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= Doktoranden-/Diplomandenseminar SS 08</h2> ==
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More information for speakers and participants [here|].
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=== Wednesday, 30.03.11 14.15 FR6046 ===
==== Research Talk ====
 * ''' Stefan Haufe''',
 * ''' Franz Király - Algebraic SSA'''
(Chair: Matthias Jugel, unavailable)
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=== Wednesday, 06.04.11 14.15 FR6046 ===
==== Research Talk ====
 * ''' Arne Ewald''',
==== Tutorial ====
 * ''' Marius Kloft - SVMs and extensions (Structured Prediction, Multiple Kernel Learning and friends) '''
(Chair: Laura Acqualagna)
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=== Wednesday, 13.04.11 14.15 FR6046 ===
==== External Talk ====
 * ''' Daniel Göhring - Brain Driver (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDV_62QoHjY)'''
(Chair: Wojciech Wojcikiewicz)

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=== Wednesday, 16.03.11 14.15 FR6046 ===
==== NIPS Discussion ====
 * ''' What are new interesting directions / papers ?''' (People who attended last NIPS or related conferences please prepare something),
 * ''' What ideas do you have ?''' (Please prepare an one-slide presentation for your idea)
(Chair: Guido Schwenk)
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=== Wednesday, 11.02.09 14.30 FR6046 === === Wednesday, 09.03.11 14.15 FR6046 ===
==== Research Talk ====
 * ''' Paul von Bünau''',
 * ''' Laura Acqualagna''',
 * ''' Martijn Schreuder'''
(Chair: Sven Dähne)
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'''Thomas Vanck''' === Wednesday, 02.03.11 14.15 FR6046 ===
==== Research Talk ====
 * ''' Kohei Hayashi''',
 * ''' Gunnar Kedenburg'''
(Chair: Pascal Lehwark)
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''Asset pricing via optimal Importance Sampling'' === Wednesday, 23.02.11 14.15 FR6046 ===
CANCELLED
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Abstract: === Wednesday, 16.02.11 14.15 FR6046 ===
==== Research Talk ====
 * ''' Bastian Venthur''',
 * ''' Tammo Krüger''',
 * ''' Matthias Schultze-Kraft''',
 * ''' Anne Porbadnigk'''
(Chair: Irene Winkler)
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Pricing complex derivatives is one of the main goals in &#64257;nancial
mathematics. For example, in the Black-Scholes model it is possible to
give a closed formula for pricing European options. However, in a lot
of applications it is not possible to give closed solutions to these
problems. Instead, numerical computations must be applied. An
appropriate method is the Monte Carlo simulation, e.g. path-dependent
options can be very easily simulated by generating a number of sample
paths of the underlying asset. These sample paths are generated
according to a distribution under an equivalent martingale measure.
Subsequently, one would calculate the corresponding payoffs followed
by averaging over these. This average yields an approximation of the
fair price of the derivative by the strong law of large numbers. The
calculation of the price of some derivatives, such as options that
offer a payoff only in a speci&#64257;c event of interest to the buyer, can
be problematic. Suppose the payoff of a special event is very high but
also very rare to happen. A low number of simulations of the
underlying paths might not hit these important events which would
yield an incorrect or poor price. On the other hand a large number of
simulations would result in a huge cost of computation time and still
there might be no samples hitting the important event. The solution to
this dilemma is the application of importance sampling. Importance
sampling pays more attention to crucial events. In the case of an
option such a crucial or rare event would be an event that generates a
high payoff. The goal of importance sampling is a reduction of the
variance which is achieved by making a change of measure that accounts
for important outcomes and therefore minimizes the variance.
Importance sampling has two advantages. Firstly, it needs less samples
and secondly it is very accurate. The problem of importance sampling
is that it cannot be implemented very easily. Therefore, an approach
will be stated for path-dependent options.
=== Wednesday, 09.02.11 14.15 FR6046 ===
==== Research Talk ====
 * ''' Guido Schwenk''',
 * ''' Nico Görnitz'''
(Chair: Marius Kloft)
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=== Wednesday, 02.02.11 14.15 FR6046 ===
==== Research Talk ====
 * ''' Christina Müller''',
 * ''' Irene Winkler''',
 * ''' Javier Pascual'''
(Chair: Gunnar Kedenburg)
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=== Wednesday, 14.01.09 15.30 FR6046 === === Wednesday, 26.01.11 14.15 FR6046 ===
==== Research Talk ====
 * ''' Duncan Blythe''',
 * ''' Wojciech Wojcikiewicz'''
(Chair: Johannes Höhne)
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'''Leo Jugel''' === Wednesday, 19.01.11 14.15 FR6046 ===
==== Research Talk ====
 * ''' Nikolay Jetchev''',
 * ''' Stanimir Dragiev''',
 * ''' Nils Plath''',
(Chair: Frank Meinecke)
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=== Wednesday, 12.01.11 14.15 FR6046 ===
==== Research Talk ====
 * ''' Matthias Jugel''',
 * ''' Johannes Höhne''',
 * ''' Sven Dähne''',
(Chair: Siamac Fazli)
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=== Wednesday, 14.01.09 14.30 FR6046 === === Wednesday, 05.01.11 14.15 FR6046 ===
==== Research Talk ====
 * ''' Marton Danoczy''',
 * ''' Pascal Lehwark''',
 * ''' Grégoire Montavon'''
(Chair: Javier Pascual)
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'''Felix Bießmann''' === Wednesday, 15.12.10 14.15 FR6046 ===
CANCELLED
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''Investigating neurovascular coupling using temporal cross&#8208;correlation between pharmacological MRI and electrophysiology'' === Wednesday, 01.12.10 14.15 FR6046 ===
==== Research Talk ====
 * ''' Canh Hao Nguyen''',
 * ''' Franz Király'''
(Chair: Paul von Bünau)
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Abstract: === Wednesday, 24.11.10 14.15 FR6046 ===
CANCELLED
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Despite its young age, functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) has become one of the most popular brain imaging techniques. However, the relationship between brain activity and the blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) contrast as measured with fMRI, the so called neurovascular coupling, is not yet fully understood. Using pharmacological interventions to manipulate the neurovascular coupling mechanisms in combination with simultaneous measurements of electrophysiological and BOLD response, we investigate the dependencies between neural activity and the fMRI signal. This imposes additional demands on the data analysis: electrophysiological data is very high dimensional in time, whereas fMRI data is typically very high dimensional in space. We developed a method based on canonical correlation analysis (CCA), that is able to deal with the high dimensionality of the fMRI signal while exploiting the high temporal resolution of the electrophysiological signal.
After a short introduction in the experimental setup, I will present an extension of linear kernel CCA, that allows to find the maximally correlated representation of the two data streams (electrophysiology and fMRI). The algorithm computes a temporal crosscorrellation function between the two variables, instead of only a correlation coefficient, like in the case of classical CCA. This allows to gain new insights in the coupling mechanisms between the two modalities, neural and vascular response, in particular with respect to their temporal dynamics.
The filters computed with temporal CCA have a temporal dimension and are easy to interpret. Moreover, we show how the computed crosscorrelation function can be used as a feature for classification tasks, e.g. for diagnostic purposes.
=== Wednesday, 17.11.10 14.15 FR6046 ===
==== Research Ideas ====
 * ''' Felix Bießmann''',
 * ''' Siamac Fazli''',
 * ''' Frank Meinecke'''
(Chair: Wojciech Wojcikiewicz)
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=== Wednesday, 10.11.10 14.15 FR6046 ===
==== Research Talk ====
 * ''' Kohey Hayashi''',
 * ''' Konrad Rieck'''
(Chair: Christina Müller)
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=== Wednesday, 07.01.09 14.30 FR6046 === === Wednesday, 03.11.10 14.15 FR6046 ===
==== Research Talk ====
 * ''' Kamil Ciosek''': New developments in semi-supervised learning
==== Research Ideas ====
 * ''' Daniel Bartz'''
(Chair: Tammo Krüger)
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'''Patrick Düssel & Christian Gehl''' === Wednesday, 27.10.10 14.15 FR6046 ===
==== Research Ideas ====
 * ''' Tobias Lang''',
 * ''' Claudia Sannelli''',
 * ''' Alexander Binder'''
(Chair: Anne Porbadnigk)
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=== Wednesday, 20.10.10 14.15 FR6046 ===
==== Research Talk ====
 * ''' Matthias Rupp''': Graph kernels for chemoinformatics. A critical discussion
 * ''' Marius Kloft''': Regularization Adaption for Transfer Learning
==== Reading Group: Search for Topics ====
(Chair: Daniel Bartz)
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''Incorporation of Application Layer Protocol Syntax into Anomaly Detection''

Abstract:

The syntax of application layer protocols carries valuable
information for network intrusion detection. Hence, the majority of
modern IDS perform some form of protocol analysis to refine their
signatures with application layer context. Protocol analysis,
however, has been mainly used for misuse detection, which limits its
application for the detection of unknown and novel attacks. In this
contribution we address the issue of incorporating application layer
context into anomaly-based intrusion detection. We extend a
payload-based anomaly detection method by incorporating structural
information obtained from a protocol analyzer. The basis for our
extension is computation of similarity between attributed tokens
derived from a protocol grammar. The enhanced anomaly detection
method is evaluated in experiments on detection of web attacks,
yielding an improvement of detection accuracy of 49%. While
byte-level anomaly detection is sufficient for detection of buffer
overflow attacks, identification of recent attacks such as SQL
and PHP code injection strongly depends on the availability of
application layer context.


=== Thursday, 18.12.08 14.30 FR6046 ===

'''Masanori Shimono'''

''A prediction of success/fail of controlling perceptual switching''

Abstract:

While several studies have shown classification of mental content
from neural activities, no reports have succeeded in a prediction
of mental contents in the future from some present MEG
(Magnetoencephalography).
We introduce a research to predict suceess or fail of intentional
control of pereptual switching for DDQ (Dynamical Dot Quartet)
using single-trial MEG.
This research consists of (1) an investigation of new cognitive
phenomenon and the neural correlate of it with MEG, and (2) an
application of single-trial analysis for the MEG.

In detail:
(1) The investigation of a new cognitive phenomenon:
      We found a paremeter in DDQ is able to use for controlling
      the success ratio of intentional control of timing of
      perceptual switching (Shimono et al., Human Brain Mapping, accepted).
(2) An application of single-trial classification technique:
     Next, we tried to predict the success/fail of intentional
      control of perceptual swithing using the parameter with which
      the success ratio of intentional control is 50% (Shimono et
      al., 2008, published in a japanese journal)
      
In the second analysis, we used Signal Space Projection or ICA
 for the noise-reduction and used Support Vector Machine for the
single-trial classification.

Furthermore, I will introduce our ongoing projects using a MEG
real-time neurofeedback system.


=== Wednesday, 17.12.08 14.30 FR6046 ===

'''Alex Binder'''

''Current Research Question in Theseus: Multiclass Classification with Taxonomies''

Abstract:

The problem of image classification over semantic categories is usually
solved by one vs all classifiers which treat the semantic categories as
a relationless set.
We incorporate semantic information via multiclass classification over a
taxonomy which is at the current stage provided by hand.
We show the preliminary results on a 45 class problem (Caltech 101
Lifeforms) which are not satisfying and present potential extensions to
replace the hand taxonomy by a learned direct acyclic graph.



=== Wednesday, 03.12.08 16.00(!!) FR6046 ===

'''Arno Onken'''

''Modeling Short-term Noise Dependence of Spike Counts with Copulas''

Abstract:

Correlations between spike counts are often used to analyze neural
coding. The noise is typically assumed to be Gaussian. Yet, this
assumption is often inappropriate, especially for low spike counts. In
this talk, I will present copulas as an alternative approach. With
copulas it is possible to use arbitrary marginal distributions such as
Poisson or negative binomial that are better suited for modeling noise
distributions of spike counts. Furthermore, copulas place a wide range
of dependence structures at the disposal and can be used to analyze
higher order interactions. I will introduce a framework to analyze spike
count data by means of copulas. Methods for parameter inference based on
maximum likelihood estimates and for computation of mutual information
are provided.

=== Wednesday, 26.11.08 14.30 FR6046 ===

'''Siamac Fazli'''

''Subject independent mental state classification in single trials''

Abstract:

Current state of the art in Brain Computer Interfacing (BCI) involves
tuning classifiers to subject-specific training data acquired from calibration
sessions prior to functional BCI use. Using a large database of EEG
recordings from 45 subjects, who took part in movement imagination task
experiments, we construct an ensemble of classifiers derived from subjectspecific
temporal and spatial filters. The ensemble is then sparsified using
`1 regularization such that the final classifier generalizes reliably to data
of subjects not included in the ensemble. Our offline results indicate that
BCI-naive users could start real-time BCI use without any prior calibration
at only very limited loss of performance.


=== Wednesday, 19.11.08 11.30 (!!) FR6046 ===

'''Frank Meinecke'''

''Stationary Subspace Analysis''

Abstract:

Non-stationarities are an ubiquitous phenomenon in real-world data,
yet they challenge standard Machine Learning methods: if training and test distributions
differ we cannot, in principle, generalise from the observed training sample to the test
distribution. This affects both supervised and unsupervised learning
algorithms.
We present a new method to decompose multi-variate time-series into a
stationary and a non-stationary subspace and show (on an BCI example)
that restricting the classification on the stationary subspace can
improve the classification performance.

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   * [[Main/Main.DoktorandenSeminarSS08|Summer Term 2008]]
   * [[Main/Main.DoktorandenSeminarWS0708|Winter Term 2007/2008]]
   * [[Main/DoktorandenSeminarSS10|Summer Term 2010]]
   * [[Main/DoktorandenSeminarWS0910|Winter Term 2009 / 2010]]
   * [[Main/DoktorandenSeminarSS09|Summer Term 2009]]
   * [[Main/DoktorandenSeminarWS0809|Winter Term 2008 / 2009]]
   * [[Main/DoktorandenSeminarSS08|Summer Term 2008]]
   * [[Main/DoktorandenSeminarWS0708|Winter Term 2007/2008]]
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-- Nicole Kraemer - 11 Jan 2008 -- Nicole Kraemer / Katja Hansen -- Aug 2009

Doktoranden-/Diplomandenseminar WS 10/11

In this seminar, master/phd students of the IDA group present their current work and research ideas.

When?

usually on Wednesdays, 2:15 pm (s.t.) to 3:15, or as announced (see below)

Where?

at TU Berlin , FR 6046, or as announced (see below)

How?

More information for speakers and participants here.


Next Talk

Wednesday, 30.03.11 14.15 FR6046

Research Talk

  • Stefan Haufe,

  • Franz Király - Algebraic SSA

(Chair: Matthias Jugel, unavailable)


Planned Talks

This is a preliminary schedule, and might be changed on short notice.

Wednesday, 06.04.11 14.15 FR6046

Research Talk

  • Arne Ewald,

Tutorial

  • Marius Kloft - SVMs and extensions (Structured Prediction, Multiple Kernel Learning and friends)

(Chair: Laura Acqualagna)

Wednesday, 13.04.11 14.15 FR6046

External Talk

(Chair: Wojciech Wojcikiewicz)


Previous Talks

Wednesday, 16.03.11 14.15 FR6046

NIPS Discussion

  • What are new interesting directions / papers ? (People who attended last NIPS or related conferences please prepare something),

  • What ideas do you have ? (Please prepare an one-slide presentation for your idea)

(Chair: Guido Schwenk)

Wednesday, 09.03.11 14.15 FR6046

Research Talk

  • Paul von Bünau,

  • Laura Acqualagna,

  • Martijn Schreuder

(Chair: Sven Dähne)

Wednesday, 02.03.11 14.15 FR6046

Research Talk

  • Kohei Hayashi,

  • Gunnar Kedenburg

(Chair: Pascal Lehwark)

Wednesday, 23.02.11 14.15 FR6046

CANCELLED

Wednesday, 16.02.11 14.15 FR6046

Research Talk

  • Bastian Venthur,

  • Tammo Krüger,

  • Matthias Schultze-Kraft,

  • Anne Porbadnigk

(Chair: Irene Winkler)

Wednesday, 09.02.11 14.15 FR6046

Research Talk

  • Guido Schwenk,

  • Nico Görnitz

(Chair: Marius Kloft)

Wednesday, 02.02.11 14.15 FR6046

Research Talk

  • Christina Müller,

  • Irene Winkler,

  • Javier Pascual

(Chair: Gunnar Kedenburg)

Wednesday, 26.01.11 14.15 FR6046

Research Talk

  • Duncan Blythe,

  • Wojciech Wojcikiewicz

(Chair: Johannes Höhne)

Wednesday, 19.01.11 14.15 FR6046

Research Talk

  • Nikolay Jetchev,

  • Stanimir Dragiev,

  • Nils Plath,

(Chair: Frank Meinecke)

Wednesday, 12.01.11 14.15 FR6046

Research Talk

  • Matthias Jugel,

  • Johannes Höhne,

  • Sven Dähne,

(Chair: Siamac Fazli)

Wednesday, 05.01.11 14.15 FR6046

Research Talk

  • Marton Danoczy,

  • Pascal Lehwark,

  • Grégoire Montavon

(Chair: Javier Pascual)

Wednesday, 15.12.10 14.15 FR6046

CANCELLED

Wednesday, 01.12.10 14.15 FR6046

Research Talk

  • Canh Hao Nguyen,

  • Franz Király

(Chair: Paul von Bünau)

Wednesday, 24.11.10 14.15 FR6046

CANCELLED

Wednesday, 17.11.10 14.15 FR6046

Research Ideas

  • Felix Bießmann,

  • Siamac Fazli,

  • Frank Meinecke

(Chair: Wojciech Wojcikiewicz)

Wednesday, 10.11.10 14.15 FR6046

Research Talk

  • Kohey Hayashi,

  • Konrad Rieck

(Chair: Christina Müller)

Wednesday, 03.11.10 14.15 FR6046

Research Talk

  • Kamil Ciosek: New developments in semi-supervised learning

Research Ideas

  • Daniel Bartz

(Chair: Tammo Krüger)

Wednesday, 27.10.10 14.15 FR6046

Research Ideas

  • Tobias Lang,

  • Claudia Sannelli,

  • Alexander Binder

(Chair: Anne Porbadnigk)

Wednesday, 20.10.10 14.15 FR6046

Research Talk

  • Matthias Rupp: Graph kernels for chemoinformatics. A critical discussion

  • Marius Kloft: Regularization Adaption for Transfer Learning

Reading Group: Search for Topics

(Chair: Daniel Bartz)


Archive

-- Nicole Kraemer / Katja Hansen -- Aug 2009

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