Publications


Bayesian Nonparametric Learning of Dynamic Systems

Ph.D. Thesis

E.B. Fox, "Bayesian Nonparametric Learning of Complex Dynamical Phenomena," Doctoral Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, July 2009.
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@PHDTHESIS{Fox:09,
			AUTHOR = {Fox, E.B.},
			TITLE = {Bayesian Nonparametric Learning of Complex Dynamical Phenomena},
			SCHOOL = {MIT},
			YEAR = {2009},
			type = {Ph.{D}. Thesis},
			address = {Cambridge, MA},
			}

Switching Linear Dynamical Systems

E.B. Fox, E.B. Sudderth, M.I. Jordan, A.S. Willsky, "Sharing Features among Dynamical Systems with Beta Processes," to appear in NIPS 2009.
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Fox:NIPS09,
			author = {Fox, E. B. and Sudderth, E. B. and Jordan, M. I. and Willsky, A. S.},
			title = {Sharing Features among Dynamical Systems with Beta Processes},
			booktitle = "Neural Information Processing Systems 22",
			year = {2010},
			publisher = {MIT Press},
			}

E.B. Fox, E.B. Sudderth, M.I. Jordan, A.S. Willsky, "Nonparametric Bayesian Identification of Jump Systems with Sparse Dependencies," Proceedings of the 15th IFAC Symposium on System Identification, Saint-Malo, France July 2009.
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Fox:SYSID09,
			author = {Fox, E. B. and Sudderth, E. B. and Jordan, M. I. and Willsky, A. S.},
			title = {Nonparametric {B}ayesian Identification of Jump Systems with Sparse Dependencies},
			booktitle = "Proc. 15th IFAC Symposium on System Identification",
			year = {2009},
			month = {July},
			}

E.B. Fox, E.B. Sudderth, M.I. Jordan, A.S. Willsky, “Nonparametric Bayesian Learning of Switching Linear Dynamical Systems,” Proceeding of Neural Information Processing Systems, Vancouver, Canada December 2008.
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Fox:NIPS08,
			author = {Fox, E. B. and Sudderth, E. B. and Jordan, M. I. and Willsky, A. S.},
			title = {Nonparametric {B}ayesian Learning of Switching Linear Dynamical Systems},
			booktitle = "Neural Information Processing Systems 21",
			year = {2009},
			publisher = {MIT Press},
			}

Hidden Markov Models

E.B. Fox, E.B. Sudderth, M.I. Jordan, A.S. Willsky, “An HDP-HMM for Systems with State Persistence,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning, Helsinki, Finland July 2008.
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Fox:ICML08,
			author = {Fox, E. B. and Sudderth, E. B. and Jordan, M. I. and Willsky, A. S.},
			title = {An {HDP-HMM} for Systems with State Persistence},
			booktitle = "Proc. International Conference on Machine Learning",
			year = {2008},
			month = {July},
			}

E.B. Fox, E.B. Sudderth, M.I. Jordan, A.S. Willsky, “The Sticky HDP-HMM: Bayesian Nonparametric Hidden Markov Models with Persistent States,” MIT LIDS Technical Report P-2777, November 2007 (revised May 2009).
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			AUTHOR = {Fox, E. B. and Sudderth, E. B. and Jordan, M. I. and Willsky, A. S.},
			TITLE = {The Sticky HDP-HMM: Bayesian Nonparametric Hidden Markov Models with Persistent States},
			INSTITUTION = {MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems},
			YEAR = {2007},
			number = {2777},
			month = {November},
			}

Maneuvering Target Tracking

E.B. Fox, E.B. Sudderth, A.S. Willsky, “Hierarchical Dirichlet Processes for Tracking Maneuvering Targets,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Fusion, Quebec, Canada July 2007.
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@inproceedings{Fox:Fusion07,
			author = {Fox, E. B. and Sudderth, E. B. and Willsky, A. S.},
			title = {Hierarchical {D}irichlet Processes for Tracking Maneuvering Targets},
			booktitle = {Proc. International Conference on Information Fusion},
			year = {2007},
			month = {July},
			}

E.B. Fox, E.B. Sudderth, D.S. Choi, A.S. Willsky, “Tracking a Non-cooperative Maneuvering Target using Hierarchical Dirichlet Processes,” Proceedings of the Adaptive Sensor Array Processing Conference, Lexington, MA June 2007

Multiple Target Tracking


E.B. Fox, D.S. Choi, A.S. Willsky, “Nonparametric Bayesian Methods for Large Scale Multi-Target Tracking,” Proc. of 40th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA November 2006.
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Asilomar:06,
			AUTHOR = "Fox, Emily B. and Choi, David S. and Willsky, Alan S.",
			BOOKTITLE = "Proc.\ Asilomar Conf. Signals, Systems, and Computers",
			MONTH = "November",
			PUBLISHER = "IEEE",
			TITLE = "Nonparametric {B}ayesian Methods for Large Scale Multi-Target Tracking",
			YEAR = "2006"
			}

Detection and Localization in Sensor Networks

E.B. Fox, J.W. Fisher, A.S. Willsky, “Detection and Localization of Material Releases with Sparse Sensor Configurations,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2007.
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@ARTICLE{SigProc:07,
			AUTHOR = "Fox, Emily B. and {Fisher III}, John W. and Willsky, Alan S.",
			TITLE = "Detection and Localization of Material Releases with Sparse Sensor Configurations",
			JOURNAL = "IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing",
			TITLE = "Nonparametric {B}ayesian Methods for Large Scale Multi-Target Tracking",
			MONTH = "May",
			YEAR = "2007",
			VOLUMER = "55",
			PAGES = "1886--1898"
			}

E.B. Fox, J.L. Williams, J.W. Fisher, A.S. Willsky, "Detection and Localization of Material Releases with Sparse Sensor Configurations,” Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Toulouse, France May 2006.
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			AUTHOR = "Fox, Emily B. and Williams, Jason W. and {Fisher III}, John W. and Willsky, Alan S.",
			BOOKTITLE = "Proc.\ IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing",
			MONTH = "May",
			PUBLISHER = "IEEE",
			TITLE = "Detection and Localization of Material Releases with Sparse Sensor Configurations",
			YEAR = "2006"
			}

E.B. Fox, “Detection and Localization of Aerosol Releases from Sparse Sensor Measurements,” MEng Thesis. MIT, Cambridge, MA June 2005.
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@MASTERSTHESIS{Fox:05,
			AUTHOR = "Fox, Emily B.",
			TITLE = "Detection and Localization of Aerosol Releases from Sparse Sensor Measurements",
			SCHOOL = "MIT",
			YEAR = "2005",
			type = "MEng Thesis",
			address = "Cambridge,MA",
			}

Biodefense

J.J. Braun, Y. Glina, D.W. Stein, P. Skomoroch, E.B. Fox, "Information fusion and uncertainty management for biological multisensor systems,” Multisensor, Multisource Information Fusion: Architectures, Algorithms, and Applications 2005, Proceedings of SPIE, vol. 5813, March 2005.

J.J. Braun, Y. Glina, D.W. Stein, E.B. Fox, "Multisensor information fusion for biological sensor networks and CBRN detection,” Proc. Conf. Science and Technology for Chem-Bio Information Systems, Williamsburg, VA Oct. 2004