Photo of David David Minnen
PhD Candidate [CV]
CPL / CCG / GVU
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
dminn (at) cc.gatech.edu


Research Interests


Publications
  1. Dimensionality Reduction for Improved Source Separation in fMRI Data
    R. Mappus, D. Minnen, and C.L. Isbell
    Int. Conf. on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing (BIOSIGNALS), January 28-31, 2008.

  2. Detecting Subdimensional Motifs: An Efficient Algorithm for Generalized Multivariate Pattern Discovery
    D. Minnen, I. Essa, C.L. Isbell, and T. Starner
    IEEE Int. Conf. on Data Mining (ICDM) Omaha, NE, October 28-31, 2007.

  3. Boosting Diverse Learners for Domain Agnostic Time Series Classification
    D. Minnen, P. Zang, C.L. Isbell, T. Starner
    Workshop and Challenge on Time Series Classification at SIGKDD 2007 San Jose, CA, Aug 12-15, 2007.

  4. Discovering Multivariate Motifs using Subsequence Density Estimation and Greedy Mixture Learning
    D. Minnen, C.L. Isbell, I. Essa, and T. Starner
    Twenty-Second Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-07), Vancouver, B.C., July 22-26, 2007.

  5. Recognizing Soldier Activities in the Field
    D. Minnen, T. Westeyn, and T. Starner
    Body Sensor Networks, Aachen, Germany, March 26-28, 2007.

  6. Wearable RFID for Play
    Y. Medynskiy, S. Gov, A. Mazalek, and D. Minnen
    Tangible Play Workshop at IUI 2007, Honolulu, HI, January 28-31, 2007.

  7. Improving Activity Discovery with Automatic Neighborhood Estimation
    D. Minnen, T. Starner, I. Essa, C. Isbell
    Int. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence, Hyderabad, India, January 6-12, 2007.

  8. Discovering Characteristic Actions from On-Body Sensor Data
    D. Minnen, T. Starner, I. Essa, C. Isbell
    Int. Symp. on Wearable Computing (ISWC), Montreux, CH, October 11-14, 2006.
    Nominated for best paper award

  9. Performance Metrics and Evaluation Issues for Continuous Activity Recognition
    D. Minnen, T. Westeyn, T. Starner, J.A. Ward, P. Lukowicz
    Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems (PerMIS), Gaithersburg, MD, August 21-23, 2006.

  10. Activity Discovery: Sparse Motifs from Multivariate Time Series
    D. Minnen, T. Starner, I. Essa, C. Isbell
    Snowbird Learning Workshop, Snowbird, Utah, April 4-7, 2006.

  11. Similarity-based analysis for large Networks of Ultra-Low Resolution Sensors
    C. Wren, D. Minnen, and S.G. Rao.
    Pattern Recognition 39(10), pp. 1918-1931. Special Issue on Similarity-Based Pattern Recognition. Elsevier. October 2006.

  12. Recognizing and Discovering Human Actions from On-Body Sensor Data
    D. Minnen, T. Starner, J.A. Ward, P. Lukowicz, and G. Troester
    ICME 2005, Amsterdam, July 6-8, 2005.

  13. Activity Mining in Sensor Networks
    C.R. Wren and D. Minnen
    Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS)
    Workshop on Activity Recognition and Discovery    , December 2004.

  14. Propagation Networks for Recognizing Partially Ordered Sequential Actions
    Y. Shi, Y. Huang, D. Minnen, A. Bobick, and I. Essa
    Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Washington D.C., June 2004.

  15. Finding Temporal Patterns by Data Decomposition
    D. Minnen and C. Wren
    Sixth Int. Conf. on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (F&G), Seoul, Korea, May 2004.

  16. Expectation Grammars: Leveraging High-Level Expectations for Activity Recognition
    D. Minnen, I. Essa, and T. Starner
    Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). Madison, WI, June 2003.

  17. Searching for Solutions: Exploring the Validity of Laboratory Studies and Search-Based Problem Solving
    D. Minnen and N. Nersessian
    Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, v23 n3, June 2003.
    Review of Exploring Science: The cognition and development of discovery processes
    by David Klahr. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000.

  18. Computer Vision-Based Gesture Tracking, Object Tracking, and 3D Reconstruction for Augmented Desks
    T. Starner, B. Leibe, D. Minnen, T. Westeyn, A. Hurst, and J. Weeks.
    Machine Vision and Applications. 2002.

  19. Integration of Wireless Gesture Tracking, Object Tracking, and 3D Reconstruction in the Perceptive Workbench
    B. Leibe, D. Minnen, J. Weeks, and T. Starner.
    Second Int. Workshop on Computer Vision Systems (ICVS 2001) Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 2001,


Presentations


Exploratory & Other Mini-Projects


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