Hierarchical Probabilistic Models . 4th International Conference on Integrating GIS and Environmental Modeling (GIS/EM4). Banff, Alberta , Canada, September 2-8, 2000. 

Dorner, S., Pal, C. and Swayne, D.A. (1999) Case Libraries and Information Theoretic Case Matching for Water Resource Management. Proceedings of  ISESS 1999, The International Symposium on Environmental Software Systems

Pal, C. (1998) A Technique for Illustrating Dynamic Component Level Interactions Within a Software Architecture . Proceedings of CASCON 1998. The IBM Centre for Advanced Studies Conference . pp. 134-146. 

MacKenzie, I.S., Soukoreff, R.W. & Pal, C. (1997) A two ball mouse affords three degrees of freedom . Extended Abstracts of CHI 1997. The ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , pp. 303-304. New York: ACM.

 

Copyright Information:

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In my opinion, there are some nice images on this site as well. I believe the low resolution version of the images belong to the paper copyright holders while the high resolution versions belong to some combination of the photographers, my co-authors and myself. I am looking into this issue and will post a statement as soon as I can get a clearer determination.


Technical Reports and Course Projects  

Kamel, M. Keast, J. and Pal, C. (1997) The Architecture of the Linux Kernel

Pal, C. (1997) Multimedia Vector Processing

Pal, C. (2000) Learning and Representing Semantic Information in WordNet and MindNet. 

Pal, C. (2000) Numerical Methods for Pricing Financial Options

Pal, C. (2000) Probabilistic Models for Document Collections: Latent Semantic Indexing

Hu, M. Ingram, C. Sirski, M. Pal, C., Swamy, S. Patten, C. (2000) A Hierarchical HMM Implementation for Vertebrate Gene Splice Site Prediction
 


 
 
Older Presentations

The SVD, Principal Component Analysis and the Latent Semantic Indexing of Documents

Masters Thesis Presentation
 


Some links to past and present mentors and collaborators

Brendan Frey (University of Toronto, ECE),
Mike Hu (Harvard DFCI/HMS),
Tim Hughes (University of Toronto, Medical Research),
Nebojsa Jojic (Microsoft Research),
Trausti Kristjansson (Google),
Andrew McCallum (University of Massachusetts, CS),
Quaid Morris (University of Toronto),
Sam Roweis University of Toronto, CS),
Malcolm Slaney (Yahoo Research),
Rick Szeliski (Microsoft Research),
Matt Uyttendaele (Microsoft Research)