Learning from Massive, Incompletely annotated & Structured Data
Abstract
The MAESTRA project (http://maestra-project.eu/) addresses the ambitious task
of predicting different types of structured outputs in several challenging settings, such
as semi-supervised learning, mining data streams and mining network data. It develops
machine learning methods that work in each of these settings, as well as combinations
thereof. The techniques developed are applied to problems from the area of biology and
bioinformatics, sensor data analysis, multimedia annotation and retrieval, and social
network analysis. The talk will give an introduction to the project and the topics
it addresses, an overview of the results of the project, and a detailed description of
selected techniques and applications: Semi-supervised learning for structured-output
prediction (SOP) and SOP on data streams will be discussed for the task of multitarget
regression (MTR), as well as applications of MTR for the annotation/retrieval
of images.